"I'm ready to fight": Kevin Reza, the only black cyclist at this year's Tour de France, wants cycling to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement

Judge dreadful wrote:

I would have sympathy for him, but 'Black lives matter' was co founded by a criminal who was done for child trafficking, which is modern slavery, which ( slavery ) is what these idiots profess to despise. Oh no hypocrite alert. 

Ridiculous.

Would be simpler to just say openly that you don't want equality for people regardless of the colour of their skin.

It's like refusing to support the aims of Exctinction Rebellion simply because one of their leaders took a journey on a plane 10 years ago or that 19th century workers don't deserve the support of a union because one of them had fraternised with a Luddite. BURN THEM ALL!

Is it OK to refuse to support XR because zero carbon by 2025 is a ludicrous aim?

Or is it more ludicrous to believe that we can carry on as we are without taking drastic action, with the polar ice caps melting & the West of America on fire?

HarrogateSpa wrote:

Or is it more ludicrous to believe that we can carry on as we are without taking drastic action, with the polar ice caps melting & the West of America on fire?

The polar icecaps will take around 1500 years to melt even if we started napalming all the worlds forest.

If you took XRs claims at face value the only reasonable course of action would be letting the cruise missiles fly into every fossil powerstation.

As a technolgoist I'm relatively confident that we will see an almot complete decarbonisation by 2050 without a vast amount of central planning and with quite a large amount of stranded assets in oil and gas.

With regards BLM and similar cycling would be very well served as a sport by expansion into other non traditional countries, fortunately as a sport of the rich it is only being assisted by the general trend for global incomes equalising.

massive4x4 wrote:

HarrogateSpa wrote:

Or is it more ludicrous to believe that we can carry on as we are without taking drastic action, with the polar ice caps melting & the West of America on fire?

The polar icecaps will take around 1500 years to melt even if we started napalming all the worlds forest.

Unfortunately, only a small fraction of that melting needs to happen in order to cause devastating effects around the world.

You're going to refuse support to a group because they're being too ambitious in an emergency?

Don’t get riled up by Judge dreadful. Have sympathy for him. He’s 43, still lives with his mum and he’s never touched a lady’s boobs. I suspect he’s also hung like a button mushroom. Trolling is all he has.

Judge dreadful wrote:

I would have sympathy for him, but 'Black lives matter' was co founded by a criminal who was done for child trafficking, which is modern slavery, which ( slavery ) is what these idiots profess to despise. Oh no hypocrite alert. 

Bull.  Absolute bull.

Which of the three women who co-founded the movement are you accusing of child trafficking?

Judge dreadful wrote:

I would have sympathy for him, but 'Black lives matter' was co founded by a criminal who was done for child trafficking, which is modern slavery, which ( slavery ) is what these idiots profess to despise. Oh no hypocrite alert. 

Totally agree with you, people should be very wary of the agenda of BLM, one of their aims is to abolish capitalism. So say goodbye to your expensive carbon bikes, they don't want them. Corporate sponsorship of cycling, also out of the window. This is why so many F1 teams (and football teams) will not support BLM.

Really pleased to see "No to racism" on facemasks though, truth is that many sports in the UK are mainly white middle class participants. We need to encourage more diversity.