Protests following the killing of George Floyd

"Hitler err killed the people who wanted to umm kill them."

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I don’t think I saw this covered here, but a young black man was found hanging from a tree after a BLM rally a few days ago. They are treating it as a suicide, but he didn’t seem to be high-risk according to people that knew him. It was north of LA right down the road from where an unarmed 61 year old AA man was killed by police in his living room the day before. Daily Beast

And last night an AA man was killed in Atlanta, apparently shot in the back after resisting arrest. ABC News
 
And the West has the audacity to judge other countries from some moral high ground? Absolute bollocks, these scenes are fecking atrocious.

That guy on the ground looked half-dead, one comment said he also got stabbed...
 
calodo2003 said:
Thought about that one the other day, glad to see there is a discussion to take it down.
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Proud to say that one of my former students / football players is one of the guys who started the petition and got it on the news. Awesome kid who has become an even better young man.
 
sullydnl said:


From a man who says statues should stay up as they teach the UK about their past faults.
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And if anyone ever wondered why he won the election and why he has so many supporters it's rhetoric like that. This is the UK's future so get used to it. England has shifted way too much to the right for me to have any faith going forward.

Olly Gunnar Solskjær said:
Their right to be racist.

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Wearing a Rangers tracksuit... I'm stunned.
 
Dwazza Gunnar Solskjær said:
Seems more like good old fashioned rioting to me.
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Can you explain the difference?

Havent gone through all this thread but from the couple videos i seen it doesnt look much different than what happened in America.

Apart from what happened in America be a legitimate cause.

Edit to say im not fanning the flames, its a genuine question because I haven't seen enough of the videos to make my own judgement yet
 
sun_tzu said:
I think most people who support edl will think their boys did a cracking job of defending Churchill and any trouble was the polices fault

Blm will frame it opposite and in the middle there is a bunch of people thinking ffs there is a pandemic why is nobody social distancing
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Can you please bin it with all this nonsense about the middle being the moral high ground here? "The truth lies somewhere in the middle" head ass reasoning
 
DomesticTadpole said:
Of course we have racists, the racists of years ago haven't gone away, they have just got older and bred in that time.
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'Yes, but you see, these are British racists - and therefore better than any other nation's racists. World-beating racists.'
 
SteveJ said:
'Yes, but you see, these are British racists - and therefore better than any other nation's racists. World-beating racists.'
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Open topped bus parade. They will be wanting a few knighthoods for this. If I were the queen I would be sharpening the sword.
 
adexkola said:
Can you please bin it with all this nonsense about the middle being the moral high ground here? "The truth lies somewhere in the middle" head ass reasoning
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Person 1: “racism is bad and should be consigned to history”

Person 2: “get back in your box and don’t challenge my racism”

Person 3: “The truth is usually somewhere in the middle, I’m so reasonable”
 
Pogue Mahone said:


Same guy?
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No that guy's wearing jeans the other guy had jogging bottoms and seems younger and sounds like he got stabbed and sent to hospital.
There's a picture going around on twitter, which i am not sure am allowed to post on here but looks in a very bad way
 
adexkola said:
Can you please bin it with all this nonsense about the middle being the moral high ground here? "The truth lies somewhere in the middle" head ass reasoning
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Not really... there will be people who feel more strongly about cv19 and social distancing than they care about either side of the protests
Personally having lost a neighbour and having a work colleague in a coma with cv19 I feel that probably both protests will end up killing thousands of people and im not sure thats going to help their cause in the long term... which is a shame for blm imo and I couldnt care less about the edl ... but both protests have put many at risk imo
 
sun_tzu said:
Not really... there will be people who feel more strongly about cv19 and social distancing than they care about either side of the protests
Personally having lost a neighbour and having a work colleague in a coma with cv19 I feel that probably both protests will end up killing thousands of people and im not sure thats going to help their cause in the long term... which is a shame for blm imo and I couldnt care less about the edl ... but both protests have put many at risk imo
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There are many people who are understandably staying at home because of concerns about the epidemic. But that doesn't mean they're in the middle. Some feel strongly that black lives do matter. Some of them are racist. And some don't care either way but that doesn't make them rational measured people just because they're in the middle
 
Rado_N said:
Person 1: “racism is bad and should be consigned to history”

Person 2: “get back in your box and don’t challenge my racism”

Person 3: “The truth is usually somewhere in the middle, I’m so reasonable”
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To say neutral in an argument, is to take the side of the oppressor...
 
Mr Pigeon said:
I can't really think of an end goal tbh. By all means the force can deal with it but I'm just questioning how it looks to the public. I was admittedly snarky before because personally my trust in the police is low as hell (no point going into it because it's boring but suffice to say it was one incident in many that just confirmed/instilled what I think about our local officers) and for a lot of people I know it's the same - even some of my family (who are sizeable police and military funnily enough). I guess it depends on individual experiences but when you've got an atmosphere that's fuelling distrust in the police, and the way the service goes about their business, to say that it'll be investigated internally is a little on the nose for me.
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Sorry you've had a bad experience pal. Try not to let it cloud you opinions too much even if it is a little tempting to do so. Unfortunately the bad ones spoil it for the rest of us however rest assured they don't represent us all.
 
Wolverine said:
Wonder if any of these nazi guys will get the tasers, horses, tear gas treatment?
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Cassidy said:
I'm yet so see the horses come out to control the crowd...
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You don't use horses to control a crowd. Nor do the cops in the UK use tear gas.

Zlatan 7 said:
Shitheads!

I feel sorry for uk police the last week, they’ve had it from blm the last week with rioting and battles, the shit this weekend with these thugs, (don’t know what else to call them) All the while being absolutely hammered online as being crap, pointless, racist, accused as being as bad as American police and tarred with same brush.

they’ve handled most things I’ve seen well in my opinion this last week, I think people should cut them some slack.

And I say all this as someone who has never been a great lover of the police.

One last thing while I’m mid rant, midweek I seen a poster say of the police When they handled something well they’re just doing their job,they don’t deserve praise, you don’t praise a fish for swimming or something along those lines. It’s a terrible attitude to have, if that poster had a new kitchen or garden I’d no doubt they’d praise the work if they were happy with it. Every profession deserves praise if they produce good work, aswell as the police.

There’s no respect at all and then people wonder why this shit happens
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Good post.
 
Olly Gunnar Solskjær said:
Imagine being a racist looking at that group of people and thinking "Yep we're superior to everyone else", talk about deluded.
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So I'm not the only who noticed that many supremacists clearly have faulty genes. I remember seeing a picture in the US with a bunch of white supremacist and none of them would bred outside of these social circles, most of them genuinely looked .like something terrible happened during their conception.
 
sun_tzu said:
I think most people who support edl will think their boys did a cracking job of defending Churchill and any trouble was the polices fault

Blm will frame it opposite and in the middle there is a bunch of people thinking ffs there is a pandemic why is nobody social distancing
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Those bloody unreasonable anti-racists hey?
 
It’s kind of embarrassing to see these guys rioting for being racist. Like it’s their right to be racist or something.

Glad Boris said so much probably the best thing he’s done as prime minister..
 
Can't believe Johnson actually called it out for being racist. My expectations were so low for him.
 
JPRouve said:
So I'm not the only who noticed that many supremacists clearly have faulty genes. I remember seeing a picture in the US with a bunch of white supremacist and none of them would bred outside of these social circles, most of them genuinely looked .like something terrible happened during their conception.
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Yeah, if they're supposed to be the "master race" we're fecked. They all look, to borrow a word from Bill Hicks, un-evolved.
 
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