Current Affairs London Protests

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Hickson9 said:
Considering this is a thread about BLM, this is all getting rather Trumpian, "if you don't like it go back to where you came from".
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Not at all - most I come across are your we're scouse not english kopite wannabe socialist types who earn a good wage and have a good standard of living but moan at absolutely everything related to the UK.

I mean if living here is that bad that you're fuming all the time I would just move elsewhere.
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Not at all - most I come across are your we're scouse not english kopite wannabe socialist types who earn a good wage and have a good standard of living but moan at absolutely everything related to the UK.

I mean if living here is that bad that you're fuming all the time I would just move elsewhere.
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If you didn’t like the way your living room was decorated would you move entirely or redecorate?
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Considering im centre left and have called the right as being racist scum in this very thread I think you'll find that to be false.

Just because im not a far left socialist protester doesnt mean im a racist - but thanks for proving my point that the left and right are two cheeks of the same arse - cant handle someone with a different opinion.
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If the left and right are the cheeks then what's the centre mate?
 
The binman chronicles said:
Can't fault the try at humour but not remotely the same, the statue has been up longer than most peoples great, great, great grandfathers were alive. Slavery was abolished in 1833, 112 years after the bloke died. Abhorrent as it was it was normal back then, just like colonisation it was the done thing. I don't think we look at almost all of Saville's peers and see they were doing the same thing.
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The point is about people still trying to justify the horrific actions of our ancestors by leveling their good deeds.
Yes, slavery was the norm at the time, but the people trying to use his philanthropy as a counter point (Donations made to hospitals & schools with money made through the slave trade BTW) is a horrible point to make.

These statues should be replaced like the relics of the era that they are. I'm not saying we should pretend these things didn't happen but there are better ways of educating people (The Slavery Museum at the Maritime Museum here in Liverpool is an excellent example and I encourage anyone who hasn't been, to go)

As one of my favorite comedians once said: "Tradition & heritage is mostly just dead peoples baggage, leave it in the past where it belongs"
 
The binman chronicles said:
Can't fault the try at humour but not remotely the same, the statue has been up longer than most peoples great, great, great grandfathers were alive. Slavery was abolished in 1833, 112 years after the bloke died. Abhorrent as it was it was normal back then, just like colonisation it was the done thing. I don't think we look at almost all of Saville's peers and see they were doing the same thing.
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The statue wasn't put up until 1895 though which is over 60 years after the abolition of slavery in the UK and 30 years after it in the USA. Clearly people knew slavery was wrong before the statue was erected.
 
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