[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
Black people get pulled over and don’t make it out alive. We can’t sleep in our own beds without being killed. We can’t jog without being killed. We can’t walk down the street with our hoodies up without being killed but they can do this???
I don’t know about you, but I sure am willing to call-out-the-fossil-fuel-companies-for-knowingly-destroying-future-living-conditions -for-countless-generations-for profit-and-then-trying-to-distract-people-and-prevent-real-systemic-change-through-endless greenwash-campaigns.
To see a Neo-Nazi punching a black women square in the face adorning the most hate filled, racist, islamophobic, mysogonist right wing rag -& for them to ask “how did we get here?” Is the most disgraceful gaslighting I may have ever seen.The decent amount us must stand up. Now.
I don’t ever want to hear that Black Lives Matter protesters are the problem ‘whilst in a pandemic’.
Look at these hooligans! They showed up to *oppose* anti-racism. They literally showed up to *be* racist
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.
In the uk, it’s fine to be violent and attack the police when you want to “Free Tommy Robinson” a known islamophobic extremist, but don’t you dare go fight systematic oppression and destroy a slave traders statue, because that is disrespectful. Hmm make it make sense.
They criminalize the homeless so that they don’t have to house them. They criminalize drug addicts so that they don’t have to address substance abuse as a public health problem. They criminalize the poor so that they don’t have to address wealth inequality.
I’ve been punched, kicked, scratched, bitten and had hot cups of tea thrown over me doing my job and I have never once thought about using force or violence on another person bcos I have a duty of care, why is it so different for polis ?