This is "the personal is political", rescued from the 1970s.
I.e., let virtue signalling obscure awareness of your material interests, to let bogus grievance mongers and race-baiters award themselves endless privileges at your expense.
You might be a socialist black man, or a capitalist Asian woman. But Femi and this TikToker want to claim that the black man and Asian woman should not discuss their political ideas, only the colour of their skin.
In order to do this, they have invented the idea of political parties 'openly' {sic} representing racism/homophobia/misogyny.
This reduces politics to a battle between identities, to displace democratic contest between ideas about how society & the economy should be managed.
So to paraphrase her: "don't talk about the economy, jobs or education; we only need to look at bullshit equality statistics to understand how best these things should be managed".
She argues for the continued marginalisation and immiseration of people she claims to speak for.
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Within months of having been formed, XR were invited to give evidence to Parliamentary committees, and had an hour long meeting with @michaelgove, in which he agreed with nearly everything their said.
Here's XR founder Gail Bradbrook speaking to the @beisgovuk committee.
But they won't tell you what degree of sacrifice you're expected to make for 'future generations', nor what kind of thinking they have used to find a 'balance' between people who exist and people who do not exist. You don't get a say.
They will say "sustainable/sustainability" a lot. But they won't be able to say what burden making everything 'sustainable' means for you. Because if you object to vague waffle about 'sustainability' that means you want things to be unsustainable, right? And that's crazy!
It's a law against the material interests of the British population, mandating the further transfer of wealth and political power away from them, towards special interests.
If it doesn't get repealed, it will lead to conflict.
You can set all the targets you like, and dress it up in as many nice-sounding words as so many wonks can generate. But none of it has been backed by a single vote, and it is the single most regressive act since the Inclosures.
The reversal of economic growth and suffrage has consequences.
Ecological mysticism: "COVID-19 is not a random event. It is a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying the living planet and killing off our magnificent wildlife."
Thousands will cheer him. Mostly from positions of historically unprecedented levels of affluence. The claim surely cannot be denied.
Monbiot: "Around three-quarters of new diseases that infect humans come from other animals. In the case of COVID-19, scientists believe the virus originated in the wild bat population before being transmitted to humans."
"I have no idea what someone's intention was, but I am going to call them a white supremacist racist for using an emoji anyway. Because that's much easier."
He thinks Fox should be aware of the hidden racism encoded in an emoji, but not that he should have tried to understand Fox's statement before pronouncing on it.