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To come full circle on the thread

Four people have been charged with criminal damage over the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said
Good.

All this talk at the very beginning of this about statues and ripping them down and what they represent etc.

It represented this, criminal charges against 4 tits who will now have a criminal record for their actions.
 
To come full circle on the thread


Good.

All this talk at the very beginning of this about statues and ripping them down and what they represent etc.

It represented this, criminal charges against 4 tits who will now have a criminal record for their actions.

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.

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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.
 
Unfortunately, I just found out that Charles Dickens advocated for the genocide of the entire Indian race.

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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.
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.
 
Unfortunately, I just found out that Charles Dickens advocated for the genocide of the entire Indian race.

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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.
Comparing pulling down statues to burning books, taking the knee to Nazi salutes. You need to work on your comparisons Tubey.
 
Unfortunately, I just found out that Charles Dickens advocated for the genocide of the entire Indian race.

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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.

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
 
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.


“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.
 
Nah your BLM mates beat me to it.


“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.


“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​


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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