George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests

[Ziggy]

5 hours ago, spud131 said:

I take it everyone is going to be cool when the GOMA in Glasgow is burned to the ground because it was built by someone who made his money from plantations and the slave trade?

Do they still have the fat Vegas Elvis statue?

I’ll have that, you can burn the rest.

[AsimButtHitsASix]

Eventually all this decolonisation of the world will lead back to the removal of the filthy anglicised names the towns and cities of Scotland have been subjected to for too long. Gaelic, Cumbric, Pictish, Scots and Norn will become the mother tongues of the people of this land and the letter yogh (ȝ) will be added to keyboards from Lerwick to Stranraer.

[Shotgun]

9 minutes ago, throbber said:

What was it that green teeth did that was hilariously tragic?

 

8 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Like when a clown dies?

Nothing tragic about that.

[Sergeant Wilson]

18 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

 Thomas Campbell

I'd heard he was a reformed character but not quite reached the statue stage yet.

What next Paul Ferris Square, Tam McGraw Street?

[AsimButtHitsASix]

1 minute ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I'd heard he was a reformed character but not quite reached the statue stage yet.

What next Paul Ferris Square, Tam McGraw Street?

All for it but only if it's a recreation of that exact pose.

[welshbairn]

27 minutes ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said:

Something that slightly grates with me is people moaning about 'they should teach kids about this in schools' and its close cousin 'they don't teach any Scottish history in schools, it's 1066 then straight to the war'. I left school over a decade ago and pretty sure this was covered, along with loads of other Scottish, UK and world history. For a subject that is only compulsory for 2 years they do alright. You can cover racism in other areas as well - reading Othello in English was a formative experience for me for example. 

Schools/putting something in the curriculum are a small part of the issue imo - the main problem is that Britain at large hasn't really ever accepted that the empire was a bad thing. It doesn't really matter that much what you study in your hour of history a week between 13 and 15 if that doesn't change imo. 

Had a mate who taught history in North Wales. He was fed up as the secondary school pupils got to choose what area to specialise in, and it was always WW2. Really enjoyed history in my three years in Sweden 8-12 yo. Got the French Revolution, American Civil War, Seven and Hundred Year wars, and the history of poverty driven emigration from Sweden to America, just what I remember. 

[Tutankhamen]

47 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Next time anyone has a whinge about statues being torn down ask them to name the people on the statues at George Square (other statues are available). Most of them can't name a single one.

It's not like the majority of the statues we have in Scotland are beloved icons anyway. Who gives a f**k about Robert Peel in Scotland?

Start a campaign rather than posting shite on P&B

[AsimButtHitsASix]

3 minutes ago, Tutankhamen said:

Start a campaign rather than posting shite on P&B

What are you on about?

[Moomintroll]

38 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Of the dozen statues in George Square only 5 feature Weegies (John Moore, James Oswald, Lord Clyde, Thomas Graham and Thomas Campbell). Once the other 7 are repatriated time to get statues up of Frankie Boyle, Darius Danesh, Mhairi Black, Alex Ferguson, Nikki Cross, Scrooge McDuck and Liz Lochhead

Quack lives matter.

[Todd_is_God]

When I was at school I thought the history I was taught was very varied and covered a wide range of topics including the French Revolution and the Slave Trade.

It's clearly impossible to cover absolutely everything in a few years, however.

In 2020 we have more information at our finger tips than ever before. If you want to learn about a specific subject it is only laziness that prevents you gaining a basic understanding of it.

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Can you define "far right" now?

I think he just did.

Bless.

[ICTChris]

1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said:

 I doubt it. It would have been a grateful nation/city/town,burgh/borough. Paid for by public subscription of course. (Voluntary or otherwise.)

Yeah, the statue of Dundas in Edinburgh was paid for with a collection from the Royal Navy.  The Duke of Sutherland statue was paid for from public subscriptions.  The statue in Bristol was erected by a charity/guilds organisation in Bristol over 150 years after the  Colston died.

[MSU]

19 hours ago, Fratelli said:

The full version is glorious. He makes a frothy mouthed incoherent rant about, amongst other things - Little Mix, believe it or not. 

He's also calling on anyone who calls themselves a lad and a 'football lad' to get down and protect the statues next week, stirring stuff.

This is just marvelous. He thinks the police's main role during protests should be to "protect the statues". He loves Churchill so much that at the four minute mark he thinks the man died fighting Hitler. Little Mix should be cleaning statues. Priceless stuff.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

50 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Eventually all this decolonisation of the world will lead back to the removal of the filthy anglicised names the towns and cities of Scotland have been subjected to for too long. Gaelic, Cumbric, Pictish, Scots and Norn will become the mother tongues of the people of this land and the letter yogh (ȝ) will be added to keyboards from Lerwick to Stranraer.

We’re sitting waiting for Boris to tell us it’s ok to proceed with an investigation into the possibility of having an independence vote.

 

[The Moonster]

25 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

When I was at school I thought the history I was taught was very varied and covered a wide range of topics including the French Revolution and the Slave Trade.

It's clearly impossible to cover absolutely everything in a few years, however.

In 2020 we have more information at our finger tips than ever before. If you want to learn about a specific subject it is only laziness that prevents you gaining a basic understanding of it.

Why have schooling at all if we can just Google everything ourselves? A terrible argument.

[badgerthewitness]

Tommeh uploading his rants to VKontakte is a bit OFTW. It's a social media site for Russian kids.

[Todd_is_God]

43 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

Why have schooling at all if we can just Google everything ourselves? A terrible argument.

That's quite clearly not what I said, but whatever

[Silvio Tattiescone]

3 hours ago, Savage Henry said:

We got The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Sunset Song, and the  plays of George Gunn (I think).

Really? I used to know George quite well. I played the role of an ATM in one of his stage shows 

[tongue_tied_danny]

[MSU]