AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

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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.

Censoring content isn’t the answer. I won’t watch but it’s easy to see people will rush to down play with nothing to see here.

Wow. If that’s true - and that’s a big if - that’s absolutely horrific. I can see they’ve asked people not to share the footage as it’s so graphic as to be traumatising.

I’ll be honest I hadn’t heard about it until this thread… Sounds utterly horrific. The BBC article says man in his 40s but on X people are saying it was a teenager so already lots of misinformation floating around.

Because not all immigrants are wonderful qualified medical staff? And importing people from war zones and countries with very high violence might result in disturbed people doing things like this to British/Irish people?

Not a stabbing. An attempted beheading

That isn’t what is currently being reported. Hopefully you are wrong.

Gosh, reminiscent of poor Lee Rigby.

It is horrific. It was sent to me very early this morning and hadn’t yet read the news, not the news reporting would have prepared me for it. It’s very clear on the video what’s happening.

Even on this thread with actual news sources, people are still repeating falsehoods.

The victim is not dead: he is in a serious condition in hospital.

The victim was not a teenager: he is in his 40s.

Please, stop believing and repeating whatever sensationalist bollocks is being fed to you on X, and just wait for the facts to be established.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdejnjdg08eo

I've looked at Google news and I've found news reports from 23 different news sources about it, including as far away as Australia. To say it's being ignored by the media is a blatent lie.

The fact that you DON'T perceive this as one of the most horrific attacks ever on a UK street shows how this is being misreported. Deliberately misreported.

Point proven. Not in the main media. I saw it on Facebook. He was trying to behead the man. Absolutely horrific.

That’s not who people are bothered by! I bet that consultant didn’t come off a boat, neither did the carers who looked after my dying dad. It’s unchecked unskilled males from countries we are advised to nowhere near, especially if you are a woman or gay. Wish people would wise up.

It's far right to object to people being beheaded in the street by religious fanatics.

In 2003 72yo Brian Noble Dodd was stabbed at least 10 times whilst walking his 2 shitzus along the beach in broad daylight.

All these crimes are horrific. I too am also not sure what is more horrific about this particular Belfast one. The victim is still alive at least.

Oh stop being so disingenuous. Being on a site is hardly high profile is it??

I've had the radio on in the background this morning and haven't heard a thing until I've just seen this here.

This is an absolutely barbaric attack and the reason it isn't headlined is, as you well know, so as not to encourage protests and riots.

Yes don’t mention it. Politicians in power will grasp at ways to get people to not talk about it nor object.

Sadly, it seems that if the police don't immediately confirm that the attacker is a white Briton in a case, then they are from a minority group. And that lack of reporting just raises tensions and suspicions of a 2-tier approach.

Honestly, I agree content shouldn’t be censored generally - but I understand this is beyond even averagely violent content.

I believe it’s circulating to increase unrest, however, I accept that’s my view - but, a big but, the circulation of it (in my opinion again) is beyond disrespectful to the victim and their family - watching the last moments of his life I think. Films of executions/certain killings were banned I believe a good while ago on mainstream news for good reason - it’s awful such terrible stuff can now be circulated freely.

Also, more minor points but it could impact any future trial - and traumatise some watching it.

Belfast isn't a stranger to horrific public attacks committed by white people and I'm willing to bet we didn't hear about most of them.

Imagine 3 threads on this already.

Yep. Nothing to see here don't mention the horrific mutilation on the streets of Belfast and do not suggest ethnicity of attacker as that is racist apparently. Musk is the culprit here! Play nicely everyone and shh.

Are we going to have a thread for every horrendous crime committed by an immigrant, brown person, or someone with a funny name?

This is a terrible attack, but horrible crimes are committed by white British people all the time.

Some people won't be happy unless our borders are completely closed, and we have a complete economic and public services collapse.

The GF video led to unrest. Would you have wanted that taken down?

I'm in my thirties and this is the worst attack on British streets that I can recall. I don't want to watch the video, the descriptions of the gouging and beheading is enough for me. Absolutely horrendous and worse than 'just' a stabbing.