the fascist attack will always have a paramilitary arm
this is that
Fwiw, I’m a pacifist but depoliticising and criminalising all violence against property and people seems bad.
Big thanks to the DUP, Reform, Tories etc for stirring this up all day. Thugs are now attacking people's homes in Belfast, wrecking hostels, checking cars at roadblocks for 'immigrants', burning vehicles and generally scaring the shit out of people. Hope you're all proud of yourselves.
#Belfast
Well then bsky.app/profile/zack...
Toby Buckle
Maybe the answer isn’t condemning street violence as ‘thuggery’ but making clear what its politics are, idk?
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What‘s the line on criticising racist street violence without endorsing the liberal riot/protest distinction?
ICYMI - @trillingual.bsky.social on the rise of the UK far-right and how Britain's establishment institutions normalised ideas and policies that were once considered fringe and extreme:
Rossa
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · June 4 · 1h 14m
I do think a lot of English-based analysis of what happened in Northern Ireland last night is missing the specifically loyalist aspect of the violence. These are groups with a long history of violently driving out "outsiders", turning their sights on a new vulnerable minority.
