Comments by "Kimberly Perrotis" (@kimberlyperrotis8962) on "Labour Has Lost the Working Class Forever: David Starkey" video.

  1. I’m just an American, but I have always been very interested in British history. I’m pretty clueless about current events in your country, but I always watch Dr. Starkey’s talks about them anyway. I enjoy them and always, always learn more about history from them, even about that of my own country. I just don’t understand why he hasn’t yet received a knighthood. I think he got some other honor, but even this American knows that’s just not the same as being called Sir David. He’s done more to educate us in the Anglosphere, and beyond it, about our common history and government systems than any other living individual. I find it difficult to understand why rock musicians and star athletes get knighthoods instead of him. Yes, they brought money into your economy, but so does Dr. Starkey’s work, lots of it. Many of us Americans watch everything he puts out there. He has made millions of people interested in history, and shown how that history continues to affect our daily lives, is that not a great thing? I think it’s wonderful, he’s wonderful!
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  2. I couldn’t care less what Elon Musk has to say, he’s not British, what does he know? Sadly, people thinks he has some special knowledge, even magic, because he’s rich, but he doesn’t, no one from outside a particular country should make such inflammatory remarks about another people they don’t understand. As an American, I got so sick of people from all over the world, who have never even been here or could understand the English-language news about them, telling us what’s wrong with us when we had those racial-justice riots a few years ago. All I can comment on is my own experience in my own country. When I went to the police to report my ex-boyfriend having beaten me up, and worse, they told me they didn’t believe me, and they investigated if I had a criminal record, which I don’t. They didn’t investigate him! I’m white, he was black, and they were so afraid to be perceived as prejudiced that they did nothing. It took four more attacks and police reports, including one over kidnapping, abduction and two weeks of his imprisoning me, before they finally did anything at all. I had to persist, even though they deeply shamed me, not just to keep him away from me, but to protect other women he would have come across. I’m disgusted with these cowards, not every domestic violence accusation is just some woman lying to get back at her boyfriend for an argument, nor is reporting or investigating these crimes racial prejudice. Thank God the District Attorney had the guts to prosecute the case, he was ultimately convicted on nine criminal charges, mostly felonies, and so was taken off the streets for ten years (he would have been in prison longer if not for the pandemic’s early-release - they felt they had to do something to reduce the inmate death rate). Early in the DA’s initial investigation, they found nine(!) other victims of his, all women and children, he had beaten, raped, molested and imprisoned, but none had reported it to the police! He had even called one of the victims and offered to pay her for false testimony on his behalf! It feels like a crime to be white these days, but it’s not like we can help it! This country is historically guilty of many systemic crimes against blacks and other minorities like Japanese-Americans, but these were mostly decades before I was born. I don’t feel I should be punished for them now. Good and bad people come in all skin colors, ethnic and religious backgrounds in about equal proportions, no group should be “specially protected” in my opinion. Whatever happened to “equality before the law”?
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