Yes

Because it would have been brianha Taylor or Deante Wright or one of the other hundreds of disproportionate Police killings that would have triggered it.
Its a time bomb thats been waiting to go off and George Floyd was the straw so to speak. Its too nuanced a conversation to be held on a simplistic one line back and forth basis but surely events of the last 6months in this country have shown that full blown racism, casual racism and other forms of bigotry haven't gone away.
Me personally, my family, it doesn't affect me that much, but with only a little bit of research, a little bit of open mindedness, a little bit of empathy, I can see that it does affect a lot ofnother people.
I don't consider that I "Have to put up" with any of it, as I say i feel that Galloways can sell their pies and also send out a message that they or their staff feel is necessary to support a cause without feeling enraged. They can put a jar on the counter for cancer research, the local scout club etc without me telling them that I'm not interested in what their interested in I just want to buy a pie and if they don't stop doing it I won't buy a pie. Of course you don't have to buy a pie, but that's up to you, if you want to put a donation in, buy a flag pin etc that's OK, if you don't you don't. But stopping buying a pie even though you agree that stopping cancer or supporting the local.scout hut is a good thing is a bit "i really don't know what word to use here, but I'll go with strange"".
But thats ok

What I would say is that the rates of disproportionate black deaths at the hands of police, racism on twitter, homophobic hate crimes, etc etc etc is still happening.
You can view that as the campaigns aren't working so what was the point
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You can view it as iys still happening we must try even harder

I know which one I'm behind

First of all, none of those you are aiming pot-shots at are responsible for that. The Gang of 4 have gone. Whelan and Mo have gone. All this was stitched up long before IL came on the scene. And none of the fans, even the 'arrogant' ones who 'ride on high horses' had any say in the matter and still don't.

Secondly, it's already been explained to us in painful detail why we can't have our own stadium at present. Even if we could afford one, the Council wouldn't let us. We would have to move outside of Wigan, which nobody wants.

Thirdly, I strongly doubt that the likes of Ratchford and Welsby (who I'm pretty sure was released by Wigan - it wasn't the other way round'), would only have played for us if we owned our own stadium. Seriously? Where on earth has that figment of imagination come from?

All the stars who have left us in recent years have left us to go to RU or the NRL. Not to Leeds, Saints or Warrington. GW came back to Warrington rather than us, but we all know why. They offered him a wage so ridiculously over what he's worth that he could hardly refuse.

The only way you're going to get what you seem to want - i.e. a stadium in Wigan that is purely for the use of Wigan RL - will be when Latics collapse. That may not be a long way off, but even if it happened next week, we'd then have to buy the DW ourselves, sell it and build another, smaller one. It's not going to happen overnight.

They were released by Wigan as youngsters. Ratchford wound up at Salford and Welsby (who I wasn’t aware was at Wigan once upon a time?) at Saints. There’s literally thousands of youth players Wigan have released over the years - me being one. Some went on to make Wigan regret it, others not. I don’t know what point you’re trying to prove here, what do you suggest we do? Keep hold of every youngster? Williams was never a Wigan player to sign. You’re picking and choosing players who didn’t sign for us, or who were actually RELEASED by the club to prove a point which is ludicrous - supposed world class players aren’t signing for Wigan because we don’t own a stadium, really? We’ve been in it for 22years and in that time we’ve signed;

Trent Barrett
Craig Smith
Brett Dallas
Steve Renouf
Paul Deacon
Stuart Fielden
Ryan Hoffman
Jeff Lima
Brett Finch
Jackson Hastings
George Burgess
Sam Tomkins
Mark Riddell
John Bateman

To name but a few. Jackson Hastings had a host of offers when leaving Salford, he signed for us. Bevan French hasn’t been short of suitors, he re-signed with us. Your argument has no basis whatsoever.

This “rot” isn’t really a rot seeing as we’ve won trophy after trophy and made final after final in the last 11years. I’ll take that kind of “rot” everyday of the week.

Keep wearing the blinkers!

Keep wearing the blinkers!

Alternatively, "I can't argue with a single one of the points you make, so I won't try."