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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
My intervention in The Discourse™ on racist white gays is merely to say that the LGBT rights movement in the UK - and politicians that liberalised laws - has often been characterised by what I call "low stakes liberalism".

#whitegays #LGBTQ
In other words they are willing to offer reforms & limitations on the state but only for the least contentious issues and for the least immiserated people in the LGBT community.

#whitegays #LGBTQ
This essentially means: allowing the gays to get married & have sex at 16 but radio silence on gay people being deported, radio silence on lesbians in Yarls Wood, discomfort at standing in solidarity with trans people.

#whitegays #lgbtq
This is why I always resent it when some right-wing tool brings up Blair & Cameron's record.

I mean yeah quite nice I can sign some legal forms with a bloke and have a service in a church, but so what if my fellow kin are being deported back to danger.

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princess diana is in all of us🚩👑 Profile picture
27 Mar
We need to come attuned to the fact that the methodology of policing deployed here is very clearly a policy choice coming from the top down.

Every time:

Wait till it's night. Use dogs and horses and batons. Turn a sit-in into a stand up angrier protest. Apply force

#Bristol
This is not an accident. This is not bad apples. This is not a one off isolated incident.

The same strategy & techniques happens every night. The same pattern of events without fail.

#killthebill
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They very obviously do it at night for a range of reasons: (a) less protesters at night, (b) more difficult to film police misconduct & (c) night-time is more disorientating/frightening for protesters being beaten up than in the day time.

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princess diana is in all of us🚩👑 Profile picture
26 Mar
A line in the sand please.

From now on *don't ever* allow the political right or anyone associated with the Conservative Party to *ever* offer moral lectures on freedom.

The #policebill is a disgrace as is the brutish policing of the #BristolProtest.

#killthebill
I personally never fell for the whole "Tory civil libertarian" shtick but I hope from now on more people have their eyes open about this.

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Results from how Parliament voted on the #PolicingBill. Just *where exactly* are these Tory "civil libertarians"? *Where* the hell are they?

votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/…

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princess diana is in all of us🚩👑 Profile picture
26 Mar
Obviously I'm not trying to erase or downplay the authoritarian tendencies pre existent in UK politics but watching this I can't help but feel like we're entering frankly new territory.

We are hurtling into authoritarianism - fast.

#BristolProtest
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Liberty is delicate and previous. It needs to be nurtured and ruggedly defended.

The spare, unequally distributed & contingent freedoms we have are being pulled from beneath us.

The lesson is obvious: don't allow them to do it.

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The lockdown is an instructive metaphor. The value of civil liberties is only appreciated when you have that stripped from you.

Imagine some of the tendencies & power techniques involved in this lockdown becoming permanent & refined.

That makes me angry.

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princess diana is in all of us🚩👑 Profile picture
25 Mar
No this is what ACORN do when they consistently irritate Labour politicians with direct action & community organising.
Why wait for a Labour government who may or may not get transport into public hands. We can fight for that to happen in our communities now.
ACORN are phenomenal. They are at the cutting edge of direct action politics right now in the UK.

It's just win after win. Victory after victory. Their methods & their model for social change is incredibly powerful & effective.
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princess diana is in all of us🚩👑 Profile picture
25 Mar
The 20th century fascist project was simply just the logic of colonialism applied to European states.

Viewed from that perspective, this tweet isn't as clever as it thinks it is...
The British flag isn't fascist, true, it's colonial. But fascism & fascist signifiers very much are colonial.

The distinctions are very slight.
Oh and if we want to make direct comparisons - the strategy of the concentration camp, even the usage of barbed wire to enclose people in spaces, derives from the British empire.
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24 Mar
The problem with this analysis is that it's all well and true but a considerable amount of people stated that this kind of thing was going to happen.

The only place where we were wrong was that we vastly understated quite how pointless and directionless Starmer was going to be.
Like most of us on the left find centrists to be a waste of space and all the rest - but Starmer is legitimately quite extraordinary. He seems to take this to astonishing levels. He isn't even bothering to oppose the government.
The Liverpool manoeuvre is notable - even Blair wouldn't do something as absurdly daft as that.
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