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Were you under the mistaken belief that multiculturalism might serve as a kind of protection against such barbarity?
I wasn't, considering that it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic.
Were you under the mistaken belief that multiculturalism might serve as a kind of protection against such barbarity?
This is a group of 15-18 year olds. Young men who have so far failed to grow the hell up, have no idea how to behave in a civilised manner and certainly have no idea how to behave themselves while drunk.
Having reached adolescence, they transition clumsily from an age where they were uninterested in girls and everything was about status among other boys and showing no weakness and picking on and bullying anyone who did, they suddenly find they are interested in girls but have no idea how to talk to them or treat anyone any differently or any better than the other boys they contend with for status.
Yes. That's why most 15-18 year olds don't do anything as serious as this. Some do though, or do similarly obnoxious, antisocial stuff.People learn how to behave from their parents, society, and peers. If 15-18-year-olds are behaving disrespectfully and violently, chances are very good that said disrespect and violence was learned at home or close to it.
At that age, they've had plenty of time to learn by example how to interact with others.
Were you under the mistaken belief that multiculturalism might serve as a kind of protection against such barbarity?
That was a mistake. This is what happens when you someone sends a link and you fail to note the date.Well, before anyone else examines that footage too closely, it might be worth pointing out that it is of a completely different incident that happened six years ago.

I'm saying you can't be an a-hole ironically, and you certainly can't be an a-hole ironically ironically, and you certainly, certainly can't do it just be acting functionally indistinguishable from an a-hole and having other people tack on the "LOL joking" for you.
But this rabbit hole is deep enough, I'll drop my end of the rope to mix the metaphor.
... The basic problem is that London is becoming more and more lawless, provably. This is generally attributed (correctly, IMO) to under-funding and under-manning od the police over the past few years. My suspicion is that it's deliberate, 'problem-reaction-solution'. Coming soon - a massive recruitment drive for Greater London police officers, with particular attention paid to "ethnic representation". ETA>> this may be presented as "radical restructuring".
AS it happens Cressida Dick (sic), the Commissioner of the Met (hence more-or-less the most senior officer in the entire UK), announced an 'initiative' in May intended to "wipe out" "racism and islamophobia" in the force once and for all - several hundred additional "community assessors" (**** me - nothing if not predicable), a position originally created in 2003, are to be hired. And what is the role of these "community assessors? Vet all new applications and summarily bin any which betray any sign of prejudice or racism (in their doubtlessly expert and utterly unprejudiced view). Cut the BS - it's essentiallythe same "affirmative action", for which read "whites need not apply", policy that one of the Yorksire forces were discovered tacitly applying last year.
https://www.met.police.uk/car/careers/met/police-staff-roles/police-staff-vacancies/community-assessor/community-assessor-overview/
Yeh, I can just imagine a member of the latest (post-"Syrian Refugee Crisis) wave of migrants who've been adding to London's vibrant diversity intervening to save the lesbians. They love lesbians, do those migrants. And gay men - lovely gays. And white people - lovely, lovely white people.What terrifies me most is that when I read about this assault on two gay women, down the road from my house in the biggest, most multicultural city in the UK, I wasn’t even shocked. I was completely unsurprised by what had happened because for as long as I have been publicly dating women I have had experience of men behaving as though it is entirely for them.
Were you under the mistaken belief that multiculturalism might serve as a kind of protection against such barbarity?
Yeh, I can just imagine a member of the latest (post-"Syrian Refugee Crisis) wave of migrants who've been adding to London's vibrant diversity intervening to save the lesbians. They love lesbians, do those migrants. And gay men - lovely gays. And white people - lovely, lovely white people.
Given that hardly any of them have reached London
ETA: You'll notice over time less and less concern for the individuals in this specific attack and more and more focus turned against named groups (who may or may not even have anything to do with a given attack).
Yes. The fact that - at the outset - one suspect was described as speaking Spanish and the others as having British accents hasn't stopped some posters nudge-nudge wink-winking at teh Muslimz being responsible.
Was you meaning to provide such a clear example?Are you under the mistaken impression that there are no Muslims with English or Spanish accents? They are unlikely to be refugees with such accents, but that doesn't preclude them from being second or third gen immigrants.
Daily Mail said:A lesbian couple who were victims of a horrific homphobic attack on a London bus two weeks ago have defiantly spoken out as their injuries slowly heal.
They say they were primarily targeted by a gang of men because they are women who are viewed as 'sexual objects' and also hit out at Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson...
Ms Geymonat, a doctor from Uruguay and a Ryanair flight attendant, said that the incident was primarily 'an attack towards women, and then after homosexual women', revealing that she was told to 'get the hell out of the country' by her friends after the incident...
When the interviewer brought up that Boris Johnson seemed to be the most likely person to be the next Prime Minister, and referenced comments he had previously made comparing homosexual marriage to 'bestiality', Chris said that the Tory frontrunner was not 'fit to lead anything, much less the United Kingdom'...
When asked if she thought the portrayal of lesbians as a male fantasy in pornography had an effect on some young men's views of gay women in real life, Ms Geymonat said she did think porn 'plays its own part' in contributing to the treatment of homosexual women as objects who exist for the sake of the male gaze...
They are unlikely to be refugees with such accents, but that doesn't preclude them from being second or third gen immigrants.