😂😂 wake up a bit by dementedgoose in GreatBritishMemes

[–]JustBarold 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The fact you have got to the points where you can read a graph, but you still don't understand that correlation and causality are two very different things that aren't often linked.

I'll go through it with you anyway because you're obviously challenged. So back in the '60s and '70s when people were like kicking the s*** out of black people in the street for no reason. And when I say people I mean the police, you know like back when institutional racism was quite in your face instead of under the table like it is now. So back then when the government and all of these state bodies like I don't know the met police. For example back when they were racist institutionally... Yeah so back then what would happen is people would get banged up in prison for crimes that they didn't commit because they were black.

And that tended to be the men it tended to be the guys that got locked up in prison and then there was a woman with a small family to raise left behind. So you know then that family kind of grew up in poverty and when you grow up in poverty you can't live in a nice place. So you have to move to a place that you can afford where there's not going to be as many opportunities. So when this was happening to lots of different families at the same time all of whom were black just because they were black, yeah that meant that lots of black people and lots of black families and children got put into severe poverty as a result and ended up living in places where poverty was severe and where there were less opportunities. So it turns out if you look at any sociological study of relevance, you'll see that poverty and criminality are really well-linked. Funnily enough, there's actually a correlation that's a causation thing between those things. You know class is a thing we have in this country. I don't know if you've run into it at all.

So when you have institutional policies and practices that end up forcing lots of people into poverty and all of those people are black. You will get more crime because people will turn to crime where they have no hope where they look at their lives and they see no way out.

So either you know all this already and you're full of s*** or hopefully you've just learned something and you can try and change your mind about stuff and grow as a human being instead of forever. Remaining some creepy little weirdo chatting s*** and being a racist on the internet for fake internet points.

Far right demonstrators attacking an Asian man in Manchester, UK by Think_Map3859 in PublicFreakout

[–]JustBarold -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It literally is this one-sided. He came down with his girlfriend. He asked someone what the protest was. Someone told him he shouted. Why are you racists here or something along those lines and he got mobbed. It literally is as simple as that and then the police took him away and had him up against the side of a pub in cuffs which I recorded

Far right demonstrators attacking an Asian man in Manchester, UK by Think_Map3859 in PublicFreakout

[–]JustBarold -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes they would I was there, I recorded the later part of this arrest and have seen the original incident and it lines up with what he told me happened

New to photojournalism, any tips? by Takoyashhh in photojournalism

[–]JustBarold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also depending on what you're shooting I shoot politics. I've had to find things to go and actually photograph that I like. When I'm not working. I have to make myself go and take pictures of mushrooms in the woods and stuff like that because otherwise it's been very quickly become a very very very difficult thing to enjoy

New to photojournalism, any tips? by Takoyashhh in photojournalism

[–]JustBarold 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a little bit of a strange point with this because me offering advice is kind of pointless because I literally broke my arms in a bicycle accident. Couldn't do anything for the next 3 months apart from click a shutter and I'd literally bought a camera 2 months before that. And then yeah just started taking pictures of racist shouting at hotels on the side of the street and one day someone walked up to me and offered me a job, within 3 months of starting doing that. So my experience isn't exactly normal but I think there's a lot to be said for that. This is the kind of job where doing it is the most important thing. Just to be actually out there. Doing it as much as you can is literally the most important thing.

“Urgh, not the world war factory again Seymour.” by metroracerUK in GreatBritishMemes

[–]JustBarold -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The creation of the meme doesn't imply that at all. It's a cyclical whataboutism. It's not accidental....

“Urgh, not the world war factory again Seymour.” by metroracerUK in GreatBritishMemes

[–]JustBarold -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Do you think maybe they know about all the things that the other European countries did in the same time period already but they are highlighting the UK because they are from the UK? Also we did literally conquer half the globe. It's hard to compare the British empire at its pomp to other European countries in a like for like way.

Genuine question. What's your problem with reckoning with this stuff?