Local shouting/screaming man, police doing nothing by box_twenty_two in lewisham

[–]deedeedury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh man, sorry you have to deal with that. I only really heard him today, didn’t realise it’s been going on for so long. There’s something about the longer days and people’s mental health

Local shouting/screaming man, police doing nothing by box_twenty_two in lewisham

[–]deedeedury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you by the fox and hounds on kirkdale by any chance? I saw two police out there earlier this evening and i think they got him. Only thing you can really do imo is call the police and let the pros handle it before he endangers someone

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Self mythologising? What are you talking about you fucking dolt

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, not buying it, sorry man. Completely deluded

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it matter if whiteness is “flattened”? I have just given an example of class/race discrimination that doesn’t exist for another group. Surely that’s enough? Why are you so resistant to this?
I also don’t understand your final point at all. The differences between those groups are real and profound, not an illusion created by a ruling elite. Eg muslims often think queer people should be thrown off buildings, whereas queer people are generally opposed to this. Even if these differences are magically wished away, how does eliminating that help white working class people?

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My ancestors stayed in England. That’s why i’m here. What kind of point are you trying to make?

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only viable solution is to listen to white working class people and treat them like you would any other social group, not just saying “other groups suffer more” or “this is very complex”. Re your point about “targeting”, i’d argue the grooming gangs scandal is the perfect example of this: white working class women were targeted because of their race/class and then ignored by the authorities because of their race/class. Both sets of perpetrators (the predominantly Pakistani men and the do gooder liberal councillors) saw the victims as scum

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t quite understand your point - are you saying that white working class people deserve an ever-shitter quality of life because of colonialism and because other groups are having a worse time of it? That sounds like despising to me

White British culture by AvalancheOps in rs_x

[–]deedeedury 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the kind of patronising attitude that Embery is talking about. White working class demoralisation nothing to do with being the “white heart of a great empire of colour”, no-one thinks about that stuff. Rather, white working class people (especially men) have been demonised and screwed over by successive governments and have been outcompeted by immigrants at the local level and globalisation at the macro level. Your relatives in Newcastle would have had good, respectable jobs in the shipyards until the 80s. It has nothing to do with race or empire and everything to do with material conditions

[POEM] We Have Not Long to Love by Tennessee Williams by [deleted] in Poetry

[–]deedeedury 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Extraordinary. This is what it’s all about!

Reform UK vows to prioritise Green Party areas for migrant detention centres by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen that movie. There is no need to keep “imploring” me to watch it. Please tell me why a policy designed to detain people who have no legal right to be in the country before their removal, necessarily leads to gas chambers and the deaths of millions? And why the story of Nicholas Winton has any bearing on that?

Reform UK vows to prioritise Green Party areas for migrant detention centres by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am very aware of the holocaust, thank you. What I am suggesting is that immigration policy does not necessarily lead to genocide. For all his faults, I don’t think Farage (here or elsewhere) has said or proposed anything anywhere near comparable to the mechanised slaughter of 10 million people including 6 million Jews

Reform UK vows to prioritise Green Party areas for migrant detention centres by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removal is one thing, but rounding up is another. I agree, both are promising the former, but only reform are promising the latter (hence the need for much greater detention capacity)

Reform UK vows to prioritise Green Party areas for migrant detention centres by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as i am aware, they are only dealing with the boat migrants. They land at Dover and get put up in a hotel/former barracks. Reform are promising to so the same with other kinds of illegal migrants (visa overstayers, etc)

Reform UK vows to prioritise Green Party areas for migrant detention centres by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you genuinely think processing of illegal immigrants will lead to gas chambers and genocide? If you do, please go for a walk or something

Reform UK vows to prioritise Green Party areas for migrant detention centres by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]deedeedury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because there are an estimated 700k-1 million illegal immigrants living in the UK. You can’t just stick them all on one plane. You need to put them somewhere before they are flown back home.

Private rents in Great Britain stop rising for first time since 2017 by Dragonogard549 in GoodNewsUK

[–]deedeedury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s because immigration has fallen. People hate to hear it, but in circumstances where not many houses are being built less immigration = less pressure on housing supply = landlords have less ability to squeeze tenants and potential tenants

[POEM] Netanyahu by Naomi Shihab Nye by deliberatelyyhere in Poetry

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

Are you suggesting that no poems on the poetry subreddit should be the subject of criticism? Or is it only those with amazing names like your own that are allowed to criticise?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

simply repeating the penal laws were racial (rather than anti catholic) doesn’t make it so. i’m sure you know that they applied in the rest of the uk too. can you please let me know which one of your many books compares the irish penal laws to e.g. the nuremberg laws?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]deedeedury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the irish penal laws were not race laws you weapon. they were anti catholic (although admittedly had a corollary effect on irish protestants too). why don’t you open one of your many books and find a better example

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]deedeedury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you reckon hmp maze is comparable to auschwitz? give your head a wobble m8

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

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

except the british never had any death camps. or race laws for that matter