to be utterly sick of protests, marches, rallies, and riots

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What happened today in Belfast was dreadful. Of course it was.

When Sarah Everard died, there were marches. But a day before she died, an Indian woman Sarah's age was knifed to death in the street in Leicestershire. It was an "honour" killing, I think.

Where was HER lantern on the doorstep of Downing Street? Where was HER march?

My point is, dreadful things happen every day and I am so sick and tired of news items sparking so much public rowdiness. It used to be that the media could report on current events without starting a riot. I know that we have always had riots, but they were the occasional one. And because they were not common, they helped effect change. They were a desperate measure reserved for when nothing else had helped.

Now, together with marches, rallies, and protests, society is constantly disrupted, and I am so, so sick of it. I live in a major city and I can't go anywhere without checking what march, rally, protest, or riot is happening, especially at the weekends. And they are so common that they don't help effect change anymore.

The riots are terrible. Thousands and thousands of pounds' worth of lost property in fires, injured bystanders, police calld away from other duties to attend them. And there are "professional" rabble-rousers who travel to marches, protests, and riots. It's not because they're passionate about a cause. They're just passionate about causing trouble.

I travel for work to major American cities and it's even worse over there. Another day, another riot/protest/march/rally.

They have become a feature of today's society, and I wish they would just stop.

Edit: I actually stay in more because of them. I don't go out of my hotel as much when staying in America, and I don't go to the city centre where I live as much. It's so bad when regular people are put off from walking around city centres because of all these annoying dickheads.

I think it is worse in America, and I'm tired of feeling scared to go out when there, in case I run into an uncontrolled crowd - where the police have guns, and the protestors might, depending on the state.

The burning buildings in Belfast are a disgrace. It's not the owners' fault that this happened.

Oh oh, there’s that word again. Won’t be long before it loses all meaning.

They could've been burnt alive!

If someone set fire to your house but you didn't actually die is that just fine then?
How can you not see that both things are horrific?
Why is only one side of this an issue for you?

What do you call burning roadblocks, stopping the occupants of cars to determine if they’re migrants? The targeting of houses owned by foreigners for fire bombing? Targeting foreign owned businesses?

I genuinely cannot believe that people think the attempted murder of a baby is fine.

Yea, you're right. Burning down the homes of people based on their skin colour definitely isn't racist. Several different threads later and we still haven't discovered what the "You just call everything racist" people actually would consider to be racist. Lynchings maybe. Would that meet your criteria?

His family have said (with his agreement presumably) that they don't want the attack to be used as an excuse to cause further violence.

It's not about concern for him.

And this is one of the biggest issues facing the UK at the moment. But how often do you hear it talked about outside of half hour discussion shows on channel four ?

Being on benefits doesn’t mean you are not working and contributing to society.

'Being on benefits doesn't mean you are not working...'

Oh, don't we know it...

So you are saying the person setting fire to the house knew the children were in there and set out to kill them? Where is the evidence for that? Have they been charged with attempted murder? Setting fire to a house is very different from specifically setting out to murder a child.

Karma Nirvana are a fantastic organisation and this is a brilliant step forward BUT what do you think will actually change?
Look at the statistics, how many young girls and women even dare THINK about reporting? I know of at least two women in my tiny little pocket of earth who should report and I would encourage to do so but what do I know? I can never appreciate how deeply embedded these abhorrent practises are in some cultures.
What do you think happens when a young girl or woman attempts report honour based violence, rape within marriage or domestic abuse?
We know that the agencies that are meant to protect are reluctant to get involved due to a fear of being labelled as racist. We know this due to report after report of said agencies saying so after yet another preventable death.

This is a fantastic step forward for women and children though and I am proud of Labour for working alongside Karma Nirvana. Any step forward is a positive.
Next step, let's start talking about it openly without fear of being called 'far right'.

That’s not what is being said by the poster at all.
They are saying violent crime will always exist which is never ok - but why on earth would you add to it by allowing mass illegal immigration from countries with no adequate checks on people. You are literally exacerbating the problem of violent crime by doing so.

A result of wages being driven down.

There is a reluctance on this thread to accept that two things can be true at once. People are outraged by the incident that sparked the violence and people are also outraged by the response. Citing ‘these poor children’ as comparable to a man who has experienced severe and life changing injuries isn’t helpful.

In part by the wholesale propping up of the wages bills of rich corporations being propped up by the tax payer, via UC.

No....
People have absolutely been trying to excuse the rioting. Maybe not you. But people have been doing it.

Quite literally what do you expect to happen when setting fire to a house full of occupants

Well said.

No it isn't.

I didn’t say I had no empathy with those whose homes have burned did I ? You made that up to support your narrative. Two things can be true at the same time.

Care to elaborate?

There is no ‘excuse’ for the rioting and the violence that took place, and which has taken place after every such incident in recent years. But there are reasons for it, which is entirely different.

How much medical recruitment and how many medical visa applications have you done?

You might think the occupants will escape and their property destroyed. You might think the property is empty. You might have little care for the occupants. You might not think at all. You might suffer from a mental illness. Isn’t it funny how pp jumped to using mental health as an excuse for the attacker trying to behead someone but give no consideration to it being a reason for arson?

If you set fire to a house, you do so knowing there may be people inside and they might die a horrific death. The person who tried to behead the man was also doing it knowing the person could die a horrific death.
Both things are horrific. Can you not see that?