Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
I agree it's basic stuff, but I seem to remember getting some push back at the time when I wrote that the data suggested that events like George Floyd's death were not necessarily the racially inspired executions they were portrayed to be, and that in relation to number of interactions with police, black people were no more likely to be killed by police than white people.

I also remember getting push back when suggesting that investing in all deprived areas would help black people but also underprivileged white people, while at the same time creating a less divided society.

I can't remember if it was you who was pushing back (I'll check later) but anyway it seems you agree with those premises at this point in time (happy to stand corrected if wrong).

I think the fact that BLM has got a revolutionary left winger like your good self defending the right of multi millionaires to not pay any tax is a sign of how effective they are. To me, opting to live in a tax haven does impact on a person's authority (but not their right, obviously) to talk about social issues and underprivileged sections of society who depend largely on taxpayer funded schemes to improve their lot.

Ironically I've seen the objection to white people expressing concern for black people without giving money to the cause expressed more by BLM activists than I have on here.

I don't know why people on here dislike Hamilton. Some Notts County fans are almost certainly, by the law of averages, racists. According to your input yesterday 40% of the UK population and 22% of Labour voters are 'massive racists', so that would easily explain that.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...-white-people/


Black people suffer more poverty AND they suffer disproportionate discrimination by the police. A black person is far more likely to be killed by the police in the US than a white person. Further down the linked article it suggests that this injustice may be partly explained by the fact that black people have more interactions with the police, but it also suggests the reasons for many of those interactions are discriminatory. The evidence is mixed.

I am in no way am defending the right of anyone to pay less/no tax, I was describing things as they are. It would be much better if Hamilton and others paid their tax in the UK, but it doesn’t disqualify them from activism/symbolism if they don’t and I think Hamilton gets more criticism for this than if he were white. I haven’t seen it on here but elsewhere I’ve seen it said that he’s a disgrace for not paying his tax but Trump is a financial genius!