It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8
The man who procured at least 72 men to rape his unconscious wife is linked to
The man who set his girlfriend on fire, who is linked to
The man filmed a woman being raped in Pradesh, who is linked to
The millions that watched it, who are linked to
The guy who killed his ex with a machete, who is linked to
The boy who stabbed little girls in Southport, who is linked to
The teacher who was found to be abusing his students, who is linked to
The man who proposed to his daughter on TikTok with a purity ring, who is linked to
The man who makes sexist jokes to his mates after beers, who is linked to
The kid who follows misogyny influencers, who is linked to
The mother who says “boys will be boys”, who is linked to
The teacher who brushes off the boys sexist teasing, who is linked to
You, reading this tweet thinking this is nothing to do with you because you don’t commit violence and you’re sure you’ve got no internalised misogyny.
All of it’s connected, you just don’t understand how.
Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it paid him £1.5m to appear on I’m A Celeb.
He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time.
When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it.
he got a lighter sentence for taking part in a race riot than somebody got for stealing water worth £3.50 during the london riots.
can’t qwhite wrap my head around it.
PLEASE SHARE I got removed from Shell’s AGM for simply telling their shareholders the truth about Shell’s destruction of the health and lives of people in the Niger Delta in Nigeria (where the life expectancy is only 41 years of age because of Shell’s extraction there) (1/2)
As you seek out your ID before heading to the polling station, remember that over the last decade, there have been more Tory MPs convicted of sexual offences than voters convicted of electoral fraud
A very happy Easter to all who celebrate.
Easter is a time of renewal and hope — let’s strive to build a more peaceful world where every human being can live a life of dignity, freedom and joy.