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Jul 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Woody Allen continues to make films. Scarlett Johansson is still paid millions to act. Laurence Fox's last TV series was released 2 months ago. Jenna Marbles' YouTube channel remains. Jimmy Kimmel is still paid $15m a year to present.

"Cancel culture" is becoming meaningless.
All too often, "cancel culture" becomes a means for very rich and very powerful people to pretend they are victims when people respond to very controversial things they have used their huge public platform to say.
I'm also keeping a tally of the commentators launching passionate public tirades against "cancel culture" who have tried to menace my job because I support trans rights or speak out about endemic media racism.

Oh dear oh dear!
To those saying: "one day the mob will come for you!"

Well, actually, they already have: I was attacked by a far right extremist because I'm a gay socialist.

Is that cancel culture, or is the real problem people criticising celebrities on twitter? theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/j…
All the people currently tweeting that I deserved to be beaten up by a far right extremist with a house stuffed full of Nazi and Combat 18 memorabilia are the same people complaining that the left are trying to cancel different opinions.

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Nov 11
The claim that the BBC has a pro-trans bias is absolutely and completely insane.

Let's start with this case study.

The BBC published a piece claiming trans women were preying on lesbians.

It was based on an anti-trans group, a bogus study, and someone with hateful views.Image
The BBC Today programme Justin Webb makes ZERO effort to disguise his views on trans rights.

Name a prominent BBC presenter who goes on air making clear their pro-trans views in the same way.

Clue: You will not find them! Image
In actual fact, LGBTQ+ staff at the BBC report being prevented on reporting on the actual lived experience of trans people.

Many simply left the Corporation as a result.

And those with so-called "gender critical" views are in prominent leadership positions.
Read 7 tweets
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Nov 6
We said - all along - that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned because of THEIR hooliganism.

And we were right.

You have been lied to your government.

You have been lied to by your media.

This should be a national scandal. Image
The government and media spread the disgusting lie that Maccabi fans were banned for being Jewish.

In doing so, they:

- Smeared Birmingham

- Whipped up anti-Muslim bile

All to protect some racist football hooligans from a foreign genocidal state!
In a rational world, both @Keir_Starmer and @lisanandy should resign.

They whipped up a national firestorm to protect some racist football hooligans from a genocidal state.

They smeared those who told the froth as antisemites.

Utterly disgusting.
Read 4 tweets
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Nov 3
Where is the Western media outrage?

A Palestinian man was gang raped by Israeli soldiers.

That triggered PRO-RAPE riots in Tel Aviv (not an exaggeration!)

While the IDF's chief lawyer is under arrest for leaking the video OF THE RAPE.
The original BBC headline framed the scandal as being over the video of the rape being leaked.

Rather than the ACTUAL GANG RAPE. Image
After uproar, the BBC updated the headline.

But it still doesn't include the word 'rape'.

In fact nowhere in the article does it refer to the detainee being raped. Allegedly or otherwise.

Why? For what reason?

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…Image
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Oct 28
Because British political journalists and columnists

a) are politically hostile to the left

b) don’t see the left as legitimate political actors

c) think “legitimate concerns” includes backlash at migrants, but not economic injustice

d) don’t understand the left
Political journalism isn’t about allowing voters to make informed decisions, thus enhancing democracy.

It’s about setting and policing the parameters of political debate - determining everything from what’s considered extreme, to what’s considered scandalous.
In practise, most British political journalism reduces politics to a character driven Westminster soap opera, based on who is up or down.

But this is itself highly ideological, because it’s based on embedding what’s seen as “serious” and politically acceptable.
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Aug 5
55.6% of Jewish Israelis say they are "not at all troubled" by the "reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza".

Another 23.4% are "not so troubled".

Only 13.5% say "somewhat troubled".

Just 6.7% say "very troubled".

This is genocidal mania.
Genocidal mania has three components:

1) Ethnic chauvinism

2) Victimhood

3) Impunity

Mix those three factors together and you will have catastrophic consequences, as we can all see.
Serb nationalism in the 1990s had ethnic chauvinism and victimhood.

The Serbs were victims of genocide at the hands of Croatian Nazi collaborators in World War II, and suffered atrocities in the Balkans wars.

Serb nationalism simultaneously preached ethnic superiority.
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Jul 6
I've got ADHD, Joanne.

It comes with the territory.

Now we've cleared that up:

What's the explanation for The World's Number One Women's Rights Defender™ saying zero, zilch, nada about the impact of Israel's genocide on Palestinian women?

Here's a thread on what JK won't say Image
70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.

@jk_rowling says nothing. Image
In the first year, Israel's genocide exterminated more women and children in Gaza than in any comparable conflict in the 21st century.

@jk_rowling says nothing. Image
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