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22 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
In the USA, right-wing groups that the Center for Media & Democracy (@EXPOSEDbyCMD) tracks are deliberately stoking public anger.

The same individuals & groups are funding the very similar culture war playbook that is now being deployed here in the UK.

prwatch.org/cmd
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Koch-funded big business lobbying front group, is behind new state laws targeting the alleged teaching of critical race theory in schools, even though its an academic framework about institutional racism only taught in colleges.
CMD exposed how ALEC & other right-wing organizations have manufactured a crisis around a threat it made up in order to attack honest history education & inflame racial tensions as the 2022 elections approach.

UK Govt Ministers have criticised CRT.

prwatch.org/news/2021/08/1…
CMD also exposed that the pro-Trump group Turning Point USA is raising tens of millions of dollars to “win the American Culture War & to inspire our kids [to] love America again."

Turning Point UK is supported by hard-right UK MPs.

Turning Point USA is expanding its operations to attack "leftist" professors, create "America-first" curricula, & indoctrinate young minds,

Teaching anti-capitalism is already banned in UK schools, & sinister 'free speech' laws & rules are being introduced at Universities.

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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg JRM quotes Iago, one of Shakespeare's most sinister villains, who uses his reputation as an honest man to deceive & manipulate people to satisfy his needs.

When his treachery is revealed, before being arrested he kills in a fit of rage, remaining reticent to give an explanation.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Iago is an extremely narcissistic character, driven by ego & powered by self-absorption: he is emotionally immature, excessively self-esteemed & very self-involved.

He also believes he is above those around him & finds no shame in playing the role of judge, jury, & executioner.
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22 Dec
JRM quotes Iago, one of Shakespeare's most sinister villains, who uses his reputation as an honest man to deceive & manipulate people to satisfy his needs.

When his treachery is revealed, before being arrested he kills in a fit of rage, remaining reticent to give an explanation.
Iago is an extremely narcissistic character, driven by ego & powered by self-absorption: he is emotionally immature, excessively self-esteemed & very self-involved.

He also believes he is above those around him & finds no shame in playing the role of judge, jury, & executioner.
Narcissism stems from emotional immaturity, implying that the narcissist's intellectual or emotional development does not align with their age. They often partake in juvenile or puerile behavior: unable to defeat their negative feelings, they are petty & shrouded by malevolence.
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22 Dec
Toxic divisive hard-right nationalist culture war #disinformation organisation 'Turning Point USA' has been imported to Britain - we now have 'Turning Point UK', which is (of course) supported by toxic divisive hard-right nationalist MPs such as Jacob Rees-Mogg & Priti Patel. 🧐
Here's Turning Point USA's toxic divisive hard-right nationalist weirdo Charlie Kirk comparing Kyle Rittenhouse to Jesus Christ. 😬

politicalflare.com/2021/12/charli…
Recommendations from toxic cranks such as as Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson & Breitbart’s James Delingpole weren’t enough to drown out the ridicule of TPUK, nor were the endorsements from MPs such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ben Bradley, Priti Patel & Steve Baker.

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#THREAD

While offering NO evidence from the last 25 years, Melanie "Mad Mel" Phillips yesterday made the grotesque claim that "the root cause" of an increase in child abuse is "the willed disintegration of the traditional nuclear family", which she blames on "lifestyle choice".
Phillips claims that "Head teachers there (in Birkenhead) told me that children were highly sexualised at the ages of five or six, & that their reflexive instinct whenever thwarted was violence."

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She goes on to claim that "so systemic is this cultural meltdown that there are vanishingly few young people in social work or anywhere else who have a clue that there’s anything wrong with the “lifestyle choice” they assume is a given of western society."
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21 Dec
#THREAD

"We will continue to provide safe & legal routes for people to come to this country who are seeking persecution" - Tory MP Tom Pursglove on #BBC2.

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In February 2016 it was announced that Pursglove & fellow Tory MP Peter Bone would speak at the UKIP Spring Conference.

While rare for members of rival parties to appear at such events, they argued any role they had there would be as representatives of the Grassroots Out group.
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Gentle reminder that Iain Duncan Smith is your typical damaged, opportunistic, nihilistic, libertarian Tory weirdo.
Byotrol Technology has paid Iain Duncan Smith £25,000 a year for 12 hours' work a month as an adviser since January 2021.

Byotrol Technology provides more than 92% of all #NHS alcohol-free hand sanitisers.

But definitely no conflict of interest. No way.

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