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Only one aspect of that awful bullying by blue tick celebs of a random twitter user for expressing a view on a TV show, but the allegation that supporting Liverpool Football Club is 'code' for antisemitic views is a vile lie.
Lying about LFC supporters has history, of course.
Lying about LFC supporters has history, of course.
Some have extended it to include Celtic fans too, and there is a clear genealogy of British anti-Irish and anti-Catholic bigotry at play here; this was a largely unspoken component of much of what went on in the demonisation of Lpool by right wing press & govt in the 1980s.
Unspoken that is by those outside the far right, who did explicitly make that link at times.
Paul Mason, who to be clear is not involved in this episode & has not been involved in connecting it with Liverpool, also drew on anti-Catholic tropes with his attacks on Long-Bailey.
Paul Mason, who to be clear is not involved in this episode & has not been involved in connecting it with Liverpool, also drew on anti-Catholic tropes with his attacks on Long-Bailey.
I'm not a Liverpool fan, I'm an Evertonian, but I am Catholic, have an Irish name, was born and raised in Liverpool and I know what is happening here.
The mobilisation of racialised tropes to demonise a particular group of people for purported political views.
The mobilisation of racialised tropes to demonise a particular group of people for purported political views.
If anyone says that 'anti-Scouse' bigotry is just a bit of a laugh and doesn't have consequences, then I'd say that's bullshit.
The one that is most significant is of course Hillsborough.
The one that is most significant is of course Hillsborough.
This slander against us as a city is vile and wrong.
