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Thu Aug-11-11 03:23 PM
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so a coastguard, a teaching assistant a chef and a hairdresser are UK RIOTERS!!! |
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Thu Aug-11-11 03:46 PM
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:wow: Everyone read this article
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Reporter Andrew Gilligan wrote in the Daily Telegraph: "Here in court, as David Cameron condemned the 'sickness' in parts of British society, we saw clearly, for the first time, the face of the riot: stripped of its hoods and masks, dressed in white prison T-shirts and handcuffed to burly security guards.
"It was rather different from the one we had been expecting."
He added of the defendants at Highbury Magistrates Court in north London: "Most were teenagers or in their early twenties, but a surprising number were older.
"Most interestingly of all, they were predominantly white, and many had jobs."
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Thu Aug-11-11 03:49 PM
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2. Too bad the press has those special cameras |
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that only take pictures of rioters of color.
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Thu Aug-11-11 03:57 PM
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I'm not sure what you were looking at, but the pictures I saw were a veritable rainbow. Yobs are yobs, regardless of skin-tone.
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:01 PM
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:47 PM
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12. Here from urban dictionary |
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yob 597 up, 46 down The antithesis of what a good boy should be - rude, obnoxious, violent and stupid. Formed by spelling 'boy' bacwards, it was coined in England in the 18th century as it was very popular amongst upperclasses to speak backwards at the time. Have you seen that boy? He's a yob
some here have also used it for lower class, home boys. Add to that chav.
The demographic in the court rooms belays that, but that is another story.
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:29 PM
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good definition. I get it now. Right, that's how they were being portrayed in the media, in the immediate urge to otherize. But looks like that's backfiring...
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:34 PM
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21. Like most of these explosions, it is complicated |
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yep.
And while most actors in a riot are not there for the high political goal... their actions are driven by material conditions, greed, adventure... and yes in some cases politics. How much of what... mileage will vary from riot to riot.
But the people at court... if it was just "chavs" they'd ignore it. Kids from "good backgrounds" perhaps somebody in the home office will start asking the obvious question... WHY? And the answer is not that simple.
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Fri Aug-12-11 12:14 AM
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26. To refer to someone as a yob is not so much an |
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indication of their social status, but their attitude and behaviour. There are as many yobs in the high-end postal codes as the low-end. Some of them even wear school ties and speak in Parliament . . .
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:19 PM
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7. that's odd I saw lots of pics of people of no color. maybe your media choices are biased lol nt |
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:34 PM
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9. That article has only this one picture. Are you sure these rioters are "of color"? I can't tell. |
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:18 PM
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13. it says many of them were white (and old!!!) |
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:28 PM
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19. "...they were predominantly white, and many had jobs." |
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Well well well, what have we here then? What's all this!?
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Thu Aug-11-11 08:43 PM
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do you remember Dixon of Dock Green?
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Thu Aug-11-11 03:50 PM
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3. Sounds like the beginning of a joke. What did the bartender say? |
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:45 PM
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10. "OUT! ALL OF YOU! GET THE F*CK OUT NOW!" |
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Thu Aug-11-11 03:53 PM
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4. As they say... complicated |
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I am not surprised, at all.
Disclaimer getting it does not mean one condones it.
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:19 PM
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14. In New Orleans, after Katrina |
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reporters were asking looters why they were doing it. Most of the answers were 'because it's free'.
I get it.
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:21 PM
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16. some of them may have been starving? |
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:23 PM
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17. and needed new electronics when there was no power. |
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I didn't have a problem with people taking what they needed to survive.
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:32 PM
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8. "We have met the enemy |
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and he is us" :shrug:
Wondering how Britain is going to deal with this...
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Thu Aug-11-11 04:46 PM
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11. +1. point. that is exactly it. nt |
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:20 PM
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15. Many in the UK are mystified! |
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:25 PM
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18. You know I am not... sadly |
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:47 PM
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23. yes they'll be analyzing this awhile... |
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Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 06:01 PM by marions ghost
When you see corruption & greed go unchecked in society at the top, is this what happens? Is this trickle-down frustration seeking an outlet? All those threats to what Brits take for granted. Widening of the haves and have nots. Hard to see it as just temporary insanity, not on this scale. You have to look for some systemic reasons.
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Thu Aug-11-11 05:42 PM
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Thu Aug-11-11 06:13 PM
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24. MSM highlights the minority that supports official meme - nt |
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Fri Aug-12-11 08:08 AM
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27. now a ballerina and an Olympic athlete!!!! |
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