Neither do I, I’m purely talking about the defacing of war monuments/memorials with my posts (not space traders, politicians, sportsmen etc.). I’d rather they were burning a Liverpool shirt but I’m no massive patriot, countries are just lines in the sand and I’m not arsed about a bloke burning a flag.
I think my posts may have been misinterpreted as some kind of right wing EDL, nationalist, bulldog, tattooed, dresses as a crusader to go to England games nutter which I certainly did not intend (and am not!) so I’m tagging @dead_soft too.
I never read it that way.
Bit ironic , fighting facism by burning things and pulling down symbols of a system you dont agree with, and using mob force to destabilise the country on the streets.It's not about if you have 'little chance' it's about if you have a chance at all - which you shouldn't. And the point is not about equivalence of deaths by police (there would definitely be more if the UK police were armed), it's about the way policing in the UK targets and perceives different races and the possibility of a climate that will allow what we see in the US to happen here.
In recent memory we have had entire police forces declared institutionally racist and, in addressing public safety, where police have clearly overreached their power and used unnecessary force against people of all colours, while there has been a woeful lack of accountability through the justice system.
There are parallels even from recent times with the killing of George Floyd https://www.channel4.com/news/hearing-told-police-failed-in-duty-of-care-to-man-who-died
But it doesn't happen here:
‘A black man’s life is not valued’: attack on year-long delay of UK police death inquiry
Electrician Darren Cumberbatch was beaten with ‘excessive force’ by policeamp.theguardian.com
I refuse to draw the same anger about the destruction of property (which not many generations ago you were if you were black) or the burning of a flag, as that of a life. And as for dishonouring the cenotaph, what is the point in fighting Facism and intolerance if you are willing to accept it decades on?
Didn't take it that way and sorry if it seemed I did, was just disagreeing about the main point of them I think.
You can be outside if you want, just not stay overnight somewhere:
It wasn't an organised coup. Get a grip
The fact we are talking about them rather than the subject the march was about shows what a disservice they are doing to the cause they are supposed to represent.
We were never in lockdown
Protesting isn't an exclusively fascist strategy so it isn't ironic. As for "mob force", the vast majority of the tens of thousands of people protesting over the past 2 days in the UK have been peaceful and respectful and have been looking for a farer, more equal system. Again, not fascist.