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Musa Okwonga
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The problem with Priti Patel’s dog-whistle is that those who hear it will never love her as much as she wants them to.
Priti Patel cheerleading for the end of freedom of movement, oblivious to Sajid Javid being thrown under the bus as soon as Trump came to the UK. When fascism enters the room, immigrants get swept under the carpet.
Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, Candace Owens and others are performing the role of “racial gatekeepers”. They validate far-right political positions, thinking that being non-white makes them immune from critique. They’re bouncers for nightclubs to which they’ll never be admitted.
I don’t have a SoundCloud - actually I do - but if you’d like to hear some analysis of racism not only within politics but within football and sport more generally, please listen to my @stadio podcast, co-hosted with @ryanhunn: shows.pippa.io/stadio/episode…
Obvious point - just adding it to this thread - how fitting it is that, just as Priti Patel claims that immigration laws will be tightened to benefit the world’s finest academics, this story about her Home Office breaks on the very same day. theguardian.com/education/2019…
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Musa Okwonga
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I am sharing this thread again on Priti Patel and "racial gatekeepers" since it seems to have struck a chord.

The ethos of the Racial Gatekeeper = my policies against [x] cannot be regressive, because I myself am of [x]. To escape my policies, [x] must be exceptional, like me.
The key thing to remember - having known people with Patel's worldview - is that being a Racial Gatekeeper is very lonely. It creates a genuine feeling that you are a member of a heroic and hounded minority, even though it is a membership of a cruel club you chose with relish.
The only way to evade the loneliness is to double down at every turn, to adopt views so extreme that that they startle even those you are trying to impress. You say the nastiest things you can with the biggest smile. Drawing fuel from adversity is all you have.
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Musa Okwonga
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1) If you don’t call people out for lies you get a post-truth society. The system has been gamed.
2) What a revealing tweet from the BBC's director of editorial policy, which reveals the flaw baked into the very base of the BBC. By that logic, all that it needs for a lie to spread on the BBC is for it to be aired. The far-right worked that out years and years ago.
3) The BBC's policies were likely drawn up in a room of socially and racially homogenous people who - and this is the most important point - were very possibly well-meaning and did not fully anticipate the motives of bad faith actors.
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Musa Okwonga
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1/ Reminder that "Traitor of the people" was selected as Germany's worst word of 2017, due in part to its "strong Nazi connotations". This language is no accident. thelocal.de/20170110/trait…
2/ One day - far too late - there's finally going to be serious discourse about the flow of ideas between the British and the German far-right. In the meantime, the British far-right will continue laughing at us, because they know we're not serious enough to have it.
3/ When that serious discourse finally happens, it is going to be led, to widespread applause, by the same people who spent years telling everyone who warned them to calm down.
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Why abruptly ending Freedom of Movement via secondary legislation as proposed by Priti Patel is reckless politics.

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