London/British Riots

[moog]

is this shit over yet

 

[Ellie]

yeah

new revelations though from CCTV footage. Gangs shot rounds at the police and police helicopters while trying to torch a pub in Birmingham.

 

[Venetia]

I know it's small cakes but I seriously think the man deserves an OBE. He saved a lot of people with that speech, because over the deaths they were on the verge of a HUGE uprising. He calmed the storm with words.

i heard the speech on NPR and i'll admit, it was pretty fucking moving. but it is a disgusting shame that he had to give it.

 

[Twirly]

Thing that I HATE about Europe -> some immigrant goes to your country just for getting cash from social help and often behaving like a dog, not civilised person, and if you start complaining about it's racist.

Meh, there is more to it than just "immigrants draining on economy and being an uncivilsed person". There are loads of factors that make that shit happen in the first place.
I mean switzerland has loads of immigrants too and you don't see all those chavs and shit there.

 

[Ellie]

Thing is it's never the immigrants doing the rioting anyway, it's other people apparently (or not) doing it in response.

 

[Venetia]

it just makes me laugh to hear about europeans flipping out about rises in minorities, after I've been forced to grow up in a country where flipping out about rises in minorities is such a prevalent taboo

yeah, welcome to the melting pot, get comfy & settle in

we've been at it for several hundred years and still can't really get it right

 

[Ellie]

b-but muslims are taking over the world!!!!11one

 

[Jason]

[Insert minority] are the cause for [Insert problem]

/howtoracism

 

[Ellie]

Nobody stops to think that it's all caused by the fact white people think anything that isn't white must be a minority when really "the minority" (as in every minority together) is the human race [/yeah]

 

[Venetia]

well er, the minority is the ethnic population of a country that is lesser than whatever ethnicity has a dominant majority

there is no such thing as a minority when there is no ethnic majority
(e.g. there are 25% white, 25% hispanic, 25% black, 25% asian)

but yes the ones that flip out about it VISIBLY the most are whites in white-majority countries.

(in the U.S. for instance, it's ~63% white, 9% "white hispanic" or latino, ~13% black, ~5% asian, ~3% mixed, etc. etc.-- so whites are still a really dominant majority)

you have to also remember that in the middle east, a lot of countries' islamic majorities flip out about non-islamic minorities, too.

[just bein' xenophobic here, boss.

keep bein' a xenophobe there, Lou.]

 

[Aepriz]

b-but muslims are taking over the world!!!!11one

Well somehow (living in Belgium) I find it hard to denie this..
Not to be racist or anything, but I'm not saying it isn't true...

Kinda sad actually...