What gets me about respectability politics is how the *entire* political and journalistic establishment will be tweeting concern for B**** getting sick but for ongoing gov engineered crises (e.g. Windrush, Universal Credit victims, underfunded healthcare victims) it& #39;s *crickets*

Not only does this moment show us which lives matter.

It also shows us that the *very* people who create racist, classist and oppressive political systems get more sympathy than those who are the victims of the violent systems they& #39;ve created. I& #39;m tired.

Saving my sympathy for the people on the sharp end of his structural harm. Many of whom - black, working class, disabled - his politics has harmed, will continue to harm, and many of whom will be disproportionately affected by covid-19.

Anyway cha let me mute this thread before I get union j*ck Twitter in my mentions.