Quote Originally Posted by Arabdownunder View Post
Bill Maher gets the validation seekers down to a T

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0q2ZR4nBuE

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Good clip to make a point. Everyone comes at this racism situation from different directions but I for one think that the whole thing has got out of hand. For goodness sake the whole virtue signalling, over playing of the whole race situation (not the Floyd incident) is making a mockery of real racism and likely turning more folk 'racist'. What happened to the guy in America was just plain wrong, appaling. He was a criminal, so what, he did not deserve to be treated as he was and I hope that the cops are properly dealt with. It is all the politically correct nonsense that detracts from the real issues.
As far as statues are concerned it is an irrelevance to me as to whether someone is 'commemorated' in such a way. I'm no fan of statues be it Churchill, Mandela or even Jim McLean. To start pulling them down for the lifestyle and views that were of the time and in many cases to views of more or less the whole population at the time though is plain daft. My own view is that Churchill was a flawed man who rose to guide Britain through it's darkest time and rightly enjoys his revered place in our history. Many icons of the other side of the argument had darker sides, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela etc. but these are rightly put aside in the overall picture leading to the reverence that these and others enjoy today. Why not for Churchill? Why because the rabble rousing, lefty liberal white middle classes do indeed act like as described in the 'comic' clip all self flagellating, virtuous and right minded in their own minds but also bigoted, racist in other ways and certainly most certainly intolerant in the extreme, vicious and at times violent and destructive and totally unwilling to hear other's points of view.
Black Lives Matter. Of course they do but in some eyes to say all lives matter is seen as racist; why?
Where is all this going to end because the injustices of centuries wont be cured overnight? We are imo well on the way to a better inter related racial society but there is a way to go, not helped by rent a mob consisting of out and out hooligans and vandals mixed with the lefty/liberal 'disease'.
There will be a fight back from those opposed to political correctness and I don't mean the other side of the mob/hooligan brigade the EDL ultra right wing loonies etc. I think honest to goodness right minded ordinary folk are heart sick of all this political correctness and will have their day through peaceful methods. Maybe now that the Clap for Carers has finished those of such a mind should clap to show their disgust at political correctness in all areas. Or a Clap for Winston Churchill who was after all voted as the greatest Briton by the public, not so long ago. I would be out there for that one.
Tolerance for everyone should be the word!!