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It's weird, but only slightly less weird than "Black Lives Matter" yard signs in high-end suburbs and bucolic college towns across America. It's elite virtue-signaling, any relationship to real problems and solutions is purely incidental.

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I remember watching some massive protest in Brussels last year after the Minneapolis cop killed a black man who had pointed a pistol at a pregnant black woman's belly. I remember wondering when the people of Brussels had become so involved and infatuated with the state of Minneapolis policing. It didn't take a genius to realize that it was the latest "event" that we were all supposed to argue and fight, destroy, and kill over.

The people at the Top of the Pyramid, the Keepers of the Narrative, read Julius Caesar's "The Gallic Wars", where JC gives you chapter and verse on how to divide and conquer. Their private boarding schools haven't removed 'dead white men' from the curriculum. But your school did it long ago. Your son's school swapped out "Tale of Two Cities" for "Tale of Two Trans Daddies".

There's a method to their madness. I'm not sure there's a method to yours.

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I get annoyed every time the US media goes through a cycle of news on the royals. I can only imagine how the English feel about importing American struggle sessions. But then again, I have never understood why there is so much international activism around US politics.

When Canada was a free country, Canadians would regularly inject their own opinions on things like American elections. When I would ask them why they care about the election cycle for another sovereign nation, they would reply by saying that American policies has an impact on their own country.

While that is true, you could say the same for every other country on the planet. If I'm being honest, I could care less about what dictator that they put into office. The same is true for the UK but Canada is much more entertaining. At least the UK has the stones to pull out of the EU.

Meanwhile, Canada is putting church pastors into jail for violating COVID restrictions while they take a knee to BLM and protest in the streets for the killing of a man in Minneapolis. Whenever I start to feel bad about the state of US politics, I just take a look at what is happening in Canada.

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I'm sure they all agreed there is much work to be done.

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That's what it's like having one state-run media outlet setting the narrative. Our little idiots (NYT, WaPo) try their damnedest to do the same thing here, but thankfully, we're built different and we have choices (for now).

Do you honestly believe that the BBC would allow dissenting voices? They actively ban them. No conservative (Katie Hopkins, for example) would ever be allowed on the air to challenge their narrative.

That's Leftism for you.

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I read recently that a UK BLM leader named Sacha Johnson, who gave speeches literally saying white people should be made into slaves, was attending a party in her home neighborhood when a group of black men with rival gang affiliations to hers shot her in the head. The UK news services tried to make it sound like she was a martyr for her political activity, but, in fact, she was just a victim of a gang shooting from people just as scummy as her.

If there is anything that could honestly be called "White Privilege" it's that white people never pressure each other to make heroes out of white criminals who happen to get put down by the authorities, be it a legit killing or not. When Dylan Roof gets the needle, most white people will be like... "Great... Good riddance." No marches... No banners... No tears... As it should be when bad people die.

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I noticed this via the twitter propaganda they keep recommending on the right of the site. A story keeps popping up regarding the UK and Floyd one year later... Uh... Why is anyone in the UK thinking about this at all?

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"And yet rather than object to what’s really a kind of cultural imperialism being foisted upon them by foreign activists, even these Conservatives seem rather inclined to act like wet noodles."

And that's why they no longer have an Empire.

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Reading an essay out of the UK this morning after reading this short piece, I find the following.

"As I’ve written before, median white British household wealth stands at £314,000, compared to £66,000 for the median British-Bangladeshi family and £34,000 for the black African family. Similarly, a typical white American family owns eight times the wealth of a typical black American family and five times that of a Hispanic family."

My math based on the above quote, says median white wealth for British household is 9 times "the black African family" compared to 8 in America. Neither result is a point of pride. In looking at UK demographics in the recent path, they seem to make much of white from Wales, white from Scotland, Northern Ireland, etc. I have seen this as an attempt to deflect from a very homogenous population. 86.0% of the population of England and Wales is white, while 3.3% is black. Asian ethnic groups are the largest minority at 7.5%.

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I agree wholeheartedly; I'm from the UK but have lived in many places including the US.

I find it all really odd.most people here couldn't place Mineapolis on a Map (or spell it).

Black people have been particularly keen to hold onto this issue (unlike Brazilian police brutality or the enslavement of west Africans in Libya) and bear some deep grudge against the rest of country.And a lot of white people seem very keen to be admonished for this.

What was really odd was watching football players kneel in solidarity to the US blm.when we have much more local issues relating to anti white sexual violence by Pakistanis minorities which warrant something like that.

Also the beheading of Samuel paty this year seems to of had a very small impact culturally, even though France is a lot closer.

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Sorry but you lost me here: "There are barely any relevant parallels between US and UK police culture and/or laws governing use of force. The cultural dynamics between the two countries vis-a-vis race are also vastly different. “BME” minorities are well-integrated in the UK relative to the US and, to take another example, France."

Not only are there parallels in the way immigrants from former British and French colonies are treated by police and the US (albeit the latter being MUCH more deadly), you're basically saying that American Blacks *aren't* well-integrated in the US despite having been here since the 1600s. If that doesn't give you something to think about regarding "what you've learned" since George Floyd (or before), then I don't think you're giving it much thought at all.

So you think that American Blacks aren't well integrated into US society? Would you care to expound on that?

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I don't pay much to Euro politics in any great detail, but I thought those 'car BBQs' in the suburbs of Paris and the strength of Marine La Pen makes for a different in picture, no?

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