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Christ, it is fucking eating you alive that the people who toppled Colston might actually not come from council estates.
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Christ, it is fucking eating you alive that the people who toppled Colston might actually not come from council estates.
It really isn't. What's eating me alive is that if they had come from council estates, they would be behind bars now.
Do you think Joshua Molnar would be walking about if he'd been a bit council?
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Good point. However in this instance the point I was making is that what got these kids off was their privileged status and access to good legal support, which poor black kids wouldn't enjoy.
Similarly, Rhian, Milo, Sage and Jake enjoyed a great deal of tacit support from BBC/Guardian Hampstead dwelling journo types, no doubt because they are so similar to the type of kids their own children would have met at prep, or maybe ballet class. Poor Black kids would have reminded them of their cleaners, or the people who deliver their shopping, and hence would have elicited way less support.
In general, I think we should read the news critically. If I'm right, and this is just a bunch of posh kids that got a bit carried away on a jolly, they are a bunch of absolute twats for co-opting the BLM movement in their defence.
Whenever the middle classes start appropriating someone else's culture they need to be resisted, not hero-worshipped. Look at the mess they made of Football.