Tens of thousands of people protested in London yesterday, why isn’t it in the news?

[Lesserspottedmama]

What is going on with the news these days? Whether or not you agree with anti restriction protests, surely the public have a right to be informed about a protest that large? I’m feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the censorship. Anyone else?

@kirlali

Why were they wearing yellow stars?

To imply that they are akin to the genocide of Jewish people during the Holocaust. Absolutely despicable, hardly a brain cell between them.

And although they don't seem to be posting on this thread (vast majority of posters disagree about lack of coverage and are posting evidence which shows that widespread coverage exists) the voting as of Monday morning still has 52% YANBU when it comes to the vote.

They probably voted and then scurried back to their "state of fear" thread to bleat at each other and share dubious links and videos.

@Savethegrammies

And although they don't seem to be posting on this thread (vast majority of posters disagree about lack of coverage and are posting evidence which shows that widespread coverage exists) the voting as of Monday morning still has 52% YANBU when it comes to the vote.

They probably voted and then scurried back to their "state of fear" thread to bleat at each other and share dubious links and videos.

Key phrases probably include "human muzzles" and "sheeple".

I don't agree with the protestors, but once you stop reporting on protests because you disagree with the views it's a dangerous slope in my opinion.

Only two problems with this:

1. There are lots of protests and marches that don’t get national media attention.
2. ... this particular one did get national media attention. And not for the first time for this issue and these organisers.

A guest on Jeremy Vine this morning, who was at the protest, said there were 350,000 there.
She also said no mainstream media covered it, which we know is not true.

How come this protest was allowed to happen but not the one for Sarah Everard?

@stackemhigh

How come this protest was allowed to happen but not the one for Sarah Everard?

It was?

And it was supposed to be a vigil. But somehow turned into a protest later.

She also said no mainstream media covered it, which we know is not true.

She said that... while on Jeremy Vine’s programme? On mainstream media? Where it was being covered... by interviewing her?

I knew some of these folk had a pretty strong disconnection from reality but telling the interviewer who is covering it that he is not, in fact, covering it is next level.

It was?

And it was supposed to be a vigil. But somehow turned into a protest later.

No it wasn't. the police manhandled women and arrested them.

Most people are sick of these 'protests'

Those placards look increasingly ridiculous also

@Eyevorbig0ne

Funny how folk didn't seem to mind the BLM marches (along with some inverted racism thrown in along with violence towards the police) but everyone's up in arms about people protesting against loss of everybody's freedoms. Obviously colour matters 🙄

Wonder where you were on the weekend. 🙄

I am pissed at all marched and demos on my doorstep. Especially during a pandemic and/or when racists are in attendance.

Memorials, vigils and demos outside embassies where they have locked up a woman for yet another bloody year, I don't mind. Wear a mask please, and keep social distance.

@JassyRadlett

I don't agree with the protestors, but once you stop reporting on protests because you disagree with the views it's a dangerous slope in my opinion.

Only two problems with this:

1. There are lots of protests and marches that don’t get national media attention.
2. ... this particular one did get national media attention. And not for the first time for this issue and these organisers.

This is very true.

There's some kind of protest happening almost every day in London.

A protest in London is not news.

It would be more newsworthy if London went a whole week without any protests.

In any case, like others say, this one was reported on.

Memorials, vigils and demos outside embassies where they have locked up a woman for yet another bloody year, I don't mind. Wear a mask please, and keep social distance.

Such a gut punch to read that today. That poor woman and her poor family.

@JassyRadlett @toffeebutterpopcorn I agree with both of you on every point. I would gladly join you to protest against Nazanin's imprisonment but I do not believe it would do any good; I don't think the Iranian govt cares.

Unfortunately you're right @dropdtuning
I almost didn't even sign the petition (I did sign) because I wonder if the more they see the UK supporting her release, the less likely it is they'll release her. It's a very sad situation.

A guest on Jeremy Vine this morning, who was at the protest, said there were 350,000 there.

Did she count them all herself?

Maybe it was the same person who counted the attendees at the trump inauguration?

I read about it in the news.

At the time of reading I thought it was a bit pointless to be protesting now that restrictions are lifting.

Where is the OP?

At the time of reading I thought it was a bit pointless to be protesting now that restrictions are lifting.

Same thing crossed my mind, restrictions are lifting and there won't be much you won't be able to do in a few weeks, had a bit of last hurrah feel to it.

GlassBoxSpectacular 350,000 is more than the population of Bradford. I am beginning to think I misheard. If she did count them all herself it would have taken quite some time!

It's so much fun being Jewish. When you're not being blamed for COVID, gentiles are comparing themselves to Jews living in Nazi Germany and wearing yellow stars. Remind me, where are the death camps being set up for non-mask wearers again?

I'm holding back from saying how I really feel about COVID deniers because it would get me banned, but the PG version is: no, you are not oppressed because shops want you to wear a bit of cloth on your face, and you've got a fucking cheek shouting at people to take their masks off. I don't care if you don't want to wear one but I'm keeping mine on. Lockdown is easing off anyway, so I don't even know why you're so upset. I went for a walk the other day and every cafe and pub in the road had people outside, it was teeming with life.

Here's an example of what Jews had to put up with, by Anne Frank: "‘Jews have to wear a Jewish star; Jews have to hand in their bicycles; Jews are not allowed in the tram; Jews are not allowed to ride in cars, not in private ones either; Jews are only allowed to do their shopping between 3 – 5, except in Jewish shops with a sign saying 'Joods Locaal'." Jews were also forbidden to marry gentiles. Gentile women who had Jewish lovers were publicly humiliated by having their heads shaved and forced to wear signs.

Jews are PEOPLE. We are not a fucking rhetorical device. We are real human beings. I shouldn't be surprised though, the COVID denial movement is balls deep in antisemitism.

Also, Laurence Fox is all over the fucking press and still has his Twitter, so I don't know why he thinks he's being silenced.

@KevinTheGoat

I agree with you (am Jewish too). I would add, though, that those restrictions aren't the reason that we still refer to the Holocaust now. Being kept out of shops and transport etc., having our shops smashed up and being denied employment and education, was all bad enough.

But it's what it led to. Torture, extreme torture, murder on an unimaginable scale, cruelty that is literally unbearable to think about.

Babies having their heads smashed against walls in front of their own mothers.

People forced to dig their own mass graves before being shot and thrown in still alive.

The 'experiments' of Mengele.

Starvation, typhus, gassing, Jewish people chased off cliffs, others murdered for protecting them, women and children hunted down in hiding.

I've stood in a field where my family members were shot dead by the Nazis on the outskirts of their own town in Poland. 3000 Jews were shot there on just one day.

There have been other world historical events where people were treated in comparable horrendous ways.

The Killing Fields of Cambodia. The war in Rwanda. The Armenian genocide. Vietnamese villagers burned and murdered. Depths to which no one should ever have fallen. Suffering that should never have happened.

For these utter scum to appropriate these unspeakable tragedies, the deaths and suffering of so many millions of people, in such a flippant and deliberately insulting and trivialising way...

Like you, I cannot express my feelings in a way that would not get me banned from the site. I'm also glad that I have not seen them in real life, because I don't know what would happen.