Weird how all that protectionist Brexit crap eventually leads to people like this 🤷🏼♂️
Many of these people have existed since long before Brexit, but they now feel more emboldened to make public displays of themselves.
Normalisation of (ever further) right wing views in old media, extremism pipelines in social media, deepening division in culture generally, it’s all playing a part.
We need to start properly looking at the root causes of these attitudes if we want to make real progress. Both where they spread from and why they become accepted.
We need to start properly looking at the root causes of these attitudes if we want to make real progress. Both where they spread from and why they become accepted.
This is exactly what we should do, but instead we’ll just call them violent thugs (which they are, of course) and dismiss all of this, bring in some kind of legislation that curbs what people can talk about on the internet (which will have zero effect) and then carry on as if nothing is wrong.
This is an extremely over simplified view of what is happening. As always there is a lot more nuances involved that is washed over when you assign everything to Brexit.
For example here’s pretty much the same M.O. from Dublin.
Three young children and a woman were injured in a knife attack outside a school on Parnell Square East yesterday, which has been severely condemned across Ireland.
A demonstration at the edge of the police cordon at the scene began from the early afternoon and escalated as the evening went on.
A crowd of between 100 and 200 people, some of whom wore scarves to cover their faces, confronted gardaí verbally before clashes erupted with riot police.
Tricolours and an “Irish lives matter” sign were held by some who were present.
Fireworks and flares were thrown at police, and just before 7pm, a garda car was seen alight near the scene.
Why would Brexit do this? Ireland is an EU member 🤔.
You’ll find similar news from around Europe and around the globe. People are angry, unheard, often poor, and left behind. These tinder box of conditions often erupts into the violence we have seen this week in the UK and the violence described in Ireland in the news article. Of course Brexit has not helped. But it’s not the underlying cause. If anything Brexit is another symptom.
Scum like this don’t care about Brexit or the EU or you or me or anything really. They just want an excuse for a punch up.
