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Tell the verses.

@pennyred.bsky.social
Tell the verses.
What do they think you believe?
I read pretty compulsively, to be honest.
The strangest thing about being a ‘woke person’ is everyone insisting that you believe a set of totally stupid, largely fictional things, trying to debate you on that basis, and then getting cross when you try to explain that no, you don’t think that because that’s stupid. Anyone else had this?
I’ve read three books this week where the author interrupts an interesting chapter to go off on a tiresome, ignorant, totally unrelated rant about MeToo/neurodivergence/‘standpoint theory’ like they’ve been inceptioned. What’s going on?
Headlines like “Has Woke Gone Too Far” or “Has ‘Me Too’ Gone Too Far” are a tell that those movements are just starting to take off. They are terrified of Black ethos breaking containment and so everything they can to shut down momentum.
Me, cleaning my little house, to the tune of ‘Hounds of Love’: ‘Take the bins out And throooooow them in the skip.’
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This important piece by @pennyred.bsky.social was both my introduction to Milo—in 2016—and the first accurate prediction of everything to come.
This as normies were in absolute denial of both the seriousness of the alt-right's bloodthirst and the strength of its connections to Yarvin and Anglin.
TBT for CR20: from 10 years ago, an interview with Laurie Penny (@pennyred.bsky.social)...
Thousands and thousands of people here at the Jason Arday vigil in Trafalgar Square. This was taken just before the 6pm start. It’s now too packed to take photos.
The British press bullied a vulnerable person to death, and they had fun doing it. Jason Arday made mistakes. He was publicly humiliate and mobbed for those mistakes purely because he was Black and autistic. Anti-woke ghouls decided to make an example of him. It’s not a ‘tragedy’. It’s a travesty.
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