Comments on: #LondonRiots – maybe this is the “why?” https://www.kashflow.com/blog/london-riots-maybe-this-is-the-why-2/ Accounting & Payroll | Free Trial - No Card Required‎ Thu, 30 May 2019 08:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Karin H https://www.kashflow.com/blog/london-riots-maybe-this-is-the-why-2/#comment-3119 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:33:53 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/?p=2340#comment-3119 Don’t take me wrong here, but “opportunists” have nothing to do with these riots?

Opportunists as in: stirring up trouble because they can and it is their favourite pas-time, no matter the cause?
Age old problem: “hooligans” (educated, in work etc and all) looking for a fight will always find a fight (even if it’s not their own one).

]]> By: Dan Ladds https://www.kashflow.com/blog/london-riots-maybe-this-is-the-why-2/#comment-3120 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:31:00 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/?p=2340#comment-3120 I like how people (and the media they’re led by) tend to react to events like this by saying things like “hang them all” or “the police should shoot them”. We like to pretend these are the strong, tough attitudes we’ve lost since “this country went soft”.

Truth is, what really takes balls, is recognising that these are the children of a world we’ve all created – that they’re not just “bad people” but a product of the social inequality we have fostered. What takes balls is accepting responsiblity as a nation and deciding to work, to change the underlying socioeconomic problems.

Saying “hang ‘em all” is easy. Demonising and excluding people is easy – and that’s what we’ve been doing for far too long.

As MLK Jr said: “There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”

]]> By: Dan Ladds https://www.kashflow.com/blog/london-riots-maybe-this-is-the-why-2/#comment-3118 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:09:11 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/?p=2340#comment-3118 I like how people (and the media they’re led by) tend to react to events like this by saying things like “hang them all” or “the police should shoot them”. We like to pretend these are the strong, tough attitudes we’ve lost since “this country went soft”.

Truth is, what really takes balls, is recognising that these are the children of a world we’ve all created – that they’re not just “bad people” but a product of the social inequality we have fostered. What takes balls is accepting responsiblity as a nation and deciding to work, to change the underlying socioeconomic problems.

Saying “hang ’em all” is easy. Demonising and excluding people is easy – and that’s what we’ve been doing for far too long.

As MLK Jr said: “There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”

]]> By: Arber Pacarada https://www.kashflow.com/blog/london-riots-maybe-this-is-the-why-2/#comment-3117 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:40:57 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/?p=2340#comment-3117 Same ignored, jilted and finally disenchanted youth ended the communist regimes in east Europe. If you ignore them for too long, they will not forgive you.

Remember Chaushesku of Romania. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQaPPETpR4

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