She has to do something while her husband is locked up.
Apparently, itâs only âself-determinationâ if the determination is a Jewish state in the Middle EastâŠ
The cruelty is the point.
Were the public really clamouring for the money pit that is HS2 which doesnât reduce journey times that much and bypasses many small towns anyway? But regardless, the Tories sold the Red Wall voters on another promise theyâve ditched and are now trying to spin shit into gold.
We promised them levelling upâŠ
The workers will get levelled by the Tories anyway.
So I survived another year
More performative bullshit from Labour. They donât do a thing when we are alive but they will âhonour our memoryâ when we are killed.
Has anything happened about the transphobes in the party yet? Of course nothing has happened, we have only been waiting for years.
Off the rails
https://twitter.com/letterstolocke/status/1448988448812118018
Iâm actually just going to copy and paste the whole thread, because it is too important to be left on twitter
1/ One of the toughest parts of teaching the Holocaust to yr9s comes when we talk about responsibility. The usual question is âwhy did nobody do anything? Surely, not everyone in Germany between 1932 and 1945 believed what the Nazis did.â
2/ The answer is, of course not. The next assumption students often make is ordinary Germans just didnât know what was happening. But thereâs no simple truth there, either. Surely then itâs fear: everyone was too afraid to speak out.
3/ But no, that doesnât explain why so many were bystanders to Nazi atrocities, either. Then we talk to our students about those who collaborated with the Nazis. We talk about standing by meant.
4/ Itâs a sobering moment for many of our students. Because while the Holocaust has its own specific and contained contextual reality, students understand that these truths may say something about human nature.
5/ It requires careful unpacking, and being resistant to drawing broad generalisations. But itâs a process I often reflect on when I witness the othering of marginalised groups today.
6/ Those of us who teach this subject are at pains to impress on our students that human rights atrocities donât begin in the death camps. They start incrementally, with words spoken by people with public platforms.
7/ It starts with little acts of dehumanisation, little, off-the-cuff acts of contempt for marginalised groups which diminish the humanity of that group in the minds of the audience.
8/ From there it transitions to an eager embracing of a ready-made scapegoat, or to indifference for an othered and marginalised group. Once dehumanised, some people can ignore their suffering. Some cheer on that suffering.
9/ It can happen anywhere and at anytime. A nation that has become largely indifferent to the deaths of individuals in a marginalised group, is already taking steps along that path.
10/ I feel itâs important to clarify that my point is that the process by which individual liberties and rights are abused follows a historical pattern, and that pattern often involves a complex set of interactions and reactions from citizens.
11/ That includes those who actively perpetrate the abuses, those who collaborate with them, those who standby.
12/ My point is not to suggest that there are clear parallels to be drawn between modern Britain and Germany 1933-45. Though there are some. The point is that there is that dismantling of human rights for marginalised groups has a particular process, a shared language.
13/ The end point of that process is atrocity. We need to be able to recognise the path form populism to atrocity. I teach history. My masters is in international human rights law. Much in the behaviour and discourse of British politics worry me.
People donât think anything bad is happening because we donât have trains of Jewish people going to the death camps. We will see a lot of atrocities before that happens again (unless you are Jewish and oppose the stat of Israel, then you are five times more likely to be expelled from the Labour party than non-Jewish people. Be prepared for people to be publicly accused of not being real Jews in the future). The Nazis started with trans people and political dissidents, who were seen as acceptable targets. Trans people are now acceptable targets in the UK, Priti Patel wants a police state even more than previous Home Secretaries. We are told âIt will never happen hereâ as we sleepwalk down the same road as Germany travelled 90 years ago.
Thanks for pulling that out and posting the whole thing. Itâs the example in the UK, but itâs applicable here, as well.
âThe prime minister is not on crystal meth, not confused about which country he lives in and was not in the rose garden with his cock out at 3amâ
Tory Blair is at it again
Change your name to New
Forget the fucking Labour
Hey TonyâŠ
He is hitting my biggest fear, that rights given by government can be taken away again. What is even more scary is that his government were responsible for giving us those rights in the first place.
And people still wonder why I keep leaning towards anarchist politics.
Yeah, and thatâs scarily become something to really be concerned about, that in the UK Labour (and in the US, the Democrats) will be willing to give away minority rights if it gets them a âwinâ with the mythical white centrist votersâŠ
I get it, for sure.
One vote can make a difference.
There are suspicions that Starmer is trying to push for a leadership challenge, so he can justify a purge of the left of the party (and Angela Rayner isnât left wing, itâs just that Starmer has swung so far right that there are Tories who would be better leaders of the Labour party.). Rayner is one of the few anti-TER voices in the shadow cabinet and Starmer hates that he canât just fire her because deputy leader is an elected position.
Chris Bryant isnât noticably left wing either.
