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
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️
"A pastor at the scene where multiple houses were on fire said people were being put out of houses "because they're black".
In another scene, 100 masked men made their way down a street & kicked in doors & broke windows.They said they were "getting the foreigners out""
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
This was a race riot.
Families were driven from their homes. People were targeted because of who they are and where they come from.
Words matter. Those who fuel hatred and division bear responsibility too.
We have more in common than that which divides us.
🚨 race war was always and remains a nat sec issue. Drum I’ll never stop beating and my hands are getting calluses after 6 years
Orchestrated racist far-right terrorism in Northern Ireland again in response to an attack in Belfast, gleefully reported by RTC
The only question we need to hear at PMQs today is whether our representatives condemn the racist violence
Every party leader needs to answer
