To think throwing milkshakes over people is disgusting?

[GrumpyCatLives]

So apparently it’s okay to chuck milkshakes over people we disagree with?

Now, I do not like Tommy Robinson, Carl Sargon, or Farage. However, I think that chucking cold food at them, or threatening to, is pathetic. If you disagree with them, then debate them. Take down their argument intelligently. Chucking a cheap milkshake makes you look like a toddler.

There is one more positive of it though- anyone on my friends list who bitches about it being assault or called for the legends to be sacked/prosecuted have been unfriended pronto.
To quote the meme "ain't nobody got time for that"

The guy who threw an egg at Corbyn got 28 days in jail

Let me correct that for you - The guy who punched Corbyn in the head got 28 days in jail

If the Battle of Cable Street happened today a whole lot of MNers would be outraged on the fascists behalf.

You are showing your ignorance re the history. The Black Shirts planned a march thru the East End. Anti fascists erected barricades (non violent protest). The police went to remove them (no violent response). The anti fascists went to remonstrate with the police (non violently). Then a fight broke out which escalated into a riot. No one knows if the police or the anti fascists threw the first punch.

But the fascists weren't involved in the riot.

This is somewhat different. There is no doubt who is delivering the violent act. Farage, Yaxley Lennon and the other morons are just using words, and they are being countered by physical assault. This will only be good for the far right.

You can't behave like a dick in public regularly then complain when others lower themselves to your dick standards.

What you mean by that is "you can't say bad stuff and then not expect people to respond with physical violence*

Well actually, civilised people do expect that. I don't expect to be hit if I say something bad. I expect to be hit if I hit someone.

So sweet how passionate some people are in their outrage that Farage got assaulted by an overpriced milkshake.

'hit' by a milkshake.

extremist feminists? Who are they and what do they do?

“extremist feminists? Who are they and what do they do?“

I’m not sure- but I think they might be what I call “feminists”....

No, absolutely not. If you disagree with someone’s beliefs then debate them. Bring all points of view out into the open and let sunlight do its work. Throwing food and drinks at people is not the sign of a healthy democracy. Who will be the next group of people who society decides it’s fine and justified to abuse or assault? And if a milkshake is ok, then what else is ok? A tin of tomatoes thrown at the head? A push? An open handed slap around the face? Are we to expect all those vicious online threats to be carried out, because it’s now legitimate protest to cause physical harm to people you disagree with?

No, of course it’s not acceptable to throw things at people. What about if the next group of people society decides it’s ok to target happens to include you? JFC, it’s no wonder this country is going down the shit pan if this is the level of political discourse we now accept.

Throwing food and drinks at people is not the sign of a healthy democracy.

No shit.

Maybe that's because the UK is not currently a healthy democracy. Are people only just noticing that now? Wake up.

Yeah, I disapprove of it.

But I also would like to do it.

[conflicted]

Farage was in my town this week. Urghhhhh. I feel a bit ashamed that we failed to splash him.

I think it’s a pretty stupid way of making your point tbh. Let people with foul views spout them and then debate them. Or don’t vote for them. I think it’s pathetic that people can’t tolerate listening to someone with a different view (however gross) without resorting to stupid things like throwing food or drinks over them.

We’ve become a society incapable of listening to views that are not our own, and incapable of putting forward our own views in opposition, and I don’t think actions like this help.

Let people with foul views spout them and then debate them.

Because these people debate in good faith?

good one.

The contributions to this thread are hilarious! This is comedy gold.

Let people with foul views spout them and then debate them.

I dunno how you are meant to debate with people who can't or won't debate. Genuinely, many people nowadays seem to think grunting political slogans is healthy discussion - that is a big problem.

Lifecraft

You're the only person on this thread that has shown any kind of rationale attitude and knowledge. Thank you. At least when this thread is picked up and mocked outside of the MN world, as most of these threads end up, it won't be mocked because of you.

It’s hardly disgusting. Immature and pointless maybe but it’s just milk.

You're the only person on this thread that has shown any kind of rationale attitude and knowledge.

Ridiculous thing to say - you honestly think only one person on this thread has any knowledge about the fight against facism? Really?

At least when this thread is picked up and mocked outside of the MN world, as most of these threads end up, it won't be mocked because of you.

That's your concern? What people say about MN.

diddums.

How sweet to have such vacuous concerns.

They will mock us fgs! Start conforming, please.

This was always going to happen.
British people are famously reserved and accepting of things when we feel that our views are not being ignored - historically we have had some hard-hitting interviews and reports on people who lie, cheat and try to spread hatred, and people have largely felt like these people have been told that most people find those views unacceptable.

Now Farage and the like seem to get constant air time where their views are being treated like they are equally acceptable to those of real politicians, they seem to be protected and cushioned from any negative reactions while being allowed to spread their hate as freely as they like, and there comes a point where people are going to take more physical avenues to express their disgust. It used to be tomatos, then eggs, now its milkshakes, it's not new.
People were never going to take being silenced and unrepresented for ever, it will always eventually bubble over into something where they feel heard.

You know perfectly well this can't be a proper MN debate without a diagram showing the positions of the main participants in this event.
I am sure someone should LTB but not sure who at this point.
Was Farage's suit dry clean only or, like him, does it seem to be made of teflon, until he is summoned by the Americans?
Banging pots and pans damages the teflon coating which can then be hazardous.

people have largely felt like these people have been told that most people find those views unacceptable

Isn’t this something that should be settled at the ballot box though? If people found those views unacceptable, then they just wouldn’t vote for them and they would fade into irrelevancy.

I'm more concerned vegans went into a McDonalds and threw red paint over children to be honest than throwing a milkshake at Nigel Farage.