Many threads on London riots

[Lenina Rosenweg]

I've just realized that the UK riots have generated a large number of threads in this forum in a very short time. I think at least five threads within 4 days. This is more than the Greek protests and riots, more than France last year, more than the events in Syria and Libya.

I'm not saying this is unimportant and doesn't deserve a lot of attention but have the riots drawn a disproportionate amount of attention, far more than similar events elsewhere?

Discuss.

[Die Rote Fahne]

I've just realized that the UK riots have generated a large number of threads in this forum in a very short time. I think at least five threads within 4 days. This is more than the Greek protests and riots, more than France last year, more than the events in Syria and Libya.

I'm not saying this is unimportant and doesn't deserve a lot of attention but have the riots drawn a disproportionate amount of attention, far more than similar events elsewhere?

Discuss.
I think it has a lot to do with it's relativity to the first world "democratic" nation of England. Along with that, it has reached a more aggressive tone than a lot of protests elsewhere, and is going to be reported on more significantly in western media, because of it's potential affect on the white capitalists.

[F9]

check active greek members, then UK ones.Theres your answer!;)

[Sasha]

check active greek members, then UK ones.Theres your answer!;)


this + riots in greece are only surprising when they are not happening, while for the english, especially white english and then especially white english students like most of our members an riot is something very special.
even when riots happen in england and the US they tend to be of a scale/intensity most people in the rest of the world would consider hardly interesting.
so when the shit finally hits the fan in a big time....

[praxis1966]

Fuser's pretty much right on target. There are more English folks here than there are all of those other nationalities combined in my estimation.

Pyscho's right about the infrequency of English riots as well. It's just something that almost never happens there, or here in the US for that matter. We in the US had a bit of the old smashy smashy in Oakland not too long ago, but it was confined to one city. The last time we had multi-city riots on this order was April of '92, for the English even longer ago ('81 from what I understand).

[Magón]

I don't even think the Canadian riots got as much press and mention, as the London/UK riots.

[praxis1966]

I don't even think the Canadian riots got as much press and mention, as the London/UK riots.

What Canadian riots? ;)

[Tifosi]

The riots that went down in Chile passed this forum by :(

[bricolage]

The riots that went down in Chile passed this forum by :(

check active chilean members, then UK ones.Theres your answer!;)
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[Devrim]

I've just realized that the UK riots have generated a large number of threads in this forum in a very short time. I think at least five threads within 4 days. This is more than the Greek protests and riots, more than France last year, more than the events in Syria and Libya.

I'm not saying this is unimportant and doesn't deserve a lot of attention but have the riots drawn a disproportionate amount of attention, far more than similar events elsewhere?

I think that this is quite expectable. There are a lot of posters from the UK, and virtually every poster here can read English.

With the first, it will not only be something of interest, which everybody is talking about, but some people will have been participants and more people will know participants.

With the events in Libya and Syria, there are very few people here who know enough about it (most of the threads of Libya were not about what is going on in Libya itself, but about foreign intervention.

It is quite difficult to say something when you don't know much about it.

Devrim

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

It is quite difficult to say something when you don't know much about it.

Doesn't stop a lot people from trying!

[Tifosi]

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Normally there is a few posts here and there on things like this. There is a whole Latin America sub-forum right now and nothing on the student riots in Chile.