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ForeverBlue92
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Deserved locking up imo doing what they did in the middle of a pandemic.
They got off lightly
Unfortunately, I just found out that Charles Dickens advocated for the genocide of the entire Indian race.
No time to waste everyone, we need a book burning. Or at the very least every Dickens book in the land needs moving to a museum. The Muppets Christmas Carol needs removing from all sources, or at the very least a disclaimer at the start of it needs adding that this movie was inspired by the works of a mad genocidal racist.
Because screw context, amirite?
When we've done that, we can then search for more stuff to be offended by because we have absolutely nothing else to seemingly do with our lives.
No time to waste everyone, we need a book burning. Or at the very least every Dickens book in the land needs moving to a museum. The Muppets Christmas Carol needs removing from all sources, or at the very least a disclaimer at the start of it needs adding that this movie was inspired by the works of a mad genocidal racist.
Because screw context, amirite?
When we've done that, we can then search for more stuff to be offended by because we have absolutely nothing else to seemingly do with our lives.
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
Player Valuation: £20m
Context is everything, the above was written immediately after the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in which 120 English women and children were killed. The paragraph below comes from a very interesting article found here; https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/10/cdck-j10.html
Grace Moore explains, in her sensible book, Dickens and Empire, “Although much has been made of Dickens’s unpleasant and bloodthirsty calls for vengeance in the massacre’s immediate aftermath, these demands were in fact restricted to a six-month period. When it became apparent … that the ghastly actions of the sepoys were matched by equally repugnant behaviour on the part of the British, Dickens’s outbursts ceased abruptly.”
I do think Dickens is over rated cack though, hated having to read him at school. Overlong sentences and random capitalisation doth not a great writer make, imho.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Comparing pulling down statues to burning books, taking the knee to Nazi salutes. You need to work on your comparisons Tubey.
Both are the destruction of a creative work.
Both are symbolic gestures.
Directly comparable.
dead_soft
Player Valuation: £35m
Seems like there's just the one person searching for stuff to get offended by as they have absolutely nothing else to seemingly do with their lives
Nah your BLM mates beat me to it.
Ex-councillor who sprayed ‘Dickens racist’ on museum celebrating author says he will not apologise
Ian Driver says he is campaigning against institutional racism in Thanet, Kent
www.independent.co.uk
“Charles Dickens is celebrated in Broadstairs like a local hero and money maker just because he wrote a few books here. In reality, he was a notorious genocidal racist and should be depicted as such. That’s the real Dickens.”
Indeed. Fight the good fight sir.
dead_soft
Player Valuation: £35m
Nah your BLM mates beat me to it.
Ex-councillor who sprayed ‘Dickens racist’ on museum celebrating author says he will not apologise
Ian Driver says he is campaigning against institutional racism in Thanet, Kent
“Charles Dickens is celebrated in Broadstairs like a local hero and money maker just because he wrote a few books here. In reality, he was a notorious genocidal racist and should be depicted as such. That’s the real Dickens.”
Indeed. Fight the good fight sir.
Ah yes, an ex councillor did something silly so now everyone who is anti-racist now hates Dickens. Another heavyweight intellectual battle.
Just disgusting that when Ben Godfrey took the knee yesterday he did it knowing full well its aim is to destroy the Western Canon. SICK.
Nah your BLM mates beat me to it.
Ex-councillor who sprayed ‘Dickens racist’ on museum celebrating author says he will not apologise
Ian Driver says he is campaigning against institutional racism in Thanet, Kent
“Charles Dickens is celebrated in Broadstairs like a local hero and money maker just because he wrote a few books here. In reality, he was a notorious genocidal racist and should be depicted as such. That’s the real Dickens.”
Indeed. Fight the good fight sir.
Linking all of this back to Everton, if you were lucky enough to get a ticket for a Goodison match, would you boo our players taking the knee against racial inequality?
I seriously hope not.
Players 'overwhelmingly support' continuing to take a knee, says PFA after consultation
Players are "overwhelmingly in support" of continuing to take the knee, says the Professional Footballers' Association.
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Players 'overwhelmingly support' continuing to take a knee, says PFA after consultation
dead_soft
Player Valuation: £35m
Marxism continues unchecked, shocking from far left antagonists like Joel Ward and palsPlayers 'overwhelmingly support' continuing to take a knee, says PFA after consultation
Players are "overwhelmingly in support" of continuing to take the knee, says the Professional Footballers' Association.
Players 'overwhelmingly support' continuing to take a knee, says PFA after consultation
Players 'overwhelmingly support' continuing to take a knee, says PFA after consultation
Players are "overwhelmingly in support" of continuing to take the knee, says the Professional Footballers' Association.
Players 'overwhelmingly support' continuing to take a knee, says PFA after consultation
Ha like they were ever going to vote anything else.
The fact 20% said no is remarkable. They may as well have asked "do you want us to shoot this bunny".
It's absolutely zero surprise footballers will continue to do it. Some fans booed and people wanted them to lose their jobs; a footballer advocating not taking the knee in that sort of climate is professional suicide.
It means nothing.
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