ViolenceLesbian Couple Attacked by Group of Male Passengers on London Bus

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[–]writerlylesbian 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

Police in England have massive funding issues. In many areas, they will not investigate crimes like burglaries, car theft, physical assault etc. But they will always find the time to pursue people for 'hate crimes' on twitter, of course (which means making a comment not in line with trans orthodoxy).

I think initially police dismissed this case, but then had to pay attention to it once it blew up into a huge deal in the media. Who knows if that led to arrest, charges etc. in the long term. Also, after it became a big media deal, one half of this couple wrote some dreadful media piece where she spent the whole time hand-ringing over being too 'privileged' because she was white. After experiencing a homophobic attack. God, it was such a wasted opportunity. Like, she could have spent the article drawing attention to all the difficulties and dangers LGB people still face, and say that disproportionately those issues will also be experienced by those who are less well off/ethnic minorities, and tell people what they could do to help (charity donations or whatever). Instead she just talked about how she was a bad person because she was a white woman who experienced a hate crime and eventually got people to give a shit.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Why should that woman feel bad about being white? Regardless of her skin colour, she and her partner were still attacked by those little shits. No amount of “white privilege” cancels out the fact that these two women were attacked and robbed for being homosexual and for refusing to entertain those twats.

Intersectionality is destroying our community, and it is making it harder for lesbian, gay and bisexual people who have been attacked or discriminated against because of their orientation to seek support.

And another thing. No offence to British people, but your police force is a joke. The saying about all of the cops in heaven being British has not aged well at all.

[–]writerlylesbian 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed on the British police. Though I am only half British, and only lived over there for a few years as an adult to see what it was like.

Also agreed on intersectionality being toxic. It's atrocious for a victim to apologise for having too much privilege because she's not an even WORSE victim who is also poor/Black/trans or whatever.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The Garda Síochána are not much better let's be honest. They all sing from a similar ultra left hymn-book.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You are sadly right. And the worst part is, it’s not just the Gardaí. The judges, the media and the politicians also don’t care about stopping actual crime.

In Ireland and in the U.K., most of the upper management in police stations were never on-the-beat police officers to begin with. A lot of them got those positions with nothing but a useless college degree like gender studies. Only people who used to be cops and who were good at their jobs should get promoted to management. And the police should be allowed to carry weapons so they can go after dangerous criminals.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Stopping actual crime is hard though..............Fighting mean words online not so much. It is easy meat.

The judicery is a joke.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The judiciary is a joke

I’m not sure if the penal system of countries like the U.K., Ireland and America are incompetent or outright malicious. But I’m leaning towards them being malicious.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - You seem to have invoked something akin to Hanlon's razor.

I am not sure which of the two is more a truth tbqh. I feel like I would prefer to side with incompetence. We might just have a chance then. We can do something with incompetence. Malice however is a lot more frightening. Hard to oust competent nasty cunts.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A malicious government can still be restrained by a well-informed population who continuously ring up their elected representatives. A politician is less likely to do a terrible thing if he or she knows he or she will lose his or her seat in the next election for this.

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks. I am cringing so hard right now. I was thinking about Googling whatever she wrote that was mentioned in the article, but after seeing this, I'd much rather forget about the whole thing.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Police requested from Twitter data about Posie Parker and came to her home for "being transphobic". For this they can find money and manpower. But for actual crimes - can't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E8o_4IVk8A

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ74VDS1_cY

Posies channel.

[–]fijupanda[S] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

headdesk

yeah, she could have used her "privilege" then. oh well...

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I couldn't explain my anger and confusion earlier but it finally clicked in my head now why I'm so fucking annoyed by this. How did our society gaslight this woman so hard that she's sitting here talking about her "white privilege" when these children who attacked her have LITERAL (like, literally literal) male privilege of being able to physically overpower and beat her and her partner? They have actual tangible privilege given to them by the sheer chance of being born with dicks and testosterone they can beat women up for the crime of not performing porn for them IRL on a bus. And she's talking about "white privilege"??? Being white didn't protect her from this situation! Being males of any race living in England protected these potential rapists from even really being properly punished. This isn't some kind of intangible fantasy privilege, this is one of the very real benefits of being born and getting to go through life in a strong healthy male body.

[–]writerlylesbian 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's incredibly frustrating and sad. Male privilege is always the one privilege no one is allowed to talk about.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excellent analysis. I hate that the concept of privilege has been so bastardized out of control and is now merely a tool of manipulation used to beat someone down with when you don’t have a good counter-argument.