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Slave Trader Edward Colston's statue torn down in Bristol

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,923 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The far right sieg heiling by Churchill's statue. If I ever needed more proof that the only thing they care about is white supremacy, here it is.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,761 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Tony EH wrote: »
    In fairness, she didn't actually say that she thought Churchill was still living. She just said she never met the man, so doesn't know.

    She did say people think "he is racist", "he is a hero".. in the present tense.

    Could be nervousness.


  • Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭da_miser



    replies to the tweet
    Well she certainly hasn’t been paying any attention to history lessons.
    & She wants to waste money teaching their history as well?
    Diane Abbott’s daughter?
    intelligence matters
    She's in BLM's intellectual wing
    That wig she's wearing has a higher IQ
    Go and knock on his door and have talk with him. This is what you get with an IQ of 75.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    She did say people think "he is racist", "he is a hero".. in the present tense.

    But people do think either thing in the present.

    That doesn't mean that they think Churchill is alive.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭mick087



    I agree with with she said about being put to the community to develop a United and stable society. One of very few on TV saying this. A gaff over Winston yes sure but what her message was i cannot fault but only support.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭nickkinneg


    The far right sieg heiling by Churchill's statue. If I ever needed more proof that the only thing they care about is white supremacy, here it is.
    Bad elements on both sides - there are also people that just don't want to be told what they should think and not think - what books they can read, films they can watch and the list goes on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    The far right sieg heiling by Churchill's statue.

    There's a whole heap of irony going on right there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭MontgomeryClift


    It looks like the blacks found another lone white man.

    https://twitter.com/ConallKearney/status/1271866272008077312


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,923 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    nickkinneg wrote: »
    Bad elements on both sides - there are also people that just don't want to be told what they should think and not think - what books they can read, films they can watch and the list goes on.

    The old "both sides" trope. One side is neo-Nazis and one of them even urinated on a memorial to a police officer killed in a terrorist attack while is comrades even attacked the police. That's significantly worse than anything that happened in Bristol.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,923 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Tony EH wrote: »
    There's a whole heap of irony going on right there.

    Indeed. It looks like the Churchill statue did a very poor job of explaining British history to the neo-Nazis.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭mick087


    It looks like the blacks found another lone white man.

    https://twitter.com/ConallKearney/status/1271866272008077312

    This is terrible. You can bet they have no interest in BLM cause, That poor man has a family he is a human. The cowards throw a bottle at him on the floor.

    If you have ever been attacked by a gang then you know its not funny. I find all this very sad.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭MontgomeryClift


    mick087 wrote: »
    This is terrible. You can bet they have no interest in BLM cause, That poor man has a family he is a human. The cowards throw a bottle at him on the floor.

    If you have ever been attacked by a gang then you know its not funny. I find all this very sad.

    It's tough, alright, but that's multiculturalism. It's beginning to look like "The Whip Hand" that Powell warned about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,750 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    mick087 wrote: »
    This is terrible. You can bet they have no interest in BLM cause, That poor man has a family he is a human. The cowards throw a bottle at him on the floor.

    If you have ever been attacked by a gang then you know its not funny. I find all this very sad.

    All this and these type of actions are being cheered on in a very subtle way in their use of words and language by the usual cohort whose only interaction with a black or coloured person from the working classes is when they hand over the measley few bob to their Brazilian or Filipino cleaner


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    The old "both sides" trope. One side is neo-Nazis and one of them even urinated on a memorial to a police officer killed in a terrorist attack while is comrades even attacked the police. That's significantly worse than anything that happened in Bristol.

    Given that they are defending a Churchill statue I would be shocked if they majority is far right. Nazis, as it happens, hate Churchill. BLM is playing a very game of deconstruction of the British identity.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭Yellow_Fern


    All this and these type of actions are being cheered on in a very subtle way in their use of words and language by the usual cohort whose only interaction with a black or coloured person from the working classes is when they hand over the measley few bob to their Brazilian or Filipino cleaner

    Tony Robinson, who said he would stay at home, and not come out, mentioned earlier that he had black friends who wanted to defend the statues with him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    mick087 wrote: »
    This is terrible. You can bet they have no interest in BLM cause, That poor man has a family he is a human. The cowards throw a bottle at him on the floor.

    If you have ever been attacked by a gang then you know its not funny. I find all this very sad.

    I think the worst part is for no reason at all the Twitter poster labels it as suspected member of a far right group. Unless that poster knows.somethint not in the video, that's just poor. It's like he's trying to justify why he got attacked


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    titan18 wrote: »
    I think the worst part is for no reason at all the Twitter poster labels it as suspected member of a far right group. Unless that poster knows.somethint not in the video, that's just poor. It's like he's trying to justify why he got attacked

    He had a shaved head, that seems to be the height of it, that and he was alone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    The old "both sides" trope. One side is neo-Nazis and one of them even urinated on a memorial to a police officer killed in a terrorist attack while is comrades even attacked the police. That's significantly worse than anything that happened in Bristol.

    What about the black lives matters riots in Paris today ??


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭mick087


    All this and these type of actions are being cheered on in a very subtle way in their use of words and language by the usual cohort whose only interaction with a black or coloured person from the working classes is when they hand over the measley few bob to their Brazilian or Filipino cleaner




    Spot on i totaly agree its a total sham.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,923 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Given that they are defending a Churchill statue I would be shocked if they majority is far right. Nazis, as it happens, hate Churchill. BLM is playing a very game of deconstruction of the British identity.

    They're defending nothing. They were there to get drunk, desecrate a memorial and assault the police and peaceful protesters. They're fascists, plain and simple.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,598 ✭✭✭jackboy


    They're defending nothing. They were there to get drunk, desecrate a memorial and assault the police and peaceful protesters. They're fascists, plain and simple.

    Exactly, just the same as the BLM protestors.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭mick087


    titan18 wrote: »
    I think the worst part is for no reason at all the Twitter poster labels it as suspected member of a far right group. Unless that poster knows.somethint not in the video, that's just poor. It's like he's trying to justify why he got attacked


    Far right or not what happened to him was bloody appalling. A bottle thrown at him on the floor . What on earth is that going to achieve. Its all mindless violence serving no purpose.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,923 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    jackboy wrote: »
    Exactly, just the same as the BLM protestors.

    That's just bollox to be honest.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    LuasSimon wrote: »
    What about the black lives matters riots in Paris today ??

    Given the way french police carry on,and its a country with a record of recreational rioting anyway.....its hardly remarkable rioting to.occur there.....bit like 12th july in the 6 counties



    People speak out againest english/yanks for racist undertones,but the french have some utterly vile and horrible people,(mascarading as socialists) and way it treats its ethnic minorities,would shame any good person,and noone acknowledges it


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,598 ✭✭✭jackboy


    That's just bollox to be honest.

    It’s not and you know it. You have picked a side rather than judging the groups on their actions.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,923 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    jackboy wrote: »
    It’s not and you know it. You have picked a side rather than judging the groups on their actions.

    You're defending actual neo-Nazis. If you've proof they're the same go ahead and post it.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    It's tough, alright, but that's multiculturalism. It's beginning to look like "The Whip Hand" that Powell warned about.

    This is no nothing about multiculturalism, it's about thugs on both sides. Shocking behaviour.


  • Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Yeah Marx. He has some interesting complex views on slavery in the Americas but I think thry wouldn't go down well with these protestors.

    What views on slavery. Surely you can point to a few. I think you have the wrong end of the stick here


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    In comparison to the average black person, every person involved in this "movement" is privlidged.

    The anger is misplaced (if BLM is not really American Lives Matter)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,598 ✭✭✭jackboy


    You're defending actual neo-Nazis. If you've proof they're the same go ahead and post it.

    Now you are literally just making up stuff.


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