Anybody protesting this weekend?

[Alex50]

Who will be protesting and which city will you go to?

@MorganKitten

No because going to the beach as a family unit and celebrating ve day in your front garden are within the rules.

The current rules prohibit organised gatherings of more than 6 people. I assume there will be more than 6 people at these organised protests?

Please don't, if you are thinking of it. The anti-racist cause is noble, but it will put lives at risk.

"No because I want my child to go back to school at some point this year and idiot protestors will be spreading COVID and putting the dates back even further 😡"

This

No. There’s a pandemic going on. And I don’t want my brave frontline dsis to have more risk from idiots failing to socially distance.
I also don’t want my dd to think that celebrating and making a making a saint out of thug who put a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach is acceptable in 2020.

No. I don’t want to be associated with people who think it acceptable to assault service animals or taunt and spit at policemen. I don’t want a day out hoping to get some exciting phone footage and I think virtue signalling is stomach churning. And, furthermore, not caring about possibly spreading coronavirus after all the effort we’ve been through (not to mention the trashing of economy) is supremely selfish.

Irmafaylear puts it perfectly

No, regardless of covid

Oh. Another one.

No, I’m not. I care about people not dying from this virus. These protest prove that really no lives fucking matter.

@IrmaFayLear you've said exactly what I feel, so much more eloquently than I could!

Far Left protesters who want to abolish police funding end our version of democracy and overthrow capitalism are using racism as a lever; anyone going on these marches, covid aside, should be embarrassed by the company they keep.

I also don’t want my dd to think that celebrating and making a making a saint out of thug who put a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach is acceptable in 2020.

George Floyd’s history is irrelevant. He will be remembered for being brutally murdered in front of our eyes.

No. I don’t want to be associated with people who think it acceptable to assault service animals or taunt and spit at policemen.

It was a tiny minority of people who were violent. The vast majority of people marching around the country have been peaceful.

As IrmaFayLear says - agree totally

Not a chance.

I too agree with every word that @IrmaFayLear has written, and I think the antics of some of those thugs protesters are going to cause more division at this rate.

No

I do think the people that stirred up trouble last weekend were not there for the cause of highlighting racism, they were there to stir up hatred.

[quote JimMaxwellantheshippingforcast]@MorganKitten

No because going to the beach as a family unit and celebrating ve day in your front garden are within the rules.

The current rules prohibit organised gatherings of more than 6 people. I assume there will be more than 6 people at these organised protests?[/quote]
So the close groups in streets on VE Day shown on the news with no social distancing was fine? More than 6 people in those photos.

Also the crowds on the beach... the videos shown had small family groups crammed in next to other small family groups... including people traveling 4 hours to get there. More than 6people there too...

No. Not particularly because of corona, but because i don't believe the people who need their minds changing will be affected by street protests in the way they are intended.

My mother Racists see protests and rioting in the same light. They view it simply as an example of lawlessness embedded within a cause they already don't believe in, mistrust, or at best have no interest in. This strengthens their prejudices.

No but my DH will be putting himself at risk protecting the war memorial in the local park from the mindless tons that seem to turn up at these things.

No.

How about instead looking for ways you can use your skills to help those disadvantaged?

@MorganKitten

The rule at the time was gatherings of not more than two people not from the same household.

At the time there was no limit on the time you could travel for exercise/picnic/sun bathing, so again well within the rules.
Going to the beach as a family and sitting closer than 2 metres to another family unit is a pretty strange thing to do.

Also, you are aware of camera angles making things appear closer/further away than they really are?

Neither of these activities were organised centrally.

@IrmaFayLear exactly this. Well said.

NO so that I don't spread COVID. I haven't been cooped up for weeks and not seen my parents in 6mths for no reason. Stay at home! Protests are not exempt from Covid rules and all footage from previous protests show very poor social distancing etiquette and no respect for property.

No.