I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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As a liberal who has lost all faith in the current iteration of the left, I have a few thoughts:
1. Describing all of the rioters in England as far right racists, or racist adjacent, is a way to discredit the legit concerns of the populace. He later goes on to describe this technique without realizing he just did the same thing. This is pretty elitist. I followed the riots pretty closely, and yes, some were racist, but they all had legitimate concerns that were being ignored. Ergo, mass riots.
I followed the riots pretty closely, living where they happened. I am desperate to know how looting shoe shops and bakeries is going to address any of this, let alone setting fire to hotels endangering the lives not only of the asylum seekers but also the staff. Particularly just over a month after an election when these people were heard, they just didn’t have the political weight to Result in any significant representation at a national level. If we are now arguing that losing an election mea…
Hey now! Just want to draw awareness that this type of criticism was off limits in the United States during approved riots of 2020.
It is fair criticism that only one side (however unmeritorious) has institutions fall down heavily upon it when behaving in the same way, while the other side gets puff pieces in the media and "scientists" write papers in peer-reviewed journals about how the applicable riots are net-on-net good due to the policies the rioters are advocating for.
Exactly! Even if you disagree with the rioters or riots in general, why is one side chastised and the other side praised? Seems a bit like a double standard, doesn’t it?
While that may be true generally (imperial college absolutely was publicly in favor of the riots), UK doesn't really influence US culture, for what it is worth.