A Guide to Right-Wing Discourse*
#THREAD
*As used EVERY DAY FOR YEARS by politicians, the press, Spiked, the Spectator, think-tanks, LBC, talkRADIO, & now, #GBeebies:
Unemployed: "work-shy"
Challenging bigotry: "woke“
Researching the legacy of colonialism: "cultural Marxism“
#THREAD
*As used EVERY DAY FOR YEARS by politicians, the press, Spiked, the Spectator, think-tanks, LBC, talkRADIO, & now, #GBeebies:
Unemployed: "work-shy"
Challenging bigotry: "woke“
Researching the legacy of colonialism: "cultural Marxism“
Health & safety: “bureaucracy”
Homeless: "lacking self-discipline"
Supporting Palestine: "antisemitic“
Helping asylum seekers: “Lefty activism“
Questioning injustice: “virtue-signalling”
Refusing to help people: "common sense“
Seeking truth: “Undermining our way of life”
Homeless: "lacking self-discipline"
Supporting Palestine: "antisemitic“
Helping asylum seekers: “Lefty activism“
Questioning injustice: “virtue-signalling”
Refusing to help people: "common sense“
Seeking truth: “Undermining our way of life”
Greed: "good"
Public sector: “bad”
Profiteering: "outsourcing"
Being polite: "political correctness"
Concern about populist nationalism: “anti-British”
Consumer, worker & environmental protections: “red tape”
Impoverishing people in Labour constituencies: "Leveling up“
Public sector: “bad”
Profiteering: "outsourcing"
Being polite: "political correctness"
Concern about populist nationalism: “anti-British”
Consumer, worker & environmental protections: “red tape”
Impoverishing people in Labour constituencies: "Leveling up“
Corruption: “doing your best”
Taking the knee: "gesture politics"
Clapping #NHS workers: “not gesture politics”
Breaking the law: “doing what’s best for Britain”
Challenging inflammatory rhetoric: “anti-free speech”
Identifying structural/institutional racism: “unpatriotic”
Taking the knee: "gesture politics"
Clapping #NHS workers: “not gesture politics”
Breaking the law: “doing what’s best for Britain”
Challenging inflammatory rhetoric: “anti-free speech”
Identifying structural/institutional racism: “unpatriotic”
Protest: “criminal activity”
Critical thinking “wokification”
Tax-avoidance: “wealth creation”
Good government: “nanny-state”
Ignoring problems: “strategic priorities”
Ignoring problems: "making tough decisions"
Critiquing free-market capitalism: “Communism”
Critical thinking “wokification”
Tax-avoidance: “wealth creation”
Good government: “nanny-state”
Ignoring problems: “strategic priorities”
Ignoring problems: "making tough decisions"
Critiquing free-market capitalism: “Communism”
Lying: “rhetoric”
Young person: "snowflake"
Grotesque inequality: “incentivising”
Far-right rhetoric “marginalised voices”
Oxbridge Professors “second-rate dons”
Low-paid insecure work: “flexible working”
Booing the England football team: “free speech”
Young person: "snowflake"
Grotesque inequality: “incentivising”
Far-right rhetoric “marginalised voices”
Oxbridge Professors “second-rate dons”
Low-paid insecure work: “flexible working”
Booing the England football team: “free speech”
Art: "woke"
BBC: "woke"
Drama: "woke"
Labour: "woke"
Theatre: "woke"
Comedy: "woke"
Charities: "woke"
Feminism: "woke"
Museums: "woke"
Education: "woke"
Universities: "woke"
National Trust: "woke"
England football team: "woke"
BBC: "woke"
Drama: "woke"
Labour: "woke"
Theatre: "woke"
Comedy: "woke"
Charities: "woke"
Feminism: "woke"
Museums: "woke"
Education: "woke"
Universities: "woke"
National Trust: "woke"
England football team: "woke"
This creative, divisive, & profoundly misleading use of language has evolved over the last forty years, hand-in-hand with deregulated free-market capitalism:
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1359445197113950208
Fucking hopeless: "genius"
Objecting to insults: “snowflake”
Food banks: “uplifting charitable support”
Transfer of wealth from poor to rich: “austerity”
Deliberately inflammatory rhetoric: “free speech”
Social problems arising from class, ethnicity etc: “identity politics”
Objecting to insults: “snowflake”
Food banks: “uplifting charitable support”
Transfer of wealth from poor to rich: “austerity”
Deliberately inflammatory rhetoric: “free speech”
Social problems arising from class, ethnicity etc: “identity politics”
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