Current Affairs George Floyd and Minneapolis Unrest
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Yes, I meant to put this here, not the pandemic thread
We should have waited till Friday night.
That is such an unrelated situation it is incredible. The Asian grooming gangs are not an example of systemic abuses based on race. They have nothing to do with privilege, white or other. White people have not been oppressed in the UK for years by Asian grooming gangs.
I'll repeat what I said before. Some white people have a harder time than some people of minority races. The vast majority however do not when their societal situations are equivalent. Therefore there is white privilege in the UK (same goes for US and all majority white countries). This is not a racist thing to say against white people, it is merely a statement of fact.
At least find a version that preserves his modesty...even if he chose not to
Evidently not that simple to understand my point then, because that doesn't address it at all. As I said, I evidently didn't put it across very well in writing.
To simplify it in this context, in order for a person of colour to know whether their lived experience has been affected by racism, they would need to have an opinion on someone else's lived experience. Without that they couldn't possibly know whether what they experience is specific to their skin colour. A black person saying they've been subject to stop and search is not evidence of racism. Official statistics which show that black people are disproportionately affected by stop and search is evidence of racism. My point was that racism is all too real, but I don't necessarily believe that disagreeing with a person of colour over whether something is racist makes you 'part of the problem' or whatever.
It appears that I mistakenly thought @mill was going down the road of - as an example - 'if a wool says it's offensive to be called a wool then it's offensive and that's that'. I come across that type of argument a lot in my line of work and it annoys me, so I was compelled to post. He wasn't though, so I needn't have bothered.
That guy must be absolutely off his tits. So weird. Wonder how they stopped him in the end?
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buddies this is good debate. may we remember this and rise up as 1 to strike down those who cannot mirror this when they arrive like @Debunkology and @Yank but i am prepared to give them the benefit of doubt.
Ah. No I wasn’t saying that at all mate!
Us Secretary of Defense opposes any use of the Insurrection Act or the deployment of the military against protesters.
He also says he didn't know they were participating in a photo-op outside the Church, or that protesters would be violently dispersed.
He also says he didn't know they were participating in a photo-op outside the Church, or that protesters would be violently dispersed.
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