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Ok, far too many piling in to fend off each reply.
Hypothetical question, George Floyd doesn't die last year, do Wigan Warriors kneel before every game this season?
Yes
Because it would have been brianha Taylor or Deante Wright or one of the other hundreds of disproportionate Police killings that would have triggered it.
Its a time bomb thats been waiting to go off and George Floyd was the straw so to speak. Its too nuanced a conversation to be held on a simplistic one line back and forth basis but surely events of the last 6months in this country have shown that full blown racism, casual racism and other forms of bigotry haven't gone away.
Me personally, my family, it doesn't affect me that much, but with only a little bit of research, a little bit of open mindedness, a little bit of empathy, I can see that it does affect a lot ofnother people.
I don't consider that I "Have to put up" with any of it, as I say i feel that Galloways can sell their pies and also send out a message that they or their staff feel is necessary to support a cause without feeling enraged. They can put a jar on the counter for cancer research, the local scout club etc without me telling them that I'm not interested in what their interested in I just want to buy a pie and if they don't stop doing it I won't buy a pie. Of course you don't have to buy a pie, but that's up to you, if you want to put a donation in, buy a flag pin etc that's OK, if you don't you don't. But stopping buying a pie even though you agree that stopping cancer or supporting the local.scout hut is a good thing is a bit "i really don't know what word to use here, but I'll go with strange"".
But thats ok
What I would say is that the rates of disproportionate black deaths at the hands of police, racism on twitter, homophobic hate crimes, etc etc etc is still happening.
You can view that as the campaigns aren't working so what was the point
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You can view it as iys still happening we must try even harder
I know which one I'm behind
