Same reason that no one cares the 3 gay men stabbed to death in Reading this is about stopping Trump getting re elected nothing else

Klemens von Metternich (1773 ““ 1859) coined the phrase “When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.” I don’t think he was that concerned with the US.

We, the older generation should stand up and be honest enough to admit that it is our cohort that has permitted a lot of the problems to arise that we so frequently hear about such as higher education where there is insufficient work places at that level, the clear rise of mob rule and not forgetting the self appointed thought police we see in action so often in the news. I have tried writing to my government rep but they have now seemingly walled themselves off after organisations like 38 degrees totally destroyed the process with their templated email campaigns. The scariest thing we see every day now but do not possibly recognise it for what it is, is the real world power the Twitter mobs wield or more correctly their shadowy promoters or leaders, with seemingly no checks or balances in place at all. Fancy losing your job, your friends, being physically attacked or potentially worse, no problem just make a statement online that someone disagrees with… the late night knock on door so feared in the ex-soviet countries has been replaced by the quiet repeated chime of your news feed being updated or tweet update arriving or perhaps an email from work that HR would like a word, and yes best bring a friend or colleague with you.
Once we can get past the denial phase and accept that we are part of the problem, only then can we start to consider and drive for solutions. Our kids are only working with what we have given them.

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This is an excellent article, but leaves unanswered questions: how and why are all these supposedly spontaneous demonstrations happening so quickly? The answer is the large and well-funded national and international protest organization industry. For example, when Greta Thunberg advocated for international children’s demonstrations the millions of children in numerous countries didn’t suddenly walk out onto the streets without parental knowledge. Likewise with Black Lives Matter demonstrations, even in countries where there are very few Black people and few if any reported incidents of killing by police. It isn’t that the citizens of these countries are mesmerized by US culture, but rather, they are organized by branches or chapters of the same multinational protest organizations.

These organizations can use social media followers and past protest attendees to organize protests on short notice. They design the memes like “No justice, No peace” and “Defund the Police” and distribute the signs or organize their preparation in several countries. TV and social media then present these well-organized theatrical demonstrations as spontaneous displays of public support.

The purpose of organizing demonstrations in such countries is for media coverage of this political theatre. This gets the organizers more donations and more political influence. While people all over the world are opposed in principle to racism, most people outside the US wouldn’t ordinarily be sufficiently motivated to go out into the streets in protest. This is especially true where police racism is minimal to nonexistent (in countries like Iceland, where most people are of the same race).

Of course political theatre cannot exist where the government won’t permit it. Greta supporters and BLM protesters were not organized to protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Theatre requires an audience and a media chorus that is available only in certain countries. So racism is seen as an evil only where demonstrations are permitted, and everywhere else it is RAU — racism as usual.

Some form of contest will always occur when industry and agriculture decline, and when higher education swells in response, as there is so much status, and wealth, waiting to be claimed.
Too many graduates, many of whom not suited to Higher Ed, taking superficial non-scholarly degrees in grievance and resentment studies. As the earlier comment makes clear, they’re just really really thick and lack humility, civility and any sense of their own culture beyond their university. The fact is it’s much easier and simpler to blame something closer to home than understand global complexities. The young international hashtaggers that Mary identifies might boost multinational woke capital but they are degrading their own national economies upon which they depend. The longer they continue to kick away the props which have underpinned and sustained our culture – equality before the law, basic scientific objectivity, deep seated ideas of personal liberty emerging out of Christianity etc. – then the easier it will be for the likes of the Chinese to drive a coach and horses through our economies and freedoms.