Backwards
You might notice that I randomly write, at random times and about random topics. All my posts are my own personal opinions. Unless I actually put the term ‘fact’ or something similar to that.
I am Australian, and I started to write this just after the Bondi stabbings. It was something I noticed about it on social media. This might offend a few people, because I am mostly going to be talking about what I saw of the UK media. It was stupidly shockingly bad. These are honestly the only words that I could think of. Since its not just the clear racism that some people showed. I started to think about the UK media and politics, in general.
You have Tories and Labor saying the same things, they agree to the same terms, but they will say that they’re different from the other party. They are clearly not different. You’ve got transphobia running wild, and some clearly think that the rest of the world think the same re: Helen Joyce “visit” to Australia. That was really funny. I am so appreciative of that Judge. I am going to write my thanks to that Judge. We do not need that foolishness in Australia. Although transphobia is a tiny minority, as is usual with any bigotry, they are a loud minority.
When I read the responses from some in the UK media, regarding the stabbings though. I was genuinely horrified that they had just decided that this murderer had to have been a Muslim person, because he had a beard. Even as I write this now, most, if not all, of these people have either apologised, but still have not deleted their original post. Or, they have doubled down on their racism. Although this is the same country that just came out and said that they’re taking the whole toy = biology/gender thing as a fact. Throwing out at LEAST 95% of studies. Perhaps its not that unbelievable.
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I don’t understand what is happening in the UK right now. Don’t even get me started on the Americans who are all pro-guns. Saying that this happened, because we don’t have guns? If we did, it’d be much worse. One country at time though please!
However, the UK seems to have taken a rather large step backwards. I frequently question why are they are fighting Putin and his Army, when they (Tories and Labor) clearly agree with everything that Putin does. Racism, Transphobia, silencing protest etc. I would love for a group of psychologists to do research on it. I thought that after Johnson was out, maybe the Tories would have learnt something? That’s just clearly not the case.
America has always been a little bit weird, Australia we have our problems, generally we do figure them out though. Eventually the right things do happen. The UK, however, are just spiraling out of control. I see it being an outsider, but being first generation Australia. I know a lot of English people who are also of the same thought. Its weird how Starmer’s Labor regularly praise Thatcher, but will preach how he’s/they are LGBT advocates. Thatcher was a Tory and clearly anti-lgbt. Look up UK Section 28.
I could probably write all day and night about how odd the UK has become, and how backwards it’s become. It would just never end. I guess I’m writing this today, because I actually really like/d the UK. My UK family members are all really lovely people and they are shocked by what’s happening in their country. They don’t understand it. You could take the easy way out and blame Johnson, but that is the easy way.
Its honestly the all-consuming hatred for anyone in the UK that I really do not understand, perpetrated by the UK media and “Politics”. There just appears to be no cohesive in the UK right now. The only way it is being cohesive is in its hatred of each other, in their own country. The only person, apart from my friends and family in the UK, that I listen to now. Are Corbyn and Butler. They are they only two who seem consistent in who they are to begin with.
