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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Fear grips UK's Muslim communities as far-right riots spread nationwide

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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Far-right riots and Islamophobic attacks spread to more cities overnight Sunday, days after deadly stabbings in Southport were falsely attributed to Muslims
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  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Stoking anti-muslim shit for decades and then turning around and blaming Corbyn for “antisemtism” because Wizard Book lady said so. FUCK TERF island.

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      Genuine hell portal ukkk

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    Hm i wonder when will we hear calls from international-community-1international-community-2 to intervene to prevent the violence from becoming a bloodbath.

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    stalin shouldn’t have stopped at berlin

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      I was just explaining this to my oldest kid yesterday. Stalin had too much humanity to get the job done. He wasn’t capable of the cruelty the bourgeoisie deserved.

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    Imagine if JKKK Rowling chose today to walk outside in blackface (which you know she just wears around the house on Sundays for no particular reason), gets mistaken for a real POC by the rocks for brains rioters and just gets decked.

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      won’t happen, the black mold on her walls told her to focus on women’s boxing this week dean-frown

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        Wonder if Black Mold Frost is coming for her?

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        Blackmoldface

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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    I’m not joking when I say shrill em all and take their land

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      no more half measures walter

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    I see a lot of the word riot

    And a lack of the word pogrom

    Purposeful I assume for the media’s part.

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      “Pogrom” is when Palestinians do it

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      It would have been much better to actually address the material conditions that led to this kid being radicalized

      lenin-sure I’m sure they’ll get right on that.

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      But also, what if he had been a Muslim immigrant? That obviously wouldn’t justify anything that had happened. And so the race, religion and nationality of the attacker are entirely irrelevant.

      I wonder why the government is having a difficult time signalling to its population that collective punishment is unacceptable…

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          This is assuming that they meaningfully oppose the chuds and aren’t just pretending.

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    ukkk qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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    Are there any anti-fascists fighting back against these evil shit heads?

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      Yeah, they outnumbered the ‘pro-british’ ‘protestors’, as the media calls them, in many places but the nazis (a guy just got arrested with a swaztika tat) have done insane damage, they burned down a library in Liverpool

      https://x.com/C_Hendrick/status/1820009252477362450

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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        the ‘pro-british’ ‘protestors’, as the media calls them

        lea-tired

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          The British state-run media organisation has been egregiously bad. Look at this shit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cervv8rz8mzo

          An anti-immigration protest began peacefully outside Bolton Town Hall earlier, but within half an hour, about 300 people, who mostly had their faces covered with black face masks or balaclavas, charged towards the building. They began shouting “Allahu Akbar” - a phrase meaning God is greatest - as they arrived at one side of the town hall, where a separate group had gathered waving England flags.

          Meanwhile, here is footage of that event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3QDnJeoYJM&t

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            Lmao yeah, I’ve seen muslims/asians be called ‘mobs’ for organising to protect themselves

            And next we’ll have 500 tweets from libs, OMG my asian neighbour just brought us food aww they’re not all bad!! as if no modern kristallnacht had happened

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            Lmao I bet the media will do more outrage over the God is Greatest chants over people being racially targeted even if they’re not even from muslim majority countries.

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              On reddit-logo , I saw people clutching their pearls at the chant and explaining that it is a terrorist rallying cry, and that even Wikipedia mentions the connection.

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            I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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            • yt.artemislena.eu
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          it ain’t wrong :yea:

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        Insane they’re calling them “protestors” instead of what they are, fascist rioters.

        • Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          The bougie media knows who their real enemies are

          Us

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        dio-walk

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          Shout out the guys showing up to chase fascist pogromists out of town, arriving dressed like this

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            crust punks. metallic hardcore show guys. hardcore punk guys. left-unity-2 antifa’s finest

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        A lot of why’s to ask but why a library?

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          No clue, it was easy to get into so I think they just wanted to destroy

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            Useless shits

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            In 2013 Polish fascists during riots attacked a small tree and lost

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          Nazis are afraid of books

          And probably due to the US culture war narrative, that libraries have books that indoctrinate children into being trans brainworms

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          They’re destroying their own cities, for real this time.

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        my god the big antifa guy in the center left is the most hardcore show guy that’s ever hardcored.

        the shirt, the shoes, the shorts, the hat. can’t make out the band name

        skinny nazi doesn’t know he’s about to get fucking wrecked

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          That’s absolutely a guy who would do a spinning whirly arm windmill thing directly into your face, knocking you over, then immediately help you back up and apologize. Met many such people. I would generally regard them as people not to be fucked with especially when they’re large lads like that one. Look at his legs. My god. What a unit.

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          He dresses like me fr fr side-eye-1

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          Nazi even looks like a central casting Hollywood nazi

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      here they’ve blocked exits of a hotel holding asylum seekers before setting it on fire

      edit: really depressing video https://x.com/TheBluSocialist/status/1820131223798464767

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        V for Vendetta mask

        These dorkass fucking losers I swear to god

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          I understand why Alan Moore doesn’t want his name on adaptations

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        Jesus Christ, was anyone in the building? Did they get anyone out if they were?

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          https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-riots-live-hotel-rotherham-33386398 No deaths have been reported from the riots yet but I have no idea if it’ll stay that way, there’s literally been stabbings and acid attacks

          TWO buildings housing asylum seekers have been torched so far, if they don’t get attempted murder for this then the country is genuinely fucked

          And this is the ‘better’ government that liberals said we had to vote for in the UK waltuh seeing US libs do it again is making me feel insane, yasss vote in Klu Kop Kamala!!

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        Odessa all over again

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          It was only a matter of time before the terrorist violence exported by the U$A and UKKK was returned to sender

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    https://x.com/xQuaintrellex/status/1820132985858842696

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      Very same people who make up stories about “no-go zones” and roaming bands of zombie muslims eating human flesh.

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        EVERY accusation

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    Bloody Sunday?

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    part of me thinks this is one of those situations where an armed population would at least dissuade this kind of rampant impunity

    try to pull a person out of a car. get a bullet to the dome.

    at least the threat this may happen might make the rioters second guess

    and since the police seem to be opting out and there’s no national guard to speak of and we know how adverse to threats the western right is

    like even a loosely cobbled together armed popular front militia would probalbly be enough to keep these shits from burning down buildings full of asylum seekers

    yes i know the it’s likely the full force of the state would be brought down on the people defending their city and populace but fuck sometimes i think i’d rather go out resisting with everything you got

    sorry this shit makes me so mad i don’t know what the solution is besides general class war

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      Police aren’t hitting the riots but they’ve already started raiding homes of participants. Most of these shits are going to end up locked up.

      Issue is though that the prisons are full so I don’t know how hard the courts will go.

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      You guys don’t have a national guard for this shit? The US would’ve rolled police tanks in on the 3rd hour

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        the UK has armed and extremely kitted out police, they just reserve disproportionate responses for people with legitimate grievances lol. US pigs also roll over for rightwing thugs

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          With this much property damage the US would start hanging people’s bodies from highway bridges

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        the US literally bombed black towns, you live in fantasyland

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          I have no idea what you mean

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            he’s saying the americans would not roll police tanks to quell the race riots, because the american security forces have bombed black towns. i think he is trying to say the interests of the state would result in the national guard sitting on their hand

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              I think the American ruling classes’ love for property would probably be the compelling force to send tanks in, but good point

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            they are referencing the 1985 MOVE bombing to make the point that we can’t rely on racist police to prevent racist violence

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        i dunno not from there im assuming the UK doesn’t?

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        UK has the Territorial Army, which I’m told is like the National Guard or Army Reserve in the US.

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      They have an armed population in the US. The people most likely to be armed over there are the chuds. Guns has been used there in several far-right terrorist attacks and are routinely used to intimidate those targeted by the fascist.

      I am not convinced that allowing random people to buy firearms reduces the likelihood of fascist terror. Where fascist thugs has successfully been chased out of towns and neighbours it has been as a result of organising rather than hardware, both broad big tent antifascist organising of the community and the formation of more dedicated antifascist community self-defense groups.

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        Yep, especially taking Britain as an example - before the war with Nazi Germany, the BUF was driven out by the anti-fascist communities organizing around disrupting their marches.

        And the same as today, the fascists of back then always went " :smuglord: these people are taking away our rights to speech" everytime the community fought against them.

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