General News Thread

(12-06-2020 12:11 )terence Wrote:  i just learned that one of newrys favourite sons who has a statue, street named after him and a gaelic team was a horrible racist and confederate.

john mitchel. just read wikipedia about his exploits. illuminating to say the least. think there's calls to remove the statue and rename the street, though i'm not sure about 'the mitchels gaa' reaction yet.

Are we talking about the 1916 thing?

(12-06-2020 12:13 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  {snip}This focus on statues etc won’t achieve anything

I would say that many probably see the statue thing as a central issue for their own agenda.

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(12-06-2020 18:04 )Skyline Wrote:  [SNIP]

How the hell could they cut those fight scenes out of the films?

Now some cunt is now defacing Penny Lane street signs in Liverpool and its not even clear if its named after James penny a well known slave merchant

I've always understood it's more to do with the Beatles song

And that fuckwit Piers Morgan tweeted he wants Churchill's box removed the fucking cunt is such a hypocrite. The other thing I would say is at the time of his arrest did George Floyd actually resisted arrest?

^ He was held with a knee on his neck for over 8 minutes. What the fuck does it matter what he was doing before?

(12-06-2020 18:30 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  

(12-06-2020 12:11 )terence Wrote:  i just learned that one of newrys favourite sons who has a statue, street named after him and a gaelic team was a horrible racist and confederate.

john mitchel. just read wikipedia about his exploits. illuminating to say the least. think there's calls to remove the statue and rename the street, though i'm not sure about 'the mitchels gaa' reaction yet.

Are we talking about the 1916 thing?

nope, he'd been dead for 41 years. google him.

(12-06-2020 20:48 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  I've always understood it's more to do with the Beatles song

And that fuckwit Piers Morgan tweeted he wants Churchill's box removed the fucking cunt is such a hypocrite. The other thing I would say is at the time of his arrest did George Floyd actually resisted arrest?

Agree about Piers Morgan, here he is on GMB 2-3 years ago saying we shouldn’t remove controversial historical statues.

https://youtu.be/bCYAXyssH9M

Then he changed his tune after his son went to BLM protests & now changed his tune again with this Churchill defence

Maybe Piers has educated himself and is maybe starting to see things from other peoples' perspective. If only a few million other people in this country would do the same other than coming up with excuses to carry on being racist or take the time to see how things affect people other than themselves.

Feeling increasingly victimised, members of the statue community start to fight back.

Maybe thats how the angels in Dr who were created