Boris Johnson's fake race commission report is a #whitewash & an insult to UK ethnic minorities.
Despite overwhelming evidence, it DENIES institutional racism, & borrowing from the the National Front, has the gall to focus on the "white working class".
From #Windrush & #Grenfell to the disproportionate amount of deaths in childbirth, from stop & search to #COVID-related deaths - evidence of institutional & structural racism is CRYSTAL CLEAR.
What a nasty, grotesque & disturbing insult to millions of decent British people.
Foregrounding "white working class" educational attainment is pure gaslighting: in 2019 the least educational progress was made by Irish Traveller & Gypsy/Roma Heritage kids, technically "white working class" - but what a grotesque & contemptuous ideological distortion of truth.
For our Government to AGAIN simply ignore the truth & reject facts, & to pretend certain minorities are not subject to relentless demonization, scapegoating & institutional & structural racism, just confirms how that we have BY FAR the most shamelessly corrupt Govt in UK history.
According to Sir William Macpherson, #institutionalracism "can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes & behaviour that amount to discrimination through prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, & racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people." #RacismReport
NOBODY should be surprised that the institutionally racist UK Govt - which fits perfectly the #MacphersonReport definition of #institutionalracism - would commission a #racismreport about institutional racism written by people with a long history of denying institutional racism.
The inquiry found that this institutional #racism extended beyond the Met Police:
"Our conclusions as to Police Services should not lead to complacency in other institutions & organisations. Collective failure is apparent in many of them, including the Criminal Justice system."
Instead of pandering to racists, bigots, & the far-right, the UK Govt should welcome asylum seekers with open arms - not whip up anger & hatred by demonizing them & those who help them.
Sadly, rabid intolerance - among both press & government - has a strong British pedigree.
The Daily Mail has been an 'anti-alien' newspaper since the 1900s - great continuity - & the Daily Express on the run-up to the EU referendum was utterly grotesque.
These antiquated, inhumane, & revolting attitudes appearing in our press & amplified by the UK Govt - especially the cruel & shameless Home Secretary Priti Patel - permeate British society & keep rancid ideas alive which belong in the dustbin of history.
1 in 5 of the 2019 @Conservatives worked in lobbying or PR for corporate interests, & four of Britain’s largest lobbying firms now have at least one former employee in parliament.
Britain is a for-profit corporation, run on behalf powerful shareholders.
Lobbying is a problem for democracy as it often substitutes 'special' interests for the interests expressed by voters, exacerbated by a lack of transparency: knowledge of lobbyists' activities is not sufficiently available to allow scrutiny or informed democratic decision making.
The transition from welfarism & social democracy to neoliberalism has significantly heightened the problem of lobbying because it has triggered a massive increase in the practice.
The perception & the fact of undue corporate influence has thereby dramatically increased.
A THREAD about neoliberalism & corporate propaganda.
For forty years, neoliberal economic & political policies have profoundly shaped our present by introducing a form of hyper-deregulated hyper-free-market capitalism, with four main attributes:
1 Shrinking the role of the state;
2 Centrality of the market to enable the buying & selling of goods & services & drive economic growth
3 Risk is a central organising concept;
4 Collective responsibility replaced with a competitive individualism driven by self-responsibility.
A corporation is basically a large company or group of companies authorised to act as a single entity & recognized as such in law: a legal entity distinct from its owners, which enjoys most of the rights & responsibilities that individuals possess.
In the wake of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the London G20 protests in 2009, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary proposed a number of reforms aimed at making public order policing strategies more ‘human-rights compliant’.
One significant development was the introduction of 'Protest Liaison Officers' whose role is supposed to be to build links between police & protesters through the establishment of dialogue & relationships based on trust.
Obviously, given scenes in Bristol, this is not the case.
Scholars started to examine the complex interplay between these practices & the more overt forms of Police coercion & control experienced by protesters.
This research shows that official accounts contrast sharply with the experiences & material conditions faced by protesters.
I wonder if Laurence Fox knows that in 2017 the US alt-right embraced #milk as a symbol of white supremacism, with infamous white supremacist Richard Spencer & far-right 'social media personality' Tim 'Baked Alaska' Treadstone both adding milk symbols to their Twitter profiles?
Many dismiss bigoted rants on #MilkTwitter as nothing more than irony targeting the humourless PC brigade. But irony/ambiguity are used by alt-right trolls who seek to exploit Poe’s Law (it’s almost impossible to distinguish satire from sincerity online.)
Two of the most notorious far-right accounts in America - using the milk symbol - 'just for laughs'.
Why am I bothering with this? I think winking at the far-right to appear 'edgy' is irresponsible, & 'd prefer the UK not to simply replicate the USA over the last few years.