Every time
Family of a murder victim: Please don’t use our child’s death to spread hate and division.
Reform and co: (uses their child’s death to spread hate and division)
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Local Facebook’s Thoughts On: Eid
It was Eid on… Friday? Look I don’t know anything about Eid, I just know the Muslim community has a big celebration and I see lots of people around in nice sparkly outfits.
There was a party in Victoria Park! Children and adults alike. Everyone was welcome regardless of religion. Let’s what the Facebook userbase has to say about it.
First of all, Karen Hilton wants you to know that she saw an event where Muslim children were playing and instantly wished death on those children. A horrible, slow death at that, since that’s what being bombed does to you. She was unashamed of saying this in public and multiple people liked that she said it.
Nigel Moore can’t see non-white people having fun without thinking of the ways in which he could hurt them.
Sarah Collin loves Britain so much she almost learned to spell it!
There was a fence and they did have to pay to get in. However I think Michelle Stanley is complaining that if she turned up, she… wouldn’t have had to pay?
ICE have killed multiple people.
“Rest” in piss Ian Huntley
Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack
I was still a young teenager when the Soham murders happened, not really all that much older than the victims. My family were on holiday in Cornwall, and it was the first time I had a hotel room of my own instead of sharing with the rest of my family. So every night I’d go upstairs to my own hotel room and turn on the TV (this was pre-smartphones) and watch the news and see people desperately searching for those little girls in their red football shirts. It sent my anxiety through the roof.
Hope he’s burning in hell.
Graham Linehan thinks women should not vote
I wondered what the British TERFs had to say about Renee Nicole Good, a bi woman shot down by ICE in broad daylight. They claim to be defenders of LGB women so they must be rightly furious, right?
I went to Graham Linehan’s page.
Oh, but it got worse. He reposted a tweet (with an ableist slur in the title) calling for women in America to be stripped of their right to vote.
I feel like I’m screaming into a void when I see people like Jonathan Ross (not the Jonathan Ross who killed Renee Good, the wildly popular British TV personality) and Richard Ayoade praise Linehan. It revolts me that these men coddle each other. Linehan is a very clear danger to women. His hatred for us is horrifying. What is it going to take for the British media to finally label him as the dangerous, disgusting misogynist he is, and how many women will he hurt before that happens?
Transphobia has come for the Girl Guides
But they can’t have believed that strongly in inclusion or marginalised groups, or they would have fought. Also, I was a Girl Guide, and I hated every damn minute of it.
Flags again
It wasn’t just my Pride flag that got torn down. (Course, I say torn down but I didn’t actually see that. It could have been that the wind just blew it away. I kind of doubt it given the area I’m in, though.) They’re being torn down elsewhere in Leicester in direct acts of intimidation towards LGBT people.
Someone posted about it on r/leicester. I joined in. It wasn’t fun. There was the “clearly a hoax, no LGBT person has ever been abused” person:
The people who insist they’re not allowed to fly the English flag despite one flying in virtually every town for as far back as people can remember:
Guys who just really, really want to be allowed to say the r-word:
And same old tiresome , tiresome storybook monsters who think I’m a fool and a hypocrite for caring about other people.
Meanwhile, people have been killed for flying Pride flags.
Flags
If you’re British you’ve probably already heard of the campaign to fly English flags everywhere to “protest” migrants being in the UK. It is deeply upsetting and upsetting the people around me as well.
Unfortunately one particularly obnoxious flag is now flying in my home village. I looked at it and I thought how desperately unfair it was that that flag is allowed to be plastered over every city as a “you’re not welcome” to migrants, while the victims of the Pulse massacre got their flag painted over as a warning to LGBT people.
So I found a small flag I got from the Leicester Pride event and wrote on it.
Then me and Dave, god bless him, went out in the dead of night and attached the Pride flag to the lamppost.
Went past the same lamppost today and the Pride flag was gone. I was disappointed but not surprised. I wonder what happened to it. Did anyone read the message?
Southport
God, I am absolutely LIVID about what happened in Southport. The most appalling attack on young girls happens and then a bunch of racists show up to smash up the town, destroy a mosque (when no-one involved has the slightest connection to Islam) and attack people. I cannot imagine the pain being felt by residents of that community right now, who now have to spend a day cleaning up instead of grieving for three young lives cruelly taken away.
Fuck the EDL. May they burn in hell forever.
‼️ if you live in the UK please vote in the general election (4th july) ‼️
- when can I vote? 7am to 10pm
- where can I vote? check your poll card or visit wheredoivote.co.uk (if you’re a student registered at your home and term time addresses, you can vote at either but not both)
- who should I vote for? visit getvoting.org for your candidates and tactical voting info
- what do I need to take with me? just photo id is required (list of valid id here), your poll card is NOT required
- what if I can’t make it? you can register for an emergency proxy vote until 5pm
General election announced for the 4th of July, make sure you are registered to vote! Remember if you’re a student you can register with your home address and term time address but can only vote in one (could be a good idea to think tactically on this – which constituency more needs your vote to help kick the Tories out)