AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

[Squirrel001]

Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

No he's more passive when he treats some more favourably.

As a political pawn by the far right in mainland Britain.

OMG do you live under a stone!

If trying to cut a man's head off and gouge out his eyes is not one of the worse, horrific crimes, I don't know what is!

I was being ironic love.

Those pesky Irish having to put up with acts of savagery by people who shouldn't even be there. Yes, they are being manipulated because they haven't got the brains to think for themselves or see what's been allowed to happen on their streets. Although I'm saddened by the way they are being dragged in, I'm glad they are in on the fight, figuratively speaking. The more non deluded people there are on board, the more pressure there will be on successive governments to get their arses into gear and prioritise their people. Meanwhile the fascists will use more manipulation to try to cancel them.

Agree. Politicians won’t do anything, this isn’t the first horrendous crime but eye stabbing and attempted decapitation shouldn’t happen at all.

Possibly Sudanese?

What ARE you rabuttinh on about? Those pesky Irish? My family and friends back home you mean?

You understand those rioting are not the sharpest tool right? And that the current use of this attack for far right promotion puts ordinary people in northern Ireland at significant risk of harm and violence much more immediately than immigration does?

Baying mobs are what we would see every day in Europe if governments capitulated entirely on immigration. The mobs wouldn't be from the left or the right. There would certainly be more of the same acts of bloodshed.

Neither should any violent crime. By anyone. As its usually men who commit such crimes, perhaps we just get rid of all men? Sweeping statements achieve nothing. Violent crime unfortunately, has always happened throughout history. Surely we are better than to riot and burn the houses of people because someone else completely unconnected to them committed an appalling crime?

What's happening across Europe is not by accident. The violent response will have been expected, yet still those in power fail to act. We're all being played.

The same pattern that we are meant to just shut up and put up with. It's not going to get any better.

We don’t need that crime here. It doesn’t have to happen.

Perhaps this shouldn't be happening to our countries, then we may instead be able to invest the time, money and resources into addressing our own problem of male violence instead of importing new kinds.

Perfectly put 👏

I heard about it on media sites. How is that “silence”.

I am sure the victim and his family are much comforted by the stories of houses being burned, families having to free their homes, and buses being attacked etc. The rent-a-thug mob don’t give a shit re what this poor blinded man has experienced and how much he will be traumatised.

Where is the cowardly OP @Squirrel001 btw? Scuttled away when she/he realised that the media was in fact reporting this?

That was posted at 9am yesterday. It certainly was not headline news yesterday morning.

The public reaction is causing further atrocities. Maybe we could direct out anger at both - and while we’re at it, express our anger like rational adults - campaign, discuss, push for change, and protest (but at those we see as responsible, not just in general high streets and estates) without rioting?

No one condones stress snd fear, that is the whole point. None of us should be fearful that someone from a 'war torn country' will try to behead us.

Extraordinary that you think your fellow countrymen would target a pregnant woman.

Like who? Give me an example.

I agree. People should play nicely but when we have protests, public fear and anger then these things do often escalate, regrettably. Look at all the violence with the BLM 'protests'. Politicians stoked that situation yet that was ok for some reason.

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Maybe it's the strong memory of this and similar attacks when I was a young child by the same shower.