WalkingSun wrote:
Yes, in certain areas the UK was absolutely racist 20 years ago. It happened. Get over it.
I am from the UK by the way.
To clarify, when I say "get over" it I mean accept the fact that it happened and that racism continues to happen in the UK to this second. Stop trying to pick at her story in order to obfuscate the reality of racism in the UK in the past and present.
UK's version of UVA Rolling stone? wrote:
"most nights"
Obviously it is not plausible that her front window was broken by bricks on a nightly basis. Gosh, I wonder if by using curiosity and empathy we can understand this quotation?
Perhaps the window was in a state of breakage most nights, due to non-nightly but recurring events? In two seconds I can think of a half-dozen explanations for this quote, other than bald-faced lying.
It's telling that people choose to focus on someone misspeaking (or being misquoted), rather than the theme of the story. Sad!
30 years ago, a Taiwanese friend of mine, moved into an upscale part of LA with her
husband and young son.
Soon after they had moved in, someone broke their living room window with a rather large
rock. It does happen in the US…
Harrier1 wrote:
30 years ago, a Taiwanese friend of mine, moved into an upscale part of LA with her
husband and young son.
Soon after they had moved in, someone broke their living room window with a rather large
rock. It does happen in the US…
Unfortunately that's the way of the world isn't it. You'd think a melting pot country like America would be more accepting. But no, you'd think wrong, because not everyone in any country including ours is open and tolerant to people who look or speak differently. Sad, isn't it?
Probably the most well adjusted comment on this thread and has more downvotes than updates…
You guys are illiterate. She obviously means: on most nights, our window was broken. She did not mean: I fixed the window most mornings and most nights it was broken again.
Probably couldn't afford to fix a broken window a lot, so she left it broken.
lol cmon do better
She grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s which was at the heart of a confrontation between Margaret Thatcher and Liverpool City Council that was vigorously opposed to her. It was probably the closest anywhere in the Western world came to civil war and revolution. Papers released showed the UK government at the time contemplated abandoning the city and had plans to evacuate citizens.
It's entirely plausible her street was a war zone.
Exactly, don't think posters realise how bad some of the council estates in that area were, they were truly BAD.
This woman alleges sexual assaults by British medical staff and a fellow athlete and people are more interested in dissecting exactly how many windows might have been broken two decades ago.
Stop wrote:
This woman alleges sexual assaults by British medical staff and a fellow athlete and people are more interested in dissecting exactly how many windows might have been broken two decades ago.
It tells you quite a bit about some people posting on this board.