#2747

Sounds like the school and the Council took reasonable steps to tidy up the initial fuck up.

But what the Police…

police officers from the Prevent Team had offered to send a lecturer into classes to challenge Jack’s views

What the hell is this all about?

One of my worst fears, this sort of thing.

#2748

To challenge his views about…being opposed to fascism?

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#2749
#2750

That fascism is on the rise in Canada, an inherently multicultural country of farcical size and natural wealth, should be the final argument against it having anything to do with economic or ‘space’ pressures.

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#2751

I think the Government has consistently ignored experts on drugs for decades. Haven’t the experts always been behind liberalisation of drugs laws? And yet obviously it’s political suicide so no Government wants to listen.

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#2752
#2753

Awful :persevere:

#2754

Also related

Incredible bravery shown by the marchers though, I can’t imagine what it must be like to have to deal with something like this.

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#2755
#2756

Good.

#2757

I really dislike Eric Kaufman all he seems to do is coat far-right talking points with a veneer of liberal respectability. Either he’s utterly oblivious as to the current political situation or he’s being incredibly disingenuous.

#2758

This Guardian piece highlights the positive that Dutch police and transport authorities are refusing to enforce the burqa ban…

…but hidden in there in passing it says that the police have endorsed the idea that anyone can make a “citizen’s arrest” if they suspect an infraction of the law. Great then, can’t see any possible abuses of that.`

#2759

Urgh citizens arrest that’s grim. Cos what kind of citizen is going to care about the ban and want to enforce it? Small minded racists and bigots. Awful.

#2760

Some nice rewriting of history in Scotland…

National Galleries of Scotland currently have an exhibition of art themed around migration from Scotland in 1760-1860 that - really quite impressively - fails to mention the Highland Clearances beyond referring to them as ‘improvements’.

Context: The Clearances are the forced migration of 150,000+ people over that same period by aristocratic landowners so they could graze sheep instead. Funnily enough, descendants of those aristocratic landowners still own a lot of land in Scotland and quite like to sponsor the odd gallery exhibition.

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#2761

No guys it’s fine, Scottish nationalism is different this time I swear

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#2762

does my nut in the wealth and power these families have still today as a result of their ancestors forcibly driving so many people to homelessness and starvation, sometimes burning them alive in their own homes.

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#2763

Eh?

#2764

See also Wales, Ireland. I know we voted the wrong way on Brexit but please can we join you in the great Celtic nation of the future when you both inevitably sod ‘Great Britain’ off?

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#2765

Without clarification on what you’re getting at here, that comment seems confusedly snide as a response to the @AtTheBorderGuy post. Which seems rather uncharacteristic. Feels like I’m missing something here?

#2766

This does not augur well. All communication lines in the province have been cut and soldiers are in the process of rounding up locals and arresting politicians. Looks distinctly like Modi’s gearing up for some ethnic cleansing.