So you're saying the actions of BLM have made you bordering on racist? That's quite a take
Not quite mate, but I see how you read it as such. My comment was meant to be more about the polarizing effect of the internet when it comes to conversations and it's binary nature (i'll be honest I initially went for 'black and white nature' there but figured I should change it
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I say I don't agree with the illegal destruction of statues and that the people responsible should face criminal justice to people, and I am suddenly treated like a right wing spokesman despite agreeing with the main principle of the BLM movement, or worse find myself backtracking on what I say because any time I reference anything considered even remotely offensive to black people right now, it is almost sacrilegious. It's hard to argue with one part of a debate but agree with others as it quickly becomes pick a side on the internet.
I will say it again, I think breaking the law and also breaking government guidance on the curfew is not only irresponsible, it's dangerous, wrong and divisive, and BLM should want to be inclusive, not divisive.
Just keep it legit and respect that a person may not be defined by the racist acts he has done and BLM will continue to get public support and hopefully effect some change. Hopefully legally!
That all being said, I am now going to walk a fine line and bring up some big things in the past that could easily rub people up the wrong way, for which I apologize, not my intent but...
Seriously though.. Churchill's statue?
Let me explain why I am appalled by this so much... Churchill's legacy is not about slavery, it's the opposite, it's about freedom, on a global level....
He was by all accounts not a pleasant man, a drunk and many other things too, that's not what the statue represents, because f.. me he did a good job in the 1940's when it was most needed, and that's what we celebrate, not only the man's bravery, but what it meant and still means.
We were minutes away from surrendering in the face of impossible odds before the war with us even began, but instead he went full Leaonidis on the Nazi's and we ultimately won with a lot of help from our friends, but he should always be a reminder to us all of what can be achieved if we are brave enough to stand up to what is wrong in the world.
All of us, regardless of ethnicity, in this country and many others, owe him our thanks, in particular though certain minorities of which black people were one of the chosen ones, because nothing Churchill did would of been close to what the Nazi's would of done.
Admittedly taken from Wiki, but this extract regarding the Nazi's take on race, for me explains brilliantly, why I feel BLM should, in particular, have left this mans statue alone:
At the bottom of the racial scale of non-Aryans were Jews, ethnic Poles, ethnic Serbs and other Slavic people, Romani, and black people.[16]
Ask a Jewish person what being bottom of the Nazi regime felt like! That
NOT happening to the rest of the world is what that statue represents.
Also just to point out, I apologize to any German's I have offended here, but please take note that I have been careful to use Nazi's and not Germans, and I am being realistic, it's easy to think that I am flippantly throwing the hollocaust into an argument to score points, but had they won, that's basically a list of people who would likely of been systemically destroyed, as they had gone a long way into doing with the Jewish people.
2 wrongs don't make a right, stopping an evil like the Nazis, does't make it right for him to have a history of racism, but neither does adding a 3rd wrong make a right, and the destruction of this monument to what can be achieved when doing the right thing and standing up to those that are wrong, by a group trying to give of the message they are doing the same thing is as stupid as them congregating during covid imo.
Screw the backlash to this post, I am officially getting annoyed the more I think about it.
