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"When would you say you first sat up and felt that Trump represented a real...authoritarian threat?""Immediately. Every country that becomes a dictatorship started with a chorus of people saying, "It

1/ Quick thread. It’s #BiVisibilityDay, and so I thought I would mention what I call my “iceberg theory of bisexuality”: which is that for every openly bisexual person in your

6/ So many of us know a Jessica Krug: a certain type of white woman who is scared that their life is not sufficiently interesting, so they attach themselves to

Katie Hopkins, whom you commissioned at The Sun, described people fleeing this horror as cockroaches.https://twitter.com/stigabell/status/983090071795617795 Words matter. Of course they do. Hungary just handed a huge majority to a governmen

Okay, a quick thread which should be obvious. There are clearly still people in the UK who think the Premier League’s #BlackLivesMatter campaign is just corporate bandwagon-jumping, a way

A thread on the racist murder of #GeorgeFloyd by a policeman. If of interest, please share. #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd /end

When I saw the Karen discourse take place I didn’t say anything, because I was waiting to see which of those people so upset by that term would speak up

1) My God. We were taught this was human nature. It wasn’t. It was *his*.“I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.”

1/ What a double standard when it comes to how the concerns of black women and white women are discussed on here. When white women were worried that "Karen" was

Rewatching season four of The Wire, but looking particularly closely at the storylines of the black girls and black women. Though (I think) their roles are generally far too small,

An interesting thing about this pandemic, in Germany at least, is how the far-right are struggling for relevance. For now, few want to hear from ranting racists. Instead, they want

Which film did you watch that other people hated but which you thought was really good? The hill on which I will always die is “Reign of Fire”. Haha wow