Current Affairs London Protests

[roydo]

Didn’t bother tearing down Colston Hall then?

Nor Colston Girls School.

 

[PDAWG]

At the end of the day the protests are this big because people haven't been out in months

Just an excuse for thousands of north face rigged out bells to smash London up

 

[Papa Shango]

'daddy, who is this statue of?'

'a slave trader son, he was massive back in the day. Killed about 19,000'

'cool, so that's a good thing then?'

'no, it's bad but they made a statue which stands above you to show you it's bad'

'ok'

But soon it will be

'daddy, who was that statue of?'

"REDACTED"

 

[roydo]

A building frequently used for contests that included slaves and where they were often unfairly slain?

Saw AC/DC there in 1981. That said, saw hundreds of bands there also.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Nor Colston Girls School.

Beasts!
Won’t somebody please think of the statues?

 

[atypicalusername]

I mean if you get down to it and you agree with mobs removing statues you aren't democratic. I guess it would only be natural for anybody who believed in democracy to feel revulsion at the scenes. Agree with if the statues should stay or not surely the majority of people here dont support mobs?

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Going to have to try better there. For a start, nowhere have I cheerleaded them.

Secondly, my point was that these demos - especially the London ones - have been overwhelmingly peaceful. I live near the US Embassy, I've seen the demonstrators march past my balcony each weekend, walked among them as I go the local shop, queued up with many of them in said shop. The only instance of even slight badness I've seen with my own eyes was ironically just now when a (white) kid tried to blag his way into our block until he was told to go elsewhere, and he did.

Yet because some people kicked off in Whitehall - something that happens on a semi-regular basis (including at least twice with the EDL last year) - people are banging the THUGS drum again, pretending that a couple of hundred fools acting for a couple of hours represent anything and therefore "the cause is being damaged" - which to me is a fairly clear indicator that the person who holds that view is just looking for an excuse to ignore what people were marching about in the first place.

Well they kinda do dont they?

Same way not every cop in America is racist but a minority is enough to cause massive tensions.

You cant have your cake and eat it - if you want to change society then you do so peacefully which for those that have been peaceful fair play - but allowing a fringe of thugs get involved and for you and others to look away & pretend it never happened "oh boys will be boys" mentality is the exact thing you claim to be fighting against.

As I said before- the left and right are two cheeks of the same arse - both blinded by what they want to see which is why society for most of us will never ultimately change.

 

[Papa Shango]

I hope so mate but I fear the minority of trouble causers will light a fuse of the far right thugs to "fight back" then before you know it we have race riots at an already uneasy time where the emergency services are already stretched.

Mindless idiots hope they aint clapping for the NHS after this.

Race riots concern me, I am half and half, do I start beating myself up?

Clapping the NHS is mindless anyway to be honest. Was a lovely gesture at first, now it's just a case of who can bang their pans loudest. Oh and drivers and shop workers and all them lot can bugger off back to being lowest of the low again.

Back to normal.

 

[emir]

Do people here want Winston Churchill's statue removed here?

 

[Kurt.]

I’m pretty sure that trading human beings as slaves outweighs any of the good this scumbag ever did.

These ‘thugs’ have saved the taxpayer having to foot the bill for removing his statue as they have thankfully done it free of charge.

They need to go and do the same to churchill’s statue.... despicable man

 

[roydo]

I mean if you get down to it and you agree with mobs removing statues you aren't democratic. I guess it would only be natural for anybody who believed in democracy to feel revulsion at the scenes. Agree with if the statues should stay or not surely the majority of people here dont support mobs?

We had a vote on removing the statue a few years ago. Circa 55% said No.

 

[tsubaki]

Well they kinda do dont they?

Same way not every cop in America is racist but a minority is enough to cause massive tensions.

You cant have your cake and eat it - if you want to change society then you do so peacefully which for those that have been peaceful fair play - but allowing a fringe of thugs get involved and for you and others to look away & pretend it never happened "oh boys will be boys" mentality is the exact thing you claim to be fighting against.

As I said before- the left and right are two cheeks of the same arse - both blinded by what they want to see which is why society for most of us will never ultimately change.

Do you have some form of filter that allows you to read things that aren't actually written?

 

[PDAWG]

Do people here want Winston Churchill's statue removed here?

Yes, Utter rat of a man

 

[Papa Shango]

Wait till he shows his lad the Wills Memorial Tower, and then explain how many his trading contributed to dying.

At least Bristol has a spare plinth slap bang centre of town. I can think of a pretty fitting replacement statue........

Matt Jackson for his goal against City at Ashton Gate in 95?

Our name was on the cup when that went in.

 

[JLW]

I think there is a big difference between being OK with it and understanding it.

Why would race crime go through the roof? It's not just black people protesting is it?

Race crime may be recorded more....

This nation was already incredibly ugly.

Because already it’s started with that kid in Dublin Yesterday getting stabbed numerous times and battered by a gang of black lads. I know it’s all races protesting but it’s still going to cause racial hate more than it was a couple of weeks ago.

It’s rioting not protesting