Current Affairs London Protests

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Kenshin said:
So yes , if people move in lary numbers to support or fight a cause , you agree they are right.

The relevance is , in 1919 this country marched against black people. Rioted , attacked , vandalised etc. All in great number. By your very own definition, they were right to do it. You say protest should be allowed, your great grandparents fought against what you believe to be true now. As they felt so strongly about it in their numbers , their protest , their opinion is therefore right.

And more to the point, you say just because I have an opinion it doesn't make my argument supportive. What if there were hundreds of me disagreeing, would my opinion then carry weight? Is that how this works now? Opinions that don't fit the party line are not supportable? So an admission to having to agree is that?

The fact is, having an opinion isn't allowed anymore. You have been proof of that. Just because I don't regurgitate what everyone else is saying you are so quick to dismiss what I say. In fact , I have seen people on this site attacked by other posters for offering a different opinion and it's like that everywhere now.

I can see where all of this ends up. By everyone all thinking the same thing , attacking anyone who disagrees, supporting any movement, where this all ends up is exactly what people deserve. It starts with pulling statues down, consider where that ends up every time people get told to care about something , because next month it will be something new.

There once was a time where having an opinion was a thing, now it's hive mentality that is no better then 100 years ago, attacking people who disagree. All because you believe you are all right.

Like your great grandparents did 100 years ago.
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Utter nonsense. For a start, in 1919 "this country" didn't march against black people. It didn't riot, attack or vandalise things. The great number of people you talk about was probably at most 0.13% of the population at the time. It was also not a protest - it was a series of riots in specific parts of the country. Finally my great-grandparents almost certainly didn't take part in the riots - one of them was a cop at the time, and another had been so badly wounded in the Great War that his health was ruined.

This of course brings us to the reason your opinion is attacked, which is that its clearly wrong. You take a statement about protest and pretend that it means riot.
 
tsubaki said:
because she isn't the one on the floor

though its a bit moot to try and discuss this if you can't see where she was kicked
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The choking didn't start on the floor though. Even though the video is evidence of disgraceful behaviour we should be thankful that the thugs involved did not molest a woman in the way they did to her colleague.
 
tsubaki said:
because she isn't the one on the floor

though its a bit moot to try and discuss this if you can't see where she was kicked
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Why isn’t she in the floor getting choked? She got a kick to keep her away from from the guy who was choking the policeman on the floor.
 
Spadge Vernacular said:
The choking didn't start on the floor though. Even though the video is evidence of disgraceful behaviour we should be thankful that the thugs involved did not molest a woman in the way they did to her colleague.
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That’s the big issue here, they are trying to find something that deflects it away from being a racist attack!! ‘Oh she got a kick’ she wouldn’t of got a finger laid on her if she didn’t try to intervene.
 
tsubaki said:
Utter nonsense. For a start, in 1919 "this country" didn't march against black people. It didn't riot, attack or vandalise things. The great number of people you talk about was probably at most 0.13% of the population at the time. It was also not a protest - it was a series of riots in specific parts of the country. Finally my great-grandparents almost certainly didn't take part in the riots - one of them was a cop at the time, and another had been so badly wounded in the Great War that his health was ruined.

This of course brings us to the reason your opinion is attacked, which is that its clearly wrong. You take a statement about protest and pretend that it means riot.
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Ha

You reply to my post with telling me my opinion is wrong.

Thank you for proving my point.
 
Spadge Vernacular said:
The choking didn't start on the floor though. Even though the video is evidence of disgraceful behaviour we should be thankful that the thugs involved did not molest a woman in the way they did to her colleague.
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er - yes it did, the cop tries to detain the bloke, and they end up in a bundle on the floor. The suspect moves his hand up to the officers face as they roll around. The others intervene and then she comes over to try and keep them off him. Him and the suspect then struggle up together and move over to the rail, still grabbing each other, she gets assaulted as well whilst trying to help her mate and keep them off him. Trying to pretend she wasn't assaulted is kind of offensive in and of itself, tbh

JLW said:
That’s the big issue here, they are trying to find something that deflects it away from being a racist attack!! ‘Oh she got a kick’ she wouldn’t of got a finger laid on her if she didn’t try to intervene.
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Yes, and if the cop hadn't detained the suspect he wouldn't have been assaulted. The point you are deliberately missing is that this incident happened because the cop was doing his job (detaining someone for an assault), not because he was white.
 
tsubaki said:
Utter nonsense. For a start, in 1919 "this country" didn't march against black people. It didn't riot, attack or vandalise things. The great number of people you talk about was probably at most 0.13% of the population at the time. It was also not a protest - it was a series of riots in specific parts of the country. Finally my great-grandparents almost certainly didn't take part in the riots - one of them was a cop at the time, and another had been so badly wounded in the Great War that his health was ruined.

This of course brings us to the reason your opinion is attacked, which is that its clearly wrong. You take a statement about protest and pretend that it means riot.
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