Ha! Fair play.
Much of what you said is spot on. Using a largely peaceful protest to hide behind while acting like a cunt, sums up the actions of those who purposefully or unwittingly end up undermining these things perfectly. I don't think you can then though act exactly like those you are condemning by assuming those at the forefront of direct action don't give a shit about the cause. The Colston statue is a very good example. As a Bristolian you of course will have a view on it, but also you will no doubt admit that being in one, if the not the most multicultural cities in the SW, that for Black Bristolians having to walk past a bloke who may well have branded and bought their ancestors must have seemed like a right slap in the face? So you not giving a fuck one way or the other has to be taken in that context. To then suggest that the people taking it down don't give a fuck about the cause requires a whole lot of assumptions.What about the last black hands that pushed it into the harbour? Do you really think just because it suits you it is OK to pretend he is just there for a Jolly?
And then it is all this false equivalency stuff. Jumping on a statue is in no way equivalent to throwing a bike at a Police horse and wishing that people get a kicking at the hands of the Police or worse the rent a mob Tommy Robinson fake Patriot cunts is just plain bollocks. 'Long overdue'? (:
It is quite funny seeing the cuntish hooligans standing around war memorials pretending to stand for law in order when just last year they were throwing bricks and fences at the coppers because TR was getting a long overdue spanking at the hands of the 'law' they invoke when it suits them.
We had the same thing down here. Bricks and paving stones dug up and left by the far right to try and provoke and delegitiamize and derail the protest. The local football firm waiting a mile away at the war memorial for a fight and racially abusing and cat calling black women walking past on their way to the protest. These are thugs who disrespected the memorial by turning their back on it and who i have never seen at any official memorial service. The Memorial they were 'Protecting' is full of the names of Muslim Soldiers who died in service of the commonwealth, but most of the cunts guarding it can't even read ffs. People by their hundreds claiming that everyone was jumping on a bandwagon despite 95% of the speakers being Black and many in attendance having been going to protests like this for 30+ years. Idiots without a CSE to their name calling the graduates,professors, health workers present, 'Selfish Morons who are going to cause thousands of deaths', despite being outside and again 90% wearing masks. You go to a supermarket and you are lucky if 25% have masks on.
It is like a rush to the bottom.
Yes of course you will have virtue signalling idiots like the white prats in Exeter speaking on behalf of Black people (DOh) and those who just want a barny, but most protests here have been peaceful.
It is also true that is a very welcome distraction from a Government intent on culling many of it's citizens, but today so many people struggle to have more than one thought in their head at any one time and change is never easy. That is what makes it worthwhile.
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