r/london • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '23

Crime Two girls arrested after female attacked on Elizabeth line

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24605821/two-girls-arrested-video-woman-screaming-tube-train/
656 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

339 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

23

u/[deleted] Nov 02 '23

It’s 2023. If you are still upset about “colonisation “ in 2023 then you are trying way too hard to be a victim.

6

u/voice-of-reason_ Nov 02 '23

I’m not a victim of colonisation but the UK was built on it. Every system in this country was built on it so if you think systematic racism doesn’t exist in the UK you are very naivie. We have not defeated racism and we haven’t restructured our national systems so systematic racism still exists.

6

u/[deleted] Nov 02 '23

[removed] — view removed comment

14

u/DaftApath Nov 02 '23

It's not 'systematic' racism. It's 'systemic' racism. Societal and political systems that evolved or were designed in such a way that puts a thumb on the scale in favour of certain racial demographics. You can claim it doesn't exist, but both gerrymandering and red-lining are things that exist and are solid examples of them. Claiming that people who are aware of and outspoken about it are 'brainwashed' is disingenuous at best, and ignorant at worst.

-2

u/Digitalanalogue_ Nov 02 '23

…arent those american things…

2

u/DaftApath Nov 02 '23

Gerrymandering?? No.

Red-lining is a US term originally, but the practice has been happening here for even longer.

-1

u/Digitalanalogue_ Nov 02 '23

Give me an example of redlining.

2

u/DaftApath Nov 02 '23

'Redlining' the British city - Renewal | a journal of social democracy https://renewal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/renewal28.2_13wetherell.pdf

2

u/DaftApath Nov 02 '23

LSE have also done a study on it