A 22-year-old woman will face charges for holding up a sign that said “fuck imperialism,” while a man was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police van for asking who elected King Charles III.
The oppression and lack of bourgeois freedoms that targeted minorities and actual threats to the establishment already felt is getting rolled out wholesale. And the comfortable middle class whites are still treating each example of it happening to someone like them at a Royal event or a climate demo as an isolated incident of overreach because they're too comfortable to notice that their relationship with the state is changing.
Britain has never been the liberal, diverse opinionated, marketplace of ideas that it has pretended to be. But in the last 20 years or so we've gone from protest and non-state sanctioned opinion being tolerated but ridiculed, to actively suppressed and punished, and now the establishment treats anything less than fawning praise and respect as a criminal and traitorous act.
Couldn't agree with this more.
The oppression and lack of bourgeois freedoms that targeted minorities and actual threats to the establishment already felt is getting rolled out wholesale. And the comfortable middle class whites are still treating each example of it happening to someone like them at a Royal event or a climate demo as an isolated incident of overreach because they're too comfortable to notice that their relationship with the state is changing.
Britain has never been the liberal, diverse opinionated, marketplace of ideas that it has pretended to be. But in the last 20 years or so we've gone from protest and non-state sanctioned opinion being tolerated but ridiculed, to actively suppressed and punished, and now the establishment treats anything less than fawning praise and respect as a criminal and traitorous act.