Knee jerk response without looking at the video?
I'm glad she got arrested. How does anyone think its acceptable to talk like that on a crowded train full of kids?
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Knee jerk response without looking at the video?
I'm glad she got arrested. How does anyone think its acceptable to talk like that on a crowded train full of kids?
Acceptable? Perhaps not...but definitely NOT worthy of being arrested or otherwise criminally charged.
Free speech is easy to defend when you agree with what's being said...it's often much more difficult when you hate what the person is saying.
OR..
Free speech is fine but you don't get to say whatever you want whereever you want. Crowded public transport is not the place to act like that (hell, I'm not sure anywhere but a bar with like minded idiots is the place to act like that).
I don't disagree that what she said was offensive or wrong...I just disagree with the arrest for saying it.
The transportation agency would have been within their rights to kick her off the train/subway/bus for it.
I don't disagree that what she said was offensive or wrong...I just disagree with the arrest for saying it.
The transportation agency would have been within their rights to kick her off the train/subway/bus for it.
She's racist. So fucking what?
If the comments of one woman hurt you so much, you need to grow a thicker fucking skin. It's not like she's burning black people and Polish people alive while yelling "WHITE BRIT POWER!" over and over again.
She should have been asked to leave the train at the next stop. But being arrested? That's just fucking lunacy.
I really dont care about your kids or mum hearing racist profanity.
So if I'm on the train with my kids or elderly mum I should put up with her foul mouth?
you seem to think that being arrested is some massive deal where by she gets locked up for 20 years or something
looks like it was another passenger's phone
Contradictory much?Free speech is fine but you don't get to say whatever you want whereever you want. Crowded public transport is not the place to act like that (hell, I'm not sure anywhere but a bar with like minded idiots is the place to act like that).
That's one of those things you deal with in life. Hardly a day goes by where something doesn't piss me off, but I don't expect arrests to happen because I'm displeased. It's just like the internet. You give people an audience, they'll be happy to perform for you ;^)
It's not that big of a story if I had to go digging well into the UK section to find a 100 word article on the BBC.
UK seems to like to conveniently act like racism doesn't exist over there, news flash it does and always has.
She's an idiot sure, and yes I have seen similar stuff, and no I don't condone it.