I’ll mourn whoever I want dickhead. On some levels this is just a standard reactionary statement but there’s also something deeply authoritarian about this demand to mourn who the state wants & not mourn those it forbids you from mourning.
Obviously the Sun lies outrageously and racistly all the time & doesn’t have its reputation harmed by doing so because that’s what one expects, but @simonmontefiore thinks of himself as a fairly serious historian (& some agree), yet…
“Even the Nazis didn’t say ‘death to the Jews’.” Fuck me. The stupidity, dishonesty and moral horrors that are required at this point to defend the indefensible are astonishing: & it’s a sign they’re losing, they have no persuasive capacity left.
"I was going to say that they sometimes seem to have more in common with the Nuremburg rally, but even the Nazis didn’t say 'death to the Jews.'"
Andrew Neil rips into Bob Vylan's Glastonbury set.
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