Oh look it's Essex's whitey Ali G wantabe.

On here with no argument as usual.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I suspect that any cops who did it had one eye on promotion anyway. Sad state of affairs is that if all things were equal, a cop who knelt down to BLM will win promotion over one who did not.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I don't agree with him either but I understand his intent. Isn't he on the left?

Your attitude towards people, even on your own political side of the fence, who differ even a bit is frankly way over the top.....Perhaps, you don't quite realise how 'woke' you actually are.

Perhaps instead of attacking him you'd have a discussion.

I'm the kind of guy you should be criticising because I think what you believe in is bunk.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

True, the modern day system filters the Police for political ideology more than competence.

In the past the right employed the left, moderate and far left and allowed them into systems from corporate to institution because there is a libertarianism core to the right.

Meritocracy within the job mattered much more than your politics.

Yet it's a general truism of the modern left that they don't have those principles and insist that you view the world similarly to them.

Collectivism beats individualism everytime.....Which is why the right have to ditch libertarianism....even though I respect its intent and principles.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Feb 2021 11.56am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I don't think it was his intent to blame people, black or otherwise. He just offered a possible solution.

I also don't agree, but for different reasons from you and Dan.

Even if I agreed with the left's opinion on 'racism', the argument line of telling people to change their behaviour never really works.....not unless its backed up with punishment, which I also wouldn't agree with.

It's like those who think climate change can be altered if enough people started started acting 'green' or got themselves an electric car.

They don't really want to acknowledge or see the holistic problem, which is too many people.

Similarly the left's ideas on what they define as 'racism', just don't work and never will....well, in anything like a free society anyway.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Feb 2021 12.15pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Whatever. Quite clearly shows where your values lie by picking me up on calling out nonsense rather than the nonsense itself.

All those years of rejection by them made you hate women has it?

Everything's always about 'hate'.

You are always talking about others 'hating' when perhaps in truth isn't most of the 'hate' coming from yourself.

Is the lockdown getting to you a bit Dan? I thought you were enjoying the 'stay at home' stuff actually.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

One thing Facebook got right was to tie accounts to the individual. These ubiquitous social networks offer too much access and prominence to attention seekers, where using shocking or deplorable ways to get noticed is par of the course. The algorithms used clearly don't deal with these issues, they amplify them. Anything that increases engagement gets promoted. 'The Social Dilemma' is a great documentary on this and other social media issues.

So a better solution to this hit and run behaviour than the victims (public figures with verified identities) of such abuse being the ones criticised and told to leave, is to ensure a level playing field with others having to back up their conduct in an equally 'verified' way. If someone's then still happy enough to openly reel off slurs at others they will at least be aware that it may come at a social cost to them and is something they personally have to own. Most of these inadequates would never have the guts to spew out slurs to a footballer's face in real life, and so that reality should be replicated online, rather than the current free for all.

Edited by BlueJay (10 Feb 2021 12.42am)

What are these deeper issues?

There will never be a time when attention seekers and other assorted dimwits will use a situation to do what they always do. The more you publicise it the more they will do it. That is not so much a racism issue as a human behavioural trait.
Some people, for various reasons, feel the need to attack others. This says more about them than the victims and I don't know that our society will ever be without the small percentage who have these inclinations.
The media must know this but still push their little campaign for purely self serving reasons, also probably knowing full well that they are part of the problem.