Current Affairs London Protests

[Papa Shango]

You can be a lefty and still point out when people who are behind a good cause are being idiots in terms of their actions.

Didn't say you couldn't.

What I mean is it gets used by people as a dirty word these days, words like libtard etc too. People actively sneer at people who care about others. It's utter madness.

 

[coollino]

Black (US only) Lives Matter

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Rubbish. The vast majority have not been wearing masks and certainly not social distancing, kudos to the ones who have though.

Cummings broke the rules, so are lots of the protesters. Say what you like about their motives -they’re as bad as each other.

So motive no longer matters.

Sound.

 

[PhilM]

People can be supportive of the protests and what people are campaigning for and have concerns about COVID-19: one does not automatically negate the other.

It's a balancing act.

 

[Prevenger17]

FWIW I agree with Zat on one thing here, it seems a bit mad to be assembling en masse during a pandemic. The UK, in particular, is far from being out of the woods with the coronavirus. COME AT ME LEFTIE LIBFLAKES, LET'S SEE WHAT YOU GOT

 

[JLW]

Protesting will achieve nothing! Educating people will. You can’t bring a law in to tackle racism, it’s in people’s mindset on how they’ve been brought up, no law or protesting will change that once it’s already there.

 

[Prevenger17]

Protesting will achieve nothing!

I think history probably has a thing or two to say about this tbf

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Protesting will achieve nothing!

MLK and Gandhi will be gutted.

 

[nsno-chris]

Didn't say you couldn't.

What I mean is it gets used by people as a dirty word these days, words like libtard etc too. People actively sneer at people who care about others. It's utter madness.

I don’t agree with that. I think that’s aimed more at the cancel culture which has taken over the world.

The vast majority of people have good morals, if I saw a mugging I’d step in, if my bird was racially abused I’d be aware of my actions and prepared to face the consequences. As would many, that’s being a good person and standing up for what’s right.

But when people are trying to stop comics from performing jokes or telling people they can’t wear there hair a certain way or that I can’t listen to 2Pac because I’m jumping onto a culture I don’t understand, then I have a problem.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

So motive no longer matters.

Sound.

Under usual circumstances fair point but we’ve got one of the highest COVID death rates in the world, so at the moment no it doesn’t. People just need to stick to the rules to prevent more infections and deaths. Mass gatherings in the current climate aren’t a good idea regardless of how noble the cause is.

 

[JLW]

I think history probably has a thing or two to say about this tbf

On this matter I don’t think it will achieve anything! We will still be here in 20 years time and beyond mate

 

[Prevenger17]

MLK and Gandhi will be gutted.

Has there ever been a more useless pair in history?

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Mass gatherings in the current climate aren’t a good idea regardless of how noble the cause is.

REALLY? You genuinely don't believe there's a cause that could warrant mass protests irrespective of the pandemic?

 

[JLW]

MLK and Gandhi will be gutted.

Do you think there will be a positive end result from all this??

 

[the sniderman]

I don’t agree with that. I think that’s aimed more at the cancel culture which has taken over the world.

The vast majority of people have good morals, if I saw a mugging I’d step in, if my bird was racially abused I’d be aware of my actions and prepared to face the consequences. As would many, that’s being a good person and standing up for what’s right.

But when people are trying to stop comics from performing jokes or telling people they can’t wear there hair a certain way or that I can’t listen to 2Pac because I’m jumping onto a culture I don’t understand, then I have a problem.

**eyes with suspicion**