Tanja Bueltmann
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Professor @ University of Strathclyde | migration and diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
I clearly expressed that poorly: did not mean that at all—there never is such a point in my view, we can always find a point of return. Sorry about that. Deleted the thread to avoid further confusion.
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I clearly expressed that poorly: did not mean that at all—there never is such a point in my view, we can always find a point of return. Sorry about that. Deleted the thread to avoid further confusion.
the Holocaust is where the Nazi regime *ended*, it is not where it began. It began with undermining the rule of law; othering on the basis of who people are; the normalisation of hate; rights limitations etc. And we are already much closer to some of those patterns than many people think. 2/2
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
the Holocaust is where the Nazi regime *ended*, it is not where it began. It began with undermining the rule of law; othering on the basis of who people are; the normalisation of hate; rights limitations etc. And we are already much closer to some of those patterns than many people think. 2/2
Direct comparisons with the 1930s are ahistorical and unhelpful: 2025 simply is not 1930s Germany. BUT what we can look at are patterns. And on the basis of those patterns we absolutely can see common trajectories here. I would also urge everyone again to remember that death camps and … 1/2
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Direct comparisons with the 1930s are ahistorical and unhelpful: 2025 simply is not 1930s Germany. BUT what we can look at are patterns. And on the basis of those patterns we absolutely can see common trajectories here. I would also urge everyone again to remember that death camps and … 1/2
PS: I caution against chiefly seeing this in context of the US. That 100% is relevant context and ‘inspiration’ clearly comes from there, see Badenoch and UK ICE idea. However, on this the Tories have a long history all on their own and are moving further and further into extremist positions. /endPS
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
PS: I caution against chiefly seeing this in context of the US. That 100% is relevant context and ‘inspiration’ clearly comes from there, see Badenoch and UK ICE idea. However, on this the Tories have a long history all on their own and are moving further and further into extremist positions. /endPS
… of politicians who have been murdered over recent years and attacks on others. We cannot simply dismiss things like this, as I had already said in relation to Badenoch the other day, as the last horrendous hurrah of a dying party.The harm can still be very real even if it is. /end
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
… of politicians who have been murdered over recent years and attacks on others. We cannot simply dismiss things like this, as I had already said in relation to Badenoch the other day, as the last horrendous hurrah of a dying party.The harm can still be very real even if it is. /end
But I say this also expressly due to my own past experiences with far right agitators and based on work I currently do where safeguarding is a huge question—I am literally having conversations about things that incl potential threats. None of this is a joke in any way, particularly in light too …
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
But I say this also expressly due to my own past experiences with far right agitators and based on work I currently do where safeguarding is a huge question—I am literally having conversations about things that incl potential threats. None of this is a joke in any way, particularly in light too …
I say all this based on past evidence we already have of the impact of such an approach. Here’s just one example—even Govt ministers warned of the possibility of violence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Top ministers urged Priti Patel to stop attacks on 'activist lawyers'
The home secretary’s rhetoric targeting the legal profession continued despite party warnings that it led to violence
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I say all this based on past evidence we already have of the impact of such an approach. Here’s just one example—even Govt ministers warned of the possibility of violence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This isn’t just a point about Jenrick either: the framing adopted by the Express—that this is a war—is also deeply irresponsible and will also serve to inflame further.
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
This isn’t just a point about Jenrick either: the framing adopted by the Express—that this is a war—is also deeply irresponsible and will also serve to inflame further.
Journalists would also do well to ask about Badenoch’s comments on lawyers and what they might well do given precedents like this: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Knife attack ‘inspired by Priti Patel’s activist lawyer remarks’
‘It must be ensured that no further lives are endangered as a result of her untruthful and deliberately inflammatory rhetoric,’ company targeted in incident reportedly writes in letter to Law Society
www.independent.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Journalists would also do well to ask about Badenoch’s comments on lawyers and what they might well do given precedents like this: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
This, btw, is what ICE operating in US communities looks like.
This is what Kemi Badenoch wants for the UK.
Every single journalist and media outlet in the UK should play this clip to Badenoch and ask her why she wants this for the UK on our streets.
bsky.app/profile/lord...
This is what Kemi Badenoch wants for the UK.
Every single journalist and media outlet in the UK should play this clip to Badenoch and ask her why she wants this for the UK on our streets.
bsky.app/profile/lord...
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This, btw, is what ICE operating in US communities looks like.
This is what Kemi Badenoch wants for the UK.
Every single journalist and media outlet in the UK should play this clip to Badenoch and ask her why she wants this for the UK on our streets.
bsky.app/profile/lord...
This is what Kemi Badenoch wants for the UK.
Every single journalist and media outlet in the UK should play this clip to Badenoch and ask her why she wants this for the UK on our streets.
bsky.app/profile/lord...
… And these are just a very, very, very small number of examples. /end
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
… And these are just a very, very, very small number of examples. /end
Source 5: www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...
ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors
Two residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the raid.
www.newsweek.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Source 5: www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...
Source 4: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Source 4: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Source 3: english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...
The mysterious disappearance of hundreds of immigrants detained at Alligator Alcatraz
Lawyers and family members report that they have been unable to locate the inmates at the infamous Florida prison after they disappeared from the ICE database
english.elpais.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Source 3: english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...
Source 2: theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...
How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.
theconversation.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Source 2: theconversation.com/how-ice-is-b...
And for those who still do not understand what is happening in the US, please pay more attention. None of it is benign in any way and some of the greatest cheerleaders of it all are published regularly in The Telegraph, The Times and The Spectator.
Source 1: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
Source 1: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
The case for calling Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz' a concentration camp
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
www.msnbc.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
And for those who still do not understand what is happening in the US, please pay more attention. None of it is benign in any way and some of the greatest cheerleaders of it all are published regularly in The Telegraph, The Times and The Spectator.
Source 1: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
Source 1: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
Nothing good will ever be found at the end of the road this leads to.
It is a complete dereliction of duty of our media in the UK, and far too many politicians, that we could *ever* get anywhere close to this point of normalising what absolutely are extremist policies.
It is a complete dereliction of duty of our media in the UK, and far too many politicians, that we could *ever* get anywhere close to this point of normalising what absolutely are extremist policies.
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Nothing good will ever be found at the end of the road this leads to.
It is a complete dereliction of duty of our media in the UK, and far too many politicians, that we could *ever* get anywhere close to this point of normalising what absolutely are extremist policies.
It is a complete dereliction of duty of our media in the UK, and far too many politicians, that we could *ever* get anywhere close to this point of normalising what absolutely are extremist policies.
So last hurrah or not, this is what the leader of the Conservative Party is inspired by and proposes for the UK.
Together with the proposal to leave the ECHR, it is what the completely deranged normalisation of far right anti-immigration approaches has now led to in the UK.
Together with the proposal to leave the ECHR, it is what the completely deranged normalisation of far right anti-immigration approaches has now led to in the UK.
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
So last hurrah or not, this is what the leader of the Conservative Party is inspired by and proposes for the UK.
Together with the proposal to leave the ECHR, it is what the completely deranged normalisation of far right anti-immigration approaches has now led to in the UK.
Together with the proposal to leave the ECHR, it is what the completely deranged normalisation of far right anti-immigration approaches has now led to in the UK.
The UK has a border with border staff—we have immigration control. And from an economic perspective, as all data show, the UK needs more immigrants, not fewer. In any case: stripping away provisions in place to protect *everyone’s* human rights—that includes *your own* rights—will not help.
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The UK has a border with border staff—we have immigration control. And from an economic perspective, as all data show, the UK needs more immigrants, not fewer. In any case: stripping away provisions in place to protect *everyone’s* human rights—that includes *your own* rights—will not help.
We are talking with reference to immigration and on that the CDU absolutely do do this. And plenty of CDU people are very happy to stand alongside the AfD, think of recent meetings in Hungary. I’m sorry, but while many in the CDU do do as you say, overall the role of the CDU could not be clearer.
September 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We are talking with reference to immigration and on that the CDU absolutely do do this. And plenty of CDU people are very happy to stand alongside the AfD, think of recent meetings in Hungary. I’m sorry, but while many in the CDU do do as you say, overall the role of the CDU could not be clearer.
I truly wish all immigrants could stop work for a week. I don’t think it would take much longer than that to change everything.
/endPS
/endPS
September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I truly wish all immigrants could stop work for a week. I don’t think it would take much longer than that to change everything.
/endPS
/endPS
To constantly sh*t on those who make the choice to contribute to the UK rather than somewhere else — now pushed on to such an extent that we need to prove special worth beyond that choice and contribution …. Anger is to weak a word to describe it all.
September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
To constantly sh*t on those who make the choice to contribute to the UK rather than somewhere else — now pushed on to such an extent that we need to prove special worth beyond that choice and contribution …. Anger is to weak a word to describe it all.
But my key point is this:
Migrating to the UK was my *choice*; it was the choice to commit my skills and knowledge to the UK, not another place. Pay my tax here. Etc.
Germany, on the other hand, is the place where I happened to have been born. Purely by chance.
Migrating to the UK was my *choice*; it was the choice to commit my skills and knowledge to the UK, not another place. Pay my tax here. Etc.
Germany, on the other hand, is the place where I happened to have been born. Purely by chance.
September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
But my key point is this:
Migrating to the UK was my *choice*; it was the choice to commit my skills and knowledge to the UK, not another place. Pay my tax here. Etc.
Germany, on the other hand, is the place where I happened to have been born. Purely by chance.
Migrating to the UK was my *choice*; it was the choice to commit my skills and knowledge to the UK, not another place. Pay my tax here. Etc.
Germany, on the other hand, is the place where I happened to have been born. Purely by chance.