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Hated it. Thugs are not entertaining

posted 11 years ago by joejoeirish
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Especially insulting is seeing African thugs from London, who went on a very real rampage several years ago. The movie kept reminding meof that- and the Wests total failure and denial of demographic realities and consequences. And I really was offended by the thugs entering someone else's apt. Like it is no big deal. Let me tell you, entering someone else's home in an invasion is a very big deal in the US, not someone played for laughs. Certainly the victim of said invasion wouldn't beso forgiving in real life.

I can watch movies where bad guys are the protagonists, but not these bad guys. That's just me.

"I'm your Huckleberry!"

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[–] GuyRussell92 11 years ago

Try Lower Class rioters, Id imagine Working Class folk are bought up with manners.

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[–] activista 11 years ago

@joejoe

Uh, the kids in this film were English,not African. They also forced themselves into the nurse's apartment only because the aliens were after them. Apparently, you just wanted to vent about the riots (which this film isn't even about.) Next time, talk about the film, and your issues with the riots,please. Oh,really? You can watch Breaking Bad, but not this movie? Give me a break already!

[–] xybernauts 11 years ago

I agree. A lot of people have no problem with "thug" movies when they are based on white characters. There's the Godfather movies which are some the highest rated movies out there, Scarface, Heat, etc. Yet when the thugs are these low level muggers, suddenly now they show this moral apprehension. It's ridiculous.

Also, thug is the new n word.

[–] LadyKosha 11 years ago

Hang on, so because some black kids are bad kids - SOME - your ignorance tells you it's the majority of them but actually it isn't - you think seeing a spoof film about a spoof gang fighting spoof aliens is too much for you?

That's just your racist ignorance showing.

And where are you getting the idea they are all African from? Most black kids in London are London-born, so are their parents, and some of them so are their grandparents. And many of them came from the Caribbean, invited by one Enoch Powell by the way, to do their colonial duty.

As for the riots, again, that was a minority of black kids, and some white kids, and some Asian kids. And there hadn't been a riot of that kind prior to that since the early 1980's, but there HAD been other riots - Poll Tax, Srudent riots, various football thugs going on the rampage. But as soon as you see the dark skin it sets all your racist alarm bells ringing.

There's so much you don't know about London and especially about black people. I suspect this isn;t the ony forum where you've gone to rant about how much you loathe 'Africans' because of the actions of some.

Bit like hating all Irish people because of the actions of the IRA...

I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much - Valerie, V for Vendetta

[–] YoungDob 10 years ago

translation: "if Moses were white I could have empathized with them, but not black guys"