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Thank you for standing up to the racist whining of someone who is using his newfound position for bad. It seems Malone can’t help himself speaking outside of his remit. So egotistical!

‘Selective allegiances’ – great calling out of hypocrisy within the ‘Freedom’ Movement!

I’ve always understood riots as the only outlet the most disorganised of the oppressed has, in order to get attention and a response. They are an expression of rage, but reflect powerlessness. I know they happen periodically but I can’t help thinking of these riots as a demoralised product of the defeat of the strike movement against the pension cuts, and probably even fostered to a certain extent by the security state, to divide the public after that impressive display of working class unity and hope.

“Imagine if Malone wasn’t censored. You’d have a prominent scientist, possibly with mainstream media reach, advocating for deporting people he regards as problematic.” - Malone certainly isn’t censored within the medical freedom community. He has a bigger *personal* reach than before, but how much difference does that really make? We have plenty of uncensored mainstream figures dog whistling away, and much of the populist right was doing it before Covid.

My perception of the ‘freedom movement’ is its an amorphous blob, in which its constituents repel or attract each other depending on the issue. Look at the fractures over Israel’s atrocities. The problem is its right wings are organised and left or progressive people within the movement are not (other than Real Left and a few small alternative unions). Bravo for debating this issue from a non-woke but humanist ans consistent perspective!

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