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What they are holding onto their is the sectarian gatekeeping nonsense of the 90's/00's where middle class intellectuals and theory buffs decided that the lived experiance of angry youth was nowt but "lifestylism" and to be distanced.
hundreds of locals they settled for a all out street rumble, hooligans gunna hooligan. Later on they protected the kiddies by torching a library.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1634647746811506689From Cable Street to The Great Exhibition pub....
We're sold this vision of it being some positive holistic Britishness. The One Show spewinh royalist propoganda as Countryfile does the same for Tory farmers. It's comedy, while skirting with the odd bit of self deprication is overwhelming classist. You are the joke. 2/
Robert Ritter (b. 14 May 1901) was at Tübingen completing studies in child psychology and “criminal inheritability” – the idea that people might, in modern understanding, have a genetic predisposition to ‘criminal behaviour’. 2/
https://twitter.com/BristolAFed/status/1380163160020238336P.S. For comrades who might not know...
66% percent of British people aren't even aware that GRT communities are a recognised ethnic group and the rampant bigotry runs deep in our culture, not just on the street but in the papers and in the halls of govenance.
If this was @FrontGreen or some such you'd be clapping along and saying right on.
The Union Jack was brought into play to unite the patriotically inclined at a time when the British were deeply divided. It was a consolidation and centralisation of identity, chiefly for the purposes of war and economy. As was the English flag, Scottish flag, etc
Sure, it's highlighted yet another way in which the bastards profiteer but that's about it, stick it on the pile with the fifty other pro tips to keep the poor, well poor... It's todays banter and tho a few folks might have egg on their faces, literally nothing will happen. 2/
Tho he conceded (without saying "I lost") I think pretty much everyone agrees he's quite capable of causing the missing militias and street fash that support him to turn up the 20th and make the Coup Klux Klan look like a bunfight.
Her death was justifiable by the metric of the stoic libertarian, "she breached a barricade and got shot" or "do stupid things, win stupid prizes", but it is not justifiable by ours.
Not everyone has the energy or inclination to take this on especially given the pre-established patterns of sea-lioning and aggression from the right wing especially.
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346660619676745732They seem utterly ignorant that even as they carry on with themselves the police reaction is significantly less hostile than it was against similar "leftist" events.
https://twitter.com/IDoTheThinking/status/1337900350926249985Norway's recidivism rate is 20%, prior to the reforms of the last 60's/70's, they had a punative system which saw recidivism in the 90 percentile for young offenders.
Now they have said they won't get involved between conflicts between "willing participants". This is to say "we won't stop racist organisations attacking those who protest them", despite the obvious fact that most protestors are liberal and much less violently minded.