I think he’s kind of got a point there. If the complaint is unjustified, play the ball, not the person. If it’s actually reasonable, then the fact that it might be being made in bad faith is completely irrelevant and only serves to give the impression we don’t care about the underlying issue
Have read this multiple times and no idea what you’re saying
edit - oh thought you were replying to the Peston tweet.
Anyway, the reason for the James Bloodworth tweet is cos of Abi Wilkinson’s Finkelstein/Andrew Neil stuff. Which is all completely justified. People will come to see the idea of ‘whataboutery’ in the same vein as ‘political correctness’, as something to redefine goodness as badness, up as down, wet as dry etc. Moral consistency is the fundamental basis of morality itself.
it’s no good calling labour an antisemitic party if you’re complicit in spreading other forms of prejudice. which almost all the pundits lobbing around accusations of antisemitism are.
also, he’s having a passive go at abi wilks for demonstrating that finklestein and neil are in bed with fascists. fuck him tbh.
I mean, I don’t disagree with you, I just think in the case of Labour and anti-Semitism at the moment, it’s a completely counter productive thing to do - more harmful than helpful.
have thought about starting a climate change thread but i dunno…i mean it’d basically be documenting our own mass suicide. duno if it’d be good for anyone’s MH.
It’s just done isn’t it. Enjoy yourselves as it’s gonna go mad soon.
We’ve discussed climate change as a driver for the neo-liberal shift right and closing of the borders before.
Genuinely think that people know more than they’re letting on and it’s really really fucked
The way these recent articles have been increasingly stating the idea that limiting global warming to 2 degrees may be too little too late…makes me think you’re right.
There’s still a long way to go to even convince certain powers to make the steps necessary to achieve 2. We are so far from what is needed right now
Does anyone remember that BBC (I think) drama from about a decade (possibly longer) ago where walls/hard borders went up to ‘protect’ Europe from African migrants moving North due to climate change? Seems pretty prescient now.