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Conservative MP Tim Loughton has warned against the “silence is violence” argument used during Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the country. Speaking with talkRADIO’s Julia Hartley-Brewer, the Home Affairs Select Committee member debated the removal of statues in the rallies against racial injustice, after a memorial to slave trader Edward Colston was torn down in Bristol. "There is a modern tendency where if you don't agree with the latest campaign, woke, trendy or whatever you want to call it, then you must be against the principles it stands.
That is deeply, deeply dangerous,” he said. Mr Loughton added: "The default position is we hate racism. When we see it, we root it out and make sure it's clamped down as much as possible. "Everybody from every background has every opportunity to succeed. That should be what we can all sign up to, rather than if you don't sign up to this and you're not in favour of pulling down a statue then you must be a racist."
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