Racists have been warned to stay away from Ben Nevis after a far-right group unfurled a...
Message banner saying 'Darkies Go Home'? A flaming cross?
...“white lives matter” banner at the top of Scotland’s highest mountain peak on Sunday.
Wait, what? In what possible universe is that controversial?
Politicians, anti-racism campaigners, environmentalists and mountain rescue experts united to condemn the action by Patriotic Alternative, a UK white-nationalist group founded by Mark Collett, the British National party’s former director of publicity.
Hang on, I see all the usual pearl-clutching suspects there, but .... mountain rescue experts!? What the hell has it got to do with them?
John Stevenson, the leader of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team, which covers Ben Nevis, said: “We don’t need this type of political protest on the mountain – especially when it reflects such appalling views. ”
Hang on, chum, you're not there to criticise people's political opinions! And what's so 'appalling' about this message? Do you believe that white lives don't matter?
That'd be a strange thing to believe, wouldn't it?
Nav Bakhsh, the co-founder of the Glasgow-based Asian hiking group Boots and Beards, which aims to “bring colour to the hills”, said the weekend’s events had made members very uneasy. “Since we set up five years ago, our challenge has been to encourage the BME community to go out and explore Scotland,” said Bakhsh. “Now people are not only worried about health and safety in the hills but whether they will get abuse thrown at them. We’ve tried to calm nerves and explain this is a very small group.”
If they need their nerves calming because someone expresses the view that white people matter too, then there's more wrong with society than I thought...
Bakhsh also raised concerns about the many foreign tourists at the summit who may have seen the banner. “What message does that give about Scotland, to say that the country is only for white people? We need tourists, especially now.”
That banner doesn't say that, does it, though? It has done an admirable job of smoking out racists, mind you.
Just...not the ones these people imagine.
I think they should have raised a banner saying:
ReplyDeleteWhite Lives Don't Matter!
Maybe they could do that now, and sit back to watch how these same racist bigots react to it.
I'll tell you whose lives really didn't matter: 7 years old Secoria Taylor; 18 years old Jesse Wells; David Dorne; Julia Marie Kelly; Calvin Herton; James Scurlock; the two, unnamed. 3 year old twins burnt to death as they were strapped in their car, and many more. All black, and all murdered by black people who were 'peacefully demonstrating' that Black Lives Matter.
ReplyDeletePerhaps these people complaining about White Laves Matter banners, with no riot, or looted store in sight, should look inwards, at themselves.
But...but. If "White Live Matter" conveys the impression that Scotland is only for whites, what message does "Black Lives Matter" give?
ReplyDeleteI am glad they cleared up any confusion that some might have had.
DeleteAnd at the same time footballers are applauded by the media for genuflecting to the Marxist organisation Black Lives Matter and Saint George Floyd. The world has turned upside down.
ReplyDeleteSo upside down if we keep this up, it'll soon be right side up again!
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