crabcrake

[Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld]

"The political field is more and more splitting into two great hostile camps: the liberal and the kleptocratic. What complicates this otherwise neat bifurcation is the ANC."

NEW: @Red_Niall on South Africa after the 2024 elections.

https://t.co/2cEQJ8pmVW

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. As @Red_Niall points out, the options are bleak. https://t.co/PT5FVqgTK1

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@vijayprashad @phillipdexter @RosHariMIA @commondreams Is this the standard of journalistic rigor that you hold yourself to @vijayprashad ?

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@vijayprashad @phillipdexter @RosHariMIA @commondreams so the evidence that DM, amaB etc are Washington controlled is that the US ambassador once invited .... Richard Pithouse (of New Frame) to a meeting ??

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@alfgunvald https://t.co/yLMNfvNxKT

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@shude_zolile 😍😍

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@n_esraugurlu @LUBSEconDept Congrats Esra!!

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@Eli_Kunene lol at the first retweet 🤣

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@Eli_Kunene Just tell me, was it privatized?

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@BreakeyJessica @EdythParker @africasacountry Maybe we just occupy diff corners of the twitterverse. I’ve seen plenty of people linking these bans to imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy etc

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@BreakeyJessica @EdythParker @africasacountry Not denying that the UK and other Western countries have racist immigration policies. Can’t see how this is related though

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@BreakeyJessica @EdythParker @africasacountry Not entirely what power play means here? Seems to imply their motive is something other than just defending their populations against covid .. which I’m not sure it is

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@EdythParker @africasacountry Again, not my aim here. Not defending travel bans, just trying to determine whether irrationalist and racist or something else

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@EdythParker @africasacountry I know u didn’t say that. That’s why I pointed out earlier we are having two diff debates.

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@EdythParker @africasacountry Anyway, tapping out of this now. Thank you for the discussion. The case you’ve made against travel bans was useful to hear. I agree they are not the most appropriate response, even if I’m not as appalled by them as most.

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@EdythParker @africasacountry facie case for colonial attitudes being the operative factor here. Im a political economist of c I don’t think policy making happens in a vacuum. I just happen to not believe that racism explains *everythign* the west does. Which is weirdly controversial these days

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@EdythParker @africasacountry But the grounds in which they are targeting neighboring countries and Egypt are entirely diff. U Would have to show that the risks in each case (or rather their perception thereof) are identical in order to demonstrate inconsistency /bias

[crabcrake @Red_Niall]

@EdythParker @africasacountry I think part of the prob is that we are having two diff debates. I’m not trying to make a hard case in favor of travel bans. But I am arguing that there is clearly enough ambiguity around them - even for experts - as to make it unfair to see them as simply a product of prejudice