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[Tipp blue]

Are you seriously trying to maintain that you don’t understand the difference between buildings and a statue dedicated to the memory of a slave trader ffs?

So there is a line, statues below and buildings above right so that's clear, would you be up for a trip to tear down a Muhammad statue? After all he was a slave owner and trader. No.. didn't think so.. that would be islamaphobic and you'd be banged up, possibly executed yet here you are saying its OK to tear down statues of slave traders but I'd imagine only in certain cases.

 

[davids]

Yes, when demonstrating it is common practice to protest against every single evil and injustice in the world simultaneously to make it as confusing as possible

The year in review: Israeli forces killed 133 Palestinians, 28 of them minors

In 2019, Israeli security forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip, 26 in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and three within Israel. Most of these deaths were a direct outcome of Israel’s reckless open-fire policy...

www.btselem.org

And last year?

 

[Moomin]

How am I defending anything?

Actually forget it. If a bother to have a conversation it's defending slave traders and probably soon to be accused of being a racist, that's how this ends up.

I won't bother on the subject.

You could always pretend to be black again.

 

[glorydaze]

So there is a line, statues below and buildings above right so that's clear, would you be up for a trip to tear down a Muhammad statue? After all he was a slave owner and trader. No.. didn't think so.. that would be islamaphobic and you'd be banged up, possibly executed yet here you are saying its OK to tear down statues of slave traders but I'd imagine only in certain cases.

Find me a statue of Mohamme and I'll give it a go. Hint, there aren't any.

 

[verreauxi]

Let’s see.
I get a labeled a right wing supporter/surfer of Candice Owens. A woman who is black. And verreauxi said “That’s a new one”.

I didn't say "A women who is black" you did. I said you were a "right-wing Candace Owens supporter/surfer"; a right-wing surfer I suspect is not a common phenomenon given surfers strong commitment to environmental issues, which is typically not a right-leaning issue. It doesn't mean you can't lean right and surf, more that this isn't likely too common--sort of like a far-right anthropologist. Also, it doesn't matter so much to me that Candace Owens is black (though I guess it does to you, since you brought it up), more that she is a brain-dead idiot. And you are clearly putting out right-wing talking points, when you label people as SJW, talk about how "identity politics" are ruining the left, etc., etc. What choice of labels should people here give you, given your easily documented history of posting right-leaning talking points on this thread, as shown here:



But are you really trying to take the high-road, "let's stop the name-calling" approach after posting the following:

Oh here we go. The far-lefties (communists) are losing the argument again so resorting to snide comments and quoting each other. Never seen this before. hahaha

Or am I just bringing up issues that makes the snowflakes uncomfortable?

I know I'm in a left leaning clique in this particular forum, and the left abandoned critical thinking and logic many moons ago.

Just waiting for all the others to quote each other and give the high fives and thumbs up like the sheep they are.

 

[LinekersLegs]

The amount of posts written about how we should/shouldn’t judge a slave trader who lived years ago and what happens fo his statue vs discussing modern day treatment of African Americans and BAME and how it can be reformed is frankly worrying.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

So there is a line, statues below and buildings above right so that's clear, would you be up for a trip to tear down a Muhammad statue? After all he was a slave owner and trader. No.. didn't think so.. that would be islamaphobic and you'd be banged up, possibly executed yet here you are saying its OK to tear down statues of slave traders but I'd imagine only in certain cases.

I assume you mean Muhammad of Islam fame, and you should point out exactly where these statutes of him are in the U.K.

I’ll wait.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

The amount of posts written about how we should/shouldn’t judge a slave trader who lived years ago and what happens fo his statue vs discussing modern day treatment of African Americans and BAME and how it can be reformed is frankly worrying.

There’s only one type who’s trying to pretend that they’re somehow offended and outraged by the tearing down of the statue of a slave trader they’d never heard of before it actually happened.

 

[tsubaki]

There’s only one type who’s trying to pretend that they’re somehow offended and outraged by the tearing down of the statue of a slave trader they’d never heard of before it actually happened.

Half of them probably think it’s that bloke out of the first Avengers film

 

[JLW]

Some protest that!

 

[davids]

Yes, when demonstrating it is common practice to protest against every single evil and injustice in the world simultaneously to make it as confusing as possible

Would that translate to All Lives Matter? Or is that racist?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

This Edward coulston statue.

Are they going to wipe all the hospital's , schools , churches, charity organizations he helped set up and fund from history now?

Will they tear down any hospitals and schools funded by slavery? Are they going to do that everywhere ? Remove all trace of the slave trade in the UK.

....like they want to pretend it didn't happen all in the name of cultural appropriation. I know what's worse than mentioning the slave trade and pretending it didn't happen is far worse.

In that case there should be a statute of Adolf Hitler outside NASA welcoming everyone, because without his Nazi war machine there would be no Von Braun, thus no Apollo project.

 

[Death]

The amount of posts written about how we should/shouldn’t judge a slave trader who lived years ago and what happens fo his statue vs discussing modern day treatment of African Americans and BAME and how it can be reformed is frankly worrying.

I would go as far to say Frangly worrying.

 

[Goat]

Some protest that!

Jesus Christ.

I hope they all wash their hands.

 

[JLW]

Jesus Christ.

I hope they all wash their hands.

I don’t think washing there hands in that close proximity will do anything!