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Homophobic attack on London bus - mod warning, please see OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    joe40 wrote: »
    Does it really matter if it is labelled a homophobic attack or a misogynistic attack.
    It was absolutely an attack on two gay women but I think mostly it was an attack on women not willing to behave as this group of men wanted them to, for their own gratification.

    Does it matter? yes it does.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    joe40 wrote: »
    Does it really matter if it is labelled a homophobic attack or a misogynistic attack.
    It was absolutely an attack on two gay women but I think mostly it was an attack on women not willing to behave as this group of men wanted them to, for their own gratification.

    Exactly!

    Don't get me wrong, it's a crime and I hope they get the book thrown at them, but the evidence points more to misogyny than homophobia.

    I'd be more worried about what gave these men the attitude to expect that from women - online porn ?
    ****ed up world we live in, this **** is effecting kids minds, kids as young as 7 are being shown porn in school by their mates.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    For me, a bunch of men urging two women to kiss for their own gratification says more about their attitudes towards lesbianism than it does about their attitude towards women in general. It was absolutely misogynistic but I feel the attitudes towards sexuality is the (slightly) bigger problem.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    But he makes good points, why in 2019 is an attack on 2 lesbians on a bus causing more outrage then the MURDER of a young woman in front of her child ???

    Probably because you are not comparing like with like. One was a failed mugging - the other was seemingly an attack on people purely for being who they are.

    While both are equally horrific things to happen - one at least parses more rationally in the mind than the other. When someone gets injured or killed in a mugging we do not tend to have people trying to understand how or why it happens. Most of us know - or feel we know - that already. We can be horrified by it - but we can at least _understand_ it.

    It is not that one requires more outrage than the other therefore - I am sure we are all equally outraged that such attacks occur - it is that one affords more issues to discuss and debate or simply think over than the other. And this being specifically a _discussion forum_ it is going to self select for topics that are likely to produce more _discussion_.

    So I am not convinced you are using the correct tools to gauge relative outrage. Either on this issue or your usual hobby horse of pretending anyone who does not hate Islam as much as you do is somehow protective of it and biased in favour of it. Basically - there is a selection bias built into the medium you are using to measure. On quite a lot of topics.
    the evidence points more to misogyny than homophobia.

    I think it is elements of both myself because -
    I'd be more worried about what gave these men the attitude to expect that from women - online porn ?

    - with or without porn I think there is an element of neither homophobia or misogyny but homo-ignorance. I do not think porn is to be blamed at all. Rather there is just an idea some people have that if you are somehow sexually alternative then you are sexually "open" and can be treated with standards of propriety much lower than people of a "normal" sexuality can be.

    I see this often in my own relationship. When a certain type of person cops my girlfriends are "together" then the things they say and do around them often simply change. The social etiquette and propriety standards they apply to every other girl in the room is different automatically to the one they now apply to my girlfriends in that moment. Their being simply sexually different means - in the mind of this ignorant minority - that they are sexually promiscuous/open/up for it and usual standards do not apply.

    A guy who it seems from first exposure would never dream of going up to a girl - to give a relatively recent example we experienced - to ask her in a pub "how many fingers can your boyfriend get up you?" will without reservation hesitation or embarrassment ask one of my GFs that very question loudly in the pub to the guffaws of his mates.

    There is also this nonsense notion some have that if you are in any way sexually alternative on one attribute - then you are on them all. A frequent user of this forum for example accused me of lying when I said I did not have a "dog in the race" on trans-gender issues. Because I _do_ have a dog in the race of homosexuality issues however - he declared me a liar as I simply must have a dog in the other races too.

    His reasoning? Simply put when asked he declared that because I was alternative _at all_ I must be alternative across the board and be invested uniform in all alternative sex issues.

    That is the ignorance we have to deal with in some people. Not porn or early exposure to it I suspect - though I admit that likely does not _help_ either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    For me, a bunch of men urging two women to kiss for their own gratification says more about their attitudes towards lesbianism than it does about their attitude towards women in general. It was absolutely misogynistic but I feel the attitudes towards sexuality is the (slightly) bigger problem.

    I mainly agree with this, but you think they would let 2 girls off if they thought they were straight ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Probably because you are not comparing like with like. One was a failed mugging - the other was seemingly an attack on people purely for being who they are.

    While both are equally horrific things to happen - one at least parses more rationally in the mind than the other. When someone gets injured or killed in a mugging we do not tend to have people trying to understand how or why it happens. Most of us know - or feel we know - that already. We can be horrified by it - but we can at least _understand_ it.

    It is not that one requires more outrage than the other therefore - I am sure we are all equally outraged that such attacks occur - it is that one affords more issues to discuss and debate or simply think over than the other. And this being specifically a _discussion forum_ it is going to self select for topics that are likely to produce more _discussion_.

    So I am not convinced you are using the correct tools to gauge relative outrage. Either on this issue or your usual hobby horse of pretending anyone who does not hate Islam as much as you do is somehow protective of it and biased in favour of it. Basically - there is a selection bias built into the medium you are using to measure. On quite a lot of topics.



    I think it is elements of both myself because -



    - with or without porn I think there is an element of neither homophobia or misogyny but homo-ignorance. I do not think porn is to be blamed at all. Rather there is just an idea some people have that if you are somehow sexually alternative then you are sexually "open" and can be treated with standards of propriety much lower than people of a "normal" sexuality can be.

    I see this often in my own relationship. When a certain type of person cops my girlfriends are "together" then the things they say and do around them often simply change. The social etiquette and propriety standards they apply to every other girl in the room is different automatically to the one they now apply to my girlfriends in that moment. Their being simply sexually different means - in the mind of this ignorant minority - that they are sexually promiscuous/open/up for it and usual standards do not apply.

    A guy who it seems from first exposure would never dream of going up to a girl - to give a relatively recent example we experienced - to ask her in a pub "how many fingers can your boyfriend get up you?" will without reservation hesitation or embarrassment ask one of my GFs that very question loudly in the pub to the guffaws of his mates.

    There is also this nonsense notion some have that if you are in any way sexually alternative on one attribute - then you are on them all. A frequent user of this forum for example accused me of lying when I said I did not have a "dog in the race" on trans-gender issues. Because I _do_ have a dog in the race of homosexuality issues however - he declared me a liar as I simply must have a dog in the other races too.

    His reasoning? Simply put when asked he declared that because I was alternative _at all_ I must be alternative across the board and be invested uniform in all alternative sex issues.

    That is the ignorance we have to deal with in some people. Not porn or early exposure to it I suspect - though I admit that likely does not _help_ either.

    Very good post - mainly, was gonna thank it until I read ...
    Either on this issue or your usual hobby horse of pretending anyone who does not hate Islam as much as you do is somehow protective of it and biased in favour of it



    wtf has Islam to do with this ?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ^ Nothing. Nor did I say it does. I was making a point that the tools you use to measure relative outrage are inherently biased. Which is seemingly a general problem and not one limited to this thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    ^ Nothing. Nor did I say it does. I was making a point that the tools you use to measure relative outrage are inherently biased. Which is seemingly a general problem and not one limited to this thread.

    fair enough, seriously gonna just never mention Islam on boards again :mad:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ^If you wish. Though I am sceptical that is true rather than just a flounce. But it certainly was never my intention. My intention was to highlight an issue in measurement and I felt to correctly highlight he issue I could not mistakenly give the impression it was limited to one particular topic. Otherwise the issue I was highlighting could be misconstrued.

    But it is not an issue personally with you either. There are selection bias problems in measuring relative outrage across many people and media. The environment of clickbait for example means certain topics _seem_ to cause more outrage than others solely because the media reporting on them work to manufacture outrage on some topics more than others.

    It is easy to make the mistake that topic X caused more outrage than topic Y solely because one caused more discussion than the other. But discussion and outrage are different things. So it is simply an error to gauge one by measuring the other. And I think this is the mistake you and some others make _generally_ not just here. That this attack got 60 pages of response when the murder of a mother did not - is not a measure of the relative outrage or horror people feel for each incident.

    But I will drop it there if you wish as we risk a back and forth discussion that tends to attract ire.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    I mainly agree with this, but you think they would let 2 girls off if they thought they were straight ??

    I think they possibly would have approached two straight girls in the same manner, and I emphasise "possibly", however that raises the question of are homophobic attitudes or slurs any less homophobic when aimed at heterosexual people?

    I also think it's important to take into account the victims' accounts and from the stories I've read it's quite clear that two women feel they were attacked because of their sexuality and not because they were women.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    RIGOLO wrote: »
    A dedicated thread and 62 pages later .. ..

    Where the thread on after-hours for this poor woman ..Stabbed in Islington yesterday

    Is it because she was married to a man she doesnt deserve a thread and 62 pages ...

    Mother-of-three is stabbed after 'refusing to hand over phone to teenage mugger' as she pushed her son in a buggy in north London street



    btw the police DID release a desciption for this crime



    Interesting how they never released any description of the attackers for the 2 girls getting on the bus ... mmm I wonder why

    Is that a nettle I see before me, best not not grasp it , you dont want to be having any uncomfortable conversations taking you out of your comfort zone now do we ...
    I agree with you about the selective coverage (even though people think you're Lucifer himself for having a differing view, I don't think they were necessarily attacked because they're gay/women - I think they were attacked for not complying with scumbag demands). Although I think the attack is worse.

    But I mean really, where is the evidence that the attackers are muslim or black? Not publishing that they are? I mean it wouldn't be said if they were white. And they could be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,314 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    RIGOLO wrote: »
    The poster doth protest too much , methinks.

    It's because they made arrests and the offenders were minors. So they don't release information about minors they arrest. you won't find any details about them.

    Of course for you I'm sure it's a big conspiracy.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    But he makes good points, why in 2019 is an attack on 2 lesbians on a bus causing more outrage then the MURDER of a young woman in front of her child ???

    Then why didn’t he start a thread about the murder instead of coming here?

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    I also think it's important to take into account the victims' accounts and from the stories I've read it's quite clear that two women feel they were attacked because of their sexuality and not because they were women.

    ....and right wing populism, don't forget that. Just surprised they didn't blame Trump.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭MrFresh


    recedite wrote: »
    Its a bit strange. The Straits Times of Singapore reports that they are out on bail, which would normally mean they have been charged with something. But no actual charges are mentioned.


    Police can bail people to allow further time to investigate. It works the same as the other bail except you come back to the police for further questioning/charge instead of going to court.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    ....and right wing populism, don't forget that. Just surprised they didn't blame Trump.

    Right wing populism with its followers has a habit of disliking the LGBT community.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    klaaaz wrote: »
    Right wing populism with its followers has a habit of disliking the LGBT community.
    Check out Douglas Murray . A Gay Man with very interesting views on this sort of stuff.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    blinding wrote: »
    Check out Douglas Murray . A Gay Man with very interesting views on this sort of stuff.

    Not interesting. Mostly wrong.

    I only say mostly because I haven’t read everything he’s written.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭MoashoaM


    Brian? wrote: »
    Not interesting. Mostly wrong.

    I only say mostly because I haven’t read everything he’s written.


    If you don't mind, could you tell us his points and what's wrong with them?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    MoashoaM wrote: »
    If you don't mind, could you tell us his points and what's wrong with them?

    All of his points? Or is there something specific you’d care to discuss?

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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  • Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭MoashoaM


    Brian? wrote: »
    All of his points? Or is there something specific you’d care to discuss?


    All of his points would be a headache. Instead we could take a segment from a video where he gives his spiel. Joe Rogan or at a college. The Strange of Europe or something.

    Or just tell me what you disagree with primarily.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    But he makes good points, why in 2019 is an attack on 2 lesbians on a bus causing more outrage then the MURDER of a young woman in front of her child ???

    Calm the fcuk down, that woman was not MURDERED.

    Talk about a hysterical over reaction. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Brian? wrote: »
    Then why didn’t he start a thread about the murder instead of coming here?

    Because there was no murder. :D:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 53 ✭✭FaxingBerlin


    pinkyeye wrote: »
    Because there was no murder. :D:D

    The news article was posted nobody read it lol


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    MoashoaM wrote: »
    All of his points would be a headache. Instead we could take a segment from a video where he gives his spiel. Joe Rogan or at a college. The Strange of Europe or something.

    Or just tell me what you disagree with primarily.

    I disagree with his apocalyptic view of Europe’s future, the great replacement of white Europeans with Asian and African Muslims. There is projection that supports it.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Probably because you are not comparing like with like. One was a failed mugging - the other was seemingly an attack on people purely for being who they are.
    Except that these 2 girls were robbed, which makes it (at least partially) a successful mugging.

    Therefore not just "an attack on people purely for being who they are".
    I'm guessing the police are now trying to work out what to charge the perpetrators with. Maybe multiple charges, but it will be interesting to see.
    And then, when it goes to court, we'll see which charges actually stick.
    In the courtroom, the fact that the victims were homosexual may not get the same prominence as was given by the media.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    Brian? wrote: »
    I disagree with his apocalyptic view of Europe’s future, the great replacement of white Europeans with Asian and African Muslims. There is projection that supports it.

    Vague. Piss poor


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Vague. Piss poor

    My answer or his idea?

    It was a pretty vague question to begin with.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    recedite wrote: »
    Except that these 2 girls were robbed, which makes it (at least partially) a successful mugging.

    Therefore not just "an attack on people purely for being who they are".
    I'm guessing the police are now trying to work out what to charge the perpetrators with. Maybe multiple charges, but it will be interesting to see.
    And then, when it goes to court, we'll see which charges actually stick.
    In the courtroom, the fact that the victims were homosexual may not get the same prominence as was given by the media.

    Unsurprisingly you would be very wrong on that. according to the CPS in the UK
    In 2016/17, 83% of hate crimes cases we prosecuted led to a conviction or guilty plea. Because of the serious nature of these offences, the CPS can apply to the courts for a 'sentence uplift' which is an increased punishment for the crime. Last year, more than half of our requests led to offenders having their sentence increased because it was motivated by hate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    having their sentence increased because it was motivated by hate
    I would not be surprised if that eventually happens here. But first the motivation for the crime has to be proved in court.
    Mugging a homosexual person is not necessarily a more serious crime than mugging a heterosexual person.
    Homosexuals are not more important in the hierarchy of victimhood. People saying that in this thread are being accused of homophobia for saying it.
    If muggers demanded that a hetero couple kiss for the muggers amusement, before escalating it into a fight and a robbery, would that be a heterophobic hate crime?

    What if the muggers were homosexuals, would that make any difference?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    recedite wrote: »
    I would not be surprised if that eventually happens here. But first the motivation for the crime has to be proved in court.
    Mugging a homosexual person is not necessarily a more serious crime than mugging a heterosexual person.
    Homosexuals are not more important in the hierarchy of victimhood. People saying that in this thread are being accused of homophobia for saying it.
    If muggers demanded that a hetero couple kiss for the muggers amusement, before escalating it into a fight and a robbery, would that be a heterophobic hate crime?

    What if the muggers were homosexuals, would that make any difference?

    i've no interest in your stupid what-ifs. Targetting somebody BECAUSE of their sexuality is a hate crime in the UK. In this incident it is quite clear to me that the two ladies were targetted because of their sexuality.


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    recedite wrote: »
    Except that these 2 girls were robbed, which makes it (at least partially) a successful mugging.

    I am not sure that really negates the point I made. One was a mugging as the intent of the attack - the other is being claimed (to be honest I do not know either way) as an attack on them for who they were which might - incidently - have included some of their possessions being taken.
    recedite wrote: »
    Therefore not just "an attack on people purely for being who they are".

    I do not know the intent of the attack - none of us do I guess. But if it was an attack on them for being who they were - then the fact that taking some of their possessions was part of that attack does not change the nature and intent of the attack.

    I think where we differ here - see if you agree - is you are defining the nature of the attack based on what was done _during_ the attack - whereas I would be defining it based on the _intention_ of the attack regardless of what they actually did during the attack.

    I suppose both are equally valid. But only one answers the question I was answering when I replied to Hector. Which is to explain why one attack might result in more discussion than the other. Which is that a mugging - an attack with the intention of taking someone's possessions is - while horrific and to be condemned - is at least easy to understand.

    Whereas attacking someone - whether you take their stuff or not while doing it - purely because of who they are as a person - has an extra dimension of horror and confusion and distaste to us and some people find it harder to understand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Vague. Piss poor

    If you subscribe to the great replacement, it's a moronic conspiracy theory that racists tend to love. Also the New Zealand killer subscribed to it. A bit like a protocols of zion style conspiracy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    recedite wrote: »
    I would not be surprised if that eventually happens here. But first the motivation for the crime has to be proved in court.
    Mugging a homosexual person is not necessarily a more serious crime than mugging a heterosexual person.
    Homosexuals are not more important in the hierarchy of victimhood. People saying that in this thread are being accused of homophobia for saying it.
    If muggers demanded that a hetero couple kiss for the muggers amusement, before escalating it into a fight and a robbery, would that be a heterophobic hate crime?

    What if the muggers were homosexuals, would that make any difference?

    There's a slim chance that some people would see your argument as dissembling. Almost as if you are discounting what happened to these women. Kind of as if you were dismissing them. But I'm sure nothing could be further from the truth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    I do not know the intent of the attack - none of us do I guess. But if it was an attack on them for being who they were - then the fact that taking some of their possessions was part of that attack does not change the nature and intent of the attack.

    I think where we differ here - see if you agree - is you are defining the nature of the attack based on what was done _during_ the attack - whereas I would be defining it based on the _intention_ of the attack regardless of what they actually did during the attack.
    I think we broadly agree. Except that you have already defined the attack based on the intention, while at the same time admitting you don't know the intent.


    I haven't taken that step, preferring instead to wait and see what the perps are charged with, and whether those charges are proven.


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    recedite wrote: »
    I think we broadly agree. Except that you have already defined the attack based on the intention, while at the same time admitting you don't know the intent.

    Sure - no problem there. We do not know the intention of the attack I admit. But if we did then I _would be_ defining it by that - not the actions that occurred during it.

    There is no conflict there between the two statements. In fact I actually posted my post - then went back and edited it to specifically put in the "would be" for that very reason :) I kinda predicted the response you would give :) I think I am getting to know you. At this rate we will be having beers by Sunday :)

    But I think we are allowed to postulate to answer Hectors question as to why one murder gets almost no discussion and this attack does. I think we can answer that users question working entirely with hypotheticals?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 53 ✭✭FaxingBerlin


    Just a quick question that may or may not have been answered previously in the thread, how did these attackers know the two girls were gay?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Just a quick question that may or may not have been answered previously in the thread, how did these attackers know the two girls were gay?

    I think they were holding hands.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭MrFresh


    recedite wrote: »
    I would not be surprised if that eventually happens here. But first the motivation for the crime has to be proved in court.


    You can be charged with a hate crime but you can also be charged with a regular assault and the judge can take your victim's circumstances and what he believes your motivations were into account when deciding your punishment.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Just a quick question that may or may not have been answered previously in the thread, how did these attackers know the two girls were gay?

    The article linked in the OP is not clear on that. The article just indicated that at first they did not know - but came to know. The article just said the harassment began "when they discovered they were a couple" but does not mention how or at what point. Though I am sure a few people would be wondering why this is relevant really?

    They may not even know themselves to be honest. When my GFs are out they try not to make it at all obvious they are also together. Yet some people cop sometimes anyway and the girls have no idea how or why.

    Sometimes they have asked and got an answer. Sometimes however the person asked themselves also does not even know. They just say they got a feeling or an impression - or it suddenly became somehow obvious to them like one of those pictures where the image was there all the time but you suddenly see it and then can not then un-see it or understand why you could not see it before.

    So who knows. Perhaps they did not know but just assumed and just happened to be right and would have been acting the same way if the girls were in fact not gay or a couple. We may never know I suppose.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    Strange that there has been no further update beyond the arrests. That means no one has been charged. Combine this with the gap in the girls' story (we were seated, then suddenly we were in a fight) and the lack of additional information then this story had more to it than initially reported.

    Those swallowing the homophobic attack line and thinking that's all there is too it, gays are victims, we still need Pride etc. without actually looking too much into this appear to have jumped the shark.

    Suspiciously quiet the past two weeks. The media shown again why it is unfortunately not to be taken at face value.

    Populism is not just about people moving towards right wing parties but there is undeniably a populism with the narrative of gay people always being seen as oppressed and victimised by a society who just struggles to adopt "progressive" ideals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Sometimes these cases take a long time to hash out and get someone to court.

    If a journalist loses interest in a story then everyone loses out. It all comes down to a person chasing the news they deem worthy of passing on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Suspiciously quiet the past two weeks. The media shown again why it is unfortunately not to be taken at face value.
    You're watching too much TV. Cases take time to get ready for court.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    is_that_so wrote: »
    You're watching too much TV. Cases take time to get ready for court.

    Well, actually given that it is Pride weekend, the matter should still be used as an example as to how Pride is still important in Op-Eds on Pride. My point is that this was not a homophobic attack and the media have shown themselves to be whores for jumping on the oppressed gays bandwagon without even thinking what homophobia is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Suspiciously quiet the past two weeks. The media shown again why it is unfortunately not to be taken at face value.

    Populism is not just about people moving towards right wing parties but there is undeniably a populism with the narrative of gay people always being seen as oppressed and victimised by a society who just struggles to adopt "progressive" ideals.

    Cases take time to be processed and go to court.

    Current media is plagued by a 24 hour news cycle, so it's likely we'll see nothing on this for a while.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    I still don't get how they knew the bus was gay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Well, actually given that it is Pride weekend, the matter should still be used as an example as to how Pride is still important in Op-Eds on Pride. My point is that this was not a homophobic attack and the media have shown themselves to be whores for jumping on the oppressed gays bandwagon without even thinking what homophobia is.

    well i'm glad we have you to decide these things for the rest of us/ :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Well, actually given that it is Pride weekend, the matter should still be used as an example as to how Pride is still important in Op-Eds on Pride. My point is that this was not a homophobic attack and the media have shown themselves to be whores for jumping on the oppressed gays bandwagon without even thinking what homophobia is.
    Well nothing to report is not much use to anyone. The attack has been very well documented.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,304 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Well, actually given that it is Pride weekend, the matter should still be used as an example as to how Pride is still important in Op-Eds on Pride. My point is that this was not a homophobic attack and the media have shown themselves to be whores for jumping on the oppressed gays bandwagon without even thinking what homophobia is.
    Ok so your saying this isnt a homophobic attack?
    On what grounds?

    Are you saying homophobic attacks arent a thing?

    What is homophobia to you?

    If you were attacked by two lads and called a "f@ggot" repeatedly and then slashed in the face with a stanley knife would you classify that as homophobia?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Fan of Netflix


    Looks staged to me doubt it even happened. Picture looks very fake. And now suddenly one of them is getting op eds in national newspapers.


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