> But when they posted pictures of their big hike in the Peak District on Christmas Day on social media, they received abusive comments.
Anyone who posts anything to a large enough audience on social media will receive abuse.
I wonder for how many more years media will make something of this fact?
I would ask what a “proper walker” looks like, to the person who made that comment, but I suspect I already know: they look like, well, me: so white you’d lose them in a snow drift.
As for the numbers comment, 130 is on the small side for a trail or fell race. However, such events are overwhelmingly white, so are Acceptable.
*not proper walkers*
Social media, the place people feel entitled to gatekeep the most perfunctory aspects of basic movement…..
I’m sure most of the commenters wouldn’t even know how to hike themselves.
I think what they are doing for each other is great.
I hike a lot with my dogs, and live in a rural predominantly white area, but anyone is welcome, be safe and don’t litter or spoil. Simple.
Bloody muslim hikers, coming over here, walking politely on our footpaths, getting exercise. How dare they?
Honestly, people need to stop taking comment on social media so seriously. I mean why the hell is BBC reporting on a few nasty comments…..they are just feeding the social media beast.
> when they posted pictures from the day on Facebook, some comments suggested they were not “proper walkers” and a group so large would damage the trails and the ecosystem.
That’s not abusive and also has nothing to do with them being Muslim.
This is a confected outrage story on the basis of a few non supportive tweets, how do proper journalists get dragged into this nonsense?
Good to see demographic groups that traditionally haven’t got out and enjoyed the great British outdoors doing so, though.
Good luck to them but why did the group feel the need to take up two large Palestinian flags up to the top of a rather ordinary hill in the Peak District?
Before anyone says why shouldn’t you be allowed to carry up the flag of your choice, yes by all means knock yourself out, but doesn’t it give a slightly different spin that the group may also have political aims and the article should of mentioned that? if the reporter had done some actual background work.
There are literally no barriers between any ethnic minority group and the countryside. We had this rubbish with supposed barriers stopping black people hiking not too long ago.
Just go for a walk ffs. It isn’t racism that stops certain groups going walking. Pleasure hiking and walking was literally a movement in the UK, its not just something humans instinctively do for fun. Ethnic minority groups don’t have this and so no wonder they don’t walk as much.
What kind of person gets made about people walking…
I live in the Lake District and know a few trails. If you’re Muslim and need a guide hit me up and I’ll be more than happy to help. The more the merrier!
I walk my area, it’s got lots of hills. I don’t care who does it, just stop hanging bags on the trees.
For some objectivity, I put up the post sharing the trek I went on with a group called muslim hikers. Comments have now been removed but believe me they were not nice to read. White privilege and a sense of entitlement was very clear to see.
“…group so large would damage the trails and the ecosystem.”
Ha ha. The moorland they are pictured walking on is almost biologically dead, due to over grasing and deforestation.
Only /r/unitedkingdom could take clear evidence of blatant racism and Islamaphobia and talk about flags and journalism instead
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> But when they posted pictures of their big hike in the Peak District on Christmas Day on social media, they received abusive comments.
Anyone who posts anything to a large enough audience on social media will receive abuse.
I wonder for how many more years media will make something of this fact?
I would ask what a “proper walker” looks like, to the person who made that comment, but I suspect I already know: they look like, well, me: so white you’d lose them in a snow drift.
As for the numbers comment, 130 is on the small side for a trail or fell race. However, such events are overwhelmingly white, so are Acceptable.
*not proper walkers*
Social media, the place people feel entitled to gatekeep the most perfunctory aspects of basic movement…..
I’m sure most of the commenters wouldn’t even know how to hike themselves.
I think what they are doing for each other is great.
I hike a lot with my dogs, and live in a rural predominantly white area, but anyone is welcome, be safe and don’t litter or spoil. Simple.
Bloody muslim hikers, coming over here, walking politely on our footpaths, getting exercise. How dare they?
Honestly, people need to stop taking comment on social media so seriously. I mean why the hell is BBC reporting on a few nasty comments…..they are just feeding the social media beast.
> when they posted pictures from the day on Facebook, some comments suggested they were not “proper walkers” and a group so large would damage the trails and the ecosystem.
That’s not abusive and also has nothing to do with them being Muslim.
This is a confected outrage story on the basis of a few non supportive tweets, how do proper journalists get dragged into this nonsense?
Good to see demographic groups that traditionally haven’t got out and enjoyed the great British outdoors doing so, though.
Good luck to them but why did the group feel the need to take up two large Palestinian flags up to the top of a rather ordinary hill in the Peak District?
Before anyone says why shouldn’t you be allowed to carry up the flag of your choice, yes by all means knock yourself out, but doesn’t it give a slightly different spin that the group may also have political aims and the article should of mentioned that? if the reporter had done some actual background work.
There are literally no barriers between any ethnic minority group and the countryside. We had this rubbish with supposed barriers stopping black people hiking not too long ago.
Just go for a walk ffs. It isn’t racism that stops certain groups going walking. Pleasure hiking and walking was literally a movement in the UK, its not just something humans instinctively do for fun. Ethnic minority groups don’t have this and so no wonder they don’t walk as much.
What kind of person gets made about people walking…
I live in the Lake District and know a few trails. If you’re Muslim and need a guide hit me up and I’ll be more than happy to help. The more the merrier!
I walk my area, it’s got lots of hills. I don’t care who does it, just stop hanging bags on the trees.
For some objectivity, I put up the post sharing the trek I went on with a group called muslim hikers. Comments have now been removed but believe me they were not nice to read. White privilege and a sense of entitlement was very clear to see.
“…group so large would damage the trails and the ecosystem.”
Ha ha. The moorland they are pictured walking on is almost biologically dead, due to over grasing and deforestation.
Only /r/unitedkingdom could take clear evidence of blatant racism and Islamaphobia and talk about flags and journalism instead