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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 8h

When centrists affirm and validate racist grievance politics - that refugees are a burden, that racists have "legitimate concerns" about refugees - they empower the far right to take steps like the below, which would be unthinkable had the underlying assumptions not been turned into a common sense.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 3d

It’s drenched in blood of the colonies. It’s erasing our history and everything the empire did to us. You can’t reclaim it. I’m not going to feel any safer walking down the street.

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 3d

It's gone. It's not reclaimable. It's a symbol of colonialism and racist hatred. Sticking a wanky little phrase across it isn't going to change that. Sticking yet more flags all over the place is going to make people feel further isolated by it though, and give the racists just what they want.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 4d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 4d

Also wtf is this cunt doing on a St George’s flag? Maybe now he might be able to dodge that bullet

tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 4d

Bristol was amazing as always. About 500 counter-protesters sending the fash home. And cops protecting the fascists as expected, letting them march, threatening to arrest us if don’t get into their “play pens”. None of it worked and they were vastly outnumbered. Bristol is anti-fascist ✊🏽

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d

Absolutely heinous.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 6d

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera @aje.io.web.brid.gy · 8d

LIVE: A least 61 killed as Global Sumud Flotilla nears Gaza

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.

www.aljazeera.com

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 9d

White people saying the left shouldn't call racists racist boils down to a fundamental failure of empathy.

They don't experience racism so they don't think it's a big deal, they have experienced being called racist and hated it so they sympathise with the racists.

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 9d

All the replies on this video on instagram are white people saying “what a great take”. I’m sorry but you guys don’t get to tell us how to feel. Go tell the 9 yr old girl in Bristol who got shot with an air gun or the young Sikh woman who was raped by two men. Tell them those men weren’t racist

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9d

This video is very centred on the feelings of white people and not on the actual victims of racism. You may as well have said “white left” as that’s who you mean. If you mean white people just say that! YOU can feel racism rising? Okay…

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Gary, it’s good to know that my existence is “something we don’t agree upon”. If your “progressive future” is going to leave behind people of colour, how progressive is it? Is the British working class only white people then?

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 10d

Free speech advocates at this weekend's "Protect Our Women" rally in Hull...

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 11d

"Home Secretary proposes conscription for immigrants, a new chain labour force for communities where the chains will be the threat of deportation."

It gets more horrifying when you describe mandatory unpaid labour as what it really is.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 11d

It’s simple, you can’t talk about capitalism without talking about racism, colonialism or imperialism. And again, BEING ACCUSED OF BEING A RACIST AND EXPERIENCING RACISM IS NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING.

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sick of white men telling us racism is just a little “left vs right” issue. As if it isn’t destroying our lives. Oh they only hate you because of the colour of your skin and wish you were deported or dead or both. Just get over it! How are we going to fix anything if we just don’t get along!

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 11d

Oh wow okay then, i guess I don’t need to be terrified of walking down a street because Gary says they’re not all racists! He’s asked them to prove us wrong, it’s okay if the a few black and brown people get racially abused, there’s gonna be some collateral damage. Why don’t we all just get along!

Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 14d

My message to Reform supporters

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 15d

Looks like the psychology/ mental health community has finally woken up on LinkedIn after Trump’s Autism announcement. So you can read the news? You just don’t give a shit about people of colour/ trans people? You know what else affects mental health? A fucking genocide! I’m not even surprised

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 16d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 21d

Anxiety has been through the roof this week. The amount of flags going up in Bristol is terrifying. Why am I made to feel unsafe and scared when all I’m doing is going to work? My job is literally working with little kids who have been abused.

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 22d

Jesus fucking christ.

Girl, 9, shot in 'racially aggravated' broad daylight attack in UK city
A nine-year-old girl was shot three times with an airgun in the Brentry area of Bristol in what is
being treated as a racially aggravated attack by Avon and Somerset Police
By Tim Hanlon
16:30, 17 Sep 2025 | UPDATED 16:49, 17 Sep 2025
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A young girl has been shot in the street in what police believe to be a "racially aggravated attack".

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tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 22d

You can’t reclaim the flag. Every time I see it, I know I am not welcome. It is triggering, and if you are trying to reclaim it, you are erasing the history of the rest of the world. Saying that what that flag has done to us doesn’t matter because suddenly now it stands for “unity”

tank31.bsky.social @tank31.bsky.social · 24d

No patience for any anti-refugee nonsense. I work therapeutically with unaccompanied asylum-seeking kids — do you even grasp what they’ve survived? It takes months, years, to build a sliver of trust, to feel safe. And you wave flags in their faces telling them to ‘go back’? Absolutely fuck off

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 25d

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

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🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 25d

It's called the Butcher's Apron guys! You can't "reclaim" that for the left! Try telling Irish and South Asian and Black comrades that it isn't a hate symbol.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 26d

Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 26d

I'm genuinely grateful for the solidarity, irrespective of how rare this is from a politician. But fascism can't be reduced to displaced economic concerns. It doesn't stand up analytically, it won't help politically or strategically, and I really wish the left (of which I'm part) wouldn't do this.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26d

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality.

We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

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