wild to me what journalists and some leftists are able to cram into the "culture war" formulation. this shit is reframing what we're living through in the most bullshit ways.

this framing often takes things from street movements/social media & projects them (in unrecognisable or demeaning ways) from the dominant 1-to-many platforms into a mainstream discourse that has "BBC SAYS NO TO LAND OF HOPE & GLORY" as the extreme opposite pole to just fascism

like, the latest episode in the "culture war" is stories of outsourcing immigration prisons to islands or boats. as always, these "shocking" things are racial violence Britain has already perpetrated. Whether it's the Earl William, war-time detention on Isle of Man or rendition

framing this shit as a "culture war" is an insult to what racialised people have had to struggle against in Britain for centuries - that is, Britain's culture: white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalist domination.

there were London newspapers, politicians & workers calling for Jews to be put in "concentration camps" during WW1. The entire architecture of immigration control post-WW2 - ALL parties, trade unions, media - was overwhelmingly dedicated to stopping Black&Asian ppl from settling

constant, cross-class polling majorities of whites backed Powell's speeches like they backed Brexit, 10s of 1000s anonymously denounce "people" they suspect are "illegals" every years.

This is the culture. There has never been any mainstream, sustained counter to it.