Butting in here for a second, I for one certainly ain’t defending Farage, Starmer, Trump, Putin, Biden, or Mrs Robinson. Not sure which one you refer to.
Can we all agree that unless we use clear words and phrases that support some murdering scumbag, that we’re not, just because we may or may not defend or support the group that the murdering pustule of a scumbag also happens to either belong to, or identify with.
We’re all human
Seriously. We need to be careful on a public forum where our words night be taken out of context and used against us to send us untried to Starmer’s or Trump’s latest gulag. We wouldn’t want anyone mistaking us for a hotbed of far right extremist fascist noddies. We’re all intelligent and can make better sentences to express our dismay at the failings of various political leaders like Starmer and Trump.
And as for the violent scumbags up and down the country, the rapists, murderers, child molesters etc etc. Surely to high heavens we are agreed that they are the lowest of the low. Do we really need to preface each and every argument about immigration, war, benefits or whatever, with some sort of declaration, an Orwellian 2 minutes of hate.
And if we commit the mistake of making a bigger point about the ethnicity of a criminal, we’re actually failing our own children. Because, we risk teaching them that only some types of people commit specific crimes, when we all know, we really do know that criminals, whether abusers, rapists, murderers or whatever come from every section of society. You can hardly call randy andy a recent immigrant can you? Politicians of every creed have been caught doing wrong over the years. Teachers, doctors, police, scout masters. And more recently the public’s eye has been opened to the female perp. So by telling children to watch out for that dodgy looking dark skinned geezer, they risk been attacked by a white woman. Never mind about all the catholic nuns that systematically abused children, vulnerable orphaned or abandoned children entrusted into their care.
Or do some of you suffer from confirmation bias? You know when you subconsciously notice only the cases which confirm the specific bias you have but ignore any other cases that demonstrate cases involving people not highlighted on your hitlist? Or worse, imagine that when some otherwise decent white people are arrested, charged and convicted of some heinous crime, that it’s a setup, or that they have suffered two tier justice. Oh ffs, grow up about two tier justice, the facts speak for themselves, black defendants still get treated worse at every stage of the system. Facts, not opinions, not GB fake news or rather opinion pieces that get tweeted as news.
me back to bed zzzzzzzzz