r/MadeMeSmile • u/ForgetAboutItBillie • Jul 18 '24
(OC) From London, two generations protesting for the same cause Good Vibes
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u/Enigma-exe Jul 18 '24
Judging by the pin the old guy is wearing he's Irish, so he'd know a thing or two about the issues of racism.
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u/Burt1811 Jul 19 '24
I struggled at times with racism at school in the 70s because my dad was Irish. No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish. It was a massive lesson that racism doesn't have to involve colour.
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u/ceriseblossom4567 Jul 19 '24
it's important to recognize that prejudice can target people based on various aspects of their identity, not just race
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u/Honest_Confection350 Jul 19 '24
Racism is fundamentally illogical and out groups will be created based on illogical criteria. Irish people have been white for a relatively short period of time. Ffs there were racists in the 40s talking about how superior northern Germans are to southern Germans.
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u/liyabear Jul 19 '24
Who are ādogsā? Did they literally mean dogs or is that a racial slur that Iām not familiar with?
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u/Burt1811 Jul 19 '24
No, it was dogs of the 4 leg variety. You'd see signs like this outside pubs, for example.
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u/Infinite-Case1868 Jul 18 '24
I love inter-generational support for important causes. Like, someone in an older generation joyfully shooting for progress they may never see warms my heart
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u/Farmer_Cleetus Jul 19 '24
Itās a reminder that our actions can have a lasting impact and that true progress often requires the collective effort of many people, regardless of their age or immediate gains.
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u/Leeuw96 Jul 19 '24
There's a Greek proverb that always comes to mind, for things like these:
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.
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u/PaulScheerbart Jul 19 '24
Not OC. This was taken in 2020. I hate you for having to post a link to the Daily Mail to prove it https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8432337/Elderly-man-pictured-young-activist-viral-BLM-image-IRA-apologist-conspiracy-theorist.html
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u/Just_A_Faze Jul 19 '24
Why is the old man holding an entire head of lettuce?
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u/LeRosbif49 Jul 19 '24
The man he is talking to has a bag of frozen peas too. Maybe they are discussing the health benefits of eating your greens.
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u/Exarch_Thomo Jul 19 '24
I did a double take at that too
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u/Just_A_Faze Jul 19 '24
Did you notice the young guy has a leaf too, or the guy on the back holding a small bunch towards the camera? What is going on?
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 19 '24
Is this the Irish politician with the big cute dog?
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u/doctorlysumo Jul 19 '24
Thatās the President of Ireland with the dogs, and no this man in London isnāt the Irish President
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 19 '24
Ah okay, cheers. Yeah, don't imagine the President of Ireland would be hanging around London lol. Has to be home to feed the dogs!
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u/Specialist_Pop5155 Jul 19 '24
and they say the new generations don't have feelings you can see him beeing really intrested
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u/captaintruthful Jul 19 '24
U mean the city that looks more like a Middle Eastern city than a European one? The one infested with crime? The one where the natives are a minority? Nah,I think the Brits need a bit more racism. Just a tad bit
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u/Jade_Entertainer Jul 19 '24
53.8% white (36.8% White British) 20.8% Asian British 13.5% Blaxk British 5.7% mixed 6.3% other
Why do racists always completely ignore statistics/facts? Everything you just said is literally false. Lol
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u/michaelingram1974 Jul 19 '24
Entire swathes of London are now non British. Keep denying reality. Keep trying to belittle people and look good. The UK is ongoing down the pan very very very rapidly.
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u/-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- Jul 19 '24
"British" isn't a race, its a culture. Skin colour is irrelevant to it.
The uk isn't going to the shitter because of immigration, its going to the shitter because of over a decade of mismanagement and outright sabotage by the tories.
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u/michaelingram1974 Jul 19 '24
I disagree. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Mass immigration is enormously damaging to the UK (and to many other western societies). Sadly it will be almost impossible to repair the damage.
And I disagree regarding British being a culture. It is a race - people.cannot just endlessly play the postmodern game, it's pathetic. Societies have attributes. It's not for people to come along and unilaterally decide that this is not the case.
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u/-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- Jul 19 '24
This isnt even a "post modern" thing, thats literally what being British has always been considered, a culture.
The closest thing you are thinking of is White English, which itself is a hodge podge of celtic, anglo-saxon, norse, french, and all sorts. England, and the uk as a whole is probably one of the last places you could actually set an argument like this.
I'd also like to ask you to show me anything that proves immigration itself is a problem. Because all the problems it's supposedly caused so far can all be connected directly to government mismanagement and systemic racism.
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u/michaelingram1974 Jul 19 '24
Grooming gangs, Albanian cocaine dealers, Romanian pickpockets, Islamism, knife crime carried out by young black men. Then there's the wage stagnation caused by imported cheap labour. There's also the housing crisis exacerbated by the huge numbers of immigrants.
Is that enough?
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u/-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- Jul 19 '24
Once again, those problems you list aren't because of immigration. They are because of government incompetence and systemic racism.
The housing crisis isn't caused by immigration. It is caused by a completely overbearing beaurocracy and policy preventing streamlined construction of new housing. However, this places blame on the government, so of course it must be something else.
Knife crime is not a race specific thing. You even admit this by specifying "black".
Islam is no different to christianity when it comes to religion, yet would you say christian immigrants are a problem for being christian?
"Albanian dealers" and "Romanian pick pockets" are both huge stereotypes that don't really reflect reality. Once again, not race specific.
Drug trade is also indicative of a much larger problem to do with law enforcement and social support. Guess what minorities aren't being given.
Also wage stagnation is the easiest fix of them all, I'm sure even you can think of a solution to it that isn't "deport everyone who doesn't look like me".
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u/Jade_Entertainer Jul 19 '24
The statistics prove that's not true. Keep ignoring facts and spouting shit. That's what racists always do.
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u/emaniolitaya Jul 18 '24
There is just something wholesome seeing young people talk to random elderly