We don't have to imagine a self-serving hypothetical. When I worked at the University of Tennessee, actual nazis twice reserved a room and gave speeches.

The police *protected* the nazis, ensuring they were safe and could speak.

That small print expanded ...

Really powerful Politics Theory Other episode with Sophie Lewis

ICYMI - Sophie Lewis on how Zionist feminists have worked to defend the settler colonial project, and how it places them in a long lineage of self-described feminists who have been enthusiastic supporters and participants in imperial conquest:

patreon.com/posts/israel-a…

Could these be the times when the left reclaims the positive nature of radicalism away from the right (and the confusion of radicalism with reaction)?

The UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People has just reported on the situation in the UK
tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/Tr…

The report includes specific reference to deep concern about the inadequate support for 'disabled refugees, asylum seekers and those in refugee-like situations'

Is Reform a far right party? 🤔

(The answer is yes and you don't even need my expertise to know that - the fact that some of the media is scared to use the term now says a lot about the state of democracy)

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Nothing says you're fighting antisemitism like arresting Jewish people protesting against genocide...

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in RIS, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I wish they stop using the word 'populism', but finally a piece on reactionary civilizationalism that includes China
populismstudies.org/the-rise-of-au…

I know I’m confident in a policy when its architects insist it has an “element of compassion.” An absolutely normal way of describing something that is in no way immoral cruelty and I don’t even know why you’d say that shut up

also, on a very basic ethical point, to argue that it's better for pupils to succeed in exams even though they may end up with life-long disabling condition (long Covid and all the associated immune breakdown) is really...biopolitics / necropolitics 101.

The liberal university is a place where students should be exposed to ideas that might make them uncomfortable and that they might even find dangerous, provided those ideas are of the 'black people are stupid' variety.

Calling something 'patriotism' is really just a way to euphemise nationalism and the exclusionary politics that automatically go with it

Dr Meghan Tinsley is brilliant on this:

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Ah yes, that harmless pride in the flag...

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Do any reactionary journalists or academics want to write a negative review of my forthcoming book? Get in touch if so.

I covered C'ville & I covered Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh where I saw Jews, many anti-zionist, cry & pray & sing Ozi V’Zimrat Yah in streets

for Sen. *from PA* to compare Columbia students, many of them anti-zionist Jews, to torch-wielding nazis is beyond the pale

Things are getting a lot worse, a lot quicker than expected and there seems to be very little appetite for a positive radical change of course from the powers that be

Happy Tuesday...

Three hundred bodies exhumed from a mass grave *in a fucking hospital* including the bodies of medics *still in scrubs and wearing handcuffs* and the loudmouths are sucking up all the energy arguing over whether students and other people are protesting the correct way

On the day Sunak is skipping around his kitchen feeling like a winner five human beings have died in the Channel for a lack of safe routes. If drowning is not a deterrent we should all understand that they really don't think the Rwanda 200 Lottery will be but it might win votes.