The tweet (11.01am) read "Middle class and well-spoken, dressed in skinny jeans and New Balance trainers - meet the hipster fascists breathing new life into the British far right" ... Now seems to have been deleted in last few minutes after @StevePeers tweeted it at 4.55pm
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"Heil Hipsters" is the
@sundaytimes print headline. Which seems a pretty terrible misjudgment to me. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8988b1ce-5b9b-11e8-94fc-3fbd0b39cd83?CMP=Sprkr-_-Editorial-_-thesundaytimes-_-Unspecified-_-TWITTER …pic.twitter.com/42ubIdZgZz
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Standard Chartered (sponsors of Liverpool FC) "investigating" their employee's statements. This is their corporate policy https://www.sc.com/en/about/diversity-and-inclusion/ … Banker poster boy for the new racists may need a new job. Putting his employers in press like this q.probably a contractual issue.pic.twitter.com/pEeO1Ady45
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The "Heil Hipsters" (Make Fascism Chic Again) editorial presentation shows a remarkable degree of cognitive dissonance (& a lack of common sense) given that it comes from a media outlet which (rightly) warns of the need to be vigilant against anti-semitism.
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"Generation Identity" will fail miserably in UK. Biggest reason is depth of UK intergenerational shift against racism. (Generational shifts in racism & support/toxicity of far right do appear q.significantly different in different European countries)http://www.britishfuture.org/articles/enoch-rivers-blood-ancient-history-britons-2018/ …
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Breathless national reporting about rise of hipster racists could give context that this is *much* much smaller political force than Green Party or Welsh Nationalism. V.unlikely to ever save a parliamentary deposit, for all of the well-funded media & online trolling.
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Ironic detail that Generation Identity network will also fail worse in UK since attempt to use "European" as racist ethnocultural identity swims against tide of v.low European identity in UK (15% mostly among v.liberal). Cf Mad Katie Hopkins seeing Belgium as part of "my lands"
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If it wasn't for such poor "heil" taste, the idea that rebranding as "hipsters" could make racism popular would be quite funny. (No disrespect meant to yer actual hipsters on the Dulwich Hamlet terraces, sure some of my best friends are hipsters, etc, etc).
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"Heil Hipster" was previously used as a
@RollingStone headline back in June 2014 for a long report on efforts to recast German neo-nazi youth culturehttps://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/heil-hipster-the-young-neo-nazis-trying-to-put-a-stylish-face-on-hate-20140623?print=true …2 replies 7 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
Imagine this report was * Hardcore opponents of Israel hope to appeal to yoof with better trainers not SWP anoraks * They deny anti-semitism but say its all a smear, defend swastikas to compare Israel to Nazis & say state should be dissolved. "Heil Hipsters" & fashion pic OK?
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We are not antisemitic, you should look in the Labour Party if you want to see some of those
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