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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, they would. And I tackle that issue at length in my book *Not So Black and White* kenanmalik.com/2022/04/13/n...

. Here are details of my new book, Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics, bublished by Hurst and available from the usual places. In Britain: Bookshop,…

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday photo

Bird flies into a Rothko
(taken on the Adriatic coast near Dubrovnik)

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 4d

On the dangers of the critique of liberalism descending into illiberalism: My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali...

If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 7d

A terrible, truly sickening act
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Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed killed - police

The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 8d

Funny how suddenly so many on the right now see hurty words as a problem, and how suddenly expansive their notion of incitement has become.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

Sunday photo

When even a multi-storey car park can look magical (taken on London's Southbank)

Photo of light from a multi-storey car park at night

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you. I've written a lot about the problem with the "white working class" discussion and the failure to see black and Asian people as working class

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THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF RACE AND CLASS

This essay, on race and class in contemporary Britain, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on the politics of human fossil finds.) It was published on 7 July 2…

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

A (very) belated thank you

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

"So right, yer buggers, then! We’ll occupy
your lousy leasehold Poetry."

RIP Tony Harrison

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 11d

“The battle against antisemitism has become as much about policing speech as about protecting Jews.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Reframing criticism of Israel as antisemitism fails Jews ...

The sense of what defines anti-Jewish bigotry has changed radically since the 70s

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 18d

“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

‘No one listens to us’: the working-class despair fuellin...

Under the racist chants at last week’s rally lies a deep sense of political betrayal

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 21d

As straightforward a case as you can find of being cancelled not because of spewing hate or celebrating murder but because the most powerful political figures in the land did not like being criticised: news.sky.com/story/jimmy-...

Trump celebrates as Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments

Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are among those to cite "left-wing extremism" as a factor in Charlie Kirk's killing - and Jimmy Kimmel used his show to call out perceived hypocrisy among MAGA...

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 25d

Sunday photo

Rouen Cathedral

Photo, looking up to the ceiling of Rouen Cathedral

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you

Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 25d

“Conservatives who have (rightly) insisted that free speech must include the right to be obnoxious and hurtful, now want retribution for hurtful words directed at their hero.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Charlie Kirk killing puts America to the test over the fr...

There’s a risk that political violence becomes a weapon in the culture wars

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

Actually, I've got an Insta account but rarely use it. Should do so.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sand things?

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sunday photo

Looking across the moors of Lewis, south from Achmore

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

Meanwhile, free speech across the Atlantic. Wonder what JD Vance has to say about this? www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump

An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

And on the long history of “two-tier justice" in Britain that is wilfully ignored by those who have suddenly discovered the existence of “two-tier justice": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our first political prisoner? No. Locking up dissenters is an ignoble British tradition | Kenan Malik

Voices on the right who now criticise the jailing of rioters for racial hate wilfully ignore history

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

Relevant to this, from a couple of weeks ago: “As vile as Connolly’s tweet was, she should not have been imprisoned. There is, though, nothing becoming in the praise now being showered upon her.” observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Lucy Connolly is no hero, but her words shouldn’t be a crime

Lionising a woman who stirred up racial hatred is a moral failure of the right

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

While Lucy Connolly was being feted at the Reform conference, hundreds were being arrested for their speech opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. Yet those turning Connolly into a free speech martyr seem to have little to say about those arrests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 425 arrested at rally against Palestine Action ban in London

Hundreds gathered in Parliament Square to oppose the group's ban under anti-terrorism legislation.

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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · Sep 7

“‘The Overton window is moving and we are helping move it’… The fact that arguments that once belonged to the far right are now seen as mainstream, and the growing assertion of casual bigotry, is hardly something to celebrate.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

British identity isn’t neatly tied in red, white and blue

The current debate over flying the national flag is not as important as the common values we want to ascribe to it

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