i reaaaaaaaaaaaallly wanna stroll down there. But I don’t want to be confused for a supporter of this shit.

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We were thinking about checking out The Barcode this afternoon but don’t think we’ll bother now, don’t wanna get mixed up in it.

You not got an antifa hoodie or something?

just read up on her - it’s not even that old timey ‘probably was an antisemite but wasn’t that vocal about it’ type thing that often gets swept under the rug - antisemitism was kind of her thing.

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yeah, she was a jew-hater and a Nazi appeaser.

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Would be a good time for Corbyn to talk about intersectionality wouldn’t it

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Or indeed anyone in the public eye

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I remember seeing the 394th(?) anniversary when I lived in Plymouth. They had a cardboard ship plus a choir singing M-People and everything!

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I mean given the amount of attention that Corbyn laying that wreathe got I expect this to be covered extensively by the media.

Also Astor isn’t even subtle about it.

:grimacing:

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fucking hell, how is this allowed to pass with little comment?!

would be funny if they unveiled it and it turned out they’d actually sculpted Constance Markievicz holding a revolver

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I used to live next door to Nancy Astor. I mean, she was dead and everything by then, but I had a flat in the building next to the building she used to live in.

Fairly tenuous claim to fame, this.

She’s dead?!

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Dead excited about being commemorated in Plymouth!

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sorry to break it you like that, dude. Very heartless of me.

In relation to communists and Jews she ‘Looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these "world problems’’’.

Fucking hell :joy:

Although she held anti-Semitic views,[45] Astor has not been documented as influential in anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi policies

Oh that’s fine then

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Although I take issue with the way Corbyn has (mis)managed the handling of anti-semitic allegations within the Labour Party, there’s definitely a double standard at play. If he had carried out what May carried out today he would be getting completely destroyed.

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I’m very sorry for the pain and anxiety Jewish people are going through, the fact that the tories might be in government for another 5 years with almost no scrutiny from the media is terrifying for all anti-racist people

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