London / UK Riots

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Re: London - riots

@goddamniamsoawesome

I mentioned that yes, there are issues. I do not absolve the past governments and their policies from blame. I sympathise with a lot of the disadvantaged youth from a lot of these ‘ghettos’. Not the ones that act upon their whims though. My objection was to the opinion that somehow that justifies this behaviour. It does not. Issues need to be addressed and at some point in time they might have been disadvantaged. But like I mentioned, if so many of them can find a way out then I don’t quite see why a lot of them should still be lingering in unsavoury environments. There are community outreach programs, a great deal of time and money goes into that kind of stuff. Why still do these youngsters choose to live this life?

Also, I wouldn’t limit this to just youngsters in the ghetto. I know of a lot of ‘well off’ families who have problems with youth. The looters aren’t all disadvantaged or troubled. Most are there just for the freebies now. Like any society, there is a disadvantaged segment. The issue would be if society wasn’t doing anything to offset that. My reservation is that society is infact doing a lot to counter such past prejudices. If I’m being handed a way out on a platter and I don’t accept it because I want something better, quicker and with more thrill involved then honestly I don’t deserve any sympathy.

i was just gonna say that NO GIDSA OK. theres quite a few youths who are still deprived despite wanting to make it better for themselves. until i saw this post of yours. and i agree, i don’t understand why the few who carry out actions arbitrarily do so when they get a lot of help. HOWEVER, compared to some of the well off kids who get 3 text books offered from their schools per subject.. these kids have to pay for their text books, or rely on one to get them through the year. uni’s won’t even look at them, why should they? when they have a choice of choosing a grammar school kid to a public secondary school kid? and those uni programmes which are put up to target the less able areas, still don’t have enough places.

i know that you know a lot about gangs and hooligans who do stuff for the sake of it, so i can’t say much on that.. but in regards to education, ofcourse they all get free education, they are entitled to it. it’s compulsory till the age of 16. the chance to get an education is equal, but the chance to get the BEST education? not so much. there is tons and tons of biasedness, favouritism and injustice towards teh minorities. this was a little off topic considering i cannot even begin to jusitfy why the idiots did what they did in the riots, because i don’t. but this point kept creeping up about equality for all in england so eyah.

other than that i’d liek to point out you write so much. hayeeeeeeeee