We’ve been hearing a lot about this lately, the idea that the police treat different groups of people differently based on their race, and that white people, in particular, are discriminated against.
I must say, at the outset, that I’ve never been treated badly by the police, and on the few occasions I’ve ever had to interact with them, they have always been extremely helpful and courteous. I fully recognise, however, that I’m in something of a privileged position, if that’s the right way of describing it, and that my experiences may be very different to those of other people.
I don’t really know what to make of all this, and I’m still processing the events that shook the UK a week or two ago.
I think there’s almost definitely been some instances of police units in the UK acting… let’s say “funny”… in regards to certain communities, particular Muslim. Like they want to treat them with kiddy gloves.
This of course didn’t start with Kier Starmer, as far as I know this started years ago when Tories were still in power.
Unfortunately the policy of treating Muslim and perhaps other minority communities with kiddy gloves was fucking stupid, and turned out to be entirely counter productive towards any reasonable goals. I’d like to know where those ideas came from, that they should do that.
I also don’t know how wide spread it was. Was some central authority telling all police units across the country to behave in a particular way with these communities? Or was it entirely localised to specific police units?
I’m on the left politically myself but wouldn’t call myself woke, far from it. I think woke culture kind of accidentally created this messed up situation where police were criticized heavily for over policing communities of colour and Muslim communities, so some parts of the country apparently capitulated to that pressure.
But that’s all a bit speculative on my part. I’d love to read a well researched article on how all this crap came to be.
I’m more of a conservative, I would say, with a small c, but I very much do believe in things like social justice and, perhaps above all, freedom of speech. We seem to have lost our way somewhere.
It started with Labour Councils sending rehoused main-city residents out of the main cities, to the middle of nowhere, having to leave family and friends behind… if they refused the offer, they were threatened with being thrown off the housing list, and would therefore be made homeless.
The major cities are now Muslim-heavy, where some of the police forces have been implicated in bribery and/or corruption, by becoming involved in immoral dealings… think Rotherham, for instance, and the police that were implicated in the goings-on there.
In Manchester, the presence of both the Labour and Conservative [et al] parties are not wanted nor them holding their annual Conferences there.
I’ve heard some pretty worrying stories about corruption. The company I work for, for example, is contracted by the city council adult social services, but there’s an increasing tendency for the council to just offer contracts to their own, well, shall we say, co-religionists. This also applies to companies supplying food to schools, and taxi services for the disabled, just to name two that I’ve heard about. You can’t get the contracts if you aren’t in with the people who now control the council.
That sort of thing seems to be the case everywhere you go in the world. Not that that makes it any better, you have a right to be pissed off by it, we should all be. But we should be pissed off with it even when we happen to be the in-group that’s benefitting from the nepotism too, but people rarely are.
I wonder how many councils have been compromised/monopolised, in that way… I know a few that have been, but how many more have or will be, I wonder.
How many calls for caliphates will there have to be, before people recognise the severity of the situation and start voting more wisely… majority-rule, depending, of course.
I don’t get the need for the ‘takeover’… men! eye-roll
That’s the way the world (co)operates. To fix it, restrict government funding to only cover stuff that can’t be done privately. Stop corporate panhandling of taxpayer money. Only tax those with actual means. Stop taxing once you’ve funded stuff private companies/industry can’t do. Hold employers accountable to keep their employees out of poverty by not allowing them to grow unless none of their employees are struggling to pay living expenses. Otherwise slavery still exists. So forth.
If you do the things I suggested, you cut out quite a lot, and folks will be too well-paid to really care… with plenty of time to put eyes on when they do.
I heard the new UK PM is emptying the prisons of paedophiles and murderers to make room for all the people being arrested for online activity–like ‘misgendering’ and saying men aren’t women. No wonder the UK is now on a par with third world countries on the ‘Global freedom index’ and every other site that measures freedom/ free speech by country. .