The racism on the Huntingdon train threads is appaling

[Perplexed20]

Just as the title says. The blatant racism and jumping to conclusions on the threads has been terrible. Mumsnet used to be a more informed intelligent place.

Yeah, there's a reason for that.

Pervasive racism.

Yes. Thank you for saying this.

There's one thing the perpetrators of all of these acts have in common. It's not race. It's not religion. It's not ideology. It's that every single one of them is male.

Women don't stab people on trains. Women don't drive cars into crowds. Women don't suicide bomb concerts or shoot people walking home from the pub. Women don't fly planes into buildings.

It's always, everywhere and forever, f**king men.

That's the common denominator.

The Mail has been particularly awful with people posting insane stuff such as "it is all Sadiq Kahn's fault"

Don’t call him by his first name. He is not your friend. This is how it begins. This happened with Johnson as well. People jovially referring to him as “Boris” and “BoJo”, and look where that got us all.

I understand that you’re not on his side, but it’s still legitimising him, and he’s one of the chief architects of this horrific society we’re in.

I don’t know the details of this specific case, but UK Mental health services have been critically poorly funded for more than 10 years. And mental ill health has become more prevalent across the whole population in this time.

The vast majority of people having a mental health crisis harm themselves rather than others if they don’t get help. That is by far the biggest risk. But a small percentage harm others.

Spare a thought for your poor blood pressure and avoid the Mail.

Yes - absolutely this. XY chromosome is the common denominator

It’s true that we have a growing issue in this country of integration, I don’t think many would disagree.

The police have only confirmed it’s ’likely’ that it is not terrorism. They can’t possibly know this early on.

Spot on @Perplexed20 MNHQ should crack down on the racism. It's disgraceful that so many blatantly racist posts are allowed to stand.

But, but - what an incredibly offensive, demonstrably true statement, when we all know that NOT ALL MEN ARE LIKE THAT

Can someone send me the thread? There's been a few. I want to see what the "bad one" is.

It’s also important to recognise that some of these attacks are and have been racist, it is rooted in hatred against white people. I feel some education is required around this.

Completely shameful. How did we get here?

Women don't - I mean in Melbourne a woman stabbed another woman randomly in the street and the victim had a punctured lung.

A black woman in the states stabbed a young 2 year old in death in front of his mum. It's probably a lot less. And a lot less reported. But it happens.

But as I asked before what is the "bad thread"?

Cumbria, Hungerford, Dunblane, Harold Shipman?

Totally agree, it's incredibly open now, all social media, newspaper comment sections too. The reason I quit twitter is because of the racism and lies, I just felt dirty and angry on that website. There is so little fact checking done by racists either and when something pointed out that it's simply not true they get aggressive and double down instead of use their brains.

It is really not helped by people like Starmer not standing up to racism better, instead seems to be attempting to appease the Reform type voter instead. We need a clear and strong person to lead us out of this horrible, nasty mess imo.

(Hesitate to add Lucy Let y because there are questions and due process must be allowed.)

Going back further, could name half a dozen other white, British mass murderers.

90%+ of violent crime worldwide is by men, yes.

But in my home country, 55% of murders are committed by black people, despite comprising 13% of the population.

Why do you only want to talk about the first items and not the second?

As someone who has an anaphylactic allergy to deep heat type sprays, I'm worried about it being sprayed around willy-nilly by people who barely have two brain cells to rub together.

Wonder how long it'll be before there's a rise in chemical attacks by dickheads spraying stuff around because they saw a brown person "acting suspiciously". I am genuinely concerned for innocent people who are going to experience race-based hatred from these knuckle-draggers.

Do you mind disclosing where is your home country?

It almost always men isn't it? when i go on the website of my local newspaper there are endless court cases of rape, sexual assault, paedophilia, relationship violence, stabbings, burglary and random horrible attacks in the city centre. The unifying factor is that they are nearly always men.

Totally agree OP. I was reading a thread about the stabbings this morning and thinking I really need to leave mumsnet as the vile racists are taking over!

It’s insane. The UK is on a febrile knife edge, stoked by manipulative egomaniacals like Farage.
Throw in potentially millions of people spraying others when they’re a bit spooked. What could possibly go wrong?
Not to mention that if these substances are legally available to everyone, that includes those with criminal intent. Der.

IRA was our worst I think?