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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Spot on! The BLM movement was about police brutality in the United States and over here, protesters have hijacked the cause to concentrate on statues. This is pathetic - why do the wreckers get such media attention? Their views are not reflecting the mainstream of public opinion.
Slavery was and is cruel in the extreme, but Britain was the prime mover to abolish it, and we did. Why, therefore, do we have this hard core who are still going on about it now, all these years after abolition? They cannot change history. They should be concentrating on supporting equality for everyone, particularly in the US, and campaigning to tackle head on the problem of modern slavery.
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Partially correct, BLM is not just about police brutality but also systemic racism in society. There's equal call in the US for removal of statues, Nascar has banned the use of the confederate flag The military were also open to discussing renaming some of their forts until Trump stopped in and blocked it.
Calling people pathetic for exercising their democratic right to protest (that vast majority of it has been peaceful) seems a little off
I don't think many want to change history, but they want a greater degree of acceptance and or knowledge with regards to who suffered.
Let's use the removal of the statue in Bristol as an example. It's removal does not change the historic events, but it does stop the modern day 'celebration' of the man who perpetrated them.