“White Lives Matter is a white supremacist phrase that originated in early 2015. It became popular with white supremacists as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement”
What a load of bollocks.
Urgh, I sometimes wish the Americans spoke another language
Hmmm. One of two things is true. Either this group had this banner laying around for a special occasion, like one of them had had it made just in case and this just happened to be the perfect time to use it. Or they decided they desperately needed to make a racist statement, had this banner specifically made and this was the most imaginative time and place they could display it.
Either way, it really makes you fear for the intelligence and ambition of racists in this country.
> White Lives Matter is a white supremacist phrase
Or… It’s literally someone replacing the word “black” in “black lives matter” with “white” and seeing what happens.
It’s an innocuous statement, if we can say black lives matter why can’t we say white lives matter?
Is it racist tho?
Just to point out that one of the things that makes this so shitty is that Clifford’s tower was the site of a racial massacre :
Has anyone told them they’re completely missing the point
I live in York and sadly there is definitely a racist undercurrent here, I’ve had uber drivers complaining to me about the racial abuse they get, foreign friends told to ‘go back to where they came from’, and during the world cup more than a few racial slurs thrown during the England games :/
it’s such a shame because it’s a really beautiful, historic city, but I guess there’s people like that everywhere unfortunately
Are white lives under threat?
Lol I knew it was going to be ‘White Lives Matter’ or ‘It’s ok to be white’.
Will done national media, this wouldn’t be half as effective without your screeching
Here come the “whys it racist if they do matter?” comments.
Here’s a fact for you:
Take any sentence; change any single race-descriptor word to any other. If it just became racist, then the whole sentence was always racist.
Not racist.
White lives don’t matter. Is this racist? Yellow lives matter. Is this racist?
I guess “excuse me but we have legitimate concerns about the high levels of immigration and the impact it is having on local communities but we can’t discuss it in an open setting without being called racist, even though it has nothing to do with hatred of others, only concern for our own therefore we must resort to public stunt to try to establish a counter narrative “… Won’t really fit on a banner.
Britain will be minority white British by 2066.
The term “white lives matter” was coined directly to discredit and delegitimise the struggles faced by people of colour, especially black people, epitomised in the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
So yes, it is racist.
Hopefully they have CCTV so they can catch these knuckle headed racists.
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Bet they vote Tory.
“White Lives Matter is a white supremacist phrase that originated in early 2015. It became popular with white supremacists as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement”
What a load of bollocks.
Urgh, I sometimes wish the Americans spoke another language
Hmmm. One of two things is true. Either this group had this banner laying around for a special occasion, like one of them had had it made just in case and this just happened to be the perfect time to use it. Or they decided they desperately needed to make a racist statement, had this banner specifically made and this was the most imaginative time and place they could display it.
Either way, it really makes you fear for the intelligence and ambition of racists in this country.
> White Lives Matter is a white supremacist phrase
Or… It’s literally someone replacing the word “black” in “black lives matter” with “white” and seeing what happens.
It’s an innocuous statement, if we can say black lives matter why can’t we say white lives matter?
Is it racist tho?
Just to point out that one of the things that makes this so shitty is that Clifford’s tower was the site of a racial massacre :
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/cliffords-tower-york/history-and-stories/massacre-of-the-jews/
Has anyone told them they’re completely missing the point
I live in York and sadly there is definitely a racist undercurrent here, I’ve had uber drivers complaining to me about the racial abuse they get, foreign friends told to ‘go back to where they came from’, and during the world cup more than a few racial slurs thrown during the England games :/
it’s such a shame because it’s a really beautiful, historic city, but I guess there’s people like that everywhere unfortunately
Are white lives under threat?
Lol I knew it was going to be ‘White Lives Matter’ or ‘It’s ok to be white’.
Will done national media, this wouldn’t be half as effective without your screeching
Here come the “whys it racist if they do matter?” comments.
Here’s a fact for you:
Take any sentence; change any single race-descriptor word to any other. If it just became racist, then the whole sentence was always racist.
Not racist.
White lives don’t matter. Is this racist? Yellow lives matter. Is this racist?
I guess “excuse me but we have legitimate concerns about the high levels of immigration and the impact it is having on local communities but we can’t discuss it in an open setting without being called racist, even though it has nothing to do with hatred of others, only concern for our own therefore we must resort to public stunt to try to establish a counter narrative “… Won’t really fit on a banner.
Britain will be minority white British by 2066.
The term “white lives matter” was coined directly to discredit and delegitimise the struggles faced by people of colour, especially black people, epitomised in the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
So yes, it is racist.
Hopefully they have CCTV so they can catch these knuckle headed racists.
Nobody said white lives don’t matter.
The far-right has a serious victim complex.