Can you imagine how the British media would report entirely peaceful senior academics being arrested and handcuffed at protests in China? They would, rightly, call it an authoritarian outrage. So what’s this?
Can you imagine how the British media would report entirely peaceful senior academics being arrested and handcuffed at protests in China? They would, rightly, call it an authoritarian outrage. So what’s this?
@AaronBastani I don’t remember the lefts outrage at the police brutality during lockdown protests?🤔
@AaronBastani I don’t remember the lefts outrage at the police brutality during lockdown protests?🤔
@AaronBastani Arresting someone based on behaviour and not on their authority is the hallmark of a liberal society, not an authoritarian one. Important people should not be above the law.
@AaronBastani The irony too Noëlle McAfee specialises in the works of Hannah Arednt.
@AaronBastani @StevePeers I am beginning to feel that the Palestine issue is the new Vietnam issue and will change the western world … Hopefully for the best.
@AaronBastani Fascism is a club and there are special rules to entry. 1 - Never criticise another fascist country. 2 - Defend the other fascist country no matter what they do. 3 - Tell the world that the country is the most democratic and its military the most moral. Rinse and repeat. 🫡🇺🇸
@AaronBastani People are learning that America is more authoritarian than China. Black people there have known this for years.