Notably, especially in Britain, they bend over the moment certain groups want anything. Mostly Peaceful Protests filled with Mostly Peaceful stabbings and slashings and burnings. There's far less of them than there are actual peaceful protesters of any number of different stripes who get the jackboot on their throats, but since those ones go "okay, not even myself, but someone who looks vaguely like me has been mildly sassed, guess it's time to kill fifty people!" instead of coming down on those ones with the hammer of god, there is only acquiescence. Which to be seems VERY backwards, we should be rewarding the ones who do so peacefully and harming/discouraging harshly the ones who don't, but that is how Britain do things. And Canada. And the USA, too.
We need a cultural shift to a more civilized society, but... That's a BIG ask, apparently. "Be peaceful to the peaceful, harmful to the harmful", is an ideology that just isn't catching on.
Notably, especially in Britain, they bend over the moment certain groups want anything. Mostly Peaceful Protests filled with Mostly Peaceful stabbings and slashings and burnings. There's far less of them than there are actual peaceful protesters of any number of different stripes who get the jackboot on their throats, but since those ones go "okay, not even myself, but someone who looks vaguely like me has been mildly sassed, guess it's time to kill fifty people!" instead of coming down on those ones with the hammer of god, there is only acquiescence. Which to be seems VERY backwards, we should be rewarding the ones who do so peacefully and harming/discouraging harshly the ones who don't, but that is how Britain do things. And Canada. And the USA, too.
We need a cultural shift to a more civilized society, but... That's a BIG ask, apparently. "Be peaceful to the peaceful, harmful to the harmful", is an ideology that just isn't catching on.