Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021
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DaveCinzano
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Why is the diminutive
phillm
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Wimps - Trump's MAGA thugs would show then how it's done - no masks and guns.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh I was just coming to post that. So it's surely goodbye to statues of monarchs from Charles I onWould it not be fair to assume that all monarchs during the time of slavery no doubt obtained advantage either directly or indirectly and furthermore didn't use their considerable powers to help to bring the abomination to the end? Guilty until proven otherwise should be the default position.
The British monarchy's involvement in slavery
It is bad enough for the Church of England (Anglicans) to have played a...www.jamaicaobserver.com
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Why not? We are still in lockdown.Why is the diminutiveracistpatriot in the middle with the black mask wielding a dildo?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
wonder how many tory MPs will be queuing up to criticise their social distancing?
Why is the diminutiveracistpatriot in the middle with the black mask wielding a dildo?
maybe he didn't think he looked a big enough dick already?
phillm
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And the biggie Victoria - that's going to leave a lot of plinths to be filled. Maybe time to fire up the Fourth Plinth project again - this time on a massive scale.
"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land."
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
phillm
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. One detail that has always struck me is how, when the British destroyed the centuries-old Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860 and gave a little dog they’d stolen as a gift to Queen Victoria, she humorously named it “Looty”. This is one of the long list of things we are content to forget while sucking on the opium of “historical integrity” we claim our colonial statues represent.
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The US is arguing over whether to tear down slavery-era monuments. Britain should be too, says writer Afua Hirsch
The palace of shame that makes China angry
There is a deep, unhealed historical wound in the UK's relations with China - one that most British people know nothing about.
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phillm
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Sorry blood's up
Eric Morecambe could be next, didn't he once do a sketch with a grapefruit pretending to be Al Johnson.
Raheem
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phillm
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I'm minded to forgive him for a historic lapse. The grapefruits could be construed as a trombone mutes with a good lawyer and he doesn't appear to have previous. It's the context that counts.It's near the water as well.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Democratic Football Lads Alliance,. Briefly the FLA held some fairly big and peaceful demos against what they said was all extremism .Although the general mood was patriotic rather than rightwing some supporters didn't like the atmosphere thought it wasny even handed in tackling both fascists and Islamacists and dropped out. Some of them later joined FLAF ( football lads against fascism ). There was a split in FLA which ousted the leadership, on the surface the argument was about where the money went but underneath it was about loyalists , some supposed patriots linked with the far right hijacking the operation for both money and prestige. Numbers started to slowly dwindle despite the leadership supporting UKIP (with a few leaning towards Britain First) and they went for a somewhat premature smash the antifascists push on a London march at the peak time of Tommy Robinsons popularity Unfortunately for them a mixture of being attacked in the pubs by FLAF, some good stewarding by anti fascists at a key area when the DFLA tried to attack the counter demo and it must be said the Police losing patience with a load of drunk and mouthy right wing football supporters they got humiliated . The loyalists around the midlands did some street work around homelessness but that was designed to try and strengthen their involvement in the campaign around the Birmingham bombings.Their supporters might share some of Tommy Robinson's rhetoric but the leadership wont work with him, they attacked both the National Front and at the time one of TR's main gofers Danny Tommo and took his phone . They are a rump now ,they stand outside of the small nazi circles but believe that the left and anti racists are the problem. Their latest desperate stunt is supposedly the guarding of statues but their current leadership around Hicken ( an ageing Spurs hoolie ) is more about looking for soft targets to assault. to get credibility and reap in any dosh that it might attract through new members, File under had their day but keep a weather eye out for them.I read that as the DVLA
What does DFLA stand for?
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
There's a twitter thread of ‘good statues’, and so far Frank Sidebotham, Desperate Dan and Oor Wullie have by general consensus been offered a pass.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The Sidebottom statue should be on every street corner imo
mx wcfc
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Tweet from Ed Miliband just now. (sorry, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I struggle with copying stuff from Twitter)
"The bailout of slave owners of £20m was 40% of total expenditure when it happened in 1833 and was only paid off in 2015. I didn’t learn about this bailout at school but when I did the podcast on it a year ago. We need to teach our history in schools."
The fact that slave owners were bailed out, to use modern language, was not news to me, but the fact that we only paid it off in 2015 is staggering.
Reparations are owed to the descendants of slaves. not the slavers.
"The bailout of slave owners of £20m was 40% of total expenditure when it happened in 1833 and was only paid off in 2015. I didn’t learn about this bailout at school but when I did the podcast on it a year ago. We need to teach our history in schools."
The fact that slave owners were bailed out, to use modern language, was not news to me, but the fact that we only paid it off in 2015 is staggering.
Reparations are owed to the descendants of slaves. not the slavers.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
At least he's not pre occupied with statues
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
You know it should be, it really should be.
not-bono-ever
meh
I think it would be hard to disentangle any profitable enterprise of the period from slavery in one way or another
Raheem
Well-Known Member
There's that saying about "Be the change you want to see", isn't there? All you really need is a papier mache head and a catheter.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
50% there
Raheem
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I won't even try to guess.50% there
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Let's just say that when Cummings next needs to make a long drive with DEFINITELY NO STOPS ALONG THE WAY, I am definitely in the running for the role of chauffeur.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
BristolEcho
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There's one in Bristol right near the docks funnily enough.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Can an admin please mark this as time-sensitive.
