I have long suggested freepers familiarize themselves with the French film about the Resistance called The Sorrow and The Pity. It gets right to the heart of who fights in the streets when society and democratic governments fail the people.
You have to be a street fighter before you can fight in the streets.
When it’s time to fight in the streets, it’s too late to learn how.
Hi Miss Marmelstein. It’s a good point. I just didn’t know any of this about Robinson. Then I dug in a little further and while I don’t agree with what’s taking place in Britain, it was good to become familiar with this man and the details behind his arrest. A lot of people I respect had held their opinions back on this issue and now I think I have a better idea on why. If nothing else, people can build a better argument in his favor knowing the facts that they will inevitably be confronted with.
I’ll look at that.
My thoughts are here:
The crimes happen on the fringes of White working-class neighborhoods such as where Tommy lives. This is where the Muslim gangs touch the borders of British working class families.
The middle-class and upper-class families live in isolation away from the lower working class. The conflicts are “over there away from us”. Inside these communities which are 99.9% White, there are no conflicts. The attitude is “don’t bring conflict here” which is skewed to “don’t bring your racism here because we are educated and at peace, and know how to live without conflict whereas you Tommy Robinsons are always in trouble and causing everyone else discomfort because you are uneducated and don’t know how to speak proper upper-crust English.”
British society is cowered to think of holding Muslim criminals accountable because the perception is so great that they will be thought racist by doing so.
The Brits that would ignore the plight of their working-class Tommy Robinsons, these Brits ARE the problem but they won’t allow themselves to think that. They will never allow even the thought they must hold themselves accountable for their acquiescence and dereliction. They think “it has nothing to do with us, it’s all the fault of those Tommy Robinsons”.
Ok, so what to do?
Something simple, something that takes a second or two, that even a Brit coward can do ...
Place “Tommy Robinson Jars” in all British shops everywhere and coax Brits to donate a few pence here and there FOR FREE SPEECH TOMMY.
Rewrite the existing cowardly narrative to “WE ABHOR RACISM BUT WE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH MORE”.
Little by little Brits will ‘acclimate’ to the new narrative. Discussions will break out that one may not ‘like’ the person exercising their right to free speech, but society is better off with honoring free speech than not.
thx,
will look it up. ‘Pod
“The Sorrow and The Pity”
Thanks for the rec - I’m going to take a look.
Freepers have been brainwashed to sniff out bigotry alleged or not at any level to use as an excuse to not support someone actually taking a stand
I’ve been here a long long time
Freepers who do this have some sort of skin in the game
Those quick to calll folks racist or bigot