The way medical research is reported is highly problematic, too. In the UK, there the damage done by the moronic Andrew Wakefield, and the way his bogus study (he had about 12 participants and was effectively paid by the Autism society to find a link between the MMR vaccine and autism) was featured in the news at the…

Similarly , sites like this https://www.nohatespeechmovement.org/hate-speech-watch are really useful.

Did you see the gross spectacle of her being invited onto the Marr show on the BBC? I am a pacifist and generally don’t buy into the BS about the Remembrance day celebrations, but to give her such an unchecked platform was really sickening

Exactly - I love the fact that they always delete the post afterwards too. I mean, if you are so convinced that it is an innocent/harmless comment, why not leave it up there? Unless you are totally aware of your own prejudice and complicit in racist rhetoric, in which case you cannot help yourself from commenting,…

You’re totally right - these are the kind of arguments I have with my parents and their friends all the time. They would never see themselves as racist, and get very annoyed when I tell them that being nostalgic about fucking ‘golliwog’ branding on Robertson’s jam jars and joking about my mum having a ‘black mamma’ at…

IT IS GETTING SO TEDIOUS TO HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE THAT IF YOU SAY , AGREE WITH, LAUGH ABOUT, RE-TWEET RACIST SHIT YOU ARE A FUCKING RACIST

It would also have helped if Andrew Marr had not invited Marine Le Pen on his sunday morning talk show. The BBC have been shits for invited fascists or white nationalists like Farage on key talkshows: without asking them difficult questions or subjecting them to a debate from articulate opponents, it is nothing more…

YES

I have taught my daughter ( now 8 )to do this from the moment she blew her first bubble - so much so, that she is much more tolerant than me and reguarly argues from a perspective I hadn’t considered, whilst being clear about her own intentions. I was lucky because my parents were relatively liberal and keen on us…

In the US and the UK they have also pushed an aggressively ‘anti-intellectual’ “We’ve had enough of experts” agenda across many media outlets and political parties, rejecting critical thinking in favour of valorising idiocy and blind obsequiousness.  

Apparently I now like to rhyme.

Ivana said the Donald’s like a good French wine

Gayness must be a choice, because prisoners who are raped come out gay

It’s true - the precarity amongst Trump supporters is often imagined precarity: that it is anxiety about a future in which they will not be able to trot out racist gibes at the xmas table, that women will not put up with being talked over anymore, that minorites /POC will not put up with being ignored, discrimated…

David Eagleman gave a really interesting talk on how easily empathy can be inculcated towards what is percieved as the ‘ingroup’ (literally, just by assigning participants a random bracelet and telling them they were part of a made up group) and how consequently the dehumanisation of the ‘outgroup’ can occur, where…

I do understand your point, but it’s dangerous to normalise what are essentially frightening perspectives. I went to a debate in 2008 about the motion put forward to the Student’s union at the time to stop the ‘no platform for racism’ rule. At the time, I was a free speech absolutist (easier to be when you’re white…

It’s fucking terrifying - either

Donald: ‘hey....ummm......stop, please, ok guys?’

don’t worry - it looks like, in addition to being a racist, cheap, repugnant bigot she is also a coward, who has now backed out of her promise to move to America , saying “I think people here need me”.