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  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,766
    Can someone tell me why libraries will remain closed but bookshops will open?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,935
    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    It appears it was some rightwing jester who started this as a prank, but it has now gained real traction and people are really angry

    Splendid irony
    But eminently believable :D
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,766
    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    Nope. She didn't listen to her husband and take rural and rustbelt white voters seriously. I guess thinking they had nowhere else to go.

    I am hoping Biden doesn't make same mistake.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,601

    Can someone tell me why libraries will remain closed but bookshops will open?

    Probably because libraries are run by local authorities and most bookshops are private. Local authorities are more risk-averse.
  • state_go_awaystate_go_away Posts: 5,816
    Andy_JS said:

    I'd love to know how Peter Hitchens looks about 15 years younger than he is in this photo. He's 70 next year.

    https://twitter.com/Rabyah_Khan/status/1270393341214183427

    Sorry but even if Mr Hitchins wanted to join in the virtue signalling he is nearly 70 and 70 year olds cannot kneel for 8 minutes
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,708
    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    To be fair the Cambridge University Library looks like a prison.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Stocky said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    I hope than far more people than Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this - skin colour is irrelevant (as always) - and I think they will - Starmer is a poseur. He`s reminding me of that prize bell-end Trudeau.
    It does look a bit ... well you know.

    But it does not imo insult other minorities. An attack by Conservative Asian politicians along those lines would be poor form. As others have said, the main point is policies to address the issue. If they are not forthcoming the charge would indeed be "poseur" and it would be merited. But I hope Labour under Starmer WILL have such policies. Jury is out on whether he is serious about the equality agenda or will seek to downplay it for perceived electoral reasons.
    Ah the good old leftie double standards on display. You were telling Casino earlier he should be more careful because their was a perception that his guest analogy could be racist.

    Now you are telling MaxPB who is saying what Starmer said could be seen as racist that he shouldn't be saying that.

    Make up your mind is racism in the eye of the beholder or not?
    I was not "telling" either of them anything.

    As opposed to all those people who keep "telling" me what the left think.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,878
    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Stocky said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    I hope than far more people than Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this - skin colour is irrelevant (as always) - and I think they will - Starmer is a poseur. He`s reminding me of that prize bell-end Trudeau.
    It does look a bit ... well you know.

    But it does not imo insult other minorities. An attack by Conservative Asian politicians along those lines would be poor form. As others have said, the main point is policies to address the issue. If they are not forthcoming the charge would indeed be "poseur" and it would be merited. But I hope Labour under Starmer WILL have such policies. Jury is out on whether he is serious about the equality agenda or will seek to downplay it for perceived electoral reasons.
    Ah the good old leftie double standards on display. You were telling Casino earlier he should be more careful because their was a perception that his guest analogy could be racist.

    Now you are telling MaxPB who is saying what Starmer said could be seen as racist that he shouldn't be saying that.

    Make up your mind is racism in the eye of the beholder or not?
    I was not "telling" either of them anything.

    As opposed to all those people who keep "telling" me what the left think.
    You were the one uttering the words, I can only go by what you say to work out how you think. Not my fault you act like a leftwing stereotype
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,413

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    Nope. She didn't listen to her husband and take rural and rustbelt white voters seriously. I guess thinking they had nowhere else to go.

    I am hoping Biden doesn't make same mistake.
    Did you just say it wasn't misogyny. She just didn't listen to her husband? :smiley:
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,708

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
  • state_go_awaystate_go_away Posts: 5,816
    For some reason I have a vision of somebody like Peter Manion in the Thick of It being told by it would be a good idea to take the knee (I forget who is the Tory spin doctor in it!) and telling him to get lost!
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    Like Marx, he was one of the good racists...or something like that will be Owen Jones take.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    It's how Mugabe the Marxist took charge of Rhodesia.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119

    For some reason I have a vision of somebody like Peter Manion in the Thick of It being told by it would be a good idea to take the knee (I forget who is the Tory spin doctor in it!) and telling him to get lost!

    Stewart Pearson.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,620

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    Nope. She didn't listen to her husband and take rural and rustbelt white voters seriously. I guess thinking they had nowhere else to go.

    I am hoping Biden doesn't make same mistake.
    Only if his senility matches Hilary's bigotry.
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884

    This one being removed in London. removing it from out the front of a museum that explains this blokes role in history. Surely the statue is prime for a plaque saying see him, he built all this but.....come inside and learn the full story.

    exactly.

    There's a sane way through this, but first people need to start acting sane.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,139
    I think Conservative Remainers are unlikely to switch directly to Labour, although they may like him they are still suspicious of his party, Starmer has not yet created New Labour 2.

    If they switch to any party it will likely be the LDs if we go to a hard Brexit and it turns out badly
  • alteregoalterego Posts: 1,100

    This one being removed in London. removing it from out the front of a museum that explains this blokes role in history. Surely the statue is prime for a plaque saying see him, he built all this but.....come inside and learn the full story.

    exactly.

    There's a sane way through this, but first people need to start acting sane.
    Big ask.
  • MonkeysMonkeys Posts: 757

    Woke culture has an obvious weakness: One group simply cannot control how another group interprets language. They won't survive.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    A decade ago I was studying Humanities at Brighton University - it was an incredibly left wing place as you might imagine. A middle aged African lady, a classmate of mine, said that the UK should be ashamed of itself for not apologising for the slave trade the way Germany has for the Nazis. People kind of raised their eyebrows at the ridiculous comparison

    This morning Piers Morgan said the same thing on GMB! How times change
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    I'd like to see a list of BLMs possible replacements on the now empty plinths.
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    Not too hard to find woke academics painting him as an 'unashamed imperialist':

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306396818779864

    Better get rid of any trace of his tarnished legacy, just in case, right?

    So much for the NHS!
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,139
    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    I think one thing is clear, the culture war has crossed the Atlantic and is now here and in full, Brexit started it, these events have accelerated it.
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 14,354
    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    Horatio or Mandela?
  • maaarshmaaarsh Posts: 3,590
    Monkeys said:


    Woke culture has an obvious weakness: One group simply cannot control how another group interprets language. They won't survive.

    Woke culture from the Universities wasn't going to survive contact with the real world, of course.

    Right now it's the real world which seems less likely to make it.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).
    Parklife.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,139
    edited June 2020

    Been saying for a while Shaun Bailey is shite.

    https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1270385715742941189

    He is doing fine, was on Newsnight last night and actually speaks common sense while being from a BAME background.

  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,878
    HYUFD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    I think one thing is clear, the culture war has crossed the Atlantic and is now here and in full, Brexit started it, these events have accelerated it.
    Which ironically is more likely to turn Britain from a pretty non racist county into one very much more divided along racial lines such as America is. Before anyone jumps on that I am not saying there is no racism here I am saying that compared to that I saw when I was in the states we are actually a damn sight better.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Isn't whiteys taking the knee cultural appropriation?
  • stodgestodge Posts: 13,898
    Evening all :)

    I can't get excited about statues - seriously. The only one I can think of in my locality is the Champions Statue in Upton Park which features Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson. Only Hurst remains with us of course.

    The team has moved to Stratford but the statue is still alongside the Barking Road near where the old Upton Park stood.

    As for bending the knee, again, I can't get too excited about that either. If you want to do it, fine, if you don't or can't, equally fine.

    Perhaps of more immediate interest:

    https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/conservative-party-spelthorne-borough-council-18391447

    Six councillors from the previous ruling group have quit the party and formed their own United Spelthorne Group. They include the leader, deputy leader and three Cabinet members.

    Spelthorne Council now has 17 Conservatives, 8 Liberal Democrats, 6 United Spelthorne Group, 4 Labour, 2 Green and 2 Independent
  • brokenwheelbrokenwheel Posts: 3,352
    HYUFD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    I think one thing is clear, the culture war has crossed the Atlantic and is now here and in full, Brexit started it, these events have accelerated it.
    Wars require two sides to fight. This is being imposed/waved through by the people in power.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,317
    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    It’s not just misogyny. It’s dismissing women’s experiences or views or telling them what they should think. I see Daniel Radcliffe has climbed on the latest bandwagon and is busy telling women that he knows better than them what they should feel. Honestly, if men want to respect women, they should shut up for a bit and listen to them not talk at them.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    isam said:

    A decade ago I was studying Humanities at Brighton University - it was an incredibly left wing place as you might imagine. A middle aged African lady, a classmate of mine, said that the UK should be ashamed of itself for not apologising for the slave trade the way Germany has for the Nazis. People kind of raised their eyebrows at the ridiculous comparison

    This morning Piers Morgan said the same thing on GMB! How times change

    Morgan is just rampant right now.

    Ditched Trump and gone superwoke.

    Why do I still loathe him?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    Monkeys said:


    Woke culture has an obvious weakness: One group simply cannot control how another group interprets language. They won't survive.

    I keep hearing that it will.collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy, contradictions and ludicrous positions, especially with a global panedmic killing 100,000s of people...instead defund the police, abolish prison and vandalise statues of famous leaders have been mainstream.
  • FlatlanderFlatlander Posts: 4,681
    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    Looks like Rhodes Won't Fall in Oriel College, tonight

    Good. At some point the mob must be challenged, and pushed back

    I understand Oriel have a Very Large (£100m) donation hanging on their decision.

    Why would anyone try and leave a legacy as a philanthropist if they are going to be removed from history on a whim at a later date?

    The rather wet Provost at the time this last came up (an ex civil servant) was hopeless and lost a lot of goodwill with old college members.

    Hopefully the current Provost won't make the same mistake.

    Ex-chaplain Nigel Biggar might have something to say (if he isn't a non-person by now).
    You underestimate the emotional power of this strange, Dianas-death-like western spasm.

    Everyone at Oriel will move in a world of liberal-left pieties, this is academe. They will have friends and colleagues on social media screaming at them to "do the right thing". Anyone who wants the statue kept will be terrified of speaking out, in case they get cancelled. Careers are ending around the world on this issue.

    It would be hard enough for a private company to resist this intense pressure, but an Oxford college, with all its angry students and professors, seeking approval from their peers?

    I predict they will yield, or they will quietly let some hoons do it for them
    It's Karma of a sort after their disdain for Mrs Thatcher.

    BTW has anyone consulted Oriel's distinguished fellows Newman, Keble and Pusey on the matter? Or will Keble College and Pusey House be razed to the ground anyway.

    There is of course a 'Destroy Keble' society. Membership fee - one brick.

    Oriel wasn't terribly liberal left in the recent past, but it might be now, I don't know.

  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Stocky said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    I hope than far more people than Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this - skin colour is irrelevant (as always) - and I think they will - Starmer is a poseur. He`s reminding me of that prize bell-end Trudeau.
    It does look a bit ... well you know.

    But it does not imo insult other minorities. An attack by Conservative Asian politicians along those lines would be poor form. As others have said, the main point is policies to address the issue. If they are not forthcoming the charge would indeed be "poseur" and it would be merited. But I hope Labour under Starmer WILL have such policies. Jury is out on whether he is serious about the equality agenda or will seek to downplay it for perceived electoral reasons.
    Ah the good old leftie double standards on display. You were telling Casino earlier he should be more careful because their was a perception that his guest analogy could be racist.

    Now you are telling MaxPB who is saying what Starmer said could be seen as racist that he shouldn't be saying that.

    Make up your mind is racism in the eye of the beholder or not?
    I was not "telling" either of them anything.

    As opposed to all those people who keep "telling" me what the left think.
    You were the one uttering the words, I can only go by what you say to work out how you think. Not my fault you act like a leftwing stereotype
    I am NOT a stereotype!

    You are this close to being cancelled.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    Horatio or Mandela?
    Trevor!
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 41,999
    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,708
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    Nope. She didn't listen to her husband and take rural and rustbelt white voters seriously. I guess thinking they had nowhere else to go.

    I am hoping Biden doesn't make same mistake.
    But why did the Rust Belt not take HER seriously?
  • BannedinnParisBannedinnParis Posts: 1,884
    eadric said:

    Pagan2 said:

    HYUFD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    I think one thing is clear, the culture war has crossed the Atlantic and is now here and in full, Brexit started it, these events have accelerated it.
    Which ironically is more likely to turn Britain from a pretty non racist county into one very much more divided along racial lines such as America is. Before anyone jumps on that I am not saying there is no racism here I am saying that compared to that I saw when I was in the states we are actually a damn sight better.
    A racialised culture war that seems to attack British identity at its root is probably THE one way you might get a powerful far right party in the UK. Not UKIP, something much closer to the FN in France.

    Antifa might finally create Fa.
    sigh.

    theres a kernel of likelihood to this point.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,488

    eadric said:

    Looks like Rhodes Won't Fall in Oriel College, tonight

    Good. At some point the mob must be challenged, and pushed back

    Did that happen?
    The police actually policed this one, and there was security on top.

    But, it's much harder for protesters to get at as well.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 41,999
    edited June 2020

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    Horatio or Mandela?
    Not Willie surely?!


  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    Cyclefree said:

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    It’s not just misogyny. It’s dismissing women’s experiences or views or telling them what they should think. I see Daniel Radcliffe has climbed on the latest bandwagon and is busy telling women that he knows better than them what they should feel. Honestly, if men want to respect women, they should shut up for a bit and listen to them not talk at them.
    Yeh but those kinda blokes don;t get any. They are sniggered at by the jerk boys and cheating barstewards knee deep in all the girls.

  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    stodge said:

    Evening all :)

    I can't get excited about statues - seriously. The only one I can think of in my locality is the Champions Statue in Upton Park which features Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson. Only Hurst remains with us of course.

    The team has moved to Stratford but the statue is still alongside the Barking Road near where the old Upton Park stood.

    As for bending the knee, again, I can't get too excited about that either. If you want to do it, fine, if you don't or can't, equally fine.

    Perhaps of more immediate interest:

    https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/conservative-party-spelthorne-borough-council-18391447

    Six councillors from the previous ruling group have quit the party and formed their own United Spelthorne Group. They include the leader, deputy leader and three Cabinet members.

    Spelthorne Council now has 17 Conservatives, 8 Liberal Democrats, 6 United Spelthorne Group, 4 Labour, 2 Green and 2 Independent

    Highly unusual for a Group and a Council Leader, Deputy Leader, plus three Cabinet members, to defect from their backbenchers. Bizarre.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,488
    I've had a couple of very interesting private 1:1 conversations this afternoon.

    Emerging finding: there's a delta between the left-wing/activist/momentum supporting minorities - who tend to be younger students, journalists, or in academia or active in left-wing politics - and those who are professionals with an established career in the private or public sector.

    Basically, there's a frustration that because they can find minorities in the former category some white people are assuming they speak for all of them.

    They don't.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,878
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    Nope. She didn't listen to her husband and take rural and rustbelt white voters seriously. I guess thinking they had nowhere else to go.

    I am hoping Biden doesn't make same mistake.
    But why did the Rust Belt not take HER seriously?
    Here's a thought....just maybe its because she referred to them as a basket of deplorables?

    Respect is earnt not demanded and she got her comeuppance. I dislike Trump intensely. I despise Hilary much more but then I had a friend I gamed with that died in Benghazi and I hold her responsible
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,555
    edited June 2020
    Andy_JS said:

    During Attlee's so-called left-wing government from 1945 to 1951, capital punishment was not abolished. That's a hanging offence in my book.

    Wilson was PM at a time when gays were prosecuted, there was capital punishment and abortion was always a crime. In the eyes of the Taliban Tendency Hitler Youth that is surely enough.

    Don't start on the fact that anti semitism was pretty routine at least until the 1930s.

    And that Shakespeare wrote a play glorifying paedophilia. Look out Romeo.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,390

    Monkeys said:


    Woke culture has an obvious weakness: One group simply cannot control how another group interprets language. They won't survive.

    I keep hearing that it will.collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy, contradictions and ludicrous positions, especially with a global panedmic killing 100,000s of people...instead defund the police, abolish prison and vandalise statues of famous leaders have been mainstream.
    Is it possible that you're getting a little bit hyperbolic about all this? Defund the police, abolish prison, vandalise statues have not become mainstream at all; they are obsessions of a very small minority of radicals.

    Reforming the police, reforming prisons and reducing the prison population, and having a proper debate on how we celebrate (or not) our heritage seem to me, however, to be perfectly legitimate topics for those interested in social change for the better.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    Monkeys said:


    Woke culture has an obvious weakness: One group simply cannot control how another group interprets language. They won't survive.

    Well unwoke culture has its problems too.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    I'm NOT confident at all. See my earlier post. I believe all of western civilisation is in relative decline (including dear old Scotland, I am afraid). I fear the decline could become absolute.

    This BLM madness is more of a symptom than a cause of the decline. We have lost our self esteem and now abase ourselves before increasingly cranky ideologies.

    Meanwhile, China rises, with none of our neuroses.

    It certainly helps China. They can point to the west and say see this is why we must have security laws, why extremists must be re-educated and why are managed capitalism is the superior system to the declining fat, lazy and divided West.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    Boudica had her troops slaughter an estimated 70,000, many after torture or mutilation, and probably had slaves of her own. Yet her statue stands outside parliament.

    Few are as good as they seem, and we may as well abolish statues period.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,421
    IanB2 said:

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    Boudica had her troops slaughter an estimated 70,000, many after torture or mutilation, and probably had slaves of her own. Yet her statue stands outside parliament.

    Few are as good as they seem, and we may as well abolish statues period.
    Aethelflaed massacred loads of Welsh people. Burn that statue in Tamworth!
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    Tres said:

    PB tories appear to have reached peak statue derangement.

    No, that would be the fuckwits tearing them down.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,708
    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    I'm NOT confident at all. See my earlier post. I believe all of western civilisation is in relative decline (including dear old Scotland, I am afraid). I fear the decline could become absolute.

    This BLM madness is more of a symptom than a cause of the decline. We have lost our self esteem and now abase ourselves before increasingly cranky ideologies.

    Meanwhile, China rises, with none of our neuroses.
    From this perspective, what the West needs is to acquire a Russian backbone.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    Er its not that mate. Sod culture. Its the retribution coming our way.

    The OJ Simpson trial suggested black people are more than happy to tolerate murder when race is a factor.

    In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa. That's with racist white cop forces protecting them.

    Minneapolis is getting rid of that protection. Or 'open season on whites' as its otherwise known.
  • JohnOJohnO Posts: 4,291
    IanB2 said:

    stodge said:

    Evening all :)

    I can't get excited about statues - seriously. The only one I can think of in my locality is the Champions Statue in Upton Park which features Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson. Only Hurst remains with us of course.

    The team has moved to Stratford but the statue is still alongside the Barking Road near where the old Upton Park stood.

    As for bending the knee, again, I can't get too excited about that either. If you want to do it, fine, if you don't or can't, equally fine.

    Perhaps of more immediate interest:

    https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/conservative-party-spelthorne-borough-council-18391447

    Six councillors from the previous ruling group have quit the party and formed their own United Spelthorne Group. They include the leader, deputy leader and three Cabinet members.

    Spelthorne Council now has 17 Conservatives, 8 Liberal Democrats, 6 United Spelthorne Group, 4 Labour, 2 Green and 2 Independent

    Highly unusual for a Group and a Council Leader, Deputy Leader, plus three Cabinet members, to defect from their backbenchers. Bizarre.
    Spelthorne Tory politics is way beyond bizarre....
  • StereotomyStereotomy Posts: 4,092
    Cyclefree said:


    It’s not just misogyny. It’s dismissing women’s experiences or views or telling them what they should think. I see Daniel Radcliffe has climbed on the latest bandwagon and is busy telling women that he knows better than them what they should feel. Honestly, if men want to respect women, they should shut up for a bit and listen to them not talk at them.

    Except for the women you say don't count.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
  • MikeSmithsonMikeSmithson Posts: 7,382

    Tres said:

    PB tories appear to have reached peak statue derangement.

    No, that would be the fuckwits tearing them down.
    Thus you prove the point
  • MonkeysMonkeys Posts: 757
    kinabalu said:

    Monkeys said:


    Woke culture has an obvious weakness: One group simply cannot control how another group interprets language. They won't survive.

    Well unwoke culture has its problems too.
    Doubleplus Unwoke, here. I think the discourse can't be controlled, even by knocking over a statue or demanding certain books shouldn't be on shelves.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,868
    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    Boudica had her troops slaughter an estimated 70,000, many after torture or mutilation, and probably had slaves of her own. Yet her statue stands outside parliament.

    Few are as good as they seem, and we may as well abolish statues period.
    Aethelflaed massacred loads of Welsh people. Burn that statue in Tamworth!
    Yes, but did she do anything really bad? ;)
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20


    The Tweeter is a Croydon Labour councillor

    Amazing how fast we have gone from well it was ok to override the public consultation decision in Bristol and have a the mob to rip down statue of a slave trader to get rid of Churchill.
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 6,729
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    how long b4 the white working class have had enough.. this could get very nasty indeed
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    edited June 2020

    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    how long b4 the white working class have had enough.. this could get very nasty indeed
    Pray for a cold, wet summer.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    how long b4 the white working class have had enough.. this could get very nasty indeed
    Are they still a thing?
  • NorthofStokeNorthofStoke Posts: 1,758
    I have the image of a peevish child ignoring pleas to stop who is prodding a wasp's nest with a stick.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    how long b4 the white working class have had enough.. this could get very nasty indeed
    Especially with furlough.

    Million hanging around doing nothing.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119

    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    how long b4 the white working class have had enough.. this could get very nasty indeed
    Especially with furlough.

    Million hanging around doing nothing.
    And no school, college or uni...idle hands.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,217

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    Er its not that mate. Sod culture. Its the retribution coming our way.

    The OJ Simpson trial suggested black people are more than happy to tolerate murder when race is a factor.

    In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa. That's with racist white cop forces protecting them.

    Minneapolis is getting rid of that protection. Or 'open season on whites' as its otherwise known.
    "In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa."

    You do realise that as there are a lot more whites than blacks that's basically inevitable, right? That's simple mathematics. It's almost impossible, when whites outnumber blacks 5-to-1, for whites to kill more blacks, than vice-versa.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,421
    IanB2 said:

    ydoethur said:

    IanB2 said:

    RobD said:

    eadric said:

    RobD said:

    RobD said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    There is now a list of 60 statues that are unacceptable apparently.
    You have to wonder why a lot of them are on the list. Some are simply military commanders.
    You have answered you own question.
    I assume Nelson has got to go, too?
    I believe the rule is everybody now has to go, unless they were a Marxist, then we can excuse them.
    No, I think you have to be a black Marxist

    BTW they want Harold Wilson gone as well. No joke. Well, it might have been a joke but it's now become serious

    https://twitter.com/SaintOgonus/status/1270101812339769347?s=20

    https://twitter.com/RDWimp/status/1270364387434549248?s=20
    Madness.
    Wilson Must Fall...
    Attlee was a bit racist too. Can we tear him down?
    Boudica had her troops slaughter an estimated 70,000, many after torture or mutilation, and probably had slaves of her own. Yet her statue stands outside parliament.

    Few are as good as they seem, and we may as well abolish statues period.
    Aethelflaed massacred loads of Welsh people. Burn that statue in Tamworth!
    Yes, but did she do anything really bad? ;)
    I don’t know. They tended not to be big on statues in those times. Most of the old Roman ones had already been smashed. So I’m guessing she hadn’t put up any statues to Peada.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,878
    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20


    The Tweeter is a Croydon Labour councillor

    Amazing how fast we have gone from well it was ok to override the public consultation decision in Bristol and have a the mob to rip down statue of a slave trader to get rid of Churchill.
    Entirely predictable, however. Convulsions like this accelerate very quickly: see previous iconoclasms.

    To keep proving your purity, and remain part of the in-crowd (and thus avoid any risk of cancellation) greater and wilder gestures must constantly be made. The mob has a life and purpose of its own and surrendering to it is like feeding a fire, rather than feeding a lion.

    But they do also fizzle out as peak insanity is reached. See the Death of Robespierre in the French Terror.
    Speaking for myself I hope it fizzles out a long time before peak insanity. Thats too much blood and death for my liking. I however expect things to escalate and for them to move on from statues
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,708
    Do you think these are safe?

    image
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,119
    The Local Government Association's (LGA) Labour group has also announced that Labour councils across England and Wales are to review "the appropriateness" of monuments and statues in their towns and cities.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,601
    edited June 2020
    This interview with John Gray gives the best explanation of why Woke-ism can't work, particularly the part starting at about 2 minutes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hC5nXXJrV8
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,885
    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    Looks like Rhodes Won't Fall in Oriel College, tonight

    Good. At some point the mob must be challenged, and pushed back

    I understand Oriel have a Very Large (£100m) donation hanging on their decision.

    Why would anyone try and leave a legacy as a philanthropist if they are going to be removed from history on a whim at a later date?

    The rather wet Provost at the time this last came up (an ex civil servant) was hopeless and lost a lot of goodwill with old college members.

    Hopefully the current Provost won't make the same mistake.

    Ex-chaplain Nigel Biggar might have something to say (if he isn't a non-person by now).
    You underestimate the emotional power of this strange, Dianas-death-like western spasm.

    Everyone at Oriel will move in a world of liberal-left pieties, this is academe. They will have friends and colleagues on social media screaming at them to "do the right thing". Anyone who wants the statue kept will be terrified of speaking out, in case they get cancelled. Careers are ending around the world on this issue.

    It would be hard enough for a private company to resist this intense pressure, but an Oxford college, with all its angry students and professors, seeking approval from their peers?

    I predict they will yield, or they will quietly let some hoons do it for them
    It's Karma of a sort after their disdain for Mrs Thatcher.

    BTW has anyone consulted Oriel's distinguished fellows Newman, Keble and Pusey on the matter? Or will Keble College and Pusey House be razed to the ground anyway.

    Not Pusey House any more - it's become Linacre College.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,482

    Tres said:

    PB tories appear to have reached peak statue derangement.

    No, that would be the fuckwits tearing them down.
    Thus you prove the point
    What would you call them Mike? BluestBlue's chosen epithet seems quite mild to me.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    rcs1000 said:

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    Er its not that mate. Sod culture. Its the retribution coming our way.

    The OJ Simpson trial suggested black people are more than happy to tolerate murder when race is a factor.

    In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa. That's with racist white cop forces protecting them.

    Minneapolis is getting rid of that protection. Or 'open season on whites' as its otherwise known.
    "In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa."

    You do realise that as there are a lot more whites than blacks that's basically inevitable, right? That's simple mathematics. It's almost impossible, when whites outnumber blacks 5-to-1, for whites to kill more blacks, than vice-versa.

    Well would it not then also be almost impossible for more blacks to kill other blacks than whites to kill blacks. Seeing as they are outnumbered 5/1 and all.

    Of course you would be completely wrong in that assumption, because black on black crime is rampant and almost out of control, something that is completely ignored by black lives matter.

  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,878

    Pleased to report Mrs PtP back from hospital and looks to be well on the way to recovery. My thanks for the concern and kindness of numerous PB posters.

    Good to know she is on the mend!
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 6,729

    Pleased to report Mrs PtP back from hospital and looks to be well on the way to recovery. My thanks for the concern and kindness of numerous PB posters.

    I was not aware, but best wishes for a speedy recovery.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,226
    Cyclefree said:

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    It’s not just misogyny. It’s dismissing women’s experiences or views or telling them what they should think. I see Daniel Radcliffe has climbed on the latest bandwagon and is busy telling women that he knows better than them what they should feel. Honestly, if men want to respect women, they should shut up for a bit and listen to them not talk at them.
    No comment.☺
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,766

    Pleased to report Mrs PtP back from hospital and looks to be well on the way to recovery. My thanks for the concern and kindness of numerous PB posters.

    Excellent news.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,878

    Do you think these are safe?

    image

    Cow-lton?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,421
    Carnyx said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    Looks like Rhodes Won't Fall in Oriel College, tonight

    Good. At some point the mob must be challenged, and pushed back

    I understand Oriel have a Very Large (£100m) donation hanging on their decision.

    Why would anyone try and leave a legacy as a philanthropist if they are going to be removed from history on a whim at a later date?

    The rather wet Provost at the time this last came up (an ex civil servant) was hopeless and lost a lot of goodwill with old college members.

    Hopefully the current Provost won't make the same mistake.

    Ex-chaplain Nigel Biggar might have something to say (if he isn't a non-person by now).
    You underestimate the emotional power of this strange, Dianas-death-like western spasm.

    Everyone at Oriel will move in a world of liberal-left pieties, this is academe. They will have friends and colleagues on social media screaming at them to "do the right thing". Anyone who wants the statue kept will be terrified of speaking out, in case they get cancelled. Careers are ending around the world on this issue.

    It would be hard enough for a private company to resist this intense pressure, but an Oxford college, with all its angry students and professors, seeking approval from their peers?

    I predict they will yield, or they will quietly let some hoons do it for them
    It's Karma of a sort after their disdain for Mrs Thatcher.

    BTW has anyone consulted Oriel's distinguished fellows Newman, Keble and Pusey on the matter? Or will Keble College and Pusey House be razed to the ground anyway.

    Not Pusey House any more - it's become Linacre College.
    Are you sure of that?
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,878

    Do you think these are safe?

    image

    Cow-lton?
    The answer to are these safe seems to be no

    https://www.10news.com/news/peta-cow-s-milk-a-symbol-of-white-supremacy
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,885
    ydoethur said:

    Carnyx said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:

    eadric said:

    Looks like Rhodes Won't Fall in Oriel College, tonight

    Good. At some point the mob must be challenged, and pushed back

    I understand Oriel have a Very Large (£100m) donation hanging on their decision.

    Why would anyone try and leave a legacy as a philanthropist if they are going to be removed from history on a whim at a later date?

    The rather wet Provost at the time this last came up (an ex civil servant) was hopeless and lost a lot of goodwill with old college members.

    Hopefully the current Provost won't make the same mistake.

    Ex-chaplain Nigel Biggar might have something to say (if he isn't a non-person by now).
    You underestimate the emotional power of this strange, Dianas-death-like western spasm.

    Everyone at Oriel will move in a world of liberal-left pieties, this is academe. They will have friends and colleagues on social media screaming at them to "do the right thing". Anyone who wants the statue kept will be terrified of speaking out, in case they get cancelled. Careers are ending around the world on this issue.

    It would be hard enough for a private company to resist this intense pressure, but an Oxford college, with all its angry students and professors, seeking approval from their peers?

    I predict they will yield, or they will quietly let some hoons do it for them
    It's Karma of a sort after their disdain for Mrs Thatcher.

    BTW has anyone consulted Oriel's distinguished fellows Newman, Keble and Pusey on the matter? Or will Keble College and Pusey House be razed to the ground anyway.

    Not Pusey House any more - it's become Linacre College.
    Are you sure of that?
    Quite right to ask. Senior moment. I was thinking of St Cross College.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,217

    rcs1000 said:

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    Er its not that mate. Sod culture. Its the retribution coming our way.

    The OJ Simpson trial suggested black people are more than happy to tolerate murder when race is a factor.

    In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa. That's with racist white cop forces protecting them.

    Minneapolis is getting rid of that protection. Or 'open season on whites' as its otherwise known.
    "In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa."

    You do realise that as there are a lot more whites than blacks that's basically inevitable, right? That's simple mathematics. It's almost impossible, when whites outnumber blacks 5-to-1, for whites to kill more blacks, than vice-versa.

    Well would it not then also be almost impossible for more blacks to kill other blacks than whites to kill blacks. Seeing as they are outnumbered 5/1 and all.

    Of course you would be completely wrong in that assumption, because black on black crime is rampant and almost out of control, something that is completely ignored by black lives matter.

    My point is that it's not exactly a killer argument to say that more white people are killed by blacks than vice versa.

    If a black killer kills indiscriminately, there is a 15% chance he'll kill a black person and a 75% chance he'll kill a white person.

    That's just a consequence of relative population numbers.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,139
    edited June 2020
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    So unfortunately will Trump, he wants a culture war more than anything to win the rustbelt again.

    I doubt it would boost the BNP much though, most voters will not got that far, it would keep the white working class firmly in the Tory column however with a few heading to Farage and the Brexit Party
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,620
    rcs1000 said:

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    Er its not that mate. Sod culture. Its the retribution coming our way.

    The OJ Simpson trial suggested black people are more than happy to tolerate murder when race is a factor.

    In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa. That's with racist white cop forces protecting them.

    Minneapolis is getting rid of that protection. Or 'open season on whites' as its otherwise known.
    "In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa."

    You do realise that as there are a lot more whites than blacks that's basically inevitable, right? That's simple mathematics. It's almost impossible, when whites outnumber blacks 5-to-1, for whites to kill more blacks, than vice-versa.
    That's one of the more bizarre comments I've ever read.

    At the extreme it would have made it impossible for the Hutus to kill more Tutsis or the Germans to kill more Jews than vice versa.

    But throughout history the tendency is for the majority to do more violence to the minority.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,878
    rcs1000 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    eadric said:

    algarkirk said:

    eadric said:
    Could this revolution possibly devour its children? I hope it does so before burning the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library to the ground rather than after.
    It's gone way beyond BLM, it is now about vandalising all of British history, and trying to make white Britons feel guilty for simply being British. It is an attempt to deconstruct our identity, driven by a weird ragbag or anarchists, Marxists, greens, and Remainers (really, check the FBPE people egging this on).

    Fuck them, I hate them, we have to fight back.
    The Great Replacement, whether by the Muslamics or the Woke, seems to be a deep, nagging insecurity for the white (mostly male) right. Why are you so unconfident in your culture's ability to survive?
    Er its not that mate. Sod culture. Its the retribution coming our way.

    The OJ Simpson trial suggested black people are more than happy to tolerate murder when race is a factor.

    In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa. That's with racist white cop forces protecting them.

    Minneapolis is getting rid of that protection. Or 'open season on whites' as its otherwise known.
    "In the states more whites are killed by blacks than vice versa."

    You do realise that as there are a lot more whites than blacks that's basically inevitable, right? That's simple mathematics. It's almost impossible, when whites outnumber blacks 5-to-1, for whites to kill more blacks, than vice-versa.

    Well would it not then also be almost impossible for more blacks to kill other blacks than whites to kill blacks. Seeing as they are outnumbered 5/1 and all.

    Of course you would be completely wrong in that assumption, because black on black crime is rampant and almost out of control, something that is completely ignored by black lives matter.

    My point is that it's not exactly a killer argument to say that more white people are killed by blacks than vice versa.

    If a black killer kills indiscriminately, there is a 15% chance he'll kill a black person and a 75% chance he'll kill a white person.

    That's just a consequence of relative population numbers.
    Is it not however true that serial killers and spree killers seem to be a white male disease? So killing indiscriminately is unlikely?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,381
    HYUFD said:
    Not a huge fan of the government's handling of the crisis post Durhamgate and I too would come out against the stupidity of the hoi poloi rather than the shortcomings of government. So I am not entirely sure how this poll helps.
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 6,729

    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    IshmaelZ said:

    eadric said:

    Oriel College's website is down.

    This is how the Woke will win. They will make it impossible for the college to function (pandemic aside), the reputation will be trashed around the world for those who don't get the nuance.

    I bet he will come down and the mob will move on to the next: the Winston Churchill mural in Croydon?

    https://twitter.com/chrisclarkcpfc/status/1269958141325778945?s=20

    If I were the BNP I'd be praying for a Churchill statue to come down.
    how long b4 the white working class have had enough.. this could get very nasty indeed
    Especially with furlough.

    Million hanging around doing nothing.
    I was more thinking that the Get Britain out of the EU mob/ control immigration too are not going to be happy with 3%??? of the population dictating what happens.. especially when hard left loons are in the equation too.. I can see nasty times ahead. When you start removing stuff because you don't like it, the WWC may well be underwhelmed by what is going on.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,878
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Cyclefree said:

    MaxPB said:

    rcs1000 said:

    MaxPB said:

    "Anti-Black racism" Starmer shows that Asians are no longer considered worthy.

    I'm now of the belief that if you gave Starmer enough wine he'd start explaining how racism against Asians isn't as bad as racism against black people.

    It's actually quite a shocking statement for all Asians in the UK that we're not considered worth protesting for by the Labour leader. I hope Patel, Javid and Sunak pick up on this.
    What a stupid thing for Starmer to say. He could just have gone with "We kneel with all those opposing racism."
    Is racism against black people worse than racism against Jews? I thought Labour had moved beyond this kind of stuff. I have to say this is incredibly disappointing.
    FFS! “We kneel with all those opposing racism by whomever it is committed and against whomever” is what needs to be said.

    And when are women going to get a look in in this identity Top Trumps game? Or is misogyny against women - even when committed by black men, say, just not important any more?
    I think misogyny is a massive issue and the most "denied".

    For example it is indisputably why Hillary Clinton is not POTUS.

    Misogyny gave us Trump.
    Nope. She didn't listen to her husband and take rural and rustbelt white voters seriously. I guess thinking they had nowhere else to go.

    I am hoping Biden doesn't make same mistake.
    But why did the Rust Belt not take HER seriously?
    Here's a thought....just maybe its because she referred to them as a basket of deplorables?

    Respect is earnt not demanded and she got her comeuppance. I dislike Trump intensely. I despise Hilary much more but then I had a friend I gamed with that died in Benghazi and I hold her responsible
    More Americans voted for Crooked Hillary than for Dickhead Donald.
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