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7 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
From 2019.
Helen Lewis neatly encapsulates the whole scam here, #muralgate, #ironygate, #IHRA, right in her second paragraph.

@helenlewis, @TheAtlantic: is there anything here you'd like to reconsider?

Happy to discuss.

#ItWasAScam

theatlantic.com/international/…
Mural: Image
Irony: Image
IHRA: Image
It's obviously important for a journalist to correct errors they may have made, and it's important for a publication to ensure copy is accurate.

Could we have a correction, please, @helenlewis, @TheAtlantic?

Thanks.

#ItWasAScam

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8 Jan
It's possibly worth clearing this up to avoid confusion.

If someone lies, we call them a liar.

It doesn't make any difference how tall they are, for instance, or what colour hair they’ve got, or whether they like mustard or not. A liar is someone who lies.
If the someone-who-lies has other identities - French, male, vegetarian - it doesn’t mean they’re lying *because* they have those identities. Those other identities are irrelevant: all that’s relevant is that they’re liars.
They’re not ‘French liars’ or ‘male liars’ or ‘vegetarian liars’. They’re just liars.
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8 Jan
Hi @s_antisemitism2.

I see from @leftworks1 you've made a whole lot of rather silly accusations against me.

Don't you think it would be the decent thing to do to make them to my face, rather than scuttling round behind my back spreading rumours?

#ItWasAScam
I've tried to explain this to you before, but you never seem to get it.
It doesn't make any difference whether I'm a good person or a bad person. It does not affect the truth-value of any statement I've made, because truth is *non-contingent* on the speaker of it.
Go look it up.
So if a bad person says 'Today is Saturday', and it is Saturday today, that remains true, no matter how bad the person saying it is. The truth of it being Saturday today is *non-contingent* on the virtue of the person who says it.

Please try to understand.
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1 Dec 21
Politics isn't a continuum from left to right. It's slightly more complicated than that. It really breaks into two sections, the socialist left and everything else. Everything else is a version of itself, more or less extreme, from RW Lab through to RW Con. That's a continuum. 1
The socialist left, though, isn't a version of this, it's a direct challenge to it. Rejecting the neoliberal economic dogmas of the centre and right, its economics are wholly different. The two attempt to co-exist within the Labour Party, but the discontinuity is obvious. 2
This is one of the fracture lines thrown up by the smearing war: not just one version of something versus another version of the same thing, but two competing visions of the world, of the economy, of how things actually work. 3
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1 Nov 21
These old chestnuts keep coming up, so I thought I'd post them as a thread. The scam is visibly falling apart now as more and more people become aware of it.
#ItWasAScam

Chris Williamson - 'too apologetic'
Jackie Walker - 'slave trade'.
#ItWasAScam
Corbyn - 'irony'.
#ItWasAScam
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11 Oct 21
They install this psychopathic monster, then they demand police action when he does what psychopathic monsters do. Like the police are going to do anything. You knew exactly what you were doing when you smeared Corbyn, @Kevin_Maguire.
You did this.
#ItWasAScam
Anything to say, Kevin? Would you, for instance, care to apologise to the nation for helping to install this dangerous regime?
Or are you going to pretend you're just an innocent observer of all this?
Interested to hear your thoughts.
See, it was perfectly obvious what was going to happen when you smeared Corbyn. Only one thing could happen - this, the Johnson horror circus. Are you going to continue to pretend to be outraged, angry? Angry at what you yourself did? You expect anyone to buy that? Why?
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29 Jul 21
Chris Williamson did not say Labour had been 'too apologetic about antisemitism'.

This is a crude lie, easily checked.

When do you apologise for peddling it, BBC?

When does Chris Williamson get justice?

Is it today?
Jackie Walker did not say 'Jews controlled the slave trade'.

This is a crude lie, easily checked.

When do you apologise for peddling it, BBC?

When does Jackie Walker get justice?

Is it today?
Jeremy Corbyn did not say 'Jews don't understand English irony'.

This is a crude lie, easily checked.

When do you apologise for peddling it, BBC?

When does Jeremy Corbyn get justice?

Is it today?
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