Thread by @beyrima

🧵 It is crucial that everyone make the connections revealing themselves in Ottawa

The dogwhistles & outright support from politicians WILL turn deadly. If not this weekend, then in the future.

Racist political speech inspired the Quebec mosque terrorist,… 1/5

…the New Zealand mosque terrorist, the terrorist who murdered the Afzaal #OurLondonFamily this past summer

It is especially important right now, right here, that every single elected official, political party & leader - without exception - act to root out antisemitism… 2/5

…anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, transphobia, homophobia - all of it. We need, collectively, to insist on it.

And we CANNOT make excuses for those who would downplay the actions of people who acted in concert w white supremacism, in whatever form, in the past… 3/5

…That is EXACTLY what Hannah Arendt was referring to when she wrote The Banality of Evil

And, you know, those who don’t understand history or pay attention to it are condemned to repeat it. Again. And again. And again. And again… 4/5

… EVERYONE belongs 💜

This is the fight of our lives. We can accomplish nothing else if we don’t get this right ✊🏽

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