#27

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

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#28

Or indeed anyone in the public eye

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#29
#30

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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#31

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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#32

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

#33

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

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#34

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.

#35

She’s dead?!

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#36

Dead excited about being commemorated in Plymouth!

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#37

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

#38

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

Fucking hell :joy:

#39

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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#40

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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#41

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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#42

Further context: Astor already has 16 commemorative sites in Plymouth. She isn’t underrepresented. There’s an entire park named after her with plaques and stuff just near my house.

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#43

Such a fucked up country

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#44

Also, her dad fought in the Confederate Army and used his Confederate Army connections to land the Railroad contract that made him his fortune

& then her father in law gave her & her husband this for their wedding present

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#45

I used to go passed Astor Feild(sic - think they only corrected the sign recently after letting the error go for 90 years) on the way to school.

#46

that gaff is stupendously big, isn’t it