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- Heavy censorship - Two-tier justice system - This How did it come to this? The UK is arguably the country that has done the most for the cause of freedom, having led the way in abolishing slavery.
Trying not to get my account banned...
The British elite allied with non-British people and betrayed their own.
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The bodycam literally shows a police officer responding to a man who's been stabbed with "I don't think you have mate", just because his killer said the man was racist.
The behaviour of one officer does not mean that we should no longer live in a diverse society.
This is one incident. The officer is question made a terrible call.
The fact that people like you are using this as ammunition to further frankly racist aims, is an egregious afront to everyone living in the UK.
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Compared to its contemporaries, only Portugal transported more African slaves across to the America's. But hey, they stopped doing it, after a couple hundred years so let's everyone give Britain credit.
There were times when there were more slaves in Athens than citizens. The Arab led slave trade flourished for much longer, by some records it is alive even today. The words Slav and slave have the same root. There were times when 30-40% of the Korean population were slaves. The Mongols killed and enslaved half of the known world.
My point is this, none of these people ever make a point of how much freedom they had, because after a couple hundred years they stopped, quite like the the brits like to.
It's pretty baffling tbh.
Anyone: criticises the British empire.
Brits: after several hundred years of brutal trans Atlantic slave trade, we stopped. Hurrah!
I wonder if some ideology which believes in tech freedom will become the communism of the next age, and prompt a new wave of 'democracy' purity crusades.
A new age of piracy is ahead of us. When they come crying about "revenue", these days will be remembered.
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The bodycam literally shows a police officer responding to a man who's been stabbed with "I don't think you have mate", just because his killer said the man was racist.
Not the first mistake police made.
Do you think the same people who protest now, also protested when the person who died was non-white?
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Not where I live. If it's happening where you live then it's a sign you need to start protesting/organizing/get involved in politics/using whatever skills you have to improve matters before they get worse. This happened in the UK, specifically, and from what we've all seen it's definitely sliding in a bad direction over the past decade. But it's also not in any way so far gone that you can't take action. If you're si…
If you show up to a protest then you automatically get put on a police database via facial recognition.
It shouldn't be about what they call you, it should be about your actions. Neonazis must be allowed to peacefully protest.
- Heavy censorship - Two-tier justice system - This How did it come to this? The UK is arguably the country that has done the most for the cause of freedom, having led the way in abolishing slavery.
> How did it come to this? Trying not to get my account banned... The British elite allied with non-British people and betrayed their own.