I just think if you are a white person and you feel uneasy, stay at home, keep your thoughts to yourself. If you are a POC, do what is right, no reason to explain it to a white person.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:11 pmMe too. I'm not sure if they should have been organised, and I'm not sure if I'd have gone even if I lived walking distance from central London.discovolante wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:47 pmTo be honest I feel a bit uneasy about the protests because of covid
I just think saying that the organisers were motivated by thoughtlessness and stupidity is really quite (and I hate resorting to this word) offensive, given the circumstances. There was obviously a lot of debate amongst activists whether something should be organised, and plenty of activists were sharing advice on how to demonstrate safely. A huge amount of work goes into organising these things, and even mere attendees are more than capable of thinking, reading and discussing with others before they go.
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It was by no means only white people feeling uneasy about those protests. And what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk. But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.Herainestold wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:32 pmI just think if you are a white person and you feel uneasy, stay at home, keep your thoughts to yourself. If you are a POC, do what is right, no reason to explain it to a white person.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:11 pmMe too. I'm not sure if they should have been organised, and I'm not sure if I'd have gone even if I lived walking distance from central London.discovolante wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:47 pmTo be honest I feel a bit uneasy about the protests because of covid
I just think saying that the organisers were motivated by thoughtlessness and stupidity is really quite (and I hate resorting to this word) offensive, given the circumstances. There was obviously a lot of debate amongst activists whether something should be organised, and plenty of activists were sharing advice on how to demonstrate safely. A huge amount of work goes into organising these things, and even mere attendees are more than capable of thinking, reading and discussing with others before they go.
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No white people should be dissing black peoples' actions or opinions or whatever. It should not be allowed here on this forumBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmIt was by no means only white people feeling uneasy about those protests. And what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk. But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.Herainestold wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:32 pmI just think if you are a white person and you feel uneasy, stay at home, keep your thoughts to yourself. If you are a POC, do what is right, no reason to explain it to a white person.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:11 pm
Me too. I'm not sure if they should have been organised, and I'm not sure if I'd have gone even if I lived walking distance from central London.
I just think saying that the organisers were motivated by thoughtlessness and stupidity is really quite (and I hate resorting to this word) offensive, given the circumstances. There was obviously a lot of debate amongst activists whether something should be organised, and plenty of activists were sharing advice on how to demonstrate safely. A huge amount of work goes into organising these things, and even mere attendees are more than capable of thinking, reading and discussing with others before they go.
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Dominic Cummings said exactly the same. All we all slammed him for it.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmAnd what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk. But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.
It's depressing that the lockdown is being collapsed by the selfish elite, the right wing libertarians, the selfish minority - and now the progressive left.
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No non-Uighur should be promoting the regime that has put hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in camps, either.Herainestold wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:53 pmNo white people should be dissing black peoples' actions or opinions or whatever. It should not be allowed here on this forumBird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmIt was by no means only white people feeling uneasy about those protests. And what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk. But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.Herainestold wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:32 pm
I just think if you are a white person and you feel uneasy, stay at home, keep your thoughts to yourself. If you are a POC, do what is right, no reason to explain it to a white person.
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I must have missed the Barnard Castle protest march. Which oppressed minority was Dominic Cummings protesting in support of?lpm wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:04 pmDominic Cummings said exactly the same. All we all slammed him for it.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmAnd what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk. But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.
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This just isn't how the pandemic works. Do you think you only spread it to one person? That they never spread it? How the hell do you think it has been spreading so wildly? It is not ever acceptable to say "well I'm young, it doesn't matter if I spread the disease". Someone who cares for someone immunocompromised going to a mass gathering with chanting isn't just being a bit riskier, they are bordering on homicidal, and that flat full of young people - can you gaurantee they are all fully fit? That everyone else they meet is? The point of the lockdown was to cut in person interactions to the bare minimum to break the chains of transmission of a pandemic that has killed one Briton in every thousand, and is far from under control.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmIt was by no means only white people feeling uneasy about those protests. And what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk.Herainestold wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:32 pmI just think if you are a white person and you feel uneasy, stay at home, keep your thoughts to yourself. If you are a POC, do what is right, no reason to explain it to a white person.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:11 pm
Me too. I'm not sure if they should have been organised, and I'm not sure if I'd have gone even if I lived walking distance from central London.
I just think saying that the organisers were motivated by thoughtlessness and stupidity is really quite (and I hate resorting to this word) offensive, given the circumstances. There was obviously a lot of debate amongst activists whether something should be organised, and plenty of activists were sharing advice on how to demonstrate safely. A huge amount of work goes into organising these things, and even mere attendees are more than capable of thinking, reading and discussing with others before they go.
It is one of the strongest examples of how those with the privilege of being able-bodied utterly dismiss the welbeing of the infirm the moment it presents any inconvenience to them.
Able-bodied people shouldn't be dismissing the experiences of disabled people on this either, especially given just how disproportionately the pandemic kills the infirm, and yet you keep doing so.But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.
And we can tell how much thought they put into their attendance from the fact that they were calling for chanting.
If their protest had - through risks known to and ignored by organisers - burned down a care home with everyone in it, resident and staff, would you be arguing that we should be allowed to criticise them? Because the death toll of what they did could easily end up similar or worse.
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And what is the epidemiological mechanism that means you can't get infected while protesting on behalf of an oppressed minority?dyqik wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:11 pmI must have missed the Barnard Castle protest march. Which oppressed minority was Dominic Cummings protesting in support of?lpm wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:04 pmDominic Cummings said exactly the same. All we all slammed him for it.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmAnd what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk. But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.
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Boris Johnson said, and I quote, "Certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be criticising Dominic Cummings for the decision he made without knowing what thought he put into his travel to a second home."
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I'm sorry, I don't follow your argument here. This is a complete non-sequitur.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:22 pmAnd what is the epidemiological mechanism that means you can't get infected while protesting on behalf of an oppressed minority?
Why do you think I said that protesters are immune from coronavirus?
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Ignoring context doesn't make you look clever.
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I'd hoped that this kind of idiotic argument was beneath you. But, no, it appears not.
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You have to compare that with the untold numbers whose lives have been/will be destroyed by white supremacy.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:21 pmThis just isn't how the pandemic works. Do you think you only spread it to one person? That they never spread it? How the hell do you think it has been spreading so wildly? It is not ever acceptable to say "well I'm young, it doesn't matter if I spread the disease". Someone who cares for someone immunocompromised going to a mass gathering with chanting isn't just being a bit riskier, they are bordering on homicidal, and that flat full of young people - can you gaurantee they are all fully fit? That everyone else they meet is? The point of the lockdown was to cut in person interactions to the bare minimum to break the chains of transmission of a pandemic that has killed one Briton in every thousand, and is far from under control.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:44 pmIt was by no means only white people feeling uneasy about those protests. And what is "right" would partly depend on individual circumstances - e.g. it's a lot riskier to go if you care for somebody immunocompromised than if you share a flat with other young people who were also attending, or if you'd have to take a bus rather than walk.Herainestold wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:32 pm
I just think if you are a white person and you feel uneasy, stay at home, keep your thoughts to yourself. If you are a POC, do what is right, no reason to explain it to a white person.
It is one of the strongest examples of how those with the privilege of being able-bodied utterly dismiss the welbeing of the infirm the moment it presents any inconvenience to them.
Able-bodied people shouldn't be dismissing the experiences of disabled people on this either, especially given just how disproportionately the pandemic kills the infirm, and yet you keep doing so.But certainly people who have a wildly different set of experiences shouldn't be blanket dismissing all the protestors for the decision they made without knowing what thought they put into their attendance.
And we can tell how much thought they put into their attendance from the fact that they were calling for chanting.
If their protest had - through risks known to and ignored by organisers - burned down a care home with everyone in it, resident and staff, would you be arguing that we should be allowed to criticise them? Because the death toll of what they did could easily end up similar or worse.
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No, it's the entire crux of the argument that you are deciding to ignore so you get to act self-righteous.dyqik wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:29 pmI'm sorry, I don't follow your argument here. This is a complete non-sequitur.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:22 pmAnd what is the epidemiological mechanism that means you can't get infected while protesting on behalf of an oppressed minority?
Protestor organisers in the UK decided to get a load of people together to chant, over an event in the States. In so doing, they have likely created a superspreading event. More people will thus die of coronavirus. While there obviously ongoing issues here, they need to be considered in context. Objecting to protests worsening coronavirus is not saying that people should disregard other issues because of coronavirus, it's saying that they should not actually spread coronavirus, especially when the chances of actually doing anything about the other issues are slim, as they are with the UK protests we are arguing about.
How many deaths do you think justify doing it that way, rather than sending messages of solidarity from home, or sending a few people to protest as distanced as possible, as was done at the Doctors not Martyrs protest?
Do you think that young able bodied people have the right to decide they are ok with spreading the disease and thus kill older and otherwise infirm people?
I don't, but you are acting like if you have a worthy cause then the elderly and disabled and medics and those who just get unlucky dealing with a disease that kills roughly one in every hundred that get it are acceptable collateral, even if the act that endangers them does not actually meaningfully advance that cause in any way.Why do you think I said that protesters are immune from coronavirus?
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Mod hat on. There's enough going on in this thread without spurious accusations of racism. Don't do it. I've moved a post to the Pit and will move more as necessary.
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Exactly. Well said.
The context is:
- a pandemic killing over 200 UK citizens per day currently
- an urgent need for the UK to get the rate down fast
- a lockdown in force that makes gatherings illegal
- even more important than legality, the entire purpose and spirit of the rules are to prevent gatherings
- a high level of support across society for the lockdown, with the public being more enthusiastic than the government
- a high degree of solidarity with healthcare workers, key workers and the vulnerable, with thousands of people volunteering, joining local support groups and offering their services as citizens
- millions of people worried about their elderly loved ones, vulnerable loved ones and themselves
- deliberate attempts to sabotage the lockdown by right wing agitators, selfish elites and ignorant rule breakers
Ignoring the context also means ignoring solidarity, ignoring progressive principles and ignoring the wishes of our society.
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Certain posters/topics should be banned.
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? But you are choosing to ignore the spurious accusations of racism made by dyqik, EPD, Fishnut and yourself? Or are you about to move those too?Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:05 pmMod hat on. There's enough going on in this thread without spurious accusations of racism. Don't do it. I've moved a post to the Pit and will move more as necessary.
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Feel free to report the actual accusations of racism.lpm wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:19 pm? But you are choosing to ignore the spurious accusations of racism made by dyqik, EPD, Fishnut and yourself? Or are you about to move those too?Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:05 pmMod hat on. There's enough going on in this thread without spurious accusations of racism. Don't do it. I've moved a post to the Pit and will move more as necessary.
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I'm about to quarantine the lot if this doesn't calm down
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That's part of the context, yes. I think all of us agree on that half.lpm wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:16 pmExactly. Well said.
The context is:
- a pandemic killing over 200 UK citizens per day currently
- an urgent need for the UK to get the rate down fast
- a lockdown in force that makes gatherings illegal
- even more important than legality, the entire purpose and spirit of the rules are to prevent gatherings
- a high level of support across society for the lockdown, with the public being more enthusiastic than the government
- a high degree of solidarity with healthcare workers, key workers and the vulnerable, with thousands of people volunteering, joining local support groups and offering their services as citizens
- millions of people worried about their elderly loved ones, vulnerable loved ones and themselves
- deliberate attempts to sabotage the lockdown by right wing agitators, selfish elites and ignorant rule breakers
Ignoring the context also means ignoring solidarity, ignoring progressive principles and ignoring the wishes of our society.
Now list the rest of it and you'll have caught up.
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Again, this is exactly what Boris Johnson said about Cummings. When everyone was angry about a blatant breach of the lockdown, he wanted them to calm down and move on.
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