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Stellar work, and I’d say the day the government announces restrictions on permissible interpretations of history is an excellent opportunity for everyone who thought they could adopt a just-sticking-it-in-a-bit approach to idiotic backlash politics to pipe down and rethink.
It’s certainly true that it was Britain’s increasingly far right media who opened this particular portal to hell but the path to it was paved by well-meaning moderate tools who thought they could ride the backlash for their own political benefit and, LOL no
Every time I see some dim bulb insisting We Cannot Allow The Right To Monopolise Patriotism And The Flag I look at all the other times these geniuses tried to appropriate some dread weapon of reactionaries, and remember these people don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.
It’s poorly remembered, but the whole terror of barely-existing campus tyranny and right-on students stomping on decency was intentionally reimported to the UK not by the Mail, but by a few twitchy Iraq War advocates looking for a stick to beat the left. Now, government policy.
