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15 Nov, 6 tweets, 3 min read
A 14-year-old black schoolboy has accused the (STILL INSTITUTIONALLY RACIST) Met police of racist targeting after claiming he's been stopped by police about 30 times in the last two years. He's not been charged with or convicted of any offence.
#macpherson
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/n…
A very short (for me) #THREAD on the MacPherson Report & institutional racism:

Claims that #StopAndSearch is an effective way to control & deter offending are misplaced. Every stop should be justified in itself, not in that it has some putative wider effect on crime. Stop & search is more a tool of social control than crime-fighting. academic.oup.com/bjc/article/58…
Just been directed to this - a wonderfully clear & accessible explanation of 'systemic racism', from @BeauTFC:

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16 Nov
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Privilege: Effects of a White Privilege Message Intervention and Conservative Media Use on Freedom Threat and Racial Attitudes."

Summary of new research into the effectiveness of '#WhitePrivilege' messaging to white audiences in the USA.

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'White privilege' is a controversial phrase, which produces a wide range of responses, from offended dismissal to complete embrace.

For example, UK Minister for Equality, Kemi Badenoch said: "We don't want our teachers to give their white students lessons on White Privilege."
I can see why the phrase is problematic for some audiences, & how it can have a counterproductive impact eg implying to poor or otherwise struggling people that they are 'privileged' will cause a negative reaction. It is, nonetheless, easy to understand:

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15 Nov
A Govt-approved Covid testing provider (Cignpost Diagnostics, which trades as ExpressTest) is being investigated by the UK’s data privacy watchdog over plans to sell customer’s DNA for medical research.

How long before it's linked to #ToryCorruption?

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Two minutes on Google: Nick Markham is Co Founder of covid testing company Cignpost Diagnostics & was the former deputy leader of the @Conservatives in Westminster council. In 2020 he was appointed Lead NED at the DWP, where he works closely with & advises the Secretary of State.
Obviously there's *nothing to see here* when a well known Tory, working closely with Government, profits from his proximity to & support for a catastrophically corrupt & failing crony Government.

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15 Nov
'The disinformation order: Disruptive communication & the decline of democratic institutions.'

Democratic nations are experiencing increased levels of false information circulating through social media & political websites that mimic journalism formats.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
In many cases, this disinformation is associated with the efforts of movements & parties on the radical right to mobilize supporters against centre parties & the mainstream press that carries their messages. This can be traced to growing legitimacy problems in many democracies.
Declining citizen confidence in institutions undermines official information in the news & leads to alternative sources, often associated with both (far-right) nationalist & foreign (often Russian) strategies to undermine institutions & destabilize centre parties/Govts/elections.
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Developed countries, led by the US & EU, have avoided taking any liability for loss & damage caused to poorer countries by fossil fuel use, & vetoed the creation of a new way of supporting vulnerable nations, despite it being called for by most countries.

Watch the video below.
It's a battle for the future of our planet. Unimaginably wealthy corporations have infiltrated & all but taken over the world's most powerful Governments. They've known since the 1950s the consequences of burning fossil fuels, but chose greed & deception.

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14 Nov
Bernie Sanders vs Elon Musk.

#THREAD

Bernie is one of the most popular politicians & activists in America, serving as the junior senator from Vermont since 2007 & as US Representative from 91-07. He's a democratic socialist & the longest-serving independent in US history.
An advocate of progressive policies, he is known for his opposition to economic inequality. He became interested in politics at an early age. In the 1940s, many of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. For his family, purchases "like curtains or a rug," were unaffordable.
In high school he became active in fundraising activities for Korean orphans. Not long after high school graduation, his mother died at the age of 46. His father died at the age of 57.

He graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in political science in 1964.
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14 Nov
In the months leading up to the launch of GB News, its questionable backers, including Andrew Neil, *insisted* that it wouldn’t be a British version of Fox News, despite anyone & everyone *knowing beyond any doubt* that's *exactly* what it would - & inevitably has - become. Image
I'd not heard of him either. Mark Steyn is a Canadian right-winger who has guest-hosted the toxic Rush Limbaugh Show, as well as the toxic Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News. He became film critic for the Spectator in 1992 & was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, until 2006.
He's just another highly predictable hard-right controversialist, so he'll fit right in at GB "News".

According to Steyn, the West faces a choice "between liberty and mass Muslim immigration."

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