Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:New Bremerton wrote:ALL LIVES MATTER. There. I said it.
New Bremerton wrote:...
This is murder. This motherfucker must be tracked down ASAP and charged with two counts of murder. Bring back hanging. [Note to mods:
I'm calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in the UK, not advocating mob violence.]
All lives matter unless you spit on a London transport employee.
So the life of a London Tube employee, who BTW is black, doesn't matter? Are you seriously defending murderers now? Anyone, whether white, black, yellow or brown, who deliberately murders someone by spitting on them, is EQUALLY eligible for the death penalty. Their lives EQUALLY matter, and they can be EQUALLY forfeit.
Way to miss the fucking point with your complete nonsequitur and derailment NH2.
Jedi Council wrote:But we are also a flawed, imperfect society that has numerous issues, of which racism is just one.
I agree. I personally experienced racism at the hands of both white AND black people while I was studying in the UK. The incident involving hooded black youths across the street making Chinese noises at me was far more harrowing to me than the white, middle-aged guy on the bus who assumed I couldn't speak English and muttered "bloody Asians" down the phone at someone within clear earshot. The latter incident merely raised my temperature to boiling point. The former incident actually made me fear for my safety as a young, able-bodied man (feminists whining about women not being able to safely walk the streets at night should take note; men aren't safe either). But I have never once experienced actual, SYSTEMIC or INSTITUTIONAL racism at the hands of white people.
The smiling and friendly bus conductor who assumed I was Japanese and greeted me by saying "konnichiwa" wasn't being deliberately racist. The waiter in a rural English small town in East Anglia who spoke slowly so I could understand him wasn't being deliberately racist. The police officers who stopped and searched my school bag weren't singling me out on account of my race. I sensed no malice or ill-will from any of them. BLM activists may interpret such encounters as "microaggressions" and clear instances of systemic or institutional racism. They are not. To suggest that they are is pure paranoia. I think we're being really unfair to white people. In a world where BLM activists are in charge, all these people would be out of a job and literally forced to kneel before black and brown people. As an Asian, I will never kneel to anyone, white or black, and I won't demand that people kneel before me. It's like the struggle sessions and Cultural Revolution of Maoist China.
As I wrote on the "Merriam-Webster to redefine racism" thread, BLM activists seek to monopolize the English language by unilaterally redefining racism and sexism to specifically exclude white people, Jews, and men, and excuse overt anti-white racism, antisemitism, and misandry. They demand that companies, governments, and private individuals, including dictionaries of all things, adopt their Newspeak or else. This is racist.
They also insist that "words are violence" and "violent" speech justifies physical retaliation, making it abundantly clear to everyone where they and their fellow leftist travelers stand on the issue of free speech.
People who say Black Lives Matter are not discounting the worth of others. No one in the BLM movement is saying that ONLY black lives matter. They are saying that we need our society to improve in order to live up to the claim that All Lives Matter.
They
say that. They're either lying or oblivious to their own geographic and circumstantial privilege. They need to show some fucking gratitude to their host countries instead of spiting the white people who fought and voted alongside them to abolish slavery, repeal Jim Crow laws, and consign racism and white supremacy to the dustbin of history. It was white people living in HK who gave me a good education and inculcated the very liberal, democratic, inclusive values that BLM activists are now twisting and appropriating to serve their own hateful, divisive agenda. Unlike these woke activists, I am grateful. They are not.
Also, just to clarify, affirmative action is not racist. Period.
Affirmative action is unequivocally racist and vindictive, especially when it causes Malaysian Indians, Asian-Americans, and indeed, many poor, white South Africans, to fall through the cracks. Collective punishment is a war crime according to the very international law that leftists hold dear. But it's ok if shit happens to white people (and Jews), amirite?