The Woke virus

Given what's going on in the UK at the moment, and the response from their new Prime Minister, I don't think it was her idea.

This meme looks like a complete misrepresentation.
What did we used to call it? Disinformation?

Videos on line now of two police stations being burnt.
"protestors" burnt a police van and injured 36 police in one incident in Southport, cause the cops were stopping them trying to burn down a Mosque.

Violent rioting in several places around the UK - and I don't need to read MSM to understand this, it is all videos on the interweb.

So to characterise that as people protesting against knife crime is complete and utter bullshit, to be honest.

You have rabid violent extremists high-jacking a peaceful vigil for a couple of murdered young girls, along with this rubbish post I've seen some utter nonsense on SM about how these guys rioting, burning shops and cars and injuring dozens of cops somehow think they have the moral highground.

All this is is out and out racism of thick white English guys targeting immigrants. Nothing more, nothing less.
Racism at it's extreme. Absolutely zero to do with 'protesting knife crime'.

PS, I'd love Tea Party to check out what real racism looks like, maybe then they wouldn't shoot their mouths off and continue stirring up this level of hatred.

It must be cold in Stroke most of the people where wearing balaclavas.

I took your line "just send mass murderer over, he will sort it out" as suggesting you think all people that aren't white or follow your world views should be shot dead in the street, that what mass murderer did was good and you'd be happy if that happened again. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, is that what you meant?

The death penalty question is completely unrelated.
Personally, I think it is a far greater punishment keeping him alive. No social interaction for the rest of your life. No one to talk to. No news of the outside world. No hope of release. For him death would be the easy way out, and the only thing in his life to look forward to.

On the cost thing, given what he did, I have zero issue with paying for justice.

On the drugs thing, the whole issue with drugs, all recreational drugs are that they are illegal. If they were manufactured in a pharmaceutical plant with high quality, pure (not cut worming pills or meth), and of known dose / strength, there would be zero crime or criminality around it. Sure there will be some health issues for the person taking the drugs, but nothing different from booze, smokes, vapes or prescription drugs.
BUT, if you took drugs off gangs, what would the gangs have to do? Make school lunches?
Decriminalise it, commercialise it, tax it and take it off the gangs, remove all the intimidation, getting people hooked etc.

I don't care what you do in your own house, as long as it doesn't affect me. That, and the only thing Merica's war on drugs achieved is keeping the price up, so it is far more profitable for those involved.

Rumour has it this Jeremy Coyne guy knows a bit about science.


www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/08/no_we_should_not_teach_gods_cause_earthquakes.html


Biologist Jerry Coyne writes quoting Geonet:



The Alpine Fault is the longest naturally forming straight line on earth. It marks the meeting of two large tectonic plates and has formed over millions of years, stretching longer, lifting our landscape up out of the ocean, and creating the peaks of Kā Tiritiri o te Moana (Southern Alps) with every large earthquake it generates.



According to Ngāi Tahu creation stories, earthquakes are caused by Rūaumoko, the son of Ranginui (the Sky Father) and his wife Papatūanuku (the Earth Mother). Māori have experienced rū whenua, which means ‘the shaking of the land’ for centuries.



Science tells us that Rūaumoko rumbles the Alpine Fault about every 300 years, and the last time was in 1717.



So a NZ Government organisation is telling people that a godling rumbles the Alpine Fault.



Coyne points out:



Dragging in Māori religion not only doesn’t add anything to the prediction of earthquakes, but is likely to confuse students who think that religious mythology is inherent in this prediction. What on earth can it mean to say that “Science tells us that Rūaumoko rumbles the Alpine Fault about every 300 years. . “? That is simply a flat-out lie. The pressures on the tectonic plates makes them slip roughly once every 300 years. It’s not due to the actions of a god who decides to rumble the earth about every 300 years (does he get bored?).



It is a disservice—in fact, an insult—to geologists to add to their science the idea that gods are shaking the earth. It is an embarrassment to New Zealand’s government that they are more or less forced to mix indigenous myths with science to pretend that they can reinforce each other. And that pressure comes from trying to sacralize the indigenous people and satisfy, so they think, are the demands of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. But that treaty says nothing about indigenous ways of knowing being made coequal to modern science.



Yes, indigenous knowledge may be a useful addition to some limited scientific endeavors, but this is not one of them. Get the gods out of geology!



This could be taught in social studies or religious studies, but should not be taught in geology.