Lottie Peace

Neurodivergent Mother & Home Educator | Educational Reform & Child-Centred Change | Writer, Photographer & Allotment Lass | Anti-Oppression

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

@EssenceOfZam @Glinner @MichaelRosenYes Aye, I have a feeling I’ll be waiting here a while…

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

@FLYtheFLAG_uk I was referring to the man in your own video, because I actually listened to him speak. I’m slightly fascinated that you managed to read a reply about the subject of your post and conclude that I’d spontaneously invented an entirely new biography for you. Are you OK man? 😂

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

This is almost impressively helpful as you have taken one woman’s statement and converted it into “what the Arabs wanted”… hundreds of millions of people reduced to a single collective mind… and you’ve offered that beneath a post about the dehumanisation of children.

You haven’t rebutted my point. You have provided an example of it.

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

Quite an extraordinary claim to make about millions of people as though ‘Arabs’ are a single ideological unit. I know people who have visited Palestine and found Palestinians exceptionally welcoming and hospitable. That doesn’t prove every Palestinian is tolerant any more than your list proves they are collectively hateful. Perhaps the more sensible position is that an entire ethnic population cannot be reduced to the worst beliefs or actions of some of its members.

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

Can you identify, specifically, what makes this antisemitic? Not “offensive”, not “anti-Israel”, and not “a political boycott you disagree with” but actually antisemitic.

Which part targets Jews as Jews, expresses hostility or prejudice towards Jewish people because they are Jewish, invokes an antisemitic stereotype, or discriminates on the basis of Jewish identity?

Because political action concerning Israel does not become antisemitism simply by virtue of concerning Israel. So what, precisely, is the missing step in your argument that turns this behaviour into antisemitism?

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

I find it fascinating that “we’re a Christian country” is so often deployed against immigration, as though either Christianity or English sprang fully formed from British soil. Christianity arrived here; English grew out of migration, invasion, borrowing and cultural exchange. The history people invoke to argue for cultural purity is, rather inconveniently, a history of almost constant mixing.

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

@JDaviesPhD Everyone forgets things, we don’t all
have dementia.

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

@FluorescentBlak @MichaelRosenYes Exactly 🤍

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

James Henry Holmes is a bully, and the fact he apparently believes this video works in his favour says a lot about the behaviour being normalised among his followers.

This is almost a textbook example of intimidation: approaching and confronting a man who is simply at work, filming him, putting him under pressure because you object to what he is doing, and attempting to make him change or stop his behaviour.

The definition of intimidation is the act of frightening, threatening or coercing someone in order to make them do (or stop doing) something.

You don’t have to physically assault somebody for behaviour to be intimidating. Turning up, confronting someone, filming them at close range and applying pressure because you want them to behave differently can quite plainly be intimidation.

And yes, protest involves pressure. But it matters where that pressure is directed and how it is exercised.

Challenging governments, institutions and people who actually make decisions is political protest and democratic accountability. They hold the power. They can change the policy.

Personally confronting an ordinary worker who did not create the rule and has little or no authority to change it is different. At that point, you are not holding the decision-maker accountable; you are simply transferring your anger onto the easiest and most accessible person.

That principle works both ways. If left-wing protesters aggressively cornered a receptionist, security guard, bar worker or junior employee over a policy created by somebody above them, I would call that out too.

So no, “it’s a protest” is not a magic phrase that makes intimidating behaviour cease to be intimidating.

And why does the confrontation so often seem to land on ordinary people who happen to be standing in front of him?

There is nothing especially brave about intimidating somebody with less power than you and then uploading the footage as evidence of your courage.

James Henry Holmes is a bully.

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

They came for your religion, a vicar in Doncaster. Then they came for the gays, this poor fella just doing his job. The far‑right like James Henry Holmes always run out of ‘others’ and eventually come for you.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

This video of me doing We're Going on a Bear Hunt has had 25 million views. Add those to the ones I perform on our YouTube Channel and it comes to 34.5 million views in all.
https://t.co/OMoEqqrfSZ

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

@technopopulist Sorry, but why?

[Julie Warren @dewdrop0310]

@TiceRichard What do you have to say about this Dick:
https://t.co/LomqlE5dnY

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

you voted to proscribe those who were taking action to prevent genocide��

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

A right-wing host “joked” about killing homeless people. Days later, there’s a mass shooting at a homeless encampment.

How many times will we see words bleed into actions before admitting free speech also carries consequences and responsibility?

https://t.co/bczAvbflbn

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Labour is playing into the hands of Reform.

We need an alternative that can fix the housing crisis, end child poverty and bring about the real change this country deserves.

[Lottie Peace @LottieP10108]

The President of the US

https://t.co/lF80e3gLY9

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Respect from a Hovis fan.