Archived Tweets / Research Data
Codes & Themes w/wo Theoretical Memos
(derived through a process of inductive, qualitative, data analysis)
Archived on 5 May 2023 at 6:45am [URL redacted]
@MaryNischwitz [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: @ramayade @GIMS #France #Afrique #woke #CancelCulture Points de la carte: Mexico, N.Y., Dakar, Paris 😉 [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
"Early Triassic. Oxygen levels are significantly lower due to the extinction of many land plants. Many corals went extinct, with reefs taking millions of years to re-form. Small ancestors to birds, mammals, and dinosaurs survive on the Pangaea supercontinent. 240 million years ago" https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240 #MetaphorPeriodizationTriassicEarly #ToponymEuropeFranceParis #LiteralBeingDinosaur
"Nouvelles drogues aux States ou en manque de popularité ? Cette vision des 'minorités', quelle est cette tendance actuelle à se sentir supérieur à l'homme blanc alors que que les hommes deraient être égaux. Peut importe qui à fait quoi en premier, pour rappel aux début de l' histoire de l'homme I' Afrique n'existait pas, il y avait un seul continent. Encore du clivage entre les individus; pour une ancienne secrétaire d'État chargée des Affaires étrangères et des droits de l'Homme, ça vole bas... [New drugs in the States or lacking popularity? This vision of 'minorities,' what is this current tendency to feel superior to white men when all men should be equal. It doesn't matter who did what first; as a reminder, at the beginning of human history, Africa didn't exist; there was only one continent. More division between individuals; for a former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, that's low-level...]" #ToponymAfrica_ #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government] #AdvocacyFRAllonsEnfantsRamaYade ?
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Archived on 17 March 2023 at 11:00pm [URL redacted]
@LailaSjaarda [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @ThePagePlug The #Woke ideology is the rebranding of: - Manifest Destiny - Divine Right - White Man’s Burden Western White pseudo minority groups claiming oppression, and therefore have the “Human Right” to forcibly impose their beliefs and culture upon global majority peoples (the 85%). [URL redacted]
"'The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor; And by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political 'football game' that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.'" #IRLActivistMalcolmX #TauntHypocrisyLiberal
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Archived on 5 January 2023 at 9:45am [URL redacted]
@BryonBare [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [11]: . Nach der #Schule ist der Unterricht für meine #Kinder noch nicht vorbei. Heute: Erkläre den Unterschied zwischen #Westasiate u. #Ostasiate. . #Silvesternacht #Silvester #ToxischeMaennlichkeit #Migrationsproblem #Integration #boellerverbot #Boeller #woke #Gruene #Abschiebungen [URL redacted]
"After school, the lessons for my children are not over yet. Today: Explain the difference between West Asians and East Asians. . New Year's Eve New Year's Eve Toxic Masculinity Migration Problem Integration boeller ban Boeller woke Green deportations" #MetaphorVersusWestEast #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government] #SlurToxicMasculinity #PhenomnImmigrationRefugee #EventNYE
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Archived on 3 November 2022 at 5:00pm [URL redacted]
@JimmyDeskins [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [26]: @PaulLikesDick @No_Kneeling @mikejamesbyrne @BBCNews But you'd let them prey on Children because your sister can look after herself. Your words. Thankfully there are some who aren't #woke, weak and self-centred.... some who think of others, the victims, and the protection of children. [URL redacted]
#ConspiracyTheory_CabalGroomingGang i.e. #PhenomnVilification & #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot
Supplementary "There are groups of individuals who make it their object to target paedophiles online. These cyber vigilantes do not work for the police or child protection agencies. They are ordinary citizens taking matters into their own hands. These groups of online vigilantes claim to be motivated by a goal of protecting children from abuse. They say that they feel compelled to hunt paedophiles because the police are not doing enough to protect children." https://www.stuartmillersolicitors.co.uk/paedophile-hunters-and-the-law/
Addendum the insignia at the bottom of this seem to be a group of #CharacterisationVigilanteAndOrMilitia operating as 'amateur web sleuths' / self-appointed #MetaphorWarfareHeroSaviour.s who have taken on themselves to police #PowerControlViolationPaedophilia The logos are for the following: #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKPredatorExposure, #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKCobraUK, #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKSTOPUKOnlinePredators, #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKFleetwoodEnforcersUK, #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKBMBHunterz, #OrgSyndicateVigilanteUKMaximumExposureUK. https://nonce.tv/?p=teams The obvious assumption here (which would need to be confirmed), is that such vigilante groups are almost certainly motivated by a #NarrativeStableMorality conception and in this sense, could be considered an example of #TheoryCulturalEssentialism
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Archived on 26 October 2022 at 7:15pm [URL redacted]
@JohnathanMarski [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @__Verlaine__ Triste de constater que certains en sont encore là. Compter les gens par rapport à leur couleur de peau. Ils ne pensent qu'à cela. #PatriceVieira #AissaMaiga #Woke [URL redacted]
#IRLActorAissaMaiga #OrgFRCesarAwards
Supplementary "In the midst of that whirlwind of insurrections, the César Awards (the French Oscars) this past February became the televised transfeminist and decolonialist storming of the Bastille. In the lead, actress Aïssa Maïga denounced the institutional racism of cinema. When they gave the best director award to an absent Roman Polanski (the rapist is never there; the rapist has no body), another actress, Adèle Haenel, got up, turned her back on the patriarchs of cinema, and left, along with filmmaker Céline Sciamma. Two days later, Virginie Despentes, aka subcomandanta King Kong, joined Maïga, Haenel, et al. and, condemning French president Emmanuel Macron's neoliberal reforms as complicit with the politics of oppression, both sexual and racial, declared a general strike among subjugated minorities: 'From now on, we get up and we walk out.'" https://www.artforum.com/print/202006/paul-b-preciado-on-revolution-83286 #2020_ #IRLFilmmakerRomanPolanski #IRLActorAdeleHaenel #PhenomnThePatriarchy #IRLFilmmakerCelineSciamma #IRLFilmmakerVirginieDespentes #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron #PoliticsCapitalismNeoliberalism #PowerControlSubjugation #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government] #CauseTransfeminism #PhenomnColonialism #PhenomnRevolutionFrenchBastilleSaintAntoine
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Archived on 6 October 2022 at 1:15pm [URL redacted]
@RylanKlesel [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [20]: @Pauline_Nurse_1 @Anna_Soubry @mattforde #Conservatives just had the most open, diverse leadership contest in #UK #history. Candidates from African & Asian origin. No white men in the run-off. #Brexit #Britain's 3RD #female Prime Minister! #Woke adepts of #IdentityPolitics, #CancelCulture & #CulturalMarxism ARE bigots! [URL redacted]
#CatchcryIdentityPolitics #CatchcryCancelCulture #ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism
Addendum "diverse leadership contest" talks about #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence i.e. being #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government] qualifies you to speak on behalf of all BAME people (just as being white qualifies you to do the same for all white people). Instead, I would say that this was more about #PhenomnCulturalHegemony, where all the candidates represented the same narrow set of values reflecting the hegemony of the #PoliticsStatusQuo
#BehaviourEmotionalDysregulationHistrionics
Context "I'M A TOLERANT LIBERAL! AGREE WITH ME OR ELSE YOU RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, ISLAMOPHOBIC, XENOPHOBIC, INBRED, REDNECK, BIBLE THUMPING, NASCAR LOVING, GUN TOTING, AMERICA LOVING BIGOTS!"
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Archived on 7 September 2022 at 8:00pm [URL redacted]
@LisaKewish [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [50]: #FreeSpeech is the bedrock on which all our other freedoms rest, yet it is currently in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The #Woke, the #BAME, the #CancelCulture are attacking what we Won! They need challenged & Defeated. Plz visit my site [URL redacted]
#IRLActivistPeterTatchell #AdvocacyUKPeterTatchellFoundationPTF "The Peter Tatchell Foundation (PTF) seeks to promote and protect the human rights of individuals, communities and nations, in the UK and internationally, in accordance with established national and international human rights law." https://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/about/
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Archived on 17 August 2022 at 9:45pm [URL redacted]
@MahinaLansburg [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [13]: @iamyesyouareno Aren't these #Woke lefties dedicated to fight for minorities? [URL redacted]
#HandleTwitterIAmYesYouAreNo #TauntLeftThe #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government]
Supplementary #2025_ #MagazineUSMotherJonesNoahLanard "On Monday morning, the anonymous account iamyesyouareno, which has more than 430,000 followers on X, called the Anti-Defamation League a 'disgusting anti-white organization' for cataloging 'The Racist Obsession with South African 'White Genocide.'' Ten minutes later, Musk, who has been fixated on false claims about the plight of white South Africans, replied to iamyesyouareno. He wanted to know if the ADL still held this position on white South Africans. The iamyesyouareno account's attack against the ADL fits with its deep antisemitism. In August, the account responded to a post asking if 'jews [will] ever be satisfied with not fully enslaving the world' by declaring, 'They will not.' Another post from the account reads, 'The Holocaust happened. I'm very impressed by the numbers though.' It is hard to convey the racism of many posts from iamyesyouareno. On dozens of occasions, the account has captioned videos or images of Black people doing something bad, such as defecating in public, with some version of the conclusion: 'There's no fixing this' or 'There's no fixing this mentality.' Another regular bit is to describe something done by a Black person as evidence of them having a 'Room temp IQ.' The poster has also written: 'Black men did not abolish slavery, White people did. Be thankful.' Musk recently shared a post from the account iamyesyouareno featuring a news article from December 2023 about how a Black man had reportedly been awarded rights to a vacant home that belonged to a white pensioner in the United Kingdom after squatting in it." https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-x-racists-boosting-white-nationalists-south-africa-antisemitism-adl-springfield-doge-holocaust/ #OrgUSFedUnitedStatesAgencyForInternationalDevelopmentUSAID #PhenomnHolocaustShoah #AdvocacyUSAntiDefamationLeagueADL #OrgUSFedGovDepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiencyDOGE #OrgUSFedGovExecutiveOrder14158 #ConspiracyTheory_WhiteGenocideSouthAfrican #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #OtheringHateAntisemitism #IRLPrivateCitizenKeithBest https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/05/ilford-squatter-describes-nightmare-taking-pensioners-home-19928075/
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Archived on 27 May 2022 at 8:00am [URL redacted]
@LisaKewish [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [50]: #FreeSpeech is the bedrock on which all our other freedoms rest, yet it is currently in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War. The #Woke, the #BAME, the #CancelCulture are attacking what we Won! They need challenged & Defeated. Plz visit my site [URL redacted]
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Archived on 4 September 2021 at 7:00pm [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @Daily_Express Hah! Wait till the #Woke #BAME WAKE UP! [URL redacted]
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Archived on 23 June 2021 at 11:30am [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @55Massey @Carti_Mandua @suemcdonald342 @marksandspencer Me too - it isn’t just @marksandspencer, it’s #woke #BAME M&S! Retweet [URL redacted]
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Archived on 23 June 2021 at 7:15am [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @marksandspencer Fentanyl Floyd Phallus-shrouds? Underwear in #woke #BAME skin tones? You're mad! It's #Rohan for me and online purchases for my other clothing. I agree with @celebrityradio sentiments at [URL redacted] You want to commit retail suicide? You just did!
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Archived on 14 June 2021 at 9:30am [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: After #OllieRobinson was sacked by @ECB_cricket a further casualty was sniffed out by their #twitter #racism scrutineers in their ruthless quest to be best #BAME #woke Sporting Authority [URL redacted]
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Archived on 29 April 2021 at 4:00pm [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @LeaveEUOfficial @pauldbowen At last! Old-fashioned policing and prison officers returning to duty... just stirring the #woke #blackpuddings! Doing my duty as the #gammon that I apparently am [URL redacted]
#SymbolEmblemFlagUKUnionJack #NewspaperUKBrdshtEveningStandardYasminAlibhaiBrown #IRLSportspersonMarcusRashford [Wikipedia] #WebsiteUKNovaraMediaAshnaSarkar [Wikipedia] #IRLAuthorVernonMoyse https://www.lulu.com/fr/spotlight/VernonMoyse #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotoComic [Wikipedia] [pop culture wiki] [encyclopædia]
Supplementary #OrgUKDoughtyStreetChambers [Wikipedia] "Ash Sarkar is a British journalist and political activist. She is a senior editor at Novara Media which is an independent media outlet. She is of Asian (Bangladeshi) heritage and is Muslim. Julie Burchill is a national newspaper columnist at the Sunday Telegraph and Spectator, and published author. She has maintained a high profile in the mainstream media for several decades.... On 13 December 2020, an article originally published on 12 September 2012 in the Spectator by Rod Liddle became the subject of public debate and attracted substantial commentary online..." https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/julie-burchill-pay-substantial-damages-public-apology-ash-sarkar-defamation-harassment-case #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #PhenomnHarassmentDiscriminatory #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government] #MagazineNewsweekJulieBurchill #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesRodLiddle [Muckrack] #MagazineUKTheSpectator #PowerControlViolationPaedophilia #BeliefTheismIslamism #TauntHypocrisy #CharacterisationRadicalFundamentalismIslamic #PhenomnTerrorism #IdentityMuslim #PhenomnReputationDefamation
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Archived on 25 April 2021 at 8:00am [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @27476b54549e462 Sorry for plagiarism, Tarnit, :o( - but you provoked me! I want @netflix @NetflixFilm to offer some sort of filters that would speed my search, First to New films, then to Films I have not yet seen, then to (difficult) non-#Woke non-#misandrist, non-#BAMEtokenism films. [URL redacted]
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Archived on 25 April 2021 at 8:00am [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: I want @netflix @NetflixFilm to offer some sort of filters that would speed my search, First to New films, then to Films I have not yet seen, then to (difficult) non-#Woke non-#misandrist, non-#BAMEtokenism films. [URL redacted]
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Archived on 21 March 2021 at 12:15pm [URL redacted]
@TristaLeek [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: #Woke #Britannia is here 🤔 #SundayMorning #SundayThoughts #talkradio #skynews #bbcnews #marr #ridge #gmb #lbc #foxnews [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
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Archived on 8 March 2021 at 6:00pm [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @Markable It is just a few #Woke #BAME not my commonsense heroes [URL redacted]
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Archived on 7 February 2021 at 4:30pm [URL redacted]
@KeoniFlebbe [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [04]: #woke media be like 'you have white privilege' on one hand & defending BBC taking taxes off those who can least afford it especially young people low paid & pensioners etc of all ethnicities but more so among BAME to pay c**** like Linekers wages. The woke are FAR from awake [URL redacted]
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Archived on 20 December 2020 at 12:30pm [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: #Woke Ministry of Farce advice - Pricks not tested for #COVID19 should not be used for dipping in anything but the usual (mayo a no-no, salmonella risk) - always use a condom & pre-soak it in vinegar the night before. That's family planning; motto "Sting, Stink & Sterilise!" [URL redacted]
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Archived on 17 June 2020 at 9:00pm [URL redacted]
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Archived on 21 May 2020 at 7:00am [URL redacted]
@KaitlinQuraishi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [24]: @Hepworthclare There are many who need more than a "Bollocking" to borrow @Hepworthclare & @LibDems terminology! And look Clare, @Lisanandy suggests you take the "E" out of #OBE if you want to be #Woke and sensitive to #BAME "People of Colour" (excludes you, whitey!) [URL redacted]
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Archived on 12 May 2020 at 10:30am [URL redacted]
@KaitlinQuraishi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [24]: @BBCcomedy died #woke, #BAME & so #genderfluid that it wet its unisex shroud; @PrivateEyeNews "biting satirical wit" extracted by #Ian_HipHop. @UKLabour @BarnetLabour @EofELabour @NWNCLP @LabourNorthWest @LabourNorth @thedailymash @canardenchaine @Der_Postillon @IlVernacoliere3 [URL redacted]
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Archived on 3 May 2020 at 7:15am [URL redacted]
@KaitlinQuraishi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [24]: @TitaniaMcGrath @JuliaHB1 Define #Diversity & #Woke? Visit @LozzaFox & #BrendanOneil of @spikedonline "We are encouraged in all sorts of #diversity except diverse opinion!", "#Woke an extreme version of political Correctness" See [URL redacted] & [URL redacted] SUBSCRIBE to channel [URL redacted]
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Archived on 3 May 2020 at 7:00am [URL redacted]
@KaitlinQuraishi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [24]: Define #Diversity & #Woke? Visit @LozzaFox & #BrendanOneil of @spikedonline "We are encouraged in all sorts of #diversity except diverse opinion!", "#Woke an extreme version of political Correctness" See [URL redacted] & [URL redacted] SUBSCRIBE to THAT channel [URL redacted]
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Archived on 17 April 2020 at 8:30am [URL redacted]
@KaitlinQuraishi [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [24]: @sholamos1 #antiwhite? #BAMEsupremacist? Intention to divide? Bitter chips on both shoulders? "The White Man's Burden", is scarcely PC, but, like, @y_alibhai, #woke @sholamos1 may INTEND to BE just THAT. "Budicca" too #Anglo_Saxon? Maybe Barbara Ross Lee? Expect us to roll over? [URL redacted]
#BrandHouseOfOdditiesHOOSachiniImbuldeniya, #BrandHouseOfOdditiesHOODarrenJamesSmith #2020_YouClapForMeNow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXGIt_Y57tc #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/apr/15/you-clap-for-me-now-the-coronavirus-poem-on-racism-and-immigration-in-britain-video
Context #BrandHouseOfOdditiesHOO "You Clap For Me Now was a personal project produced and directed by HOO CEO Sachini Imbuldeniya and written by HOO CCO Darren Smith during the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020. Within 24hours of sharing it on social media it went viral, amassing more than 300million views worldwide. It was picked up by media globally - from The Washington Post to Al-Jazeera and everything in between, and retweeted by the likes of JK Rowling, Jameela Jamil, Gary Lineker and Sadiq Khan. It was also selected by the United Nations as one of its official messages of hope and solidarity during an incredibly uncertain time. This powerful poem was inspired by Sachini's mum's own experience of arriving in the UK as a 'Windrush' immigrant after a desperate plea to fill the massive labour shortages in the NHS during the 60s. It reminds us all that a large number of 'key workers' are from Black and Minority Ethnic families and is read outline-by-line by 39 first, second and third-generation immigrants from 19 different ethnicities - including doctors, nurses, teachers, shopkeepers, dentists, social workers, care workers, delivery drivers, broadcasters and more." https://www.hoodares.com/projects/you-clap-for-me-now #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheWashingtonPost #NMQAAlJazeera #IRLAuthorJKRowling #IRLPresenterJameelaJamil #NMUKBBCGaryLineker #OrgClassifPPUKLabourSadiqKhan #OrgIntlUN #PhenomnScandalWindrush #PhenomnImmigration #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHS
#MetaphorMunchScream
Addendum the graphic appears to include #IRLAuthorVernonMoyse's face (perched on Mos-Shogbamimu's shoulder).
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Archived on 13 April 2020 at 4:00pm [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @jamesowild @OliverDowden @ofcom @CommonsDCMS @DCMS Joe public understands that #BBC has become clubby, introverted, #Celeb-centric, overpaid, #woke, #BAME-obsessed, #Brexit-wrecking, & contemptuous of licence payers, WHY NOT YOU? @scrapbbcBBCtax Until you get a grip, we LAMPOON [URL redacted]
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Archived on 25 March 2020 at 11:15am [URL redacted]
@CyrilGeorge [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [164]: @JohnnyTYKE Delusions of grandeur, the #woke #comics, #comedians_last_jobs of the loony left or timid right are a short term phenomenon. I am looking to re-emergence of #spittingimage with great hope for a non-PC free speech alternative not afraid of “Trumping” the #trots of the #Leftwaffe [URL redacted]
"Problem is Kung-flu is a masterful piece of lampooning, that lost art which saw Victorians cartooning farting Kings and politicians in Punch magazine. The PC world, the hijackers of words like ISLAMOPHOBE (of sound provenance dating back to Greek in use 1300 years before Mohammed in a New Testament reference to FEAR of the Jews, of all things), the Woke, the BAME (who know not Wilberforce) the genderfluids, the misandrists, the feminista- shortlista's have destroyed the kind of satirical comedy of TWTWTW, Monty Python, Spitting Image (even Dad's Army, 'Allo,'Allo and Hi-de- hi)." #PoliticallyCorrectPC #IdentityBlackAsianAndMinorityEthnicBAME [Government] #IRLHistoricalFigureWilliamWilberforce ? #OtheringHateMisandry #CauseFeminism "feminista-shortlista" ? #TVThatWasTheWeekThatWasTWTWTW ? [Wikipedia] #OrgUKMontyPython #TVDadsArmy #TVAlloAllo #TVHiDeHi
Context "President Trump's first use of the phrase 'kung flu' -- during a campaign rally in Tulsa last weekend -- drew broad political backlash as a racist slur against Asian Americans. Within three days, however, it was also something else: a rallying cry for his supporters." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-kung-flu-trump-sparks-backlash-over-racist-language--and-a-rallying-cry-for-supporters/2020/06/24/485d151e-b620-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #SlurKungFlu #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAction #ToponymAmericaNorthUSOklahomaTulsa #IdentityAmericanAsian "Donald Trump used racist language to describe the coronavirus pandemic at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by terming the virus as the 'kung flu'. ... Trump has repeatedly tried to term Covid-19 as the 'Chinese virus' or the 'Wuhan virus' which has prompted outrage from many civil liberties groups, who have warned that such language can inspire racism and violence against Asian Americans. But in Tulsa Trump appeared to go even further in his use of racist language. 'It has more names than any disease in history. I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names,' he said to cheers from the crowd. Trump has previously defended his language around linking the virus to China. Speaking at a daily coronavirus task force briefing in March, he said it was 'not racist at all. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.'" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/trump-covid-19-kung-flu-racist-language #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #CauseCivilLiberties
Supplementary "Using the concept of displaced abjection, this chapter discusses how the Trump carnival, populist as it is, is not focused on ridiculing or challenging elites, but instead punching down, by targeting marginalized groups. Through displaced abjection, we see how the Trump carnival is centered on licensing and encouraging transgressions against specific democratic norms that affirm human dignity and equality. Trump, by humiliating and insulting age-old enemies, translates what is broadly considered unacceptable and undemocratic behavior into a transgressive, carnivalesque politics of violating fundamental democratic norms of equality, dignity, and pluralism" (Gaufman, E. & Ganesh, B., 2024, p.51,52). [academic source] Gaufman, E. & Ganesh, B. (2024). 'Chapter 5: Displaced Abjection. In The Trump Carnival: Populism, Transgression and the Far Right' (pp. 51-64). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. #EDUNLRijksuniversiteitGroningenRUGElizavetaGaufman [Wikipedia] #IRLScholarBharathGanesh #TheoryDisplacedAbjection #CharacterisationMonsterDemonisation #IRLPhilosopherMikhailBakhtin [encyclopædia] [Wikipedia] #TheoryCarnivalesque [Wikipedia]
Addendum this justification has multiple problems. It seeks to conflate genuine satire (related to the criticism of imbalances of power) with Trump's ham-fisted racial slur. And then, it attempts to justify the bullying by using #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTradition (as if the process of repeating a slur transforms it into critique). It then uses a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism to justify #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim through conflating it with #OtheringHateAntisemitism (as if the forms of discrimination are somehow opposed to each other - rather than simply being two different forms - and so, are able to cancel each other out). It then attempts to pass off a generalised attack on various issues, which have received significant profile contemporarily i.e. #_CondemnationGender followed up with a plug for some dated #LiteralClassicBritishTV (whose humour is the product of the time when they were produced).
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