Keir seems rather insistent that "Black Lives Matter" should be seen as a "moment," not a movement. That is to say, something effervescent, over in a trice, not a long-term effort for systemic change. I'm also a bit curious as to how you are supposed to change any society without https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1277569634120749057

getting "tangled up" in "organisational issues." That is precisely how and where change happens. Finally, he says the "moment" against racism now going on across the world is tied solely to "what happened in America a few weeks ago," rather than being, again, a sustained

outpouring of anger and activism aimed not only at the injustice of George Floyd's death, but the vast, deep scope of white supremacist domination and brutality embedded not just in US society but also in the country that enslaved, exploited & killed millions of people of colour

through war, repression, famine and neglect for centuries. Starmer's statement here is shockingly dismissive and reductive. Is his understanding of this historical "moment" really this shallow, at the vacuous level of Boris Johnson? Or is he pandering to the right-wing media

to show how tough he is on crime? Either way, it is a very disheartening development.