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"Why do all the players have to wear 'Black Lives Matter' on their shirts?"
"Because of belters like you, basically."
"Because of belters like you, basically."
Current Affairs George Floyd and Minneapolis Unrest
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What I find funny is just how quickly people are to shout ‘prejudice’ when they are left out even a little.
it’s ironic really.
if you’re ever unsure that this country has any problem with race read the replies to any tweet relating to that banner , any comments to any article about it in any online paper or even any story relating to the terrible triple murder in Reading . We can all sit in virtue circles all day on here and tell ourselves race isn’t an issue any more but 5 minutes I like dissuades you of that idea pretty rapidly .
Exactly this. There’s been a lot in these race-related threads of people saying how they don’t see colour, so there isn’t an issue, and that we should strive to end up in a place where colour and religion and sexuality doesn’t matter, which is all good and laudable, and I even agree with the principle.
But read those replies or some comment threads, and see that there’s a lot of grim views on race still rife.
The thing is all of those things *do* matter. We should celebrate differences not try to completely ignore them. Some people are white, some people are black. We can’t change it, we shouldn’t ignore it. Differences aren’t a bad thing. In fact, diversity is a really positive things. It means new ideas, different ways of thinking. Diverse companies, for instance, tend to outperform.
It’s all just fear if you ask me. Fear of the ‘other’. And that’s because there isn’t enough discussion. There isn’t enough education. There isn’t enough collaboration.
I don’t think ‘colour blindness’ is the key at all.
My daughter recognised that she looked different to her friends at an early age. She recognised when some of her friends had disabilities. She acknowledged them because she could perceive them. She just didn’t judge because at that age she hadn’t been programmed to. Her friend was just black (or brown as she said it). Her friend with learning difficulties liked some games and not others. She accepted it entirely. It just was the way it was, no prejudice.
That’s the key. Seeing the differences and accepting them and talking about them and celebrating them. Not trying to pretend they don’t exist.
Disgruntledgoat
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There was one popped up in my feed yesterday of the Tories' fathers day tweet featuring a black father and son. All innocent enough. The replies linked to it were predictably odious. But not one of them had the self awareness to say "If I find it alienating to see people who don't look like me in an advert, maybe other people have felt the same down the years!"
Sure, agree with all of that. When I’m thinking of getting of a place where these aspects of identity don’t “matter”, I’m thinking of a place where people aren’t pre-judged or arbitrarily categorised based on any of those aspects.
I actually think there’s lots of discussion about these issues, but As you mention not enough collaboration and exposure is the key, hence why most anti-immigrant sentiment comes from areas with very low levels of immigration etc.
Very true.
BlueStevie35
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The attitude to people complaining about that banner is really starting to boil my pee, how do people in this country continually fail to understand why there is a BLM? I’ve seen Lee Rigby’s picture used as a defence, the stabbings in Reading used as a point scoring measure etc and it’s an utter joke.
Those two terror related incidents are isolated incidents compared to black people getting stopped for simply driving a car, getting shot in their own home because of false breaking and entering accusations etc, that are a daily given simply because they have a different coloured skin
Those two terror related incidents are isolated incidents compared to black people getting stopped for simply driving a car, getting shot in their own home because of false breaking and entering accusations etc, that are a daily given simply because they have a different coloured skin
Spadge Vernacular
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I have no doubt that there will be a lot of WLM sentiment in the Brexit voting northern towns, those that have been left to decline over many years by successive governments. I'm not drawing a direct parallel with the BLM movement but it is undeniable that the fallen red wall feel isolated and disenfranchised. The Yaxley Lennon and Farage type characters have/will no doubt try and exploit this and we will end up with yet more division and disagreement.
Disgruntledgoat
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"This is everyone's fault but mine!"
now Brexit seems to be a done deal
It’s not a huge surprise to see farage become embroiled in the BLM debate , sadly he knows his demographic.
This is exactky what’s happening.
They’re exploiting the poor and uneducated. It’s the oldest trick in the book.
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
Why is there a BLM? you only hear from them when police are involved, why aren't they protesting in Chicago? Black people are offing each other in record numbers, over last weekend in Chicago there were over 100 shootings 14 dead including a 3 year old, these shootings are happening in black neighbourhoods, no comment from BLM about black on black killings. 1.8 billion dollars has been donated to BLM in the past few weeks would it not be better being donated to improve education in black neighborhoods? Improving infrastructure and creating jobs in these areas. Here I'll let a black guy explain it.
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