Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021
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Desperate Dan is quite problematic. Emblematic of expansion out West, the theft of native american lands and ultimately the genocide. Its also very hard to disentangle the cultivated image of the 'wild west' from the destructive 'lost cause' myth and the damage that has had on American history from the Civil War, through Jim Crow and where we have arrived at today.
Whilst Desperate Dan may have reinvented himself in later years as some sort of Robin Hood figure I don't think we should forget where he came from and how drenched (metaphorically) he is in the blood of the indigenous population.
I say that statue comes down with the rest of them. Dundee is a long way for me to drive from London to help with the toppling, though that being said my eyes have been playing up recently...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
after their property is expropriated should they be hanged or shot?
Belt and braces.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I wonder what Brian Clough would have made of that?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
He'd have said how fortunate it was for shilton he was employed to stop a football and not for the quality of his thought
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
There's something I'm not getting here.
At first I thought "that statue is FUCKING MASSIVE!".
Then
Now
(is there some play on words between Liverpudlians and Lilliputians?)
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Signal 11
also programmed for conversational english
Can someone photoshop them at the Diana Dors statue in Swindon? That would be ace
Here's a version of them with the background removed:
phillm
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Besides which they are in DC.Thompson universe founded by a nasty piece of work.
David Couper Thomson from The Gazetteer for Scotland
Publisher. Born in Dundee, Thomson took charge of the publishing arm of the family firm in 1884, and built it into one of the major forces in Scottish publishing recognised at home and internationally...
www.scottish-places.info
phillm
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quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Can we keep beryl the peril and the penguins along the road?
Raheem
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Someone with the skilz should do a deepfake featuring some well-known faces.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Does make me think that someone's watched St George's Day too many times (which, TBH, is rather unlikely...)
editor
hiraethified
Who's Doris?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Our Doris!!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This is in today's evening post - supposed to be from some of the people who were according to their account protecting the cenotaph and were called far-right by that gammony copper who got all the praise and whose account they call nonsense. But that can't be right because we all know bristol coppers are all lovely progressive hippie types.
“There were around a dozen of us who were there from 1pm, long before the people on the Black Lives Matter march reached the Cenotaph, and a few others including me got there about 2pm,” he said.
“So we weren’t there because of what happened with the statue of Colston. We were there before that, and solely to stop anyone doing anything to the Cenotaph.
“Personally, I support what the Black Lives Matter campaigners are saying. I do not have a problem with that. But we’ve seen in other places, that when there is a big crowd like that, you get a few people who see the opportunity for a bit of vandalism and attack other things like the Cenotaph.
“That Cenotaph was erected there to honour the people of Bristol who died in two world wars, and it should not be a target,” he added.
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"To be absolutely honest with you, I didn’t even know what statue it was they were pulling down.
“When I found out, I thought that yes it shouldn’t be there, and should have come down, although doing it like that wasn’t the way to do it, but I can understand completely why people were against that statue being there, and didn’t want it.
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“We were accused of being Nazis and racists, just because we were protecting the Cenotaph.
“One of us is mixed race, and went so far as taking his shirt off to show them that he has a tattoo on his back which is the England flag and the Jamaican flag linked together,” he said.
“There were around a dozen of us who were there from 1pm, long before the people on the Black Lives Matter march reached the Cenotaph, and a few others including me got there about 2pm,” he said.
“So we weren’t there because of what happened with the statue of Colston. We were there before that, and solely to stop anyone doing anything to the Cenotaph.
“Personally, I support what the Black Lives Matter campaigners are saying. I do not have a problem with that. But we’ve seen in other places, that when there is a big crowd like that, you get a few people who see the opportunity for a bit of vandalism and attack other things like the Cenotaph.
“That Cenotaph was erected there to honour the people of Bristol who died in two world wars, and it should not be a target,” he added.
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"To be absolutely honest with you, I didn’t even know what statue it was they were pulling down.
“When I found out, I thought that yes it shouldn’t be there, and should have come down, although doing it like that wasn’t the way to do it, but I can understand completely why people were against that statue being there, and didn’t want it.
...
“We were accused of being Nazis and racists, just because we were protecting the Cenotaph.
“One of us is mixed race, and went so far as taking his shirt off to show them that he has a tattoo on his back which is the England flag and the Jamaican flag linked together,” he said.
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not-bono-ever
meh
has anyone ever suggested bringing down memorials to those slaughtered in the wars? madness
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First they came for the statues, and we did not speak out... Now they're removing such massive film family favourites (and 100% historically accurate of course) as Gone with the Wind. Where will it all end???!!! 
Gone with the Wind removed from HBO Max
Can't fucking wait for the fash's reaction on Twatter....
Gone with the Wind removed from HBO Max
Can't fucking wait for the fash's reaction on Twatter....
krink
I'll do it this afternoon
I noticed they were City, would it have been different if it was the other lot? I definitely remember GHS running around with the EDL back a few years. I'm well out of everything for years so have no idea what they're like these days. cheers
No-one has - but there's clearly a perception from some that war memorials are in danger of being damaged or vandalised by people involved in the protests, as that guys says. I don't think they are much - the only thing close I can think of is that lad swinging off a flag on the cenotaph about a decade ago
