Pride festival criticized for "throw a milkshake at Nigel Farage" game (www.lgbtqnation.com)
from jeffw@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 04:01
https://lemmy.world/post/17993674

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cashmaggot@piefed.social on 27 Jul 2024 04:27 next collapse

It's a protest. I mean pride itself is a protest for the rights of the LGBTQA+ So like...what!? When did we stop permitting a wide variety of opinions, ideas and expressions? So freakin' bananers.

NegativeInf@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 04:33 collapse

We should take it back to the original pride and throw bricks at the cut out of Nigel Farage.

cashmaggot@piefed.social on 27 Jul 2024 04:47 next collapse

Hahaha, I once wrote this whole take it to the streets thing for a buddy of mine. Cause he had the crazy idea of asking my ass to write him a monologue to do. Prompted some strong ass street justice, and definitely was not mixed-company appropriate (gays x straights). He did some monologue from that Radcliff play instead. Made me laugh my ass off. I love that man, what was he thinking =P!?

TAKE IT TO THE STREEETSSS HAHAHAHAHA!

sandbox@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 09:21 collapse

Why settle for an imitation when you can have the real thing?

Deceptichum@quokk.au on 27 Jul 2024 04:34 next collapse

I criticize the criticizers.

HeathenPope@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 04:36 next collapse

Could’ve been worse. Could’ve been a shooting game.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 27 Jul 2024 04:37 next collapse

By “for” they mean “in favor of”, right?

Also, the past tense is “milkshook”.

Empricorn@feddit.nl on 27 Jul 2024 04:44 next collapse

Maybe he could have supported the opinions of the people he’s supposed to “represent”…?

Etterra@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 04:55 next collapse

He should just be happy that they’re not putting rocks in the milkshakes before throwing them.

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2024 05:18 collapse

And they’re throwing them at a picture of him.

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2024 05:17 next collapse

Nigel Farage’s fear of being the next target is a stark reminder of the dangers of political violence. The ‘toss a milkshake at Nigel Farage’ game at a Pride Festival is not just disrespectful, it’s a dangerous precedent.

Seriously? They were throwing milkshakes at a cardboard cutout of him. Seems pretty mild. You’d have to slide a fair way down the not-so-slippery slope to even get to throwing a milkshake at the real frog-faced twat, let alone trying to actually harm him.

IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 07:22 next collapse

I think this sub and half of reddit would lose their shit.

Progressives love to, just as much as anyone else, minimize stuff like this as joking while picking apart and analyzing every single phrase and action committed by the otherwise looking for anything that sticks. I fully believe if it were Obama the Internet would be screeching at each other about how it’s somehow racist.

kaffiene@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 08:10 next collapse

Oh rubbish. Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill

IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 09:01 collapse

Just locker room talk

kaffiene@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 22:15 collapse

Random words are random

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 10:41 collapse

Yes, attacking an effigy of a white racist and bigot is the equivalent of attacking an effigy of a black person who has shown no indication of being a racist or bigot. There’s no difference there at all.

snow_bunny@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 08:00 next collapse

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a milkshake is a good guy with a milkshake.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Jul 2024 08:49 collapse

That’s why I always open-carry a milkshake with me at all times

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 10:40 next collapse

Yeah, but Britain has been burning a guy in effigy once a year for centuries. Imagine if ‘Nigel Farage Day’ took over for ‘Guy Fawkes Day’ and instead of bonfires, you had thrown milkshakes everywhere! Imagine the mess! The smell! Britain can’t handle such things!

ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2024 12:11 collapse

But also - he has dedicated his entire career to openly harming others, not only marginalised people, but our entire society, for his own personal gain. If he can’t take the fucking harmless milkshake to the fucking face (or, honestly, any consequences to his very deliberate actions), maybe he should stop actively making the lives of the people in this country worse, and fuck off back to the bog he crawled out of. ¯\(ツ)

magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org on 27 Jul 2024 05:58 next collapse

Fuck that, if he wants to whine about it, make an effigy and burn the fucking thing on the end of a rope.

nehal3m@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2024 07:20 next collapse

Is the political class that chemically castrated Alan Turing for being gay ultimately causing his suicide bitching about a parlor game?

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SouthPark_canada@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2024 14:30 collapse

Average Edgy 16 yo. Congratulations 🎉

puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Jul 2024 09:41 next collapse

No decent person in the article criticized the game. It’s just Farage and his friend trying to play a victim card.

“And frankly, Chesterfield Pride needs to grow up, because they would not accept this if this was against a gay politician.”

If Farage was gay people would still throw milkshakes at him. Right wing politicians tend to concentrate on person’s identity and not what they say, because their own platform is just (conservative) identity politics without any policy to actually help people.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 10:38 collapse

If Farage was gay, people might be more inclined to throw milkshakes at him. People aren’t big fans of traitors.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 10:37 next collapse

“I’m all for a laugh, but this goes too far,” Farage said on Thursday. A Derbyshire local agreed, saying the game was “not just disrespectful, it’s a dangerous precedent.

If only irony could throw milkshakes…

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk on 27 Jul 2024 10:41 next collapse

Throwing pretend milkshakes at a pretend Nigel Farridge is disrespectful.

We should be burning effigies of him on bonfires.

ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2024 12:03 collapse

You’re mixing up traditions there, one is a cooling summer time activity, the other is reserved for helping light up the long winter nights (also - No Nige November has a nice ring to it 🤔), we can observe both!

<img alt="nige effigy" src="https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2A871T7/nigel-farage-effigy-lewes-bonfire-celebration-2019-2A871T7.jpg">

(effigy of Nige on its way to the bonfire a couple of years back)

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2024 15:02 collapse

the legendary Lewes bonfire no less

[deleted] on 27 Jul 2024 11:02 next collapse
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wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 11:55 next collapse

I can think of much better things to throw at him

ImSkinny@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2024 14:14 collapse

Indeed, like money for such a hero

DJDarren@thelemmy.club on 27 Jul 2024 12:26 next collapse

Criticised by who? Gammons?

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2024 12:35 next collapse

What a waste of milk, makes you cry

barsquid@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 16:00 next collapse

Oh, like criticized that milkshakes don’t go hard enough? Makes sense.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jul 2024 22:54 collapse

Oh no! Not criticism! How will they ever recover?