O/T Well it looks like White Lives don't matter.

[great_fire]

...and yet I can't remember that you did...or did you?

I don't recall the thread.

Perhaps you could find it?

[Slimchance]

I like to moan ��

I don't want to know about your *** life thankyou

[millertop]

I don't want to know about your *** life thankyou

***? Give us a clue

[gm_gm]

I'll take a wild stab at the motives of the bloke who organised this - and proudly displays a photo of himself with his arm around Tommy Robinson on facebook

You could of course be correct Wrinkly, all Im saying you shouldn't hang people without a trial

[great_fire]

And champagne socialist John2 supports BLM even though I'm pretty certain he doesn't want to dismantle capitalism.

[CAMiller]

the privilege race, where would your starting place be??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps

It makes a fair point but from conversations I've had it's not the basis of BLM. Black people realise that their are 'poor' people of every colour but the white privilege they are referring to with regards BLM is the privilege of being white in the way we are treated in general society here in the US in particular. Have you ever been followed around a shop simply because you are white? Do shopkeepers have code words to warn other staff when a white person enters a store? Are you afraid to let your white ****ager go out driving at night in case they have an encounter with the police? Would you expect your white Grandad to be killed by police for passing a fake $20 or for falling asleep in a car? (This last point is possibly as much a problem of the US gun society/way the police work as it is with race but there does seem to be a far higher proportion of black lives lost and an imbalance in the way officers are treated for killing white 'victims' over black ones).

[CAMiller]

***? Give us a clue

S.ex in reference to you liking a moan!

[millertop]

S.ex in reference to you liking a moan!

I was thinking on the lines of sad and wondered why it was blanked out

That’s what happened when you get pissed off with certain people on here.

Anyway what is S.ex?

[WanChaiMiller]

It makes a fair point but from conversations I've had it's not the basis of BLM. Black people realise that their are 'poor' people of every colour but the white privilege they are referring to with regards BLM is the privilege of being white in the way we are treated in general society here in the US in particular. Have you ever been followed around a shop simply because you are white? Do shopkeepers have code words to warn other staff when a white person enters a store? Are you afraid to let your white ****ager go out driving at night in case they have an encounter with the police? Would you expect your white Grandad to be killed by police for passing a fake $20 or for falling asleep in a car? (This last point is possibly as much a problem of the US gun society/way the police work as it is with race but there does seem to be a far higher proportion of black lives lost and an imbalance in the way officers are treated for killing white 'victims' over black ones).

Spot on Cam.

[great_fire]

It makes a fair point but from conversations I've had it's not the basis of BLM. Black people realise that their are 'poor' people of every colour but the white privilege they are referring to with regards BLM is the privilege of being white in the way we are treated in general society here in the US in particular. Have you ever been followed around a shop simply because you are white? Do shopkeepers have code words to warn other staff when a white person enters a store? Are you afraid to let your white ****ager go out driving at night in case they have an encounter with the police? Would you expect your white Grandad to be killed by police for passing a fake $20 or for falling asleep in a car? (This last point is possibly as much a problem of the US gun society/way the police work as it is with race but there does seem to be a far higher proportion of black lives lost and an imbalance in the way officers are treated for killing white 'victims' over black ones).

How is that relevant in the UK though?

Our police aren't routinely armed, they're mostly left-wing and "manage crime" rather than stop it. They're more social workers than a police "force."

And if you look at the stats, white people are more likely to die in custody over here.