manxman1980 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 This was posted on Facebook. Seems pretty reasonable to me; 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 45 minutes ago, Neil Down said: Why would you label somebody racist because they don't agree with BLM? That is BLM's mantra. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 27 minutes ago, woolley said: "Black Lives Matter" might have rubbed up less people the wrong way if they had added the word "Too". It would have also closed off the distractions of the obvious All lives matter and White lives matter retorts. I think they're only obvious retorts to sort of person who is looking to retort. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Manximus Aururaneus said: Do you honestly believe that 50% of the IOM, 50% of the UK, or 50% of this thread responses are racist? No, I don't think I've said that anywhere have I? I'm anti-racist of course, because that's just right, but as I've previously posted am not a particular supporter of the current BLM movement, because I'm suspicious of what is driving it. It isn't just the fact there is still sadly a lot of racism about and that people from ethnic backgrounds find things a struggle in majority white societies, there's something else at play here and I'm uncomfortable with it. But there is no doubt that the majority of people supporting it are doing so for the right reasons. Those who oppose it, well I'm much less sure that the majority of those are doing so for the right reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 40 minutes ago, Declan said: I think they're only obvious retorts to sort of person who is looking to retort. All the more reason to close them off then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 58 minutes ago, manxman1980 said: This was posted on Facebook. Seems pretty reasonable to me; That one was the tup. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Just now, woolley said: All the more reason to close them off then. The point I was trying to make is that it wouldn't necessarily occur to the originators that people would want to respond to Black Lives Matters in that way. It wouldn't have occured to me. Also Black Lives Matter Too sounds a bit like an afterthought. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 '' That is BLM's mantra. '' It may be the mantra of some extremists in the BLM movement. They were probably extremists in other groups before BLM came along. All campaigns seem to attract extremists/ looters/ rioters.? Just as the Save our Stu / denigrate the BLM, attracts extremists who post an anti-semitic joke about Jewish noses while claiming righteous indignation at the treatment of Stu. Stu P must be proud of his support on here! Further, I doubt you are making it easier for MR to re-instate him given the extremist support he has. Would they want to be associated with that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Nothing extremist in supporting the right to free speech of someone who hasn't done anything wrong, whatever other views the supporter might have. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) Then why do we have Race Laws to mark the limit to which we can go? Why do we have Discrimination Laws? Is it because we can't be trusted to stay within the bounds of decency? Edited June 24, 2020 by Kopek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman1980 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, Kopek said: Then why do we have Race Laws to mark the limit to which we can go? Why do we have Discrimination Laws? Is it because we can't be trusted to stay within the bounds of decency? Woolley just thinks that anyone who disagrees with him is wrong or at best a liberal snowflake. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 He probably just thinks I'm a Liberal Pinko Do Gooder leftist Russian!!! So far from his own 'Right' thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Kopek said: Then why do we have Race Laws to mark the limit to which we can go? Why do we have Discrimination Laws? Is it because we can't be trusted to stay within the bounds of decency? Nothing I said even approached that subject because nothing extremist was uttered by anyone. It's all based on hysteria. And why has the Manx Radio thing overflowed onto here? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 4 hours ago, manxman1980 said: Woolley just thinks that anyone who disagrees with him is wrong or at best a liberal snowflake. It's not so much what I think, it just usually proves to be the case. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Kopek said: He probably just thinks I'm a Liberal Pinko Do Gooder leftist Russian!!! So far from his own 'Right' thinking. Well right, of course, but certainly not right wing. Left wing authoritarian according to Chinahand's (I believe) quiz on here not too long ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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