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You think some statues gone and that's job done?
Didn't say that.
We beat racism, let's pack it up and go home.
Didn't say that either.
There's a difference between
- It's being overstated
- Some people will use it as an excuse for doing nothing else
- If it isn't built on futher the opportunity will have been wasted.
- If it isn't joined up with other issues then it risks obscuring them.
And
- It did nothing.
That's all I'm saying. But please, do go on finding shitty things I didn't say. Maybe from the collected musings of Tommy Robinson or Nigel Farage.
- It's being overstated
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@NurseHolliday
You think some statues gone and that's job done?
We beat racism, let's pack it up and go home.
It means fuck all, the dialogue in the media, from some of the MPs, and on social media is all about whether statues are racist, or censoring the past. There's no conversation about positive steps after we've fired all the statues into space on a rocket.
It's a token gesture, so when it's all over and the media cycle has ended, and a few statues get relegated to the confines of a museum, and I'm still getting pulled over for driving a fast car, and black people are still getting shot, people can turn around and say, "well we took the statues down, that's what you wanted."
It's really fucking not.