To think throwing milkshakes over people is disgusting?

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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.

The only fascists and nazis are the ones who think it's perfectly OK - even commendable - to assault others in the street for holding a different viewpoint. Milkshake thrown by an annoyed slob today, acid by some frothing nutcase tomorrow? YANBU

Can't believe how many believe its ok to throw things at people you disagree with. Hints of fascism? Farage is a đispicable person. But don't they realise that its violence, whatever you throw, a milkshake, a can of coke, a brick? The thin end of the wedge which leads to the type of violence which killed Jo Cox. Yes it was 'only' a milkshake but its the principle of sinking to their level.
Its also sexist, because if a big bloke threw it at a woman there wouldnt be the same 'hilarity'.

@GuidoTheKillerPimp my annoyance with him is that he ruined the chance of prosecution on some cases because he was in contempt of court and publicised their images, which helped their barristers suggest they couldn't have a fair trial as a result.
He's never come after the range of other groups for the same either- the Catholic church, politicians, celebrities. I cannot have respect for a man who turns a blind eye to any form of child abuse, whether it's based on colour, gender or wealth.

Icandothisallday I don't agree with it however given the abuse, threats and fear a portion of leave voters have put into people, inc people like Gina Miller who are standing up for peoples rights etc, its nothing by comparison.

A milkshake is hardly a threat of violence or a deadly weapon.

Having said that aswell in general remainers have been far better behaved than the leavers who have threatened, verbally abused and used direct/indirect violence.

I am not condoning him. I am a #hardremainer who is in with the groups fighting for remain. I haven't done this. However in a moment of frustration it could be anyone. I know my own anger has tipped at home and I have been known to sit there shouting at the TV.

I would want to know whom he is first before I hung drawn and quartered him. I would also like to know why we have a post about 1 isolated incident on the remain side when there is continual threats and even 24/7 security having to be provided for some of our MPS because they dont support Brexit.

Chucking stuff at politicians is an ancient tradition. In Victorian times dead cats were thrown. (DS has been doing research recently. Unclear quite how dead the cats were.)

Eggs & rotten tomatoes have been used frequently. The Guardian had an interesting photo feature today, which I'd link if I could find it. It's really not that different (& at least they're not throwing the cups too).

It’s ok to make a rape joke about someone but not to throw a milkshake?

Apparently so! Fucked up isn't it?

It’s ok to make a rape joke about someone but not to throw a milkshake?

Apparently so! Fucked up isn't it?

👏 I agree, I hate people sometimes

Over normal people.. bad yeah. Over disgusting people... the more disgusting the better!

Fucking hell. It’s ok to make a rape joke about someone but not to throw a milkshake? What the actual fucking fuck!

You see, no one said it was ok. You've made that bit up to push your agenda, but that's what fascists do. Shut down opposition with lies.

Rape jokes are not ok, but they aren't as bad as a physical assault. We're not even talking about rape threats, which are worse than rape jokes. The comment made to Jess Phillips wasn't a rape threat. It was some impotent wanker saying he wouldn't rape her because she wasn't attractive enough. Pretty unpleasant but not even illegal.

As for throwing milkshakes, the victim doesn't know it's a milkshake until a few seconds later. As the time, for all they know, it could be acid. Utterly terrifying.

Yet most on here are all in favour. And why, because the victim holds political views they don't like. So they deserve to be assaulted.

It really is a new low for MN. Shame on you. Really.

No wonder the fucking country is going to the dogs.

Scrabbling around excusing rape 'jokes' and freaking out about a drink being thrown on someone

Utterly sick making.

Elizabethan-era theater crowds tossed eggs at particularly terrible actors, a practice that eventually became a more widespread way of punishing prisoners and politicians alike. (The concept of throwing food, in general, at political leaders has an even longer history: the earliest recorded incident took place in 63 AD, when Roman governor Vespasian was hit with turnips).

www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbw8n4/egging-politicians

Scrabbling around excusing rape 'jokes'

I've read thru the posts and no one has excused rape jokes, or said they were ok.

Can't you argue your case without making shit up?

You've tied yourself in knots minimising the rape comments made to Jess Phillips whilst trying to make the milkshake incident seem like Farage's life was in peril. Spoiler: it wasn't.

'As for throwing milkshakes, the victim doesn't know it's a milkshake until a few seconds later. As the time, for all they know, it could be acid. Utterly terrifying.'

“I wouldn’t even rape you.” He added to the comments in a recent video saying: “With enough pressure, I might cave.”

Why not apply the same logic?

On and on you bleat about how Farage might have been terrified it was acid rather than ice-cream yet your brain can't even compute that Benjamin's comments of 'I wouldn't even rape you, meh, maybe I would' to his youtube audience of moronic incels might be a lot more fucking terrifying in the long-term?

Completely agree. People have short term memories, somehow the racism and violence unleashed by Brexit and employed by these idiots I’m still amazed that so few can’t make the connection that Jo Cox was murdered by one of his supporters.

no, no, the whole reason the country is going to the dogs is not the racist, lying politicians and their fans, its not death threats against mps, (and murder of mps) its not calling judges and others traitors, its not telling people to fuck off to their own country, its not the rise of racism and political candidates who make rape threats, its because remainers arent furious enough about a milkshake being thrown at the architect of all this.

staggering.

It gives the bigots a taste of what it feels like to be a person of South Asian origin walking down the street in the UK today.

Just like the 70s: spat at, food thrown at me, even a brick thrown from a train at a platform, accompanied of course by the P word.

Well done to those of you who created this environment. Hope you are proud.

Elizabethan-era theater crowds tossed eggs at particularly terrible actors, a practice that eventually became a more widespread way of punishing prisoners and politicians alike

Yeah we should totally emulate the Victorians, they knew how to treat people they didn’t like 🙄

its not the rise of racism and political candidates who make rape threats

There was a politician in the States who said that rape victims have a way of “shutting down” their bodies. Guess what? He was voted out of office at the next election. There’s really no reason to throw things at other people.

TRAs would throw milkshakes at any politician who dared to be GC. You don’t think that they’d be cheering on anyone who would do this? Of course they would, because they see us as subhuman transphobes, the vile TERFs, worthy only of silencing and beating.

This worries me.

Yeah we should totally emulate the Victorians, they knew how to treat people they didn’t like

No, but it shows that those claiming "what has happened to our country" are talking nonsense. Throwing food wasn't invented recently by remainers, it has been going on for centuries. It simply cannot be used to suggest we are undergoing some sort of moral decline.

It simply cannot be used to suggest we are undergoing some sort of moral decline

at cable street, they threw bed pans full of piss at the fascist- perhaps the country has 'lost its moral compass/gone to the dogs since then.

Those having stuff thrown at them in the Guardian thing (I wish I could find it) included Blair, Major, Heseltine, Ed Miliband, Thatcher, Prescott, & Farage a few years back.

It's not a huge new problem. It's just something some people do when faced with politicians they have an issue with. The second Tommy Robinson milkshake was self-defence by an Asian lad who was feeeling threatened (& got thumped) & it's all being turned into a big thing by the media (as usual). They should just back off.

Gobsmacked at people thinking that throwing a milkshake at someone for any reason is ok. Wow! Presumably they are not articulate enough to debate an issue, so resort to violence. How sad.

Throwing stuff over people is totally disgusting- and people who do that kind of thing are lowest common form of denominators, but I suppose there are always going to be people who have no standards of behaviour in their lives.

The thin end of the wedge which leads to the type of violence which killed Jo Cox
I rather think you’ll find that it was the debates started by these arseholes that caused the death of Jo Cox.

British politics currently bestows its largest rewards on those talking the most hyperbole. Even so, a bit of context wouldn’t go amiss. First, small and ultimately harmless projectiles have been on the fringe of our democratic terms of trade for a long time. When, in the 1970 general election, the prime minister, Harold Wilson, took a raw egg to his suit, he quipped, “If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.”
Compare such sangfroid with the reaction of Robinson’s gang to the twentysomething Asian lad whose drink “slipped” out of his hand, or a rather soggy Farage blasting his phalanx of bodyguards for their “complete failure”. Then again, Wilson had lived through an actual world war, which would teach anyone a sense of perspective, while today’s extremists are simply plastic hardmen who hail any passing scrap after closing time in a market town as “going to war”.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/21/far-right-milkshake-nigel-farage-tommy-robinson

As for all the pearl clutching that’s privilege. At 60 and having been involved I can debate more than adequately; Yaxley-Lennon cannot. Farage is to busy playing vanity politics and Benjamin just wants something to do because there are to many women playing online games. Were I taller, I’d chuck a milkshake.