Half Man Half Tasmanian

This world is not my home, I'm just passing through.

I am a man, therefore I am an adult male.

I am an adult male, therefore I am a man.

No DMs thank you.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@PuppetEdgar whoa! @BLloydReese

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@FordsonNTractor @lowles_nick Precisely. Probably the safest she has been in a long time.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@lowles_nick Not a very good attempt to slur another group. We all know she was quite safe with that lot. Safer than a lot of other travelers riding with the other lot. Do better or just give up.

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This platform

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🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@AmiriKing

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

Sometimes a joke can highlight what we all know to be true - that’s why it is funny

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@Uinta283 @BrianTamakiNZ @BraedenSorbo Go to NZ. Try and say anything against the Govt or the protected class, and see how you go. You have no idea.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@BrianTamakiNZ This is what happens when you speak freely in countries like NZ. @BLloydReese

You Americans need to cling onto that constituion like its written in gold or else you will face this.

All this man's firearms were registered and stored properly.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@EndWokeness @BLloydReese @senatorbabet 2 tier policing. We must not let this happen in Australia. Oops... too late...

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Birmingham Police are now asking us all to stop sharing this video. Oops.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@AmiriKing Huh? Without the sub-titles who knew what she said?

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@OMGTheMess

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@senatorbabet Have a good one mate.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@charliebcurran Wow @BLloydReese

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@JohnNorgett @RitaPanahi @BondsAus Yes I quit Gillette too. Now Bonds.

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@RitaPanahi @BondsAus Well I can buy my undies elsewhere now. They really should have thought about this move. People on all sides of the politic are more than happy to boycott brands. Seeya!

[Half Man Half Tasmanian @HalfmanHalfTaZ]

@RitaPanahi Is this the tolerant left I hear so much about? You know, where we all listen to one another's points of views and such?