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the "Let Bigots Call" radio station doing what it's always done. talk radio in a social life as resentful and putrid as Britain's allows "controversy" (bigotry and majoritarian white supremacy) to drive ratings.
but the radio station (and the media ecosystem in which it's acceptable) & Starmer's (Labour's) predictable acquiescence are more dangerous than the white supremacy of Neil calling in from Leighton Buzzard or Gwen from Ilford
we see every day that the structural violence of this society is cheered on by politicians & journalists who make it possible. mainstream figures & institutions facilitate violence every day against trans ppl, roma and travellers, Muslims, ppl detained & deported.
the engines of bigotry and violence are respectable - BBC and Guardian and Labour, as well as LBC, Spectator, Tories & further right because they tap into long histories in which these logics of violence have been respectable and mainstream. this is not new. this is Britain.
this is what i'm getting at - it's not that everyone's "a fascist" - it's that far right convergence organised around conspiracies of "white genocide" "great replacement" "Eurabia" can draw sustenance from the same wells of white supremacist historiography https://twitter.com/jdpoulter/status/1338429540394266624?s=20
these gateways for convergence are effective, they're seen as opportunities for "conscious" white supremacy, mainstream platforms are open to these discourses, because liberal, social democratic and conservative ideas around race and nation in Britain are substantially shared
you see it with the cementing of "white working class" discourse in the last twenty years, that has moved from Powellite politics into the front line of Labour and Tory messaging
this is a mournful, appropriating discourse that empties working classness of all relational, antagonistic content, and exists solely for those to mourn for whiteness from above - a fallen, fading indigenous tribe, facing extinction via multiculturalism & mass immigration
me & @steinosteino wrote about this in 2017, in "Last Days of a White World" - here a writer in the Observer newspaper in 2000 mourned the passing of 40,000 years of indigenous white settlement of Europe. http://www.basepublication.org/?p=452
(that writer stood as a candidate for the Tory Party in 2019, having been one of Boris Johnson's main advisers as London Mayor.)
