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Reply #270 - August 11, 2024, 01:52 PM

sunny spell incoming - wonder if racists and religionists will decide to spoil the last bits of summer?

someone should look into why these people don't value a good summer's day - being poor or uneducated don't seem believable reasons for rejecting peaceful enjoyment of pleasant weather.

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Sections of the working class have become open to identitarian arguments because of the way that much of the left – indeed much of society – has embraced politics of identity at the same time as deprecating the politics of class. For many today, the frameworks through which they make sense of their relationship to the world are less political – “liberal” or “conservative” – than cultural or ethnic – “Muslim”, “white”, “English”.

... It has also allowed the far right to rebrand racism as white identity, a rebranding given legitimacy by mainstream conservatives who now casually talk of white Europeans “losing their homelands” and “committing suicide”, of Britons “surrendering their territory”, bemoaning cities like London becoming less white.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/11/the-roots-of-this-unrest-lie-in-the-warping-of-genuine-working-class-grievances
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Reply #271 - August 12, 2024, 09:31 AM

Counter-protesters are also being giving sentences intended to send a message.

https://nitter.poast.org/SkyNews/status/1821881634104246737#m

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Reply #272 - August 16, 2024, 11:00 PM

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Sections of the working class have become open to identitarian arguments because of the way that much of the left – indeed much of society – has embraced politics of identity at the same time as deprecating the politics of class. For many today, the frameworks through which they make sense of their relationship to the world are less political – “liberal” or “conservative” – than cultural or ethnic – “Muslim”, “white”, “English”.

... It has also allowed the far right to rebrand racism as white identity, a rebranding given legitimacy by mainstream conservatives who now casually talk of white Europeans “losing their homelands” and “committing suicide”, of Britons “surrendering their territory”, bemoaning cities like London becoming less white.

Well gee, no one saw this coming of course lol
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Reply #273 - August 27, 2024, 09:51 PM

austerity 2.0 incoming: cutting spending and raising taxes is the opposite of creating growth - but it's great for bolstering racism and division.

https://x.com/Trader__007/status/1828378950533296634
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