Pretty much every #GBNews presenter has demonized & voiced vicious & divisive criticism of "woke" academics & Universities for sensibly considering the legacies of British colonialism & Empire & their potential role in contemporary #racism.
At least three other brands have suspended advertising on the divisive populist nationalist #GBNews: Kopparberg, Grolsch & Nivea have bravely distanced themselves from the toxic free-market supporting #propaganda channel. The LAST thing we need is more US style culture war crap.
Andrew Neil's "anti-elite" "news" channel, puking out divisive populist nationalist tripe, is funded by LORD Farmer & LORD Spencer (both ex-Tory Party treasurers), hedge-funder SIR Paul Marshall, US BILLIONAIRE run media group Discovery, & the Dubai-based pro-free-market Legatum.
Following an ADVERTISING BOYCOTT, the 'News of the World' closed. A Tory MP said it was "toxic on almost every level.. the country after (it closes) will be a better place.. an organization which has corrupted our political system."
NOTW's Dan Wooton: it had "great standards".
The #StopFundingHate campaign is gaining traction - many companies are publicly stating they won't advertise on #GBNews.
Reminds me of when the *divisive populist-nationalist culture-war-fueling foreign-billionaire-funded* 'News Of The World' closed after an advertising boycott.
#GBNews' Gaslighter in Chief Andrew Neil had the audacity to say that “we believe the British appetite for endless gloom, doom, blame & divisive argument is waning": GB News is by far THE most DIVISIVE channel in the UK, with him & his presenters BLAMING "the woke" for EVERYTHING
Gaslighter Andrew Neil also claimed #GBNews' “facts must be well-sourced & accurate, conspiracy & disinformation will not be tolerated & mistakes will be quickly acknowledged & rectified.”
Last night a guest went unchallenged when claiming COVID ventilators were killing people.
People should be free to say & think whatever they like. But when a propaganda channel explicitly demonizes millions of decent people as "woke" & is stuffed with presenters who have spent years accusing, insulting & blaming academics like me for doing our jobs, they can #FUCKOFF
I wasn't going to get involved in the #StopFundingHate campaign against the elite libertarian funded #GBNews, but having seen snippets of it & endured the toxic divisive culture war crap spouted by their delusional presenters for years, fuck it. Britain is not America. Not yet.👍
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Echoing objections to social-media fuelled violence from the government of the UK & others, the Chamber of Progress, a tech business advocacy group, is urging delusional adolescent billionaire Musk to take his leadership role at @X more seriously - or resign if he cannot do so.
Since July 29 when right-wing influencers made false claims on Twitter/@X & other social media platforms that falsely blamed the murder of three children on Muslims & asylum-seeking immigrants, dozens of far-right #FarageRiots erupted around the nation.
The #FarageRiots started with a lie – a fake name and false information that suggested the teenager alleged to have killed three young girls in #Southport was a Muslim asylum seeker. He was neither.
There is an uncomfortable hypocrisy at the heart of this story, which is that people didn’t react the same way when, earlier this year, a white man killed a 14-year-old black boy, Daniel Anjorin, with a sword.
While that perpetrator was treated as a horrific anomaly, the Southport attacker was viewed by racist rioters as representative of migrants & Muslims, despite being neither.
A psychologist explains the cognitive biases and psychological responses behind this disparate treatment.
Researchers have developed & articulated the concept of “everyday extremism” to acknowledge that extreme narratives derived from non-mainstream sources can become a part of mainstream political discourse via social media.
As usual, @elonmusk takes a half-truth, removes important context, then selectively presents a misleading claim implying something about contemporary society, in this case mobilising a 'white victimhood' racist dog whistle narrative to fuel anger, division, & engagement.
Musk presents the claim that the etymological origins of the word word slave derives solely from the exploitation of 'white people', rather than, say, emphasising how religious texts from Judaism, Islam & Christianity all recognise slaves as a separate class of people in society.
Before examining Musk's misleading claim, it's worth knowing that the word 'Slav' refers to a member of the most numerous ethnic & linguistic body of peoples in Europe, residing chiefly in eastern & southeastern Europe but extending also across northern Asia to the Pacific Ocean.
#NEW opinion poll: "73% of the British public say that the riots are shaming rather than standing up for Britain, & the public overwhelmingly believe that those helping clear up after the riots (87%) represent British values." - @Moreincommon_ 🇬🇧
Rather than attitudes to the riots sitting in two contrasting pro- & anti-riots camps, public opinion is akin to Russian Dolls: small groups are willing to condone the riots but much bigger groups with opinions cited as motivation for the violence condemn it without hesitation.
The smallest group are those who express support for the unrest: 7% of the public say they are ashamed Britain is a multi-ethnic country; 8% think violent demonstrations outside asylum seeker accommodation are acceptable; & the 11% who have a positive opinion of Tommy Robinson.