Yeah, Wetherspoons jokes are another one that always get rolled out in these situations.
Oh, she blocked me on Twitter last week. I was pretty chuffed about that tbh.
Some poor man in his 50 has been hospitalised due to far right protesters battering him including jumping on his head. Businesses of immigrants have also been burnt down. Belfast isn’t different just less reported because trouble is expected there.
I heard part of an interview with Diane Abbott earlier and she was very clear that these attacks are racist/islamophobic. But yes, there is a lack of calling this what it is.
It's probably because they don't want to alienate the Daily Mail, Express or Sun reading public they've been desperately trying to court. Some Tories, Refukkers and assorted Xitterati have already jumped on the old "it's not racist to be concerned about immigration and asylum" bollocks.
when i heard you say that it was really important that progressives stand together i rather took you at your word. as you'll note i haven't asked you to align with anyone except yourself.
You’ll just have to get used to auld pickmans
There are quite a lot of ties between the English far right and Northern Irish Loyalists so even if there isn't genuine anti-immigration sentiment in NI they will be consuming the same social media.
Tbh if you'll stick away from anything at which there might be violence you'll end up stopping at home. Vigil for a murdered woman? March against an oppressive bill? A picket line? Sure we can all think of occasions when what should have been peaceful hasn't been, through no fault of the people who've attended. You said progressives should stand together but it sounds like it has to be on your terms. Which, without being snarky in the least, isn't really standing together.
Patriotism: 'The last refuge of the scoundrel' so someone said.
as lovecraft pointed out, the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. so it isn't really that surprising that places which have very few visible immigrants or asylum seekers are places which have seen some of the greatest violence. it's really difficult to imagine people in hackney or tottenham or toxteth or handsworth kicking off about immigration or asylum seekers as they have done in places with far fewer black and brown people.
I know there are racists in the nationalist community too, but from what I've read dark skinned minority businesses have been attacked by loyalists, not nationalists. Anyone from NI who knows more?
) Anyway, the restaurant let them out the back door and then B had to retrieve his bike from the far right side of the goings-on and managed to avoid missiles luckily. Honestly, the sky could be falling in and they wouldn't notice. But then again, when you look at the age of the people on the scene, they seem to be much closer to my age than his. Maybe his age group isn't being targeted in the same way, I don't know.
I've just got back from holidays in Spain. Apparently my 18 year old son decided to go for dinner last night in Plymouth city centre with two of his friends - both of whom are Asian. Because why should a protest stop them? (thanks BBC
The man's a habitual liar as far as I can tell. And by the looks of it this hero of theirs has led them into nothing but misfortune by winding them up and egging them on. Causing trouble for so many young people and families. Not that I feel a great deal of sympathy for those who fell in with him, but he is so obviously only in it to line his pockets that it's tragic all round really. Even the false legitimacy claimed vs the reality (terrorised groups, hurting their own communities), he's just bad news and a bad guy.
I think it's that if they call it racist that opens the door to questioning if the whole immigration system is rascist.
