Jun 3, 2026 10:48 PM
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There are no contemporary George Floyd level uprisings in the US over white guys being mistreated by authorities. Yet in the UK...
My guess is that many of these proles obviously had past family roots in Labour. Demonstrations are a core attribute of the Left going back to the Marxist revolutionaries of the 19th-century. So when part of bluecollar culture became disaffected with the Party and felt alienated by the Establishment, they simply brought that militancy along with them and perversely directed it back at the institutions that had formerly postured as their paladins.
In contrast... There are many questionable cases of white victims of police in the US. Yet those are usually ignored in terms of massive street outrage because that kind of overt activism just isn't native to non-union traditionalists in North America. Yes, there are far-right organizations like the Proud Boys engaging in clashes with antifa groups, but those don't count as average working class society participating. And the "Church Lady" circles of the pre-1950s era protesting against liquor, prostitution, and various obscenities in entertainment and art are 95% defunct. (And were they ever physically aggressive?)
The legacy media does try to portray UK populists as right-wing hoodlum clubs, but most just don't look it.
They appear more like "ordinary folk" with all the "backward" social characteristics that literary intellectual elites despise. The same crusading proles of the past doing what they've always done, but now rebelliously turning against sectors of the Left hegemony that was once their Lord Protectors.
Enraged protesters use dumpster as a battering ram against police ... https://youtu.be/-UjTsGE2A2E
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There are no contemporary George Floyd level uprisings in the US over white guys being mistreated by authorities. Yet in the UK...
My guess is that many of these proles obviously had past family roots in Labour. Demonstrations are a core attribute of the Left going back to the Marxist revolutionaries of the 19th-century. So when part of bluecollar culture became disaffected with the Party and felt alienated by the Establishment, they simply brought that militancy along with them and perversely directed it back at the institutions that had formerly postured as their paladins.
In contrast... There are many questionable cases of white victims of police in the US. Yet those are usually ignored in terms of massive street outrage because that kind of overt activism just isn't native to non-union traditionalists in North America. Yes, there are far-right organizations like the Proud Boys engaging in clashes with antifa groups, but those don't count as average working class society participating. And the "Church Lady" circles of the pre-1950s era protesting against liquor, prostitution, and various obscenities in entertainment and art are 95% defunct. (And were they ever physically aggressive?)
The legacy media does try to portray UK populists as right-wing hoodlum clubs, but most just don't look it.
They appear more like "ordinary folk" with all the "backward" social characteristics that literary intellectual elites despise. The same crusading proles of the past doing what they've always done, but now rebelliously turning against sectors of the Left hegemony that was once their Lord Protectors. Enraged protesters use dumpster as a battering ram against police ... https://youtu.be/-UjTsGE2A2E