the Brexit discourse wouldn’t lead here. There was a British form of exceptionalism in the idea that Brexit itself wasn’t an extreme position given what it meant practically and in terms of signalling. /END

obviously racist views being made publicly. And now we’ve got to a stage where it is now a mainstream view that ‘protesting’ outside asylum seeker hotels is a mainstream political activity and the ECHR is bad. It’s all connected. It’s a form of gaslighting to suggest it wasn’t foreseeable that… /3

right through it. Indeed, it was a sort of gateway drug to racism because xenophobia against Eastern Europeans was viewed as a more legitimate and less problematic form of prejudice. Once it became acceptable to be ‘concerned’ about Eastern Europeans, it then opened the door for more and more… /2

So that's how generative AI works... and how it can tell you you'll give birth out of your penis-rectum.