people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.
These Just Stop Oil actions are part of a noble history of protest.
The Suffragettes are lauded today with statues in Parliament Square, but at the time they were regarded with contempt, and they didn't throw soup on paintings protected by glass, they slashed & damaged them.
Growing up in Luton when the EDL were at their height, I remember how many white working-class people stood with Black and Asian working-class people against the racists that sought to divide us. The only way to defeat the far-right is through working-class unity.
@laurabookcorps SJM has done serious damage to the industry if people genuinely believe that ADULT fantasy is girl fucks supernatural Timothee chalamet. Read some N K Jemisin and shut up 😐
This is a *perfect* example of antisemitic Holocaust narrative appropriation/inversion, which I’ve been working on for a little while. It happens all the time in right wing rhetoric, esp. around contentious issues, so here’s a 🧵 that might help recognize it for yourself
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