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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/touaregtweet/statuses/112940338849362954">Touaregtweet (touaregtweet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 09:29:08 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@touaregtweet" title="touaregtweet@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/18183-48-20231015151452.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Touaregtweet" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Touaregtweet</a></section><article><p>"There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism" - David Olusoga</p><p>"While there were horrific attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers, most of those targeted by the rioters were British citizens: members of communities with histories that go back three generations or more."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"They are not looking to address inequalities but to target those whom they will never accept as fellow Britons."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism</a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Riots" rel="tag">#Riots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" rel="tag">#UK</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3502538#notice-6881839">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-11T09:29:08+09:00" title="Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 09:29:08 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@touaregtweet/112940338849362954" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@touaregtweet/112940338849362954">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3026536">textshot:"To put the violence directed at British Muslims, Black Britons and asylum seeking down to “legitimate grievances” is to fall for one of the most toxic and intentionally divisive falsehoods in the populist handbook: the myth that class and race are diametrically opposed, the assertion that non-white people have no class identity. In this distorted world view, the true working class are the “white working class”, and the difficulties they face are not a consequences of political choices that affect everyone, irrespective of ethnicity, skin colour or faith, but of “elites” putting the needs of minority communities first. As if those minorities are not themselves working class. Boris Johnson’s disastrous government pushed that falsehood whenever it got the chance."</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/940/306/531/734/162/original/288410aa50f140b1.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/940/306/531/734/162/original/288410aa50f140b1.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3026537">Continuing a ‘long and ugly history’ of British race riots, a mob attacks police outside a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers. Photograph: Joel Goodman/LNP</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/940/320/182/011/499/original/64a9f75b021e445e.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/940/320/182/011/499/original/64a9f75b021e445e.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: i.guim.co.uk</div><h5><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism">There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga</a></h5><div> from <span>https://www.theguardian.com/profile/david-olusoga</span></div></header><div>Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Touaregtweet (touaregtweet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 09:29:08 JST Touaregtweet
"There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism" - David Olusoga
"While there were horrific attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers, most of those targeted by the rioters were British citizens: members of communities with histories that go back three generations or more."
[...]
"They are not looking to address inequalities but to target those whom they will never accept as fellow Britons."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism
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1. textshot: "To put the violence directed at British Muslims, Black Britons and asylum seeking down to “legitimate grievances” is to fall for one of the most toxic and intentionally divisive falsehoods in the populist handbook: the myth that class and race are diametrically opposed, the assertion that non-white people have no class identity. In this distorted world view, the true working class are the “white working class”, and the difficulties they face are not a consequences of political choices that affect everyone, irrespective of ethnicity, skin colour or faith, but of “elites” putting the needs of minority communities first. As if those minorities are not themselves working class. Boris Johnson’s disastrous government pushed that falsehood whenever it got the chance."
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2. Continuing a ‘long and ugly history’ of British race riots, a mob attacks police outside a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers. Photograph: Joel Goodman/LNP
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  There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga
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  Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed

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