Look, feckwits...I don't know why this needs to be said, but it isn't ok to just call someone a racist because they say something that is in no way racist. It is completely out of order.
My point was more that you're arc from banging on about wanting to leave the house during lockdown and why lockdown is dangerous to now outrage over people leaving their houses to protest racism is well quite something(Mostly because you come across as a nice liberal minded person).
What I will say is that you underestimate the scale of racism in the UK. Here's you in another thread this week
The UK protests genuinely worry me. Not only do I think it will cause a lot of death and probably push the infection rate back up in the London area, but I think it will do a load more damage than good. There are no systematic changes needed here. Everyone has the same rights. There are active programs to get more minorities involved in things like policing.
Now does this make you a racist well no but I do think it contributes to the negative way you see the protests.
My opinion is based on the fact I am worried because I don't see how these current actions will do anything other than divide people and if anything create ill feeling and entrench feelings of racism. As you can see from some of the news headlines, facebook posts, etc. condemming them. You have people guarding statues because they are worried about vandals. People who have spent the last two months fearing for their lives only to watch thousands marching about in the street, and you are alienating them from your cause, and then when they disagree with you, you are calling them racists. Stop doing that. It's pathetic.
You're unknowingly just doing the white moderate shtick that King talked about.
"I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Also at least in the US these protests have resulted in the favorability ratings of the BLM movement going up by about 20 points and if the protesters didn't remove and dump that statue in the sea then various others wouldn't have been removed this week, it's actually a great example of direct action working. So you're dystopian future hasn't come true.
In my view there's two things people can do if they have concerns about way these protests are heading which is firstly log off and leave the house. If you really do believe you have any sort of answer then go to the protests and organize because otherwise all you're doing is just larping on the internet. Or secondly (and this what prompted my response in the first place )
My sister and a friend were literally AT these protests. They have the same values as me. My criticising them is not the same as telling people they have no right to attend them.
Produce a better level of criticism because it's as dull as lager piss to read the cynical posts you've produced in this thread so far. A man was murdered by a police officer which resulted in world wide protests and a violent response from the global superpower against its own citizens(All of this during the biggest pandemic since the Spanish flu)and this is the best you've got
Are we all satisfied we've defeated racism now that we've helped spread corona virus around, unfairly smeared every police officer in the land and started a campaign to smash up some statues?
Next we should start punching anyone in the face who doesn't look anti racist enough.
As far as campaigns/protests go, this is among the stupidest I've witnessed I'm afraid...apart from ones that are for stupid causes in the first place.
It's easy to see why a poster on here would think you might be a bit racist. Maybe take some time out and actual engage with subject at hand. Chances are you will gain a better understanding of the world.