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Post by Sir B3na1i on Jul 1, 2020 8:39:55 GMT
Yes, the org is doing damage to the message and that's a massive own goal on the organisations part. That organisation is not something most people who support the message black lives matter could support. They should change their name, but I fear the damage is already done.
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Post by saintsfan73 on Jul 1, 2020 9:06:16 GMT
Yes, the org is doing damage to the message and that's a massive own goal on the organisations part. That organisation is not something most people who support the message black lives matter could support. They should change their name, but I fear the damage is already done. Yep, as Spot said more eloquently than I, the problem with any protest in the UK, from Black Lives Matter, to the Environment to Gay Rights, they are all hijacked by the usual anti-Capitalist rentamob Socialist bankers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 9:10:37 GMT
There’s never been a bandwagon that hasn’t been hijacked by one bunch of opportunists or other. . Virtue signalling by the ovine masses often leaves egg on faces.
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Post by spot51 on Jul 1, 2020 9:43:02 GMT
Seems I am less upset by Black Lives Matter posts than most.
I do support Palestinian rights but I'm not anti-Semitic.
I do blame capitalism for most of the World's ills but prefer the soft Socialism of the Nordic Countries to the extreme Marxism of the USSR, China et al. People fear Socialism because all the examples we have seen are Dictatorships which threaten rather than support Human Rights. Proper Socialism puts people first.
I do understand "Defund the Police" but just those words need explaining. Instead of destroying Public Services as all Right Wing Loons are so keen on doing, more money needs to be diverted from Law and Order to Health and Social Services. The support for mental health has been stripped away so instead of keeping ill patients in Hospitals they are now locked up in prisons.
We need a different direction that looks after the planet and people before crude Profit. The modern Tory has forgotten this in their blinkered race to get rich and avoid tax.
What we don't need is Fascist rags like the Daily Heil muddying the water and trying to kick BLM back in the gutter. We want guys like Starmer to stop being all things to all men and enunciate the real issues for the desperately hard of thinking.
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Post by jickster on Jul 1, 2020 9:54:52 GMT
Great post Spot.
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Post by channonite on Jul 1, 2020 10:01:23 GMT
So, as I understand it, the Black Lives Matters UK group is just a small pressure group with an agenda and trying to ride on the coat tails of the wider movement, rather than the the idea itself. That being so, why is football giving a minor fringe pressure group the oxygen of publicity? The idea is a good and sound one, the pressure group trying to hijack the movement isn't.
As for the Daily Fail trying to muddy the water, the less said about that rag, the better.
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Jul 1, 2020 10:23:22 GMT
With regards PL and black lives matter the best thing they could have done is just said they were going to promote their already used anti racism campaign, Kick it out. It does the same thing, racism isn't tolerated but doesn't have the confusing links to BLM as an organisation.
Kick it out badges on the sleeve and worn by the pundits would have avoided any confusion. Football is against racism, a clear and obvious message.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2020 11:12:45 GMT
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