Far-right riots and Islamophobic attacks spread to more cities overnight Sunday, days after deadly stabbings in Southport were falsely attributed to Muslims
I was just explaining this to my oldest kid yesterday. Stalin had too much humanity to get the job done. He wasn't capable of the cruelty the bourgeoisie deserved.
Imagine if JKKK Rowling chose today to walk outside in blackface (which you know she just wears around the house on Sundays for no particular reason), gets mistaken for a real POC by the rocks for brains rioters and just gets decked.
You really have to hand it to the UK government for having probably the worst possible messaging tactics on this.
Yes, the guy was not himself an immigrant. That was indeed misinformation. But to keep framing it like, "Ackshually he was a true blooded Brit born to Rwandan immigrant parents Checkmate misinformation bigots!!!" isn't the correct messaging strategy to use here.
The government/media seem to be entirely incapable of following that statement through to its conclusion in the minds of the anti-immigrant right. They will just take that to mean: "Well then obviously these immigrants are all incapable of assimilation into UK society, and they have to go regardless what generation migrant they are! "
It would have been much better to actually address the material conditions that led to this kid being radicalized / falling through the cracks of the mental healthcare system / etc. It sounds like they have not ascertained the motive for the killings, so I'm making guesses, but you can take my meaning.
But also, what if he had been a Muslim immigrant? That obviously wouldn't justify anything that had happened. And so the race, religion and nationality of the attacker are entirely irrelevant.
I wonder why the government is having a difficult time signalling to its population that collective punishment is unacceptable...
Yeah, exactly. They're letting racist chuds control the entire discourse/narrative, so they are stuck playing defense. Their only rhetorical tools are deflecting and deboonking. It's a failing strategy. It's incredible libs have not learned this by now.
Yeah, they outnumbered the 'pro-british' 'protestors', as the media calls them, in many places
but the nazis (a guy just got arrested with a swaztika tat) have done insane damage, they burned down a library in Liverpool
part of me thinks this is one of those situations where an armed population would at least dissuade this kind of rampant impunity
try to pull a person out of a car. get a bullet to the dome.
at least the threat this may happen might make the rioters second guess
and since the police seem to be opting out and there's no national guard to speak of and we know how adverse to threats the western right is
like even a loosely cobbled together armed popular front militia would probalbly be enough to keep these shits from burning down buildings full of asylum seekers
yes i know the it's likely the full force of the state would be brought down on the people defending their city and populace but fuck sometimes i think i'd rather go out resisting with everything you got
sorry this shit makes me so mad i don't know what the solution is besides general class war
They have an armed population in the US. The people most likely to be armed over there are the chuds. Guns has been used there in several far-right terrorist attacks and are routinely used to intimidate those targeted by the fascist.
I am not convinced that allowing random people to buy firearms reduces the likelihood of fascist terror. Where fascist thugs has successfully been chased out of towns and neighbours it has been as a result of organising rather than hardware, both broad big tent antifascist organising of the community and the formation of more dedicated antifascist community self-defense groups.
Yep, especially taking Britain as an example - before the war with Nazi Germany, the BUF was driven out by the anti-fascist communities organizing around disrupting their marches.
And the same as today, the fascists of back then always went " :smuglord: these people are taking away our rights to speech" everytime the community fought against them.
the UK has armed and extremely kitted out police, they just reserve disproportionate responses for people with legitimate grievances lol. US pigs also roll over for rightwing thugs