Surely BLM is all-encompassing and looking to change things for everybody who suffers racism. I don't think Asians would be turned away from a protest march.
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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Yes rioting isn’t the cure, and only a minority we’re rioting. The majority are clearly protesting which is different.
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Sounds fantastic in theory but in the real world you might be the best person ever with the nicest of actions, and yet, if the system is rigged against you because of the colour of your skin or your nationality, you will most certainly suffer. And that most certainly is still the case in the UK, sure it's not as bad as 30-40 years ago but that's really not a suitable justification.
The kind of atrocities you'd expect to read of in books about the Nazis.
Seeing these politicians across the political spectrum crying about a slave trader statue is beyond pathetic. Here’s to more coming down and Priti drowning in her salty tears.
The UK is very much a racist country. The problem with people like you is that you can only see things in extremes so because there are no camps like China (or whatever they have going on over there) or no killing of black men in cold blood like America (even though it does and has happened here just not at the same rate and the same kind of brutality) it means that the UK is not racist? Ask any person of colour, including myself, what we have to deal with. Oh but because people aren’t outright calling us the n word all the time and there is no widespread neo nazi/redneck/white supremacist culture over here it means that we should be lucky and the UK is racism free 
By your logic, can we say that the UK isn’t a cold country because Scandinavian countries are ‘actually cold’?
The EDL have popped up in Durham to defend the statue of the Marquess of Londonderry in the Marketplace. I will never understand what is making working class white fellas from County Durham give up their time to stand guard over a statue of a man whose main claims to fame are opposing raising the minimum age at which children could be employed in mines on the grounds that it would be unprofitable to make the tunnels tall enough to accommodate taller children and giving £30 to the Irish Famine relief at the same time as spending £150,000 renovating his Irish country house.
Racism exist everywhere, if you're gonna highlight a small incident about a restaurant owner being a dick yet you turn a blind eye on half Europe protesting on George Floyd, Breona Taylor, Ahmaud Auberry and even brutalized the protester even further on live telly. But let's not talk about them, let's talk about China?
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Under British rule in HK this plaque exist
Okay then you keep making assumptions.
I find it interesting that people here is more forgiving towards Churchill than Hitler.
Both are massive racists that are responsible in the deaths of millions of people. But somehow Churchill is less evil because reasons.
Almost feels like brown lives were valued less.
Both are massive racists that are responsible in the deaths of millions of people. But somehow Churchill is less evil because reasons.
Almost feels like brown lives were valued less.
It's great that you're very supportive of your friends but I don't think you're in a position to make the claim that the UK isn't racist. I don't care what anybody says but the whole Brexit thing was driven by a racist narrative and philosophy and the UK went along with it. You've even lived it vicariously through your friends so you know it occurs.
I'm not going to jump on you as there's a lot of unnecessary aggression in this thread. Nobody's saying rioting is the cure but at times it may be necessary as part of the cause.
This is getting stupid now.
I know mate. I’m not disagreeing. There is much work Still to be done. We need to find An equilibrium.
I will bow to your superior knowledge of this mate. After all you are living through it. You have made some fantastic points and I would never Look to deliberately sugar coat the situation.
By your logic, can we say that the UK isn’t a cold country because Scandinavian countries are ‘actually cold’?
I’ve never considered the UK an overly racist country, but then I’m not looking at it through the eyes of a black person.
I’ve seen racism in pockets, here and there, but not everywhere. But that is my perspective which I know is not everyone’s perspective. So please forgive any ignorance on my part.
It’s fine. I appreciate your willingness to learn and understand.
Whenever I see comments such as yours it’s always on the back of something black people are doing. Never seen all lives matter or Asians this or that in a vacuum.
Surely the vast majority are not though are they? Do you believe with every new generation it will get better? Because 30 years ago it was disgusting. Just curious.
By your logic, can we say that the UK isn’t a cold country because Scandinavian countries are ‘actually cold’?
The question was not if it’s better than x years ago or if it’s less racist than x country. That poster said the UK isn’t a racist country. The UK is racist full stop. It doesn’t need to be compared. Racism is racism.
Why?
Did the people who died in Bengal Famine matter less than the people who died in holocaust?
Just to point out this does happen here, but in a more obscure way.
I've stood in a car showroom completely blanked by every single member of staff in there sat drinking tea.
I stood there for 5 minutes having a look at the cars etc, and then another 5 stood next to the desk with a brochure in my hand of the car I wanted to enquire about. A white guy then walked in and was immediately greeted asking which car he wanted to enquire about and if there was any way in which they could help.
It's not outright denying you service, but it's making it very clear they don't feel you belong there.
This is a good point. Seems like the genocidal acts of Churchill and King Léopold etc. do not matter or are ‘not as bad’ because their victims were people of colour even though what they did is literally no different to Hitler.
Its got nothing to with what black people are doing, and I've never said all lives matter.
I was debating the other day about the term white privilege. I didn't really understand what it meant, because i grew up poor with a single mum. I didn't feel privileged, somebody pointed out what it was about and i understood it.
I'm just trying to learn, and understand things better.
Err, you literally asked why BLM doesn’t include Asians. As for the second part of the bit in bold, you may not have said all lives matter but I was speaking generally of people like you who say such things to derail.
Wow, that’s horrendous mate
Churchill is obviously gonna be more praised in Britain than Adolf Hitler. Its not hard to understand.
People like you? Okay done with talking to you.
Geez, calm down will you. No wonder you get all worked up.
People who derail. What did you think I meant?
To be fair mate, the UK was founded on racism. From the British Empire atrocities and slave trade to modern day Windrush unlawful deportations and Grenfell. It is very comparable to racist countries.
Let's not got there. It's basically the "all lives matter" logic turned against the victims of the Holocaust.
The criticism of British indifference towards the victims of British colonialism should (and can) be done without falling into that trap.
Churchill was a massive racist who utterly failed in his duty to provide relief to a famine hit people supposedly under his aegis. That should be taught and it should be admitted. That said there is a significant difference between failing to deliver aid due to callous strategising in a time of global scarcity and war to intentionally building an industrial death machine aimed at the extermination of an entire race.
But people defending Churchill themselves in this thread and the Churchill one were the ones saying he’s not as bad as Hitler
Oh come off it. You surely realize how transparent you are.
I think that's true. It's a lot easier for people to identify with white Europeans getting gassed. That's an unfortunate reality.
You and I both know what you meant.
Genuinely meant people who derail because it’s not just white people who do it. If I wanted to say white I would’ve just said it?
It’s not like it would’ve been reverse racismIt’s hilarious because I hand on heart genuinely meant people who derail
And then there's the occasions where, when a member of staff at some store does interact with you, they're either very cold or rude. Then you're left wondering if they're racist, or are they like that with everyone, or maybe they're just having a bad day.
On its own it seems like such a minor thing. Oh, some stranger was a little bit off with you, how is that a big deal? But when it happens to you fairly frequently it does get tiring, and make you like unwelcome in your own country.
Go on, I don't know what she meant.