A fairly hefty chunk of the various rightwing shitstains pretending to give a fuck about anti-semitism in the Labour party would personally direct a second Holocaust if it would somehow stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister
The right wing gutter press have cheerfully and with hatred in their hearts turned the single greatest crime in human history into a political football then made rabid, lurid, absurd accusations of anti-semitism against anyone who dare call them out for it
These fuckers aren't just passively disinterested in the issue, they're gleefully willing to make it borderline impossible to sensibly discuss the incredibly serious and dangerous issue of racism because they're worried and old many might raise their taxes 2%
Is there anti-semitism in the Labour party? Yes. Why? Because it's an organisation that has about half a million people in it and is probably the political organisation that's most representative of the UK, a country which is, to quote Bagehot "A racist piece of shit"
The obvious question is 'is the Labour party more anti-semitic than the general public' and the obvious answer is 'no'.
Some have suggested that no amount of racism is acceptable, and they're right. However those same people seem blithely accepting - or are even cheerleaders for - racism absolutely anywhere except within Labour
This country and indeed the world at large is currently hurtling down a path that looks frighteningly similar to that this earth took during the 1930s. Thanks to these disingenuous witch hunt red scare fucks, fighting the forces of fascism is now march harder than it needs be
May every single one of the nasty Tory, Daily Mail, Express, Sun and Telegraph fucks who knowingly and energetically toxified the national debate with this weird smear campaign die weird, painful yet strangely hilarious deaths, possibly involving falling pianos.
It boils my piss, and not just because of the obvious failure to apply consistent standards, or the fact that these brave warriors against anti-semitism don't care if it happens anywhere that cant be connected somehow to Corbyn
It enrages me because at no time in my life has there been a greater likelihood of some grand pogrom or genocide occurring here, in the west, targeting any number of minorities or all of them.
Yet instead of confronting this looming threat of untold suffering, the press is bankrupting the nation's ability to give a fuck about these kind of things by crying wolf for political ends. If and when the wolf does come, I hope it devours those lying bastards first.
Youve been reading 'angry thread', part of an occasional series where Jonnie projects his fears and frustrations about life in ngeneral onto a particular news story that's also really fucking pissing him right off.
You weren't actually listed amongst the many bastards upon whom I wished bad things but now you've outed yourself:
A.) Act like it then...
B.) It is absurd and terrifying that a major national publication believes the opposition should be held to a higher standard than the actual government, which is currently comprised of two of Britain's most racist major parties. And yes, that includes anti-semitism.
To trying and give an analogy here: what you've done is akin to reporting, repeatedly in major headlines, that the Labour party is radioactive, without at any point explaining the concept of background radiation or remarking that this doesn't make them unusual.
The problem with the above analogy is that if you'd done that it would merely be daft. Instead what you're doing is actively dangerous to pretty much every person living in this country particularly vulnerable people and ethnic minorities.
You care about racism everywhere. If that's true, fantastic. But your colleagues certainly don't. They're far more concerned with anti-semitism in Labour than, say, the actual ethnic cleansing directed at the Windrush generation, or sentencing discrepancies, or Tory Islamophobia
I'd like you to take a look back through your magazine and evaluate just how much ink you've spilled on this story compared to, say, pretty much any story concerning racism directed towards BAME people. I'm not suggest the NS is racist, at least no more so than the general public
But I am suggesting you found this story chimed with your particular demographic of 'people who don't like Corbyn but haven't thought of a reason why yet' more than, say, the ongoing and chronic crisis in Calais would have.
I'll also admit I haven't read your mag in forever so if it's actually all in-depth coverage of important policy issues and not mindless Westminster gossip aside transphobic opinion pieces I do sincerely apologise, but you should fire whoever does the cover
Sorry if it seems like I've been unnecessarily vicious to the NS here but I really haven't. They should fire everyone who works there and hire people 20 years younger who don't already own their own homes and whose most formative political memory isn't the 1997 election.
Go ahead and do a statistical analysis. I'm gonna be shocked if you've run more articles on Windrush and Calais combined than you have Labour antii-semitism
Also Jasper makes a fair point here; i kept saying 'magazine' because the NS is so intensely irrelevant to my existence i didn't even know they had a website. Jasper runs that. So let's look at this week's top stories:
Honestly though I don't want to focus too much on the NS. They aren't responsible for this story, they're just following the herd. It's lazy and irresponsible rather than evil. However, I will say this: stop publishing transphobic articles you bunch of genital obsessed weirdos.
Also, for safety's sake, nothing here is coded language for Jewish. When I say the media i mean the media, but particularly a specific section of it who tend to be coked up three-drinks-at-lunch waspy little fucks who'll literally tap dead children's phones for stories
Now I'm going to watch OITNB, so please kindly fuck off out of my computer.
Here's a textbook example of what I'm talking about. Robert Peston, an extremely prestigious and respected journalist, heavily implies, using the kind of evidence you might find on Infowars that Corbyn *is* secretly anti-semitic
Leaving aside the fact that it would surely be the director, editor or cameraman who were anti-semitcally not being very good at their jobs*, this is a classic example of the wolf-crying bullshit that makes me really, really fucking angry.
I'd really love to say that the possibility of someone covertly moving manoeuvring their way into power whilst disguising their far right views was, at present, an impossibility. Jacob-Rees-Mogg or, for a longer game, Boris Johnson spring to mind.
We might one day genuinely discover real evidence that someone close to power was planning to use military force against unwanted ethnic populations, or deny NHS coverage to anyone who wasn't three generations British. Or, as the anals of history teach us, it could be far worse.
We could have evidence that such monstrous events were imminent, despite, official assurance to the contrary. Such information, properly wielded, could help prevent tragedies an withhold power from the truly dangerous.
No sane individual could possibly think Corbyn was secretly telegraphing anti-semitic messages through camera angles. Yet thanks to @Peston's shoddy, irresponsible and infantile journalism, that's the story the public is being told
So when shit and fan finally make their dangerous liaison, the tyrants on the cusp of tyranny will be able to point to @Peston's words as an example of a time the media were not only wrong but hysterical in their hatred. The atrocities that follow will belong in part to @Peston
*runs finger down to-do list, ticks off 'accuse Robert Peston of war crimes Minority Report style*
This slightly discombobulating style is used in quite a number of political videos. It was, for example, used regularly by both Obama and Trump. This is the sort of fact you might already expect to be inside the brain of, let's say, Robert fucking @Peston

To some of you this probably all sounds daft, others probably think I'm making some sort of circuitous point to defend Corbyn. I'm on the far left and I like many of his policies, but I could take or leave the man himself.
I mean, he seem nice. He's got an allotment, makes jam. There's a pleasing 'to own the fash' factor about him where he seems to annoy people in a way that's almost a litmus test for being an utter prick.But he's weighted with baggage and sometimes slapdash about the fundamentals
But it's hardly like the establishment forces of this country would e happy letting someone - anyone! - else rebalance the status quo in favour of the poor. No, the threat will be the same: lose the pinko or we'll make this a fundamentally unsafe place to be
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