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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 8, 2022, 6:14 pm
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Wokism now pouring in:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/carnegie-mellon-professor-wishes-queen-183350070.html
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> Carnegie Mellon professor wishes Queen Elizabeth ‘excruciating
pain’ as she ‘finally’ dies
> ...
> "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal
empire is finally dying," Carnegie Mellon University Professor
Uju Anya tweeted on Thursday morning. "May her pain be
excruciating."
> ...
> "If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the
monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide
that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences
of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can
keep wishing upon a star," Anya later tweeted.
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And from the comments:
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> The British empire did inflict unspeakable atrocities in many
of its colonies. Elizabeth was the head of the British empire
so the animosity.
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> I agree. The British ruled very ruthlessly in many areas of
the empire and had a lot of disdain for those citizens. Racial
animosity is still deep in British society. Get to know some
Brits and you'll understand.
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> Ultra-wealthy people, part of a legacy of colonial
exploitation worldwide, did an awful lot of harm in accumulating
their personal wealth. Those extremely expensive outfits she
wore with matching mad-hatter hats at each photo op were more
than most commoners earn in a year. And we only saw what the
British monarch CHOSE to let us see. These are people
completely out of touch with regular people, a royal family
(whatever "royal" means!) with their own press agents and public
relations teams that shape public opinion about them. When you
control hundreds of billions of pounds, it's rather easy to do
something good with some of your lucre, but honestly when I saw
that she had died suddenly, I was taken aback at all the hoopla.
I thought to myself, "This is simply a very rich person that
has died at a ripe old age. End of story." Sadly, inequality
in wealth distribution and exploitation of the Third World is
far from over.
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> If you knew anything about history or empathy you'd probably
understand the disdain. For many around the globe that lived
under European occupation, The Queen is a symbol of oppression
and misery.
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> Amen to that!! There is only one King, and His name is JESUS.
Ppl should stop worshipping man and worship God. Thieving,
raping, colonizing, genociding country. Look at the division
they caused in Africa, India, China. Genocide of the indigenous
ppl of the Americas. Why would anyone celebrate a person who
represents such an evil wicked country? We don't need any so
called "royal" family. They are a bunch of welfare recipients.
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More:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/just-silently-weeping-finding-queen-215700324.html
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> The “Royal Firm” Is a $28 Billion Empire
> ...
> Back in February 2021, The Guardian released a bombshell
report alleging that Queen Elizabeth II “successfully lobbied
the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her
‘embarrassing’ private wealth from the public.” Apparently, this
occurred in the 1970s and “placed a veil of secrecy over the
Queen’s private shareholdings and investments until at least
2011.”
>
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Comments:
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> Yet they asked for money to restore part of Buckingham Palace
even though they can afford it themselves.
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> Brits looted wealth from Asian and African countries. They
were even drug dealers in China. Please read Niall Ferguson's
book EMPIRE How Britain made the modern world.
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> ... Both a thief and a war criminal. Period.
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And more:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/queen-elizabeths-death-revives-criticism-021442728.html
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> "In addition to the colonization on the side of Nigeria,
there's also the human enslavement in the Caribbean," she said.
"So there's a direct lineage that I have to not just people who
were colonized, but also people who were enslaved by the
British."
>
> While Elizabeth ruled as Britain navigated a post-colonial
era, she still bore a connection to its colonial past, which was
rooted in racism and violence against Asian and African
colonies. There have been growing calls in recent years for the
monarchy to confront its colonial past.
>
> Zoé Samudzi, a Zimbabwean American writer and an assistant
professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design,
wrote on Twitter: “As the first generation of my family not born
in a British colony, I would dance on the graves of every member
of the royal family if given the opportunity, especially hers.”
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
> ...
> "I take deep offense at the notion that the oppressed and
survivors of violence have to somehow be deferential or
respectful when their oppressors die," Anya said. The crown, she
said, continues to "meddle in African affairs" and oppress.
>
> "There are people literally around the world, rejoicing at
this woman's death, not because they're vile or cold but because
her reign and the reign of her monarchy by extension was
violent," Anya said.
>
> She said she hopes that her commentary on Twitter prompts
people to research the Nigerian Civil War.
>
> Hours before the royal family announced the queen’s death,
Ebony Thomas, an associate professor at the University of
Michigan School of Education, cautioned against policing how
people reacted to the announcement from Buckingham Palace that
Elizabeth had been placed under medical supervision and that her
doctors were "concerned" about her health.
>
> "Telling the colonized how they should feel about their
colonizer's health and wellness is like telling my people that
we ought to worship the Confederacy," Thomas tweeted. "'Respect
the dead' when we're all writing these Tweets *in English.*
How'd that happen, hm? We just chose this language?" Her tweet
was liked more than 25,000 times
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 8, 2022, 9:35 pm
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On the other hand:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-expresses-deepest-condolences-over-212233349.html
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> Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed his
"deepest condolences" over the death of Queen Elizabeth.
> ...
> "For many decades," he wrote, "Elizabeth II rightfully enjoyed
the love and respect of her subjects, as well as authority on
the world stage."
>
> The message comes despite Britain's royal family expressing
support for Ukraine
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Also:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-releases-statement-queens-death-184216524.html
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> Trump releases statement about the Queen's death: 'What a
grand and beautiful lady she was—there was nobody like her!'
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 9, 2022, 3:51 am
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The situation so far:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/due-british-colonialism-king-charles-210810072.html
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> Due to British colonialism, which saw the British Empire
invade and conquer regions across the world for centuries, King
Charles is now the monarch and head of state of the UK and 14
other countries — known as Commonwealth realms.
>
> The Commonwealth realms include: Antigua and Barbuda,
Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
> ...
> In addition to Barbados, the 16 countries that removed Queen
Elizabeth as head of state after she ascended the throne in 1952
are Sri Lanka, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, Malawi,
Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Tanzania (Tanganyika), Trinidad and Tobago, and Uganda.
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We are more than halfway there! Only 15 more to go!
More woke comments:
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> The UK and its monarchy committed crime and stole from other
countries for years. People in the Middle East, India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Africa, ... all hate UK colonialism and
what monarchy stands for.
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> Colonialism is a polite way of saying they raped many
countries over the decades!
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 9, 2022, 3:24 pm
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Additional wokeness:
HTML https://www.newsweek.com/why-black-twitter-fire-after-queen-elizabeth-second-death-1741410
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> "Black Twitter is on fire today," read one viral tweet, which
showed an image of a man posing seemingly victoriously beside a
grave that had been mocked up as the queen's.
>
> Showing similar sentiment, another popular tweet showed the
words: "We are sad to announce that the queen has died,"
alongside a picture of the late Princess Diana laughing, styled
to represent Black Twitter's feelings on the news.
>
> The Queen ascended to the throne at a time of change for the
British Empire and the subsequent forming of the Commonwealth of
Nations. Many people from former colonies consider her a
figurehead for the brutality their people suffered under British
imperialism.
> ...
> "Black Twitter is absolutely Black Twittering right now," said
The Atlantic contributing writer Jemele Hill, who defended
people questioning the queen's legacy.
>
> "Journalists are tasked with putting legacies into full
context, so it is entirely appropriate to examine the queen and
her role in the devastating impact of continued colonialism,"
wrote Hill.
> ...
> Eugene Scott, a national political reporter at The Washington
Post, chose to address those who criticized the timing of those
speaking out.
>
> "Real question for the 'now is not the appropriate time to
talk about the negative impact of colonialism' crowd: When is
the appropriate time to talk about the negative impact of
colonialism?" Scott asked.
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And:
HTML https://propakistani.pk/lens/indians-want-koh-i-noor-returned-after-queen-elizabeths-death-memes/
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> Indians troll the passing of Queen Elizabeth II as #Kohinoor
trends on Twitter. People took to social media to demand the
British Monarch to handover the crown jewel Koh-i-Noor back to
India.
> ...
> Indians took to Twitter to call out the British Monarch for
looting India for 150 years, accusing them of “stealing the
world’s largest diamond Koh-i-Noor. The magnificent diamond is a
the crown jewel of the British Monarch. Following Elizabeth’s
death, #Kohinoor is trending on Twitter as people come up with
sum hilarious memes. Check it out!
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And:
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11195181/Woke-liberals-waste-no-time-attacking-colonizer-Queen-mere-hours-death.html
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> The ridicule of her reign was led by Tirhakah Love, senior
newsletter writer for New York Magazine.
>
> 'For 96 years, that colonizer has been sucking up the Earth's
resources,' he wrote in his Thursday evening newsletter.
>
> He added: 'You can't be a literal oppressor and not expect the
people you've oppressed not to rejoice on news of your death.'
> ...
> 'Now I'm supposed to be quiet or, better yet, actually mourn
what was a barely breathing Glad ForceFlex trash bag? Please,
no,' he wrote.
>
> 'I just want to remind you that in the rest of the world, and
I mean the actual world, most will be celebrating today.
>
> 'We all have our methods of mourning friends; doing the
electric slide on a colonizer's grave just happens to be mine.'
> ...
> Imani Gandy, a legal analyst at Rewire News, tweeted out a
video of a group of men tap-dancing outside Buckingham Palace to
the song Another One Bites The Dust.
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 10, 2022, 8:22 pm
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Defend Prof. Anya!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/professor-caused-uproar-wishing-queen-162849586.html
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> The Professor Who Caused An Uproar By Wishing The Queen
"Excruciating" Pain On Twitter Is Defending Her Position
>
> Uju Anya, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who
sparked backlash after her tweet wishing Queen Elizabeth II
“excruciating” pain went viral, is defending her position,
saying in a statement that “I stand by what I said.”
> ...
> On Friday, Anya told The Cut her email inbox was flooded with
hateful messages, with subject lines that “all start with the
N-word, bitch, genetically inferior.”
>
> But Anya continued to defend her beliefs. “There’s not going
to be any apology from me,” she said on Friday. “I stand by what
I said.” On social media, she has retweeted more posts
discussing the horrific impacts of British colonization.
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: guest78
Date: September 11, 2022, 4:21 pm
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Kehinde Andrews: The Monarchy Represented The Racism That My
Generation Felt
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> The world is looking on as England mourns its queen, but some
aren’t remembering the values she stood for warmly. NYU School
of Law professor Melissa Murray and Birmingham City University
Professor of Black Studies explain why this difficult
conversation is important to have and why now is not an
inappropriate time to have it. “We have never seen the Queen as
someone who represents us, as someone who has represented us.
There is literally no conflict. You can see the critical nature
that has to be brought to this. This is someone who represented
white colonialism, and white supremacy. I'm not sure why I
shouldn't say it when millions of people have exactly the same
feeling.”
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNF5_mofE7k
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 11, 2022, 5:25 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/don-t-care-queen-elizabeth-185931465.html
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> The Queen Represented Racist Violence As Much As She Did
Glamour
> ...
> She was the eighth Queen of England, a thorn in the sides of
several nonwhite countries for seven decades, and, of course,
the reason why immigrant mothers like my own defended Princess
Diana so fiercely. The internet appears deeply divided between
people dunking on her (myself included) and people mourning
someone whose best quality was how much she loved corgis.
> ...
> The only reason I’m here is because I delight in upsetting
Europeans, a long-held tradition for nonwhite Canadians for at
least a century and a half. (Have you ever confused a shepherd’s
pie and a chicken pot pie in front of a white person? You
should. It turns into a whole thing.) But I struggle with the
fact that so many people are actively devastated about her
death. We are sure to enter at least a week of celebrations of
her very long life, but…why?
> ...
> There’s something uniquely pitiful about mourning a woman who
has been running an organization notorious for its genocidal
tendencies. In the short time since her death, some people have
argued that you can mourn the individual without mourning the
empire. This, as far as I, a brown person, am concerned, is
impossible, because Queen Elizabeth didn’t just profit from the
pillaging and racial evisceration her lineage propagated since
the beginning of British civilization; she was an active
participant. Ultimately, her entire existence was buoyed by the
atrocities of her family’s past; her wealth and influence
persisted entirely because of colonialism.
>
> I know it’s nice to rewrite history, to present Queen
Elizabeth as a softer member of the monarchy. But it’s not like
she wasn’t alive during colonialism guided by British
exceptionalism or the political unrest it caused (and continues
to cause). People who were children when the British ruled their
countries are still alive; it was just under a year ago that
Barbados removed her as its head of state. Countries like India
and Pakistan continue to wrestle with the economic, geographic,
and cultural impacts of British colonialism, while others, like
Saint Kitts and Nevis, have only recently gained true
independence after centuries of meddling from the royals.
>
> There are many photos and videos of the Queen visiting her
former colonies, with locals fawning over her as if her legacy
isn’t a part of what hurled their countries into upheaval in the
first place. I find that coverage creepy, like photos of a
prison warden walking the grounds, the inmates grateful to be in
the presence of such disproportionate wealth and ambivalence.
Why did she keep coming back to India, to Canada, to Ghana? To
remind everyone that she still could, that her reach would
always extend to their shores?
>
> Nations impacted by the British Empire struggle to own their
histories; they’re simply stopovers in the long march of
imperialism. The empire didn’t grow organically. Their riches
were stolen in the form of labor from enslaved people, pilfered
bijous, and of course, tea. Elizabeth could have given any of
the wealth back. She could have cemented herself as the royal
who redistributed what was taken. She didn’t, though, and that
wasn’t by mistake.
> ...
> Don’t get me wrong; the Queen was certainly historically
significant. The royals have always thought they knew how to run
countries better than the native populations did; she followed
in these footsteps. She had parties where people showed up
wearing blackface brooches.
> ...
> And yet, celebrities like Liz Phair and Paris Hilton (what??)
are out here praising her for being the “original girl boss”
icon, for not taking shit from men while, let’s say, British
soldiers tortured and killed thousands of Kenyans in the ’50s.
We’re only just beginning to understand the abuses coming from
the British Empire; documents that were thought to be “lost” but
resurfaced in 2011 reveal so much barbarity. While she was
alive, the Queen never apologized for these crimes done in her
name. As the head of the firm, she never even acknowledged
England’s grisly history.
>
> I’ve been visiting family in Canada for the last two weeks,
perfect timing to be visiting the Commonwealth. My parents are
from India; they’re native Kashmiris, a community still reeling
from the effects of Partition. My dad was born three years after
the British decided to leave, and as such, the Queen hasn’t
exactly been held in high esteem by my family. When my dad found
out that she died, he barely reacted — if anyone should care, it
should perhaps be an Indian Canadian with a Napoleon complex who
likes gilded chairs and unyielding allegiance to a cause.
Instead, he grumbled how she should posthumously return the
Koh-i-Noor diamond to India. “I know she won’t,” he admitted,
resigned, while sucking down some falooda. He’s right —
apparently, the diamond will go to Camilla
> ...
> If you’re sad about the Queen, no matter your nationality, it
requires some deep introspection. What are you sad about? What
do you feel like we lost? A piece of history already so
thoroughly documented? A reminder of what imperialism looked
like back when whiteness, wealth, and European domination were
even more pronounced than it currently is? Is it nostalgia for a
time when things were easier — for you?
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 12, 2022, 4:43 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/cannot-mourn-former-colonies-conflicted-064518111.html
True Left reactions:
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> NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen
Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world,
many of them unwilling. Today, in the British Empire's former
colonies, her death brings complicated feelings, including
anger.
>
> Beyond official condolences praising the queen’s longevity and
service, there is some bitterness about the past in Africa,
Asia, the Caribbean and elsewhere. Talk has turned to the
legacies of colonialism, from slavery to corporal punishment in
African schools to looted artifacts held in British
institutions. For many, the queen came to represent all of that
during her seven decades on the throne.
>
> In Kenya, where decades ago a young Elizabeth learned of her
father’s death and her enormous new role as queen, a lawyer
named Alice Mugo shared online a photograph of a fading document
from 1956. It was issued four years into the queen’s reign, and
well into Britain’s harsh response to the Mau Mau rebellion
against colonial rule.
>
> “Movement permit,” the document says. While over 100,000
Kenyans were rounded up in camps under grim conditions, others,
like Mugo’s grandmother, were forced to request British
permission to go from place to place.
> ...
> “This commonwealth of nations, that wealth belongs to England.
That wealth is something never shared in,” said Bert Samuels, a
member of the National Council on Reparations in Jamaica.
> ...
> There were few signs of public grief or even interest in her
death across the Middle East, where many still hold Britain
responsible for colonial actions that drew much of the region’s
borders and laid the groundwork for many of its modern
conflicts. On Saturday, Gaza’s Hamas rulers called on King
Charles III to “correct” British mandate decisions that they
said oppressed Palestinians.
> ...
> “The only thing I noted about the queen’s passing is that she
died and never apologized for slavery,” Spence said. “She
should’ve apologized.”
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False Left reaction (unfortunately mixed in):
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> “I do not think we have any place for kings and queens in
today’s world, because we are the world’s largest democratic
country,” said Dhiren Singh, a 57-year-old entrepreneur in New
Delhi.
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Yes, and who gave you the idea of becoming a democratic country,
you idiot?
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 12, 2022, 11:56 pm
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Anya is unstoppable:
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11204193/Carnegie-Mellon-professor-says-Queen-cult-white-womanhood-responsible-genocide.html
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> Carnegie Mellon professor slams Queen AGAIN by saying she is
part of the 'cult of white womanhood' - and her woke students
are BACKING her
> ...
> 'Queen Elizabeth was representative of the cult of white
womanhood,' Anya said.
>
> 'There's this notion that she was this little-old-lady grandma
type with her little hats and her purses and little dogs and
everything, as if she inhabited this place or this space in the
imaginary, this public image, as someone who didn't have a hand
in the bloodshed of her Crown.'
> ...
> ''Speak no ill of the dead' is a weapon that's leveled against
the oppressed to silence them, to lionize oppressors, and to
sanitize their history. What respect am I supposed to have for
her, for her family?
> ...
> Students at the university wrote a letter in support of Anya
while criticizing the university's response. It was signed by
hundreds of current and former students, according to Newsweek.
> ...
> 'Rejecting calls for 'civility' that are frequently leveraged
against the marginalized to silence dissent, we express our
solidarity with Dr. Anya and reject the tone-policing of those
with legitimate grievances.'
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Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
DIR By: guest78
Date: September 15, 2022, 2:05 pm
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Arrested for Protesting the King: What's Happening
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> The accession of King Charles III has sparked debate over the
idea of monarchy, and has resulted in the arrest of peaceful
protestors. But what are they being charged with? And is freedom
of expression being undermined by the police?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-zwv4Yqw3c
Are they really protesting a King and monarchism, or are they
just protesting an ornament?
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> Does the British monarchy have any power?
> In fact, there isn't a whole lot that British Kings and Queens
can actually do beyond the bounds of their
constitutionally-defined mandate—one that primarily involves
tasks such as appointing prime ministers, approving new laws,
receiving foreign dignitaries, and presiding over the opening
and dissolving of parliament.
--- End Quote ---
Will the Commonwealth Collapse... Without the Queen
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> With the Queen no longer in the equation, people are already
discussing the future of the commonwealth. In this video we
breakdown what the commonwealth is and if we can expect to see
more countries ditching the King as their Head of State.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-jStPYlGQ4
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