#Scapegoating

Geoff Shullenberger

daily_barbarian

A forgotten detail of the Justine Sacco cancellation: My sense is its sheer scale and unanimity would be hard to imagine, much less reproduce, now. It was enabled by the

Will Stancil

whstancil

The other thing about “defund the police” is that even if you assume that it’s uniquely a killer for Democrats (something, to be clear, there’s literally zero actual evidence of),

Coach Trev

trevorplouffe

If it came out that some of the biggest named hitters were corking their bats for added ball flight, we’d be losing it! This isn’t sunscreen and rosin, it’s a

Irina

Wer_ko_der_ko

Today is the November Pogroms memorial day in Germany, also known as "Kristallnacht" when in 1938 German Jews were killed, beaten up, humiliated, imprisoned and their homes and businesses looted

Access Disrupt

AccessDisrupt

DEEP THREAD No: 4Politicians and the media are trained to influence the way we think. This thread looks at how they do that.Media Manipulation Tactics1/17 #ManufacturedOutrage DEEP THREAD No: 4Media

Andrew Scheer

AndrewScheer

Bill Morneau’s “resignation” is further proof of a government in chaos. At a time when Canadians are worried about their health and their finances , Justin Trudeau’s government is so

Jake Tapper

jaketapper

In 2015 a prominent Republican said this of Trump:"In the 1840’s the 'Know Nothings' emerged as a political movement, scapegoating Irish and German immigrants for the problems of the nation...

Professor Christopher Painter

PrfChrisPainter

Decision to merge Public Health England with privately contracted Test and Trace to form National Institute for Health Protection. Let's put to one side scapegoating of PHE and farce of

Prof Kate Williams 💙

KateWilliamsme

So #Cummings departs just before the real Brexit catastrophe starts - the one for which the government he influences has signally failed to plan. Is anyone going to take responsibility

Carl Bergquist

ToledoSwede

Sweden and the scapegoating of immigrants. THREAD:- Swedish authorities aimed for broad (even herd) COVID-19 immunity.- Embarked on light-touch lockdown, kept schools open, denied modes of transmission, discarded masks.- Many

Paul Elliott Johnson

RhetoricPJ

stuff like calling the people who stormed the Capitol "Y'all Qaeda" doesn't help. There's a whole history of scapegoating the South as where the "real" racism in America resides, ignoring

SamuelGoldman

SWGoldman

Apropos of the present Frankfurt School/anti-semitism debate, here's an idea I'm working on: there are two main kinds of decline theories, degeneration theories and seduction theories. Degeneration theories hold that

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

#Neoliberal deregulation & pure free-market #greed caused the 2008 financial crash, leading to a decade of #austerity which left Britain vulnerable to #COVID19.Yet since 2009, Britain's richest 1,000 people INCREASED

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

Social Media is designed to replicate conditions of low-intensity warfare in order to psychically induce people into political radicalism so they can be cultivated by as assets & deployed in

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. A significant chunk of partisans always refuse to accept election results (as with Dems in 2004 & 2012 & GOP in 2008 & 2012) but 2020 is different in

Kieran Pender

KieranHRLC

Among the findings in the Brereton Report: 'Existing whistle‐blower protections and redress of grievance processes were not adequate for members who were fearful of professional, social and physical retaliation to

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