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David Baddiel Profile picture
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Sep 16, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Keen to know how a hashtag celebrating the idea of the death of a living woman trended for over a day on this platform devoted apparently to the removal of hate speech.
I note some saying I've missed the nuance between calling for her actual death and the death of her career/credibility. This would be similar I guess to missing the nuance between "an author" and "one aspect of one of her characters".
I note also that one person said I'd swallowed the right-wing narrative. You see that a lot on here: no intellectual perspective, just stamping the point you don't agree with as "Wrong Tribe".

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Nov 22, 2022
David is still off Twitter, but he’s aware of the amazing messages some of you have posted about his Jews Don’t Count doc last night and is very thankful. It’s available on @All4 here channel4.com/programmes/dav…
The Reviews are in theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
inews.co.uk/culture/televi…
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Nov 20, 2022
Did this thing. Sorry about pic which seems to include mustard socks.
thetimes.co.uk/article/03f8a3…
As ever it’s very reduced versions of more nuanced things I said. But quite like this bit. Image
What I mean is: no one’s life is a failure. The damage and the fuck ups and the setbacks make you who you are as much as the good stuff.
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Oct 20, 2022
That speech contained the words "to take advantage of the opportunities of Brexit." That's the key. The first actual real attempt to make the UK Singapore-on-Thames spectacularly failed. The entire shitty shit show needs to be seen in that light.
This came up on the Today programme this morning but quickly dismissed because "the country voted for it and we don't want to talk about that again." But thats like discussing why someone has lung cancer and saying "Lets not talk about the fact that they were a long-term smoker."
I'm watching @BBCnews now and @chrismasonBBC is talking about the astonishing nature of this collapse. Without mentioning Brexit again. It's not astonishing because *what she tried to impose was the logical conclusion of the Brexit ideal*.
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Oct 19, 2022
Accountability is fine. What isn't fine is the idea that the main mechanism of accountability should be Twitter.
Because to do so ignores the performative-ness, the tribalism, the madness of crowds, the control of the space by Big Tech with their own interests, the lack of nuance - a 1000 things. Social media can generate social justice, obviously. And it can also generate pure bullying.
Jaron Lanier argues that what social media activates - what its economics thrive on - is the lizard brain which spectates most ferociously on conflict and on others humiliation. So. That in itself is a reason not to assume its moral direction of travel is always good.
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Sep 9, 2022
Emmanuel Macron’s insight that Elizabeth II represented “a sense of eternity” is the best explanation I’ve so far read as to why she inspired this level of veneration.
Humans do, after all, always crave that sense, endlessly inventing myths to satisfy it. See: religion.
The present veneration was of course planned for years, from a time when people were reflexively deferential and no platform existed for dissenting voices. So there’s quite a dissonance between the wall to wall respect on mainstream media and some hardcore non respect on here.
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May 21, 2022
I have no idea if Jennifer has any awareness or not of how conspiracy theories like The Great Reset/Replacement always leads to the same place, but the people following her seem to.
It's instructive that both these theories have "The Great" attached to them. Because the most important thing a conspiracy theory needs to do is confer, on the person who believes in it, a sense of significance.
The heart of the believer must beat in excitement at the thought "At last! I have discovered the dark truth about how the world is organised!" And this is less likely to work if they are called things like The Local Parking Permit Illuminati.
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