Not a racist bone in my body mate so you can save your sanctimonious lecture for someone else. I just believe everyone black white brown male female young old middle-aged fluid gender gay and all the others , should be treated the same without fear of reprisal or insult .

Missing the point

You don't need a White Lives Matter or All Lives Matter philosophy as in general people don't get racially abused for being white

Trying to drown out the voice of BLM has become a sport. So many conservatives saying it's really not a problem, don't know what all the fuss is about blah blah blah.

White silence. Pernicious. What you blind yourself to you don't see. Ask a youngish black man about their experiences, especially from poorer backgrounds.

I'm sure this is true of you personally, but at the same time he offers a valid perspective too, and I'm eager to counter the repeated 'lets move along now' type posts than inevitably accompany anyone non white saying anything on here. The 'berate a black man'.

One thing I have noticed about some 'all lives matter' types is that the lives of elderly haven't mattered to them during this pandemic either. So the very idea put forward is revealed as a diversion to escape being concerned about an issue or group.

Of course the same could be said about some factions of BLM. That there is an interest in pushing one imagined 'sides' concerns over another, which at its extremes is just another angle to be racist against others. But there are fair arguments and points outside of that regarding injustice or imbalance that get attacked, while those hanging on the words of groups - noteworthy for various reasons - set around other racial identities get a free pass.

Edited by BlueJay (31 Jan 2021 8.47pm)

I see you didn’t read the logic text book I recommended.

They may be the subject of individual hatred but not endemic belittling by a far larger majority

I know you are still sore from a nasty experience as a youngster and I genuinely feel for you on that. It doesn’t change the fact that relatively speaking, on average, it is much tougher to be black than white.

Do you know many black people from poorer backgrounds or in fact anybody from poorer backgrounds do you currently live on a council estate. The truth is poor people who act like c***s get a hard time from old bill or people whether they are white or black poor people who don't act like c***s fly under the radar like everybody else.

To all BAME on here. Strongly advise you get the jab. Can’t see what there is to lose. They’re bound to want proof before they let each one of us back in to Selhurst. I’d have it just for that.