She definitely sounds like she's on drugs to me...
I'm glad she's been arrested, if nothing else it's breaching of the peace.
I feel sorry for her poor child.
It actually makes me feel angry that more people didn't try and shut her up. I get that she made it a hostile environment, but there is absolutely no fúcking way I could have just sat their in silence listening to her ignorant, hate-fuelled rant.
So therefore
1) She didn't mean it
2) This is acceptable/excusable
?
I'm just not really getting what you're trying to say.
No, it doesn't make it excusable, or acceptable. What I mean is that once someone has started to rant away like that, it has it's own momentum, and people can completely lose contact with reasonable thinking as they feel that weird toxic buzz of having an audience, and, yes, say things that, when calmer might totally regret and feel ashamed of. I can't speak for her, obviously. And racism is never ok. What I do know is, that, once one feels even a little cornered [and this seems to be happening on both sides in the video] a whole sort of pack and defence and attack psychology ensues - which can so easily get out of hand.
I'm not excusing it at all, simply outlining a bit more of perspective.
Also, when people are shockingly racist like this woman, it often means that they actually feel very insecure and marginalised in some way in their own life. Not always, but often.
Doesn't she? I thought people had the right to free speech, and the right to protest....
I responded to this on a FB comment earlier. YES people have the right to protest, their right to their opinions and so on. But NOT covered by that right is inciting hatred, violence and verbal assault. It's a fine line in the law that she massively crossed.
Thats awful. And seriously, the poor kid. they should have blurred his face and also its really sad because he's probably going to grow up like her and its not his fault :[
i'm ashamed of her behaviour, not of being british though because she doesn't represent the majority and everyone has to remember that.
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I feel sorry for the poor child being subjected to this sort of behaviour constantly and it clearly happens a lot, since he doesn't react to it at all.
I don't really know what to say. Yes, she can have an opinion and it is her right but it is not right to shout it and shove it in people's faces. She did seem drunk or whatever but she was still out of order and I'm glad she's been arrested.
This was one of my favourite comments that I read : "nothing gives anyone the right to be racist, no one has any personal control over where their mother pointed her pussy when they were born so its illogical to be 'proud' of where it is you live."
& here's another interesting spin on it... what happens if the child grows up to have a very similar belief system to her? Then to what extent can we blame the child for behaving how he's been taught to behave?
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I don't know thats such a hard question, because if you think about it, why is the mother like that in the first place? maybe she was brought up like that?
But we can all blame other people for everything and for the way we are but when we are old enough to start making decisions we have to take responsibility for our behaviour. I hope he will realise when he's older that these are thoughts and views he has to challenge. But he's been given an unfair disadvantage. idk its a difficult question.
♥ .I'm going to fall like I don't need saving. ♥
...My smile's just the armour I built when I was alone...
There was some part of me that hurt so badly, that I wouldn't ever be able to forget it.
It faded but the memories could bring it back any second, keeping me in the moment.
It would never fully heal. I could never really be free. I could never really be fixed. Now I just have to work out how to live whilst being broken.
I feel like I'm dying.
YES people have the right to protest, their right to their opinions and so on. But NOT covered by that right is inciting hatred, violence and verbal assault. It's a fine line in the law that she massively crossed.
I responded to this on a FB comment earlier. YES people have the right to protest, their right to their opinions and so on. But NOT covered by that right is inciting hatred, violence and verbal assault. It's a fine line in the law that she massively crossed.
This.
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Originally Posted by DontLookUp
But we can all blame other people for everything and for the way we are but when we are old enough to start making decisions we have to take responsibility for our behaviour. I hope he will realise when he's older that these are thoughts and views he has to challenge. But he's been given an unfair disadvantage. idk its a difficult question.
& this.
I just think it's plain stupidity. What was she trying to achieve? As it is she's just made herself look a total tool. Whilst I'm not for vigilante behaviour, I'm glad that somebody recorded it - I'm hoping she may be able to reflect on this, or at least realise that she definitely does not represent the majority of the population's views.