Always a Wasp

Quote from: Chilham on April 10, 2022, 11:35:21 AM

Quote from: Westy68 on April 10, 2022, 10:47:41 AM

Our half of the draw means we miss Sarries, Toulon, Gloucester, Castres, Saints and Irish, I think we have a decent chance of getting to the final

If I've read it correctly, if we win in Biarritz we are away to Edinburgh or Bath, then home to Sarries, Saints, Glaws or Cardiff to get to the final, where being optimistic we would be likely to meet either Lyon, Toulon, Castres, or Glasgow.

I’ve read it as we won’t get a home tie at any stage

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Why not stand silently with a Rugby Against Racism T Shirt...

I think that you are going to steer the conversation a long way from rugby, racism and into politics with this post Wombles. Which is fine but the thread will probably degenerate.

It is clear BLM (the organisation) are a hard left anti-capitalist organisation and as such some here will have time for them and some won't. Some may think removal of funds away from the police is sensible,  whilst those campaigning for greater funding for the police will think it nonsense, but the club have said they are not supporting the organisation but making a simple anti racism statement which almost all here will applaud, even if some people above clearly have misgivings about potential association with the political movement.
The club have been clear it is an anti prejudice act, not a supportive gesture for BLM the group, and I support that.

Discussing any anti capitalist group and racism normally ends up with someone on the hard left/far left crawling out from under their rock with antisemitic conspiracy theories referring to mainstream media (you know the ones) and the whole thing descends into finger pointing of who is the most prejudiced or brainwashed by MSM; no matter how many sociology professors from Greenwich you start with, it always ends up in the same place- you only have to look at the current infighting in Labour to see where it ends up- or do a search for BLM and Israel-   so I won't go there besides to say that, yeah, anti-capitalist groups are still all pretty sinister to me, which is not to say I am blind to the system's faults.

I will leave the thread before it gets too political, and once again say the club are making a simple anti prejudice statement we can all (almost, if not all perhaps?) applaud.

Quote from: Heathen on August 12, 2020, 06:52:06 PM

Sorry, All Lives Matter, irrespective of colour, race or religion. A human being is a human being. End of argument.

Save the Tiger doesn't mean screw the Lion. Save the Rhino doesn't mean Slaughter the Buffalo.

Black lives matter doesn't mean Only black lives matter.

The issue is that black lives, in the USA especially, but also in the UK, don't seem to matter as much as others.

... Ethnicity has nothing to do with the decision to buy house, fail your exams or forge a salary producing career.  Your not more likely or less likely to do any of these based on your skin color, its your decision as an individual or your own personal drivers...