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.

Taking the knee for an American drug user and criminal?

Violence is never ok. I don’t know anyone who supported violence at BLM demos.

For the idea that people shouldn’t be murdered by police you mean?
Who did that treat differently though?

And I don't claim these violent pigs by the way, not does any right minded person I know back home

Anybody who took the knee for a man who held a shotgun to a pregnant woman's stomach supported violence.

We've been through this, vile republican and loyalist murderers do not mean this atrocity should be shrugged off.

Your link from a national paper clearly disputes your claims that NI atrocities weren't ever reported on

Oh our local protestors did that last night - I mean they could have misunderstood the meaning behind taking the knee but it definitely looked like they were doing it for George Floyd - one racist at a time being converted - maybe!

Yep and Starmer 'shh sit down everyone and be quiet' we are looking at you.

You asked why I thought they'd target a pregnant woman, this is why I know they'd target a pregnant woman

I don't know why the left keep insisting they're on the right side of history. Anytime there's an act like the attempted murder, the whatabouts begin. I can't even imagine reading about the acts in all these savage cases, Southport girls especially, and my first thought to be to compare who's the most violent.

Youre bringing truthful facts into the argument.... get your tin hat ready

'They' were gang members/terrorists. Are you suggesting everyone is the same in Belfast killing pregnant women?

What about your claim that NI crimes weren't reported nationally yet this was the independent? Perhaps you'd like to admit your error?

Used to the packs which is why I don't bother responding to questions from certain posters.

Oh not this canard….

People protested extrajudicial killings by police.

I’m so sick of this being misrepresented. We were all there. We all remember what it was about. I’m not responding to people twisting it now.

I'm suggesting it's loyalist terrorists behind the rioting and the ordinary people back home are locking their doors and closing their businesses in fear of them. The rioters. The fear is of the rioters.

Nobody on the left condense this violence. The ‘whatabouts’ on this thread are in response to the OP saying it wasn’t reported because the perpetrator wasn’t white. People pointed to cases where it wasn’t reported much when the perpetrator was white and compared that to the really very extensive coverage (rightly) of this attack. It’s not about the violence. How can you not grasp that?

Are you being deliberately obtuse? @Velumental didn't say NI was never reported on, just that many atrocities that happen there aren't reported in national press. Not all. Many. See the difference?
And she’s mentioned a few awful ones I hadn’t heard of, so I’d say she’s right.

I grasp plenty and right now it's going to be some tai chi walking.

You really are on a mission of whataboutary.
Digging in the archives. While your at it, can you research how many pregnant women in Sudan.
Heres a snippet.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has reported that at least 118 people had been subjected to sexual violence, including rape, gang rape, and attempted rape in Sudan as of mid-December 2023, including 19 children.

So you do grasp this and you are being deliberately ingenuous?
Or you don’t grasp it so you are ducking out?

Loyalist terrorists my arse.

It's a volatile place many brought up against the backdrop of gang violence yes but in this situation I've seen both republicans and loyalists join together to condem and protest this horrific atrocity.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/faqs/how-women-and-girls-are-being-targeted-in-the-war-in-sudan www.unwomen.org/en/articles/faqs/how-women-and-girls-are-being-targeted-in-the-war-in-sudan]]]]
I would welcome women from these shit holes instead of the men who treat them like dirt.

I cba to trawl back so to paraphrase 'they've been killing each other for years in NI wife beaters, murders. Never reported on and no one on England cared until an 'asylum seeker' gouged eyes and tried to behead someone'.

Thr Independent is a national paper, no?

The point is you are paraphrasing. @Velumental has said NI has very violent groups and there’s a lot of violence, much of which doesn’t reach the national press. She is right as far as I can see. And this one has, rightly, made the national press - so there’s no cover up which is what the OP alleged.