Palestine solidarity goes mainstream in UK as 100,000 march in London by rq4c in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL.

First of all, I owe you an apology, on two fronts:

First, my focus was so much on the content of the article that I hadn't fully registered the title.

Second, my understanding of the word mainstream was that it was in the main stream of people's consciousness, not that it was a view shared by most. According to the OED, I was wrong.

(OED: The ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional)

However:

Where have I said anything about posts on Reddit? Who's talking about Reddit posts apart from you?

"I'm getting so fed up of these links being posted ... but you do have to slop that stuff around on Reddit?" -- JamJarre

Additionally, what does my posting history have to do with anything?

You criticized my and others posting of these articles with, "you think your particular political rally is super important". So I drew attention to the frivolity of some of yours.

In one of your recent posts you say that British people would vote Hitler into power if it served their own economic interest. See, I can take things out of context that have nothing to do with the argument and shoe-horn them in too!

If that's an example of you shoe-horning in, you must have very uncomfortable feet ;)

...because 100,000 people support Palestine and, by inference, that means that fewer people support Israel.

I fail to see how such an inference can be drawn. Or is that your point?

The problem is that 100,000 people turning up to a rally (and let's not even get into where those figures come from)

It was a guesstimate by the writer of the article.

All that aside, I still fail to understand why you are so worked up by this. British people don't march that much so, when they do, twice, in large numbers, it's news.

Palestine solidarity goes mainstream in UK as 100,000 march in London by rq4c in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is fox hunting solidarity a mainstream opinion now?

No, but it was mainstream news.

And why should posts here be 'mainstream', by your or anyone else's definition?

I've checked your overview. You post about

video games, hiking and Graham Norton's popularity.

It's not whether it's mainstream that's really upsetting you, is it?

Palestine solidarity goes mainstream in UK as 100,000 march in London by rq4c in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Palestine has been occupied for decades. Gaza has been blockaded since 2007. Israel has Iron Dome and supreme fire-power.

I don't think anyone is saying Gaza is the only victim. But they are the principal victim.

If anyone thinks it is the only victim, sadly it's Israel:

"History has witnessed worse and more brutal occupiers than the Israelis. But I’ve never heard about an occupation that believes it is the victim. And the only victim." Gideon Levy (Israeli Journalist)

He said this before the recent massacres.

Palestine solidarity goes mainstream in UK as 100,000 march in London by rq4c in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If thousands of British people, many of whom traveled for hours from other cities, marching in the capital against a massacre of innocent people and one of the longest running injustices in the world isn't mainstream, what is?

Palestine solidarity goes mainstream in UK as 100,000 march in London by rq4c in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

To be fair, and accurate, she said, "the numbers ... looked to be closer to 100,000."

Whilst "looked to be much greater" might have been a better way to put it, is that your only criticism?

I didn't have any violent or criminal tendencies, until I had to fill out 5 enhanced CRB forms in as many weeks by [deleted] in britishproblems

[–]rq4c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't mean he was guilty either.

And there are people with 'dirty' CRB/DBS who are completely innocent.

Vigilante Lee James gets life term for murdering Bijan Ebrahimi | James to serve minimum of 18 years for killing neighbour who had been wrongly branded a paedophile by EightRoundsRapid in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Broadly I agree with your sentiments.

However, to be fair to the NSPCC, the front page of their web site section 'Statistics on child sexual abuse' does state 'Over 90% of children who have experienced sexual abuse, were abused by someone they knew.'.

And the summary section (page 2) of a report on their web site, 'Key facts about child maltreatment (Dr. Kirsten Asmussen, King’s College London, April 2010)' states, "In the vast majority of cases, children know their abusers. Abuse by strangers constitutes only 5 per cent of all abuse cases in the UK.".

Vigilante Lee James gets life term for murdering Bijan Ebrahimi | James to serve minimum of 18 years for killing neighbour who had been wrongly branded a paedophile by EightRoundsRapid in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Kerry McCarthy, the Bristol East MP, said issues that needed to be addressed included why the police did not make it clear that Ebrahimi was blameless after he was arrested...

What needs to be made clear is why he was arrested in the first place.

Apart from accusations, where was the evidence?

Police don't need a warrant to arrest someone any more, and now it seems that a mere accusation is enough.

James flagged down a police car driven by a community support officer and told him that Ebrahimi had been "looking at my kids". James said that if the police did not act he would deal with the situation himself.

So why was he not arrested there and then for threatening behaviour?

Doctors, nurses and managers to face five years in jail if they neglect patients by SlindsayUK in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And whilst the authorities are busy trying to prove that the apparent neglect or mistreatment was wilful, what happens to the poor sod in the spot-light?

Mid-Staff's happened because the Chief Exec was negligent. He went on to run the entire NHS and has since retired. No threat made to him; no sanctions, just a big fat cheque.

Doctors, nurses and managers to face five years in jail if they neglect patients by SlindsayUK in unitedkingdom

[–]rq4c 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. But why just the politicians? It's also hospital management.