This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
And this is why the study of history is essential.
You can't leave the interpretation of this stuff to social media or AI machines.
You need trusted sources of truth such as universities and a free press to report that truth.
Both are under attack in the US. And under threat in the UK.
I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.
The modern day equivalent of Lord Haw Haw broadcasting from afar.
What's different this time though is the British government broadcasts on the same frequency.
We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast:
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...