Check out the BBC phone in segment where they ask people to comment on the migrant crossing.
Several “normal” British people rang in with the most unhinged xenophobic, cruel and callous takes essentially saying “these lesser animal people deserve to die for trying to come to our utopia”.
One woman is like “its sad and I know it means children will die but it just has to be done, you can’t keep letting them in” has to be done referring to pushing the boats back so that they all drown.
It’s genuinely heinous and what was beyond infuriating was watching the BBC talking heads feeling shocked and uncomfortable people here can be that racist and xenophobic completely fucking disconnected from the fact that their own anti immigrant hit pieces and slop are exactly what’s caused this amplification of nazi views.
It’s literally their fault but
don’t have the self awareness or compassion to get it.Burn the UK
It’s always been a shit hole but it’s so much worse now we’ve adopted a lot of the American entitlement energy (like we didn’t already have our own version but damn there’s a noticeable shift in how people act post 9/11 regardless of age).
When Hunter S Thompson was alive, he used to have a list known as the “SWINE OF THE YEAR AWARDS.”
This goes nicely there.
Being against human trafficking, especially sex trafficking, and doubly so for child sex trafficking, should not be a political issue.
Yet when “sound of freedom” was making news it suddenly became a right wing conspiracy theory qanon adjacent anti Semitic movie.
Whut?
It’s literally very closely based on true events.
Its not even religious in any way.
It mentions no political party.
It was made before qanon was a thing.
Maybe there are some vocal people who are in favor of child sex trafficking? It seems like it?
Hasn’t the guy that the movie is about recently been charged with human trafficking? Because his method for saving these children was to go out to these child traffickers and buy the children off of them. Like how someone who wants to buy a child slave would.
Here we go https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/sound-of-freedom-investor-sex-trafficking-b2388549.html kidnapping was the charge
I think it’s not that people are against trying to stop child sex trafficking, but that this guy’s methods were extremely suspect and due to him buying these kids, actually encouraged the sex traffickers to traffic more children.
I dunno. What do you think?
I think historically buying slaves in order to free them has been a legitimate way of freeing slaves.
If he was charged with kidnapping by buying them, would the same thing have happened if he just took them? Would it have been murder AND kidnapping if he had shot the traffickers and taken the kids?
Here’s another way to look at it -
WERE THE CHILDREN STILL GETTING FUCKED? OR DID THEY GO HOME?
I think historically buying slaves in order to free them has been a legitimate way of freeing slaves.
If he was charged with kidnapping by buying them, would the same thing have happened if he just took them? Would it have been murder AND kidnapping if he had shot the traffickers and taken the kids?
Here’s another way to look at it -
WERE THE CHILDREN STILL GETTING FUCKED? OR DID THEY GO HOME?
Well, there’s a question. Are the kids being fucked? Not sure there’s much of a paper trail. Where are these kids now?
And let’s be clear, they were giving child slavers money in exchange for slaves. They got paid to sell slaves, and we’re allowed to continue selling slaves. They are still active now. And this organisation is still presumably giving them money in exchange for child slaves.
The guy is probably straight up reselling kids into abusive situations.
yeah, the people who made the movie.
it didn’t “become” a right wing conspiracy theory, it was a right wing conspiracy theory. The right wing account of child abuse is completely imaginary, and its view of actual real world abuse of children is supportive, because it views kids as property first and foremost.
What do you try to say?
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