Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

I have OCD and Anxiety, so, when I ask you a perfectly innocuous/inoffensive question, and you ignore me, you're actually exacerbating my condition. Thank you. Joined November 2020

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

This is outrageous. I know from teachers that pupils using toilets during lessons is a recurrent problem, but this isn't the solution. Students aren't prisoners, and their use of toilets, which includes girls on their periods, is a private matter. uk.yahoo.com/news/school-cr…

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

I'm not remotely a royalist but I am a human-being with the capacity for empathy so, I hope all the assholes speculating about #KateMiddleton over the last few weeks, take a long hard look at themselves now they know the truth regarding her recent low-profile. Best wishes to her.

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

We're told to respect the Civil Service, as a force for reason/diplomacy against 'maverick'/opportunist politicians, but this story proves that most UK institutions, inc. MI6 and legal system, are riddled with systemic sexism and classism. #GarrickClub uk.yahoo.com/news/mi6-chief…

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

Precisely to the man on #bbcqt arguing that it makes sense to protest against a democratic ally and trading partner (that we sell weapons to) [i.e. Israel], opposed to a clear terrorist organisation that we have no diplomatic relations with [i.e. Hamas].

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

Frank Hester has made vile comments about Diane Abbott. He doesn't deserve to be honoured, but holds an OBE. Agree? Sign the petition demanding his OBE be stripped from him now! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/hester-tor…

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

If you're a 'left-winger' and you despise democracy and favour elitism, you are NOT a left-winger. Well, you might be a communist/an authoritarian, but you're certainly NOT the type of leftist that progressive politics needs right now, or indeed at any time.

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

"I am pleased that the gentleman is supporting a party that represents one of the most diverse governments in this country's history, led by this country's first British Asian PM." How dare #Sunak leverage his own identity to excuse racism towards other MPs. #BrownWashing

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

The association between Jews and wealth is one of the most toxic and pernicious tropes imaginable. It is used by the far-right to fuel antisemitic hate, and, alas, has the power to cause rifts within the political left. Most wealth is in the hands of white gentiles.

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

Anyone can be a vegan. Anyone can be a feminist. Anyone can support BLM. Anyone can vote Democrat or Labour (assuming they're registered to vote in the relevant country). Anyone can try going carbon neutral. Anyone can be 'woke'. Not everyone can be a millionaire. #elitism

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

The only think more absurd than #identitarianism is the sense of #supremacy some people derive from their identity. No-one enters the world saying I'd like to be a cishet white Israeli man on the Autistic spectrum or a gay mixed-race German woman with a physical impairment.

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

Clearly, I'm 'too thick' to understand, but unless you adhere to a rigidly defensive, manichean view of the world, how can you condemn one form of religious and ethnic bigotry but champion another? Either you condemn ALL forms of bigotry, or you are, at best, a flaming hypocrite.

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

Being good is easy. Anyone can be good (which isn't to deny that many people aren't). But being courageous, that's the real test of a person's character. Taking a principled stance that may incur a personal cost, and even upset people we love and/or respect, is hard.

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Mat 💙💛 @MatTheExBot

2 years ago

NO ONE should be persecuted on account of their race, ethnicity, sexuality, sex or disability, but neither should anyone expect to be put on a pedestal on account of any of these identities. Not only is it wrong in principle to do so, it is a recipe for resentment.