Thread by @garius

Okay, a quick serous thread on why "you can't laugh at politicians you don't like being milkshaked without being a hypocrite" is utter bollocks.

It is possible to find something both:

1) A sorry reflection on the state of public discourse in Britain
2) Fucking hilarious

This is called nuance. Indeed one might argue that the inability of the extreme right AND left to accept that nuance exists is part of the problem here.

More importantly, the milkshake situation exists PRECISELY BECAUSE the hard right have utterly ABANDONED the norms of political discourse

They have lied, repeatedly, about immigration, Brexit and social welfare, and revelled in the fact that they have faced no consequence for it

The hard right can clutch as many pearls as they want, but milkshakings aren't the BREAKING of the social /political contract, they are a CONSEQUENCE of the fact that THEY broke it.

It's no DIFFERENT from the false outrage they launch at the law when the defendant isn't the 'right sort'. Sorry, but to quote a Man for All Seasons:

"And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?"

The same applies here. They BROKE the norms, they DO NOT get to try and hide behind them, or fake outrage now.

If anything they deserve MORE scorn and anger for not only breaking those unwritten rules, but being too fucking stupid or callous to think about the consequences.

So yeah. Fascists getting milkshaked is funny. They deserve it. For both the poison and hate they spout, and BECAUSE they were the ones who burned down the social rules they are now crying and trying to hide behind.

Oh, and remember this kids:

Strawberry stains. Vanilla doesn't