To the bad faith “So it shouldn’t have been covered at all?” brigade. You know that’s not the point. The point is that it shouldn’t have been covered in a wildly disproportionate manner, it shouldn’t have been subject to breaking news alerts, there shouldn’t have been scores of sneering columns and dirt digging, there shouldn’t have been TV discussions in which right wing rent-a-gobs were given free rein to spout thinly-veiled racism, it shouldn’t have gone on for weeks, and it shouldn’t have been ignored that there was a fallible human being at the centre of it, or that we’ve been here with others before. The sheer amount of coverage, and the tenor of much of it, was clearly not in the public interest and points to a profoundly broken media environment.
"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday
Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.
its awesome how diary of a wimpy kid completely revolutionised children's literature. like when that book came out it was kids reading that never read before
one day we really need to talk about modern mematic warfare and how the “tel and aviv” or “spiritually israeli” jokes use internet irony to desensitize the public to mass violence, laundering the language of apartheid and genocide into casual, everyday discourse.
No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams.
This ought to be a very basic requirement.
And just like that, the very wealthiest party in the U.K. backed by foreign billionaires is supported by the very poorest members of society who dislike foreigners. You couldn’t make this shit up.
@MxVivianWulf “The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves.” - bell hooks
last week, you were told that you should support a regime change war in Iran in part to support women's rights
this week, one of Israel's "preventative" air strikes in Iran hit a girls' elementary school killing 40 little girls and counting
This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.
The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.
I love how Corbyn is in the Epstein files, but only because it’s just all the billionaire nonces going ‘under no circumstances can we let Corbyn be PM’