Quite a disturbing story on the front of tomorrow's times.
Trevor Phillips accusing the city of Liverpool of wallowing in victim status.
Have we not fucking got rid of this shit?
Victim status? A city consistently kicked and decried, accused of being scrounges, thieves and worse.
I see a proud city, a city that is home to the sports and arts like no other. A city that is strong enough to say that this is wrong. This needs changing. A city that is proud of what it stands for.
I'm not from Liverpool myself, but my family are, and I love the city, a genuinely unique and special place, vibrant and diverse, loving and passionate.
Fuck you Trevor Phillips.
Let's not forget The Times was the only newspaper along with the s*n not to put the Hillsborough inquest results on the front page. That wasn't worthy of a front page article, but accusing us of wallowing in victim status is. Barrett knew the score there and jibbed them. They're owned by Murdoch, i'm sure he's well aware of the fact that he's been roundly rejected by merseyside and any more insults he throws our way from the s*n will just make him seem even more despicable than he already is. We've helped get his old buddy Kelvin suspended, and hopefully sacked, it doesn't surprise me one of his other outlets is now attacking us.
As for Trevor Phillips, he's a member of the labour party, I hope he'll be having his membership rescinded. You can judge a man by the company he keeps, and he's good friends with Kelvin Mackenzie. The fact that he was the head of the EHRC but is happy to defend such a vile, bigoted man as Mackenzie and attack an entire city of people would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing.
I'd like for Trevor Phillips to be asked for some examples of us "wallowing in victim status" because once you get past Hillsborough, i'm not sure what you can say about the entire city as we aren't really a united force on any other subject. And if his response is Hillsborough based, well that shows him up for the piece of shit that he is. They accused of of wallowing in victim status and being "whinging scousers" for decades, but we were right, and the history books will show we were right. So this smug twat from London can get to fuck if he thinks he knows a single damn thing about this city.
Of course, as a man who's supposedly spent his career fighting for equality, he'd be outraged if somebody made a comment calling black people more aggressive or stupider, but he's more than happy to regurgitate the stereotypes about scousers. Sat in a nice metro pub, drinking his £7 pint with his friends, scoffing about those scumbag scousers whinging again.
Now i'm not going to even dare put being a scouser in the same category as blacks or asians, but it baffles me how such open bigotry (and that's what it is, bigotry) is acceptable. Why is it ok to stereotype an entire city of people? If there's one thing i'd love to do, it's carry out a report on the affect a scouse accent has on job opportunity or people's opinion on such. Statistics already show people judge scouse accent as the least friendly and trustworthy. People I actually speak to who have either lived in the city or visited it have nothing but good to say. The ones who hate it almost uniformly have no experience here and just spout stereotypes they heard from c*nts like old Kelvin.
If I speak to a black man and the first thing I say is "Don't rob me!" i'd get an awkward reaction followed by being told to fuck off by everybody around me. If I speak to somebody and they hear my accent, "Don't rob me!" would be a hilarious one liner to open with. Both "jokes" are factually incorrect, but one is harmless banter. Even though the figures clearly show Liverpool consistently having one of the lowest crime rates of the major cities (far below London and Manchester) and is consistently voted the friendliest place by visitors to the city. We live in a post facts world of Brexit, Trump etc but this ignorance has been going on for way longer, before I was even born.
At football matches, you'll see people from Hull, Middlesborough, Stoke singing about benefits or Liverpool being a shithole. Places in way worse states than Liverpool, and people from supposedly left leaning cities who should know the pain and suffering caused by Thatcher and Tory governments. But "haha stupid lazy, thieving scousers, get a job! What's that? Some posh southerner is calling me a poor, uneducated scumbag, what a twat!"
But when it comes to scousers, ignorant stereotypes and mocking lack of funding and jobs is ok. It's all just hilarious #lad banter. And if anybody who isn't a Liverpool fan is reading this, yeah I do have a chip on my shoulder, and with good fucking reason. This shite has to be called out or things will never change. I hope in future generations, people will cringe when they see a thieving scouser on the tele or a "thieving scouser" line in an article, like we do now when we look at the bigotry in old movies and TV shows.
I made a similar post in the Everton thread a couple weeks back, but fuck them, fuck them all. That's exactly why I never want to leave Merseyside. I couldn't be happy living in a city with these kind of c*nts.
