This pseudo race scientist's work is the opposite of academic, comprising as it does of analyising a half-dozen discredited sources variously accused of white supremacy, calling for the sterilistion of Black people and not considering Black people as people. Truly embarrasing. 1/

https://twitter.com/melissasigodo/status/1756746705972723854

His latest word salad makes no attempt to consider the existance let alone the impact of historic and contemporary systemic racism; no acknowledgment that 'woke' policies are based on analysis of the dynamics of racism and unfair advantages of white privilege. 2/

Some journalists have party affiliations / memberships but are politically inactive and it does not impact on impartial journalism. I am one of those. However, I cannot keep my Labour Party membership while Sir Keir Starmer greenlights Israel to carry out mass murder in #Gaza 1/ So today I have resigned my Labour membership in protest over Labour's position on Gaza. I will not be joining any political party that has stood candidates in past elections, and will be continuing as an independent journalist and editor. I'll just add that it make me sick... 2/

Diane Abbott has unreservedly apologised for this Observer letter, saying an early draft was sent by mistake. The letter has provoked condemnation from the Left (Ash Sarkar, Owen Jones) and Right (Nigel Farage asks "what about white slaves?"). 1/ Both reactions confuse hierarchy of racism (Left says Diane reinforces it; Right deny it exists) with how racism manifests differently for different groups, esp for white vs PoC (Left denying it exists; Right saying Diane is being racist to white groups). 2/

Starmer: "Whatever your race or belief, your dreams can come true."

The problem with Starmer isn't just that he's away with the fairies on social mobility. 

It's that he buys-in wholesale to the Tory ideology around race and social mobility. THREAD 🧵

The rightwing answer to hard evidence on racism is that 'dreams can come true' by playing the game - and those that don't succeed only have themselves to blame. This is highly insulting to the lived experience of the vast majority of black and Asian people. 2/

Nobody likes 'BAME', but how to describe all 'BAME' ppl, not just individual communities where the matter is common barriers, disparities etc. People of Colour (a bit American)? Non-white (negative)? Black as a unity term (old fashioned, embraced less by some communities)? 1/

https://twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1367967303304945665

There's totally an issue with 'BAME/BME/BAEM' hiding even worse stats afflicting some groups, eg ppl of African descent (incl Afriphobia) & Bangladeshi/Pakistani (added Islamophobia). But why can't we use unity terms together with disaggregated data for worst impacted groups? 2/

This piece is a little confused. Rwanda is indeed an oppressive state, but no mention that it is one of Blair’s favourite African nations (he’s done lots of well-remunerated ‘consultancy’ work for them). Despite the human rights abuses, Kagame was, and... theguardian.com/football/blog/… ...remains a friend of the West, esp Britain. Human rights is about humanity, standards but also consistency - and the latter as always is lacking. In tourism, the piece lambasts Rwanda for handing £30m to a rich club Arsenal, but no real analysis of whether this investment is...

.#Reparations is an idea whose time as finally come. Even Biden has recognised that now. Justice delayed justice denied. We need to honestly calculate the costs of damage for enslavement and colonialism, and repair it. #Maafa #ReparationsNow

https://twitter.com/historyheroes/status/1367710856969129984

With mainstream leaders like Biden, Obama and, erm, Vince Cable backing the moral case for #Reparations we urgently need a progressive debate to counter two-pronged opposition of “move on” and ‘post-racial Commonwealth / overseas aid counts’ tendencies.