UK Stabbings and Riots

Discussions center on recent UK knife attacks like the Southport child stabbings and soldier murders, media bias in labeling perpetrators as terrorists or militants, public riots fueled by misinformation about immigrants, and arrests for inflammatory online comments.

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xdennis Oct 16, 2023 View on HN

The BBC is a weird place. The have a policy of always referring to terrorists as "militants", but they fire a guy for imaginary "anti-semitism".Edit: Oops, should have paid more attention, it's the The Guardian, not BBC.Also weird times in London. Jewish shops around me have been vandalized (not a hate crime according to the police [1] as opposed to the nazi pug). There have been people marching and shouting "We'll find the jews. We want their blood."

RC_ITR Feb 27, 2023 View on HN

The criticism was about the need for a military strike.When the narrative is that violence against you is a joke, it's easy to want to do anti-social/unambiguously bad things to protect yourself. [1]But anyway, you're not supposed to post things like (nationalistic calls to violence) that on HN - I'd probably delete it while you still have the chance.[1]htt

isaacremuant Jan 12, 2015 View on HN

No. I was trying to approach this in a more, let's say, egalitarian put-myself-in-others-position way, considering why we (the western world) react more strongly to this horrific event and ignore others.But I find it really tough to write about it and usually refrain so (long talks are better because one can moderate the speech and clear misunderstandings right away).Your answer that accuses/asks me if I'm blaming the victim showcases this.I very clearly wrote<c

daveguy Jun 7, 2016 View on HN

Seems like the facts listed in the first paragraph are substantial indications for it having at least something to do with the attack. It wouldn't be the first time or the last time extremist muslims reacted violently. Do you have a source for that complete debunking?Edit: The article as a whole isn't about just that incident either. It is about the growing suppression of speech from regimes of all kinds.

anthonybsd Aug 15, 2024 View on HN

>In the West you can't criticize a man who stabbed three children at a Taylor Swift concert.Are you talking about this stochastic terrorist who incited riots and called for the murder of hundreds of innocent people? [1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/202

samwillis May 25, 2013 View on HN

That article has very little context.I don't know if this received much coverage in the US but these arrests are for comments made in the aftermath of a murder of a British army cadet in broad daylight [1] the other day that has been called a terrorist attack. There has been a significant rise in racial aggression since the incident and that needs to be brought under control [2].1. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303 2. <a h

ousta Apr 5, 2019 View on HN

not my point. but don't say it is a terrorist attack before proven. don't say it is a racist attack by two white men wearing a maga hat before its proven. can you imagine implications of people lynching to people with red caps in the street thinking its them?

nancyminusone Aug 14, 2025 View on HN

Say it ain't so!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident

dathinab Aug 31, 2023 View on HN

please stop putting words in other people mouthswhat I'm was saying is that from only reading the title in international press a lot of people would get a wrong picturenothing in their says that what they did is okayishjust far less bad then idk. trying to kill as many people of a specific group as possible with a bombwhich is what I would think happened when I read gang bombings in US media

1oooqooq Sep 24, 2025 View on HN

disingenuous.even before, during and after the fascist protest he is celebrating (as an immigrant in america, telling about his daydreaming on being an immigrant in the UK), there have been arrests for people simply saying "killing children is wrong" all over london.yet he could not pick any of those arests for his example. yeah, it's plain and simple white supremacists. get over it.