poprock wrote:Let’s have something truly fucking depressing to start the week, shall we? Some choice results from YouGov’s poll of Conservative party members: 58% would like the return of the death penalty. 46% believe concerns about climate change have been exaggerated. 49% believe schools should not be required to teach children about LGBT relationships. 42% believe having people from a wide variety of racial and cultural backgrounds has damaged British society. 56% believe Islam is a threat to the British way of life. 40% want limits on the number of people of the Islamic faith entering the country. 43% would prefer to not have the country led by a Muslim. 45% believe that “there are areas in Britain in which non-Muslims are not able to enter.” 67% believe that “there are areas in Britain that operate under Sharia law.” Of course, ‘fucking depressing’ is only one way to look at this. The other way is to rightly let it make you fucking furious.
Yossarian wrote:OTOH, most of these people will be dead within the next ten years.
Yossarian wrote:OTOH, most of these people will be dead within the next ten years.
Tempy wrote:There are still plenty of utterly lunatic right-wing youths out there, frequently labelling themselves as centrist. I think it's prevalent enough to make it so attitudes won't change for a good long time. They channel their resentment at the exact same targets the papers trained their adults to, but this time they fall into hermetic echo chambers online that do nothing but reinforce their prejudices. Dismantling that will take a herculean effort from educators, and I doubt they'll ever be paid enough or given enough resources to keep up with the ever shifting online bullshit that kids lap up.
Yossarian wrote:If you’ve never had the opportunity to succeed yourself, you’re far less likely to be open to that sort of mindset. IMO, ofc.
poprock wrote:I wish I could share your optimism, Yoss.
LarryDavid wrote:Didn’t Gove talk about bringing back hanging not that long ago? I reckon with the right sensationalist crime, the right amount of media outrage and a well timed posing of the question you’d see support for the idea go through the roof. Not enough bring it back maybe, but enough to question how supposedly tolerant Brits are. But then I am tremendously cynical and have next to no faith in the British electorate.
Yossarian wrote:Things really are improving: https://twitter.com/KateHoeyMP/status/1148198081143476225
poprock wrote:To be fair, the shithead was voted in. So maybe the majority of locals want another shithead?
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