Thread by @nwScotty

I wrote the attached thread about my schools. Places were many of us were sent in fear. I've also written a few times about how my High Scool years were made hell by other young people. (One of the times, here unsocialized.co.uk/2020/11/knocko…) and on that same blog and also in

https://twitter.com/nwScotty/status/1635022297080922114

publications such as @blitzed80smag1, I've written about the eighties, which for me were the time I was let out of the traps. And I hit the ground running, literally (I did a lot of long distance running and cycling) & marathon session drinking, dancing & partying. Paula Yates

was extremely familiar to me (not on a personal level... on telly and in the papers and magazines I devoured daily) as was Diana Spencer, and later Amy Winehouse. Yates, a beautiful fireworks of a woman weaving suicide blonde head confidently high through the threads of pop

culture & music I loved and escaped into. Northern Ireland was violent. Our culture was soaked in religious child abuse; abuse of a large minority who lived side by side, cheek by jowl with the upkeepers of the society that abused them, and we as abused young people wanted to

escape... drink, party, dance and read about those living a better life... or not. We wanted to read about OUR icons, and the Daily's wanted them dead for a story, preferably drugged, naked & mid coitus. The eighties paparazzi... the highest, most violent, intrusive &

bullying evolution of the press to date pursued our pulchritudinous, poetic victims to their deaths. Those heady days of glam, music, scandal and sex were splashed across our daily rags and commented on wryly, sexistly and nastily by the commentariat of the day. Piers Morgan

and the rest stole lives for narcissistic Thatcherite, guilt free profit over tapped phones, invaded homes, fast grainy film, through veils of lies and filtered long, long lenses. And lives were lost when the eighties all came crashing down in a hangover fueled by escapist

drugs.We paid our blood pennies to read of the awful life Paula Yates, Diana Spencer and later Amy Winehouse were having,and the "terrible things" they were doing to people around them... lies of course drilling into these people guilty of nothing more than joie de vivre and

talent. Three women victims of the violent, nasty, "I'm all right jack" world built on the new teenage celebrity of the boomers, built on the abuse of children, young people, minorities, society... only this time they wanted Generation X dead for the red tops.

Now the

murdering bastards who profited from ripping flesh from vivacious, talented, happy people call us "woke" and "snowflakes" for wanting a less violent, kinder world. They call us woke in order to keep murdering beautiful people for money... these dinosaurs that gnash their

teeth and bully on Talk TV, GB News and other squalid, shit covered vomit pile studios. They killed Paula Yates, Diana and Amy and countless others, and they want you to join their chorus of sneering insults such as woke in order to educate the next generation that their

bullied blood money was legitimate... IS legitimate. They say they did it for us. In our name. But they lied and murdered for their pockets and ... because they could.

Fuck them for murdering the beautiful artistry of my generation. Fuck them for normalising and revelling in

the violence that marred our lives. And hopefully, their likes will die painfully, agonisingly and absolutely conscious of the hurt they caused, and society never has any tolerance for their butchery again.
#fuckPiersMorgan
#dontReadtheSun
#dontreadtheMail

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