And these measures don’t just harm migrants. They tear apart families — including long-settled migrant households and British families with loved ones abroad. The cruelty is systemic, not accidental.
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Every Briton gets credit for Wilberforce, whom they all would have agreed with from the very start.

The National Trust, which owns many historical buildings, has in the last decade or so been adding information about slavery to displays. The response has been a furious culture war and an organised attempt by tens of thousands of people to vote out its board. They seem to have been seen off for now

he literally wrote a book about how there's an organized campaign against expertise (which is bad) but never fails to exceed the bounds of his own expertise *and* ignore actual experts who tell him he's wrong

As others have said, the Nazis didn’t become fascists with the Night of Long Knives or the opening of extermination camps. They’d been fascist all along. The purpose of naming fascism is to prevent atrocities from happening. What TN is doing is the opposite: minimizing, and attacking this who don’t.

I know a lot of astronomers and physicists tell themselves that I seem like a strong person/ality who can handle anything and I just need everyone to know how fucking sexist and racist it is to simply put it down to “well she can take it”

I’m a person and even if I can why should I have to

Among the Aspen Center’s quirks is that they won’t tell you who will be there before you go — and visits are 3 weeks long or more. Once I went and saw my rapist’s name on the door across from my assigned office.

But I had to stay because of the importance of seeing and being seen there.