Current Affairs Race wars, neo-nazis and other unpleasantness

[tsubaki]

Spot on as always, finger on the pulse and all that I know better stuff. As GOTs self appointed "big decider" you don't need to consider with trivial stuff such as it was a police report but didn't have a video of the incident, but low and behold a quick search on the internets only bloody went and found said arrest. Keep it up champ

Further arrests made as police investigation into disorder in Sunderland continues

Doors have been put in and further arrests made following the violent disorder in Sunderland.

www.northumbria.police.uk

I think you have completely and utterly missed the point, again.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

If you’re on the streets smashing things up and causing mayhem like this lot and the police give you a kicking then I think that’s great, shut up and take your medicine.

Trouble is I'm seeing more and more people agreeing with the sentiment who would never see themselves partake in such damaging activities. At some point Government whatever whoever that is, really going to have to reach out to this demographic.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I think you have completely and utterly missed the point, again.

Apology accepted

 

[BullensRoad]

Said before he should not have allowed the platform he has been afforded. In my mind he literally be made by our mainstream media. From BBC to GB news and all in-between. All in name of balance. My working assumption most people are against these right wing types. Yet they are treated as equals.

He’s on the news channels constantly. Something isn’t right with the media.

Also noticed a few very constant posters on here have been quiet on what’s been going on. Makes you think.

 

[tsubaki]

Trouble is I'm seeing more and more people agreeing with the sentiment who would never see themselves partake in such damaging activities. At some point Government whatever whoever that is, really going to have to reach out to this demographic.

There is no demographic to reach out to though; the people espousing these views are mostly just repeating slogans without putting in any conscious thought into it.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

the library:

 

[Bluerover]

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Book burning in 2024.

 

[Ferguson1878]

the library:

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Bad that

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Trouble is I'm seeing more and more people agreeing with the sentiment who would never see themselves partake in such damaging activities. At some point Government whatever whoever that is, really going to have to reach out to this demographic.

I wonder if it's in part because it become too easy to call people right wing/racist nowadays.

Things like vote Brexit = racist gammon.

Express concern over uncontrolled immigration = racist.

People lash out if they don't feel listened to don't they?

And agitators will exploit that. And scum/opportunist arseholes will jump on.

 

[Ming the Merciful]

I agree. People often like to to defiantly believe their City is in someway special and unique but yesterday showed across the country that the same problems happen everywhere.

It annoys me when Scousers blame things on "out of towners and wools" too. Shifting the blame.

There is a mural that came up in an area I used to live in after the Manchester Bombings that says "Manchester, we do things differently here". Just nonsense.

Manchester, Liverpool, Hull or Sunderland, all of these Cities have been disgraced this weekend.

Indeed.

I live in Bristol and although there was a large display of resistance against the fascists yesterday again there was a significant local population looking just to cause trouble.

I've then spoken to a couple of people today who told me it was a Hartcliffe or South Bristol microcosm but no don't pretend our city as a whole doesn't have a problem too, these people walk amongst us and need rooting out.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Indeed.

I live in Bristol and although there was a large display of resistance against the fascists yesterday again there was a significant local population looking just to cause trouble.

I've then spoken to a couple of people today who told me it was a Hartcliffe or South Bristol microcosm but no don't pretend our city as a whole doesn't have a problem too, these people walk amongst us and need rooting out.

Bristol is certainly one of the more left-leaning cities in the UK but there are still plenty of pockets of angry youths willing to latch on to whatever cause suits their mood. Knowle and Hartcliffe spring to mind

 

[Ferguson1878]

I agree. People often like to to defiantly believe their City is in someway special and unique but yesterday showed across the country that the same problems happen everywhere.

It annoys me when Scousers blame things on "out of towners and wools" too. Shifting the blame.

There is a mural that came up in an area I used to live in after the Manchester Bombings that says "Manchester, we do things differently here". Just nonsense.

Manchester, Liverpool, Hull or Sunderland, all of these Cities have been disgraced this weekend.

The echo and M.E.N feed all that nonsense

 

[PhilM]

I wonder if it's in part because it become too easy to call people right wing/racist nowadays.

Is it too easy, or it is because culturally views have changed? Whereas a lot of the views were either widespread and accepted, they're now challenged.

We can say that it's wrong and free speech, but if you go back even thirty plus years there were widespread and accepted views about people of colour...

... about LGBTQ+ etc. These views were challenged and rightly society viewed them as ones they will not tolerate. Is it simplistic to label people? Yes.

Is everyone involved in these protests right-wing, fascist and whatnot? Of course not, but let's not pretend that there is a xenophobic undercurrent.

I have no issues at all with those being challenged. I would also like to know what views the amebas on Country Road felt hadn't been listened to.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I wonder if it's in part because it become too easy to call people right wing/racist nowadays.

Things like vote Brexit = racist gammon.

Express concern over uncontrolled immigration = racist.

People lash out if they don't feel listened to don't they?

And agitators will exploit that. And scum/opportunist arseholes will jump on.

I does seem that some of those on what was the traditional left, whose fallback is this generalised accustaion, don't seem to realise that they are a significant part of the problem.

 

[Ming the Merciful]

Bristol is certainly one of the more left-leaning cities in the UK but there are still plenty of pockets of angry youths willing to latch on to whatever cause suits their mood. Knowle and Hartcliffe spring to mind

I went to visit a mate who had moved to Hartcliffe few months ago. We were driving round the estates and kept thinking we were going round in circles because we kept seeing this shopping trolley on a corner. Turned out it was just every other corner had an abandoned trolley as a landmark.

Utterly grim place.