The Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s alliance with the hard-left streamer Hasan Piker has become a political and moral crisis for Democrats, @jonathanchait argues: https://t.co/6OZT79N4U7
This is only the beginning. We have deported Hispanics, Somalis, Chinese, Indians, Arabs. Now we have moved on to the pseudo-white races: the Greeks, the Ukrainians, and so on. Next come the Italians, Germans, French, Irish, Scots, and Nords; finally, those from Southern England...
I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. Every single part of the seats of power in both parties and the entire media frantically rallying around a defamatory accusation against a single person in the hopes that they can make him the symbol for anti Israel sentiment and by crushing him crush all of us as well.
I once dated a lovely woman when we were both in our twenties. It didn’t work out, but we stayed connected on social media and remained perfectly civil.
Then, shortly before 2016, her Facebook started developing Brexit Brain.
First came the misinformation. Then the hysteria. Then the moral panics. Then the increasingly unpleasant posts about immigrants and assorted designated enemies of Britain. Eventually she started casually dropping slurs.
So I messaged her privately and said, basically: come on, you’re better than this. Stop using that language.
She responded by calling me the r-slur. Knowing full well that I worked in health and social care, spending most of my time with people with learning disabilities.
And that was that. Blocked. Haven’t spoken to her since.
I mention this because Graham Linehan has just wandered into my mentions, stroked his chin thoughtfully, and decided his contribution to the discussion should be:
“Does your name mean ‘a terrible [r-slur]’?”
And now I find myself wondering what Helen Serafinowicz makes of opening social media occasionally and discovering what targeted slur her ex-husband has deployed before teatime.
Imagine once sharing a mortgage with someone and years later seeing him in the replies doing GCSE lunch-break edgelord material to strangers because their username is French.
Life comes at you fast.
@dieworkwear Consequently you can find lots of people who are otherwise very discerning about the quality + design pedigree who fill their houses with garbage ikea furniture, as the main alternatives to Eames tend to be bespoke brands with varying regional footprints that are much less known.
@dieworkwear There are very few other furniture brands who have managed to successfully position themselves in the ptemium segment and gain mass market recognition. In part because it is much harder to build mass global awareness for furniture brands than it is for fashion/watches/etc.