Gay couple beaten for refusing to kiss on London bus
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555889
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Just in case anyone was wondering why we still need Pride. I just want to be able to hold hands with my boyfriend in public without doing a risk assessment first.
Fucking christ.
Hope they find the cunts that did this and throw the book at them.
Throw a 600 pound book at them, infact
Thankfully London Busses are equipped with CCTV so hopefully they will find them.
Busses are often the dumbest place to commit any crime. They have pretty decent cameras in all of them over here. Hopefully those assholes get what's coming to them.
This is why i'm terrified of being affectionate with my fiancée. We already got dirty looks and guys honking at us, talk to us, ask us if we're lesbians when we were holding each other in public and that was stateside. She'll be visiting me in Greece that is very homophobic and i've told her that i'll be too scared to be affectionate in public because of things like this.
This is a scary graph, why on earth has it been going up
Rise in homophobic hate crime
Offences recorded in London
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what a bunch of fucking assholes, jesus christ
People becoming more confident about being 'out' in public which means more targets, I'd assume.
Rise in right wing extremism validating these scum sucking wastes of oxygen.
Throw everything in the fucking book at these vile pieces of shit.
And I bet, despite all of this, the people that did themselves will describe themselves as homophobic, it's just suddenly okay because WOO-OOO TWO GIRLS GOIN AT IT LADS
I hope these cunts get outed on CCTV and get their teeth fed to them on top of any criminal proceedings. Really sick and tired of thuggish twats in this country.
This is fucking shameful.
Anybody who legitimately wants a straight pride parade should be grateful this shit doesn't happen to them.
Combination of that and people being more confident in reporting assaults as well. Still a horrible thing.
I hope we get to find out who committed this, I'd love to see their sad mugshots next to a lengthy prison sentence.
Just because the number of reported instances are rising doesn't necessarily mean the number of instances are rising. Another plausible explanation is that there may be less fear of police in the lgbtq community so they are more likely to report the crime rather than suffer in silence.
London is becoming a worse shithole each year, it's a damn shame
Update:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48555889
Four male teenagers aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested.
They are being questioned on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm.
I am honestly shocked... I had hoped that England was better than this, I find it near impossible to understand why someone would do this.
Don;t just throw the book at these kids, find their parents and throw it at them too, scour their fucking facebooks and social media for everything that encouraged them, find who's responsible and toss them in the same place we shove those Islamic Fundamentalists who preach death to the west. What's happened here is less civilised than orang-utans on methamphetamines and humans are not just born this way, something led these kids to their actions today and it's not enough to just arrest them as a warning. To kill the weed you must destroy the root and I don't care if you have to violate privacy or free speech to do it, this cannot continue.
Do you lack self awareness or do you think that going full Communist Party of China is a good idea?
Honestly, people who do this to other people and people who encourage and facilitate it? I don't think they deserve the freedoms that enabled them to do so, my views might be extreme yes but I abhor this kind of injustice against fellow humans and having seen it get worse and worse over time hiding under the banner of "freedom" and "FREEZE PEACH!" and it sickens me... the freedoms they enjoy perverted and corrupted to deny the freedoms of others. People can sit by the sidelines and encourage others to actual violence and get away with it because "well it was just my OPINION I didun do nuffin! FREEZE PEACH REEEEEEE!!! FUCKING LIBCUCKS!!! BIXNOOD BIXNOOD" (you get the general idea)
It's not ok anymore, people are getting hurt, people are DYING and it all downplayed by the hatemongers who will then point out cherry pick how "Gays got a 5 year old to dance in a gay bar THINK OF THE CHILDREEEEEEN!" and spread their inflammatory lies with no consequence while they incite others to acts of violence.
I dealing the blow is one thing, driving people to DEAL the blow is as bad if not worse in my opinion.
But there is a consequence. They get arrested go to court and like the smug idiots they are don't enter a plea bargain then try to defend themselves and go to prison on a longer sentence for their stupidity.
Disclaimer: I am not justifying the discrimination against homosexuals that persists throughout the world.
Now outside of urbanized places and "western countries" it is culturalized to dislike homosexual people. Russia, the steppe countries, South America, China and the majority of the malaysian archipelago all greatly frown upon and in some cases even execute homosexuals. Culture changes very slowly and if it took a century of fighting in the west its going to take just the same in the rest of the world.
The world as a whole is still very much against homosexuality so it should be expected that prudes are all around even in progressive cities. Should we accept it? No of course not but we should expect this behavior.
But people, what about the milkshakes!
People can become toxic, racist assholes purely because they hang out with those types of people despite no one else in their family even coming close to representing the same behavior. There are also people that are the opposite; turning into kind, reasonable people despite the fact their family consists of racist bigots.
I do apologise if I come off as abrasive but gays are my friends and family and I've had the privilege of growing up where violence and hatred against gays just isn't the done thing. This is just such an alien fucking thing to me, I cannot understand it.
That picture is heartbreaking, those poor girls. People are so awful....
Fucking savages maintaining the mindset of a child. Is it really so difficult to accept that people like or are things that you don't? Must we really resort to such a pathetic, primal response to something so ultimately harmless in the grand scheme of things? Hard to believe its 2019 and we still behave and treat these people like its an gross alien concept to us, leave them alone and mind your own business you cretins.
I know the opinion is shared here but I just can't keep quiet when it feels so childish and petty while having such dire consequences, why have we still not gotten over it? Love is love regardless of the genders involved, we've had hundreds of years to figure this out yet people still do this.
Will this finally shut up the people who claim gay people aren't oppressed in the first world?
Oh no, of course it won't
Violence against women? Violence against gay people?
For one, I am fucking speechless, this never happens.
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