Vitamin P posted:

Your friend is dumb as hell, if it was left-handed or green-eyed people getting disproportionately killed by police you wouldn't expect the opposition to that to exclusively come from left-handed or green-eyed people that doesn't change because the specific arbitrary characteristic is race. White people could back BLM because they aren't identitarians and feel sympathy/concern for people of other races, they could back BLM because they have black people in their lives that they like/love and would want to be protected from potential harm, they could back BLM because racially targeted killings offends their principles of justice and equality, your friends take is loving ridiculous (unironically has extremely good IDpol praxis though).

To your question I definitely have experienced white guilt. Back in the day I was really active on progressive Tumblr performatively unlearning my whiteness and all that shite and looking back it was really negative, not in a 'push through the difficulty to emerge stronger' way but just in a 'every single thing you've achieved is because you were born white don't feel any pride in it whatsoever, the world would probably be better if you weren't born and that feeling can't be alleviated in any dependable way because any poc poster is your moral and intellectual superior no matter how dumb or cruel their take is, and oh by the way there's no actual plan or structure to any of this except you are bad'. If you're already sort of alienated and get into a toxic space like that, and you think it's the intellectually sound and morally correct framework, of course you're gonna feel an aimless sure but still really sincere guilt.

OwlFancier posted:

I mean... it suggests that your gender and your physical sex are completely unrelated which while I'm sure terfs can gently caress it up seems like a pretty strong understanding of the difference between sex and gender which she performatively refuses to understand at every other opportunity.

Pistol_Pete posted:

Those dreadful slogans come from the same process of triangulation that sunk Labour in the pre-Corbyn era. Any simple and definitive statement inevitably runs the risk of upsetting some group of voters or other and so it gets mashed around in committee until you get a suitably caveated, anodyne statement that offends nobody and inspires nobody.

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On 14 September 1945, The Guardian reported that the booklet had been discovered in the Berlin headquarters of the Reich Security Police (Reich Main Security Office).[6]
When told the previous day that they were on the Gestapo's list, Lady Astor ("enemy of Germany") said "It is the complete answer to the terrible lie that the so-called 'Cliveden Set' was pro-Fascist", while Lord Vansittart said "The German black-list might indicate to some of those who now find themselves on it that their views, divergent from mine, were somewhat misplaced. Perhaps it will be an eye-opener to them", and the cartoonist David Low said "That is all right. I had them on my list too."[19]

Guavanaut posted:

Who wants a twitter thread in which ronyaposts collide with a further maths textbook?

Too bad:
https://twitter.com/virgil_30/status/1270791101989957637

Endorph posted:

wait, hold on. ralph? dude cant even remember the names of her characters

Guavanaut posted:

Who wants a twitter thread in which ronyaposts collide with a further maths textbook?

Too bad:
https://twitter.com/virgil_30/status/1270791101989957637

Guavanaut posted:

OwlFancier posted:

https://twitter.com/glinner/status/1270815123024773120?s=21

VideoGames posted:

Yikes I just had the weirdest thing happen. This was on the sidebar



Then when I went back to the page after visiting imgur it says this:



It actually refreshed just that trending box and none of the others. What on earth.

Prince John posted:

Randomly discovered the German's Black Book which was a list of British residents that the Nazi's wanted to arrest following a successful invasion.

Ataxerxes posted:

The best one was the fellow who did the Lambeth Walk parody movie and really, really pissed off some high ranking nazis.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1270998047892307968?s=20

XMNN posted:

ah yes the nutjob market-fundamentalist oncologist, or in the vernacular of three months ago "an armchair epidemiologist"

Guavanaut posted:

https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1270691243627077633

Camrath posted:

Fudge orders are being shipped out today!

Guavanaut posted:

https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1270691243627077633

Skilbs posted:

My fudge just arrived. It is really good, I wish I ordered more. Thanks Camrath!


George is not interested in Fudge. He is just trying to sleep but it is too bright in here.

Skilbs posted:

My fudge just arrived. It is really good, I wish I ordered more. Thanks Camrath!


George is not interested in Fudge. He is just trying to sleep but it is too bright in here.

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Most sitting Labour MPs had begun as Labour youth activists themselves, just as most centrist political journalists had begun their careers as leftists, even revolutionaries, of one sort or another. But they had also risen through the ranks of Blair’s machine at a time when advancement was largely based on willingness to sacrifice one’s youthful ideals. They had become the very people they would have once despised as sell-outs.

Insofar as they dreamed of anything, now, it was of finding some British equivalent of Barack Obama, a leader who looked and acted so much like a visionary, who had so perfected the gestures and intonations, that it never occurred to anyone to ask what that vision actually was (since the vision was, precisely, not to have a vision). Suddenly, they found themselves saddled with a scruffy teetotaling vegan who said exactly what he really thought, and inspired a new generation of activists to dream of changing the world. If those activists were not naive, if this man was not unelectable, the centrists’ entire lives had been a lie. They hadn’t really accepted reality at all. They really were just sellouts.

One could even go further: the most passionate opposition to Corbynism came from men and women in their forties, fifties, and sixties. They represented the last generation in which any significant number of young radicals even had the option of selling out, in the sense of becoming secure property-owning bastions of the status quo. Not only had that door closed behind them; they were the ones largely responsible for having closed it. They were, for instance, products of what was once the finest free higher education system in the world—having attended schools like Oxford and Cambridge plush with generous state-provided stipends—who had decided their own children and grandchildren would be better off attending university while moonlighting as baristas or sex workers, then starting their professional lives weighted by tens of thousands of pounds in student debt. If the Corbynistas were right, and none of this had really been necessary, were these politicians not guilty of historic crimes? It’s hard to understand the bizarre obsession with the idea that left Labour youth groups like Momentum—about the most mild-mannered batch of revolutionaries one could imagine—would somehow end up marching them all off to the gulag, without the possibility that in the back of their minds, many secretly suspected that show trials might not be entirely inappropriate.

XMNN posted:

e: wow he's been at this for years

https://twitter.com/RussellEngland/status/1271014304389701632?s=20

Jose posted:

yeah some good background on him here

https://www.farrightwatch.net/2020/06/the-right-wings-favourite-crazy.html

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He was one of three doctors that enabled Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be released, after obtaining a diagnosis of imminent terminal cancer. The services were paid for by the Libyan Government. Sikora gave him three months to live ... whereupon al-Megrahi recovered in miraculous fashion, living on for several years.

Jose posted:

lol he's already apologised for it

https://twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora/status/1271024284887105536?s=20

Jose posted:

lol he's already apologised for it

https://twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora/status/1271024284887105536?s=20

Jose posted:

he did get to pick his own staff after being leader right

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1270984656465338368?s=20