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To ask why there are no riots?

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Firetreev · 21/06/2026 05:29

Where are the rioters today? If the roles were reversed and a man of colour was going out and terrorising white people it would be the number one story on the BBC and Herr Farage would be calling for action on the streets. Right now it's the sixth story on the BBC.

Similarly, with the atrocious and heartbreaking case of the baby who was abused and murdered. If the perpetrators hadn't been white there would have been bedlam on the streets by 'degenerate thugs concerned citizens'. The issue is clearly men, but rabid racists, the media and the malign agitators who whip them up into a frenzy never seem to be outraged when it's one of their own.

BBC News - Man charged after suspected anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xg6lwz5jo

Topless man with knife with face blurred

Man charged after suspected anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh

Two people were injured close to a mosque and a man was later seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xg6lwz5jo

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EamonnFyre · 21/06/2026 05:52

It’s because intelligent people don’t riot.

What I mean is the people who want to sew division like to give it large and do the grand kicking-off gesture.

This story doesn’t fit their narrative.

The people who find this as repulsive as any other racist incident - and worse, as it’s against a minority - aren’t the people who get their shirts off and get out in the street to kick off.

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Firetreev · 21/06/2026 05:43

PollyBell · 21/06/2026 05:37

So we are to be disappointed when epople are not rioting? Really?

No I'm very grateful. My point is the hypocrisy of those who riot and those who stir them up. It's racism pure and simple.

Why is it breaking headline news when a person of colour person does it, but a minor non story when it's a white person? People talk about two tier policing, what we have is two tier reporting! We heard all about Henry Novak, but close to zero about the Saudi student in Cambridge murdered by a coked up white man.

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PollyBell · 21/06/2026 05:37

So we are to be disappointed when epople are not rioting? Really?

TigTails · 21/06/2026 05:33

Imagine that headline said anti-Jewish instead of anti-Muslim…

SomeGarlic · 21/06/2026 05:33

It's going to be really hot this week. There will be riots.

Whether they'll be focused on the issues you deem riot-worthy is another matter.