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Academic: Hindi & Urdu; South & Southeast Asian studies; Postcolonial studies. Belfast born; London based. Expect some 🏳️‍🌈. he/him

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    David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

    “This government stands unequivocally against Critical Race Theory”. 😳 It’s not just Trump: the Tories are every bit as extreme in their attacks on legitimate and profoundly important academic work. I really am a bit speechless... #CriticalRaceTheorypic.twitter.com/xY4FpNuPB3

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      2. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        I can’t get over this. #CriticalRaceTheory as an “ideology”. Fuck off. And #BLM denigrated as “political”: OF COURSE IT’S FUCKING POLITICAL. #ToriesOut

        26 replies 42 retweets 643 likes
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      3. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        FWIW, this is the Under-Secretary of State for *Equalities*... 🤦‍♂️

        3 replies 18 retweets 250 likes
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      4. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        ...who in singing the praises of Baroness Valarie Amos as a trail-blazing black woman, referred to SOAS as the “School of African and Oriental Studies”...which doesn’t speak well of a basic understanding of acronyms, but hey, we all misspeak on occasion...

        8 replies 7 retweets 145 likes
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      5. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        ...but she was presumably not misspeaking when she said, “Our curriculum does not need to be decolonised, for the simple reason that it is not colonised.” 🤦‍♂️ (whatever the fuck that’s meant to mean...Rule Britannia?) #CriticalRaceTheory #decolonisethecurriculum

        8 replies 30 retweets 303 likes
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      6. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        Not, when threatening teachers: “Let me be clear that any school that teaches those elements of critical race theory as fact, or that promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law.”

        9 replies 18 retweets 171 likes
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      7. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        “Our” police aren’t like America’s police: they’re mostly unarmed, an operate “on the principle of policing by consent” — another perfect example of that classic British delusion, that serious racism is a US problem, we would never be like that... 🤦‍♂️

        2 replies 26 retweets 229 likes
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      8. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        QED: “From the Windrush generation to the Somali diaspora, it is a story that is uniquely ours. If we forget that story and replace it with an imported Americanised narrative of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow...” I cant even...

        5 replies 16 retweets 143 likes
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      9. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        Truly, sickeningly brazen: “If Opposition Members want to implement their race equality strategy, they should go ahead and win an election.” 🤮

        2 replies 19 retweets 147 likes
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      10. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        Because of course, racial equality should only be permissible or legitimised via majority rule...

        1 reply 16 retweets 211 likes
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      11. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        Anyway, I’m done. This was the government minister in a #BlackHistoryMonth debate on decolonising the curriculum, coming out attacking #CriticalRaceTheory as “ideology” and #BLM as “political”. The transcript is on Hansard (closing the debate)https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-10-20/debates/5B0E393E-8778-4973-B318-C17797DFBB22/BlackHistoryMonth …

        3 replies 52 retweets 212 likes
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      12. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        David Lunn Retweeted That Civil Service tweet twice a day (fan account)

        Apropos of nothing at all...: 🙄https://twitter.com/thatciviltweet/status/1318632679412277256?s=21 …

        David Lunn added,

        That Civil Service tweet twice a day (fan account) @ThatCivilTweet
        Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?
        1 reply 9 retweets 132 likes
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      13. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        David Lunn Retweeted Chi Onwurah  💙

        Of course, there were many great speeches in the #BlackHistoryMonth debate:https://twitter.com/chionwurah/status/1318594560960888834?s=21 …

        David Lunn added,

        1:43
        Chi Onwurah  💙Verified account @ChiOnwurah
        In today's #BHMdebate I talked to the history of Black people in #Newcastle that I didn't know growing up in the city. Telling stories of our shared #British history is why #BlackHistoryMonth matters I want girls & boys today to know Geordie Africanus has a long &exciting history pic.twitter.com/qXQXdbK7uR
        3 replies 37 retweets 169 likes
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      14. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        David Lunn Retweeted Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP

        And this! #BHMdebate #BlackHistoryMonthhttps://twitter.com/bellribeiroaddy/status/1318631540570624002?s=21 …

        David Lunn added,

        2:02
        Bell Ribeiro-Addy MPVerified account @BellRibeiroAddy
        The majority of Black people in UK are working-class. Kids do not learn the history of colonialism OR working-class struggles in school. Could the issue be that learning about activism & social injustice might just make working-class kids realise their power? #BHMDebate pic.twitter.com/SOBkVOjlKg
        2 replies 46 retweets 236 likes
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      15. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 20 Oct 2020

        But the danger — the real, ideological, political and yes existential danger — comes from the Government, with their blatant threats against school teachers covering #BLM and their open antipathy towards #CriticalRaceTheory 😡

        3 replies 20 retweets 156 likes
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      16. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 21 Oct 2020

        David Lunn Retweeted Calvin Robinson

        Of course, Badenoch and the govt have their cheerleaders... 🤦‍♂️https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1318624835937931265?s=21 …

        David Lunn added,

        1:44
        Calvin RobinsonVerified account @calvinrobinson
        The Equalities Minister could not have been clearer: Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory are political and do not belong in schools. Teaching ideas such as 'white privilege' as a factual reality is breaking the law! 🚫👨‍🏫 pic.twitter.com/6VoIDVJxLi
        3 replies 1 retweet 36 likes
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      17. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 21 Oct 2020

        David Lunn Retweeted Kojo Koram

        The minister could do with taking some classes with @KojoKoram! On #CriticalRaceTheory 👇https://twitter.com/KojoKoram/status/1318864376288432128 …

        David Lunn added,

        Kojo Koram @KojoKoram
        A thread on the new bogeyman of “critical race theory” https://www.theblaze.com/news/ready-uk-equalities-minister-torches-blm-movement-critical-race-theory-in-house-of-commons-floor-speech …
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        4 replies 4 retweets 35 likes
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      18. David Lunn‏ @DJLdistraction 21 Oct 2020

        David Lunn Retweeted John Narayan

        Seriously... pure bogey-man/straw-man rhetoric, but deployed to positively dangerous effect... #whosafraidofCRT 😏🤷‍♂️https://twitter.com/JohnCNarayan/status/1318685953054150657 …

        David Lunn added,

        John Narayan @JohnCNarayan
        School's are teaching critical race theory - seriously which ones? I don't even know many universities where there is teaching of critical race theory. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/20/teaching-white-privilege-is-a-fact-breaks-the-law-minister-says …
        4 replies 2 retweets 34 likes
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