@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
@theguardian.comReposted by @nesrinemalik.bsky.socialIf you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
@us.theguardian.comReposted by @nesrinemalik.bsky.socialProgressive politicians such as Zohran Mamdani offer answers to the bitter post-9/11 legacy of failures at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
@theguardian.comReposted by @nesrinemalik.bsky.socialIsraeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
@nesrinemalik.bsky.socialAnd also, think of why we talk about blowback against black people like it’s the weather, a natural outcome, rather than the fact that it inherently exposes a default assumption that they are wrong ‘uns/stealing a living. Nothing troubling there, just think of the decent ones.
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'
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