I have discovered the top ten ways to lose friends after making a questionable post on Facebook.
Number 1 – Post a Dodgy Link BBC News – No IPCC action over Smiley Culture raid death www.bbc.co.uk Police who carried out a raid on the home of reggae singer Smiley Culture which ended in his death will not be disciplined by the police watchdog. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14774256
Number 2 – Post a Dodgy Comment ‘Another black man dies in police custody, no action taken. When will people of black heritage wake up. We are being treated like bitches.’
Number 3 – Make Posts and Comments as Unclear as Possible You know you’re totally opaque when you get comments and emails like this,
“What’s up with your Facebook status? Are your trying to stir everyone up?
The police are not always bad. You’re stupid if you think incompetence is the same as discrimination”
Number 4 – Try to Make a Political Point by Comparing a Situation to the Holocaust So you could reply in a comment like this,
“Yes I am. Watched a programme about the holocaust, got me thinking about how it started and why ordinary people did nothing to stop it. It was because it happened one small step at a time.”
Number 5 – Make Your Comments Divisive You know you’ve managed “to cause disagreement or hostility between people” when you get replies like this,
“You can’t compare one death to genocide. It is not the same.
You’re the one who is acting like a Nazi. From your posts and comments you seem to want to cause division and incite people to be angry and break the law. Pontificating about something you know nothing about makes things worse not better”
Number 6 – Get on Your High Horse Reply back in a comment with something like,
“Once the word Nazi is used then all discussion ends.”
Number 7 – Be Aggressive and use Misogynistic Words in Posts and Comments You know you’re on the right track to scaring people away when you get replies such as,
“I do not agree that the use of the word Nazi ends discussions.
What really upsets me is that you use the term Bitches which is 100% derogatory towards women. Your comments also sound very anti-white to me. If you are trying to get your white female friends to Facebook un-friend you, you are certainly going the right way about it by posting such scary rubbish.
Your comments are just plain shocking”
Number 8 – When you have Something Serious to Say, Post a Two Line Status Update Rather than Making a Reasoned Explanation in a Blog Post
So post a confusing Facebook status update instead of posting something like this,
“If you found it offensive, I apologise. It was offensive if you found it offensive but I did not mean it to be offensive.
I know my use of language was open to interpretation but what I meant was:
Bitch:
(3) Modern-day servant; A person who performs tasks for another, usually degrading in status.
Not anything to do with women like most uses of the Anglo-Saxon word Fu*k have nothing to do with copulation.
Sorry, but I’m not the only one thinking this.
Smiley Culture was stabbed to death while in police custody.
So either he stabbed himself to death or the police did it.
The IPCC outcome is there is not going to be an investigation into his death.
The IPCC was the same organisation that said Mark Duggan was killed during a shoot-out after a policeman was shot.
He was actually shot while surrendering and the policeman was shot by another policeman as Duggan was unarmed at the time.
I cannot help being sceptical.
However, myself and every other concerned person is too scared, for good reason, to say anything. Careless words these days lead to long prison sentences.
If you don’t know who Smiley Culture is; he was famous for this song which took the Mickey out of Police Officers.
OK, in future I will try to stick to the Queen’s English and avoid false friends; words that although appearing the same have different meanings in different languages.
So sorry to anyone who read my Facebook post.
Number 9 – Alienate Your Audience by Failing to Make Your Point You know you’ve done this if you get a reply similar to this,
“So it’s OK to use the term bitch which is clearly a female related term.
How would you feel if I used the term nigger in a Facebook post?
Also, targeting your post to people of “Black Heritage”, what is that all about?
So now only black people care about justice.
Do you really think that white people aren’t concerned?
The fact is we are all in this together. We all hate corruption and intolerance. We all want a fairer society.
Britain is one of the most tolerant societies in the world.
I bet I wouldn’t get a great reaction if I emigrated to Africa.
I think because of the London riots of 2011 we all need to choose our words carefully.
That is if you really want to get your point across.
Making your point sound like Black against White and the tone of your post totally obscures your message.
Maybe it’s me that is easily offended.”
Number 10 – Comment or Post First; Think Later So post original Facebook comment, “Another black man dies in police custody, no action taken. When will people of black heritage wake up. We are being treated like bitches,”
instead of the following:
“I do use the term nigger just to claim ownership of it and to defuse it of meaning.
My father-in-law told me something very useful, ‘don’t help people more than they want to help themselves’.
The fact is the biggest supporters of,
“zero tolerance policing and believing everything that the police say is correct because they are the police”,
are black people.
This is despite the fact that black people are disproportionately over-represented in UK prisons; killed in police custody and less likely to get bail.
So I have to disagree with you.
I already know many white people who fight for justice and who are liberal in their outlook.
I know no black people who hold such views.
Hence, it is black people that have to wake up and see what is happening first before there can be any real justice in the UK.
Question: Who in the Black community has spoken up for Smiley Culture?
Black people have been largely silent.
So if his friends and relatives are quiet why should anyone else do anything?
Emmanuel was stabbed shortly before 8.30am on Tuesday, an hour and a half after four Metropolitan police officers arrived at his house in Warlingham, Surrey, with a search warrant.
A relative, who asked to remain unnamed, said she saw Emmanuel shortly after 8am. He seemed calm, she said, but appeared to indicate that he was confused by the raid. She saw him "surrounded by officers" and when she waved to him, he "shrugged his shoulders, as though to tell me he didn't know what was going on".
It was after this that Emmanuel was allowed to go unaccompanied into his kitchen, his family say. "Why, if Smiley was arrested, was he allowed to go near a kettle full of boiling water and drawers full of knives?" asked Lee Jasper, chair of the London race and criminal justice consortium. "It just doesn't make sense."
At about 8.30am an air ambulance was called by police officers. The helicopter arrived but Emmanuel died at the scene.
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