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"I find it hard to believe that the government would have made the decision to strip a British born subject of their citizenship and the media and public being so supportive of the decision if Shamima Begum had been a 15 year-old impressionable white girl who had made the same foolish and immature decisions.
If this was a young BRITISH white girl she would be sitting on a Breakfast TV sofa recounting her traumatic adventurous experience with book deals and film scripts piling up at her door and with Newsnight and Dispatches competing for an exclusive interview.
Such is the subtlety of society’s unspoken racism, the nature of our warped reality and the power of the state to manufacture and manipulate public opinion to serve their own nefarious desires."
—Ishmahil Blagrove, 22 February 2019
"I think that she should be returned to face an investigation and for justice. That a court of law should decide what happens from there, rather than a court of Facebook and media. That any sentence should be determined by a judge who makes appropriate decisions based on evidence, rather than a politician who bases their judgment on their own personal gain. I believe that if she and her child are allowed to grow in an environment of hatred, then they could become more of a national risk than having her serve a sentence in the UK."—Brendan Woodhouse, 22 February 2019
The patriotic voice shouts out loud: "But we live in an exceptional situation today (Brexit, threat of Islam, immigration, etc). A situations that requires exceptional measures. Law could be put aside for now."
At the heart of this is consolidating social control at home: there are a few threats against "our values" and "democracy". In order to reproduce social relations and power relations, various tools are deployed, including ideological demonization of the Other even when that Other was born and brought up in our midst. There is always the enemy within and the enemy without.
"I find it hard to believe that the government would have made the decision to strip a British born subject of their citizenship and the media and public being so supportive of the decision if Shamima Begum had been a 15 year-old impressionable white girl who had made the same foolish and immature decisions.
If this was a young BRITISH white girl she would be sitting on a Breakfast TV sofa recounting her traumatic adventurous experience with book deals and film scripts piling up at her door and with Newsnight and Dispatches competing for an exclusive interview.
Such is the subtlety of society’s unspoken racism, the nature of our warped reality and the power of the state to manufacture and manipulate public opinion to serve their own nefarious desires."
—Ishmahil Blagrove, 22 February 2019
"I think that she should be returned to face an investigation and for justice. That a court of law should decide what happens from there, rather than a court of Facebook and media. That any sentence should be determined by a judge who makes appropriate decisions based on evidence, rather than a politician who bases their judgment on their own personal gain. I believe that if she and her child are allowed to grow in an environment of hatred, then they could become more of a national risk than having her serve a sentence in the UK."—Brendan Woodhouse, 22 February 2019
The patriotic voice shouts out loud: "But we live in an exceptional situation today (Brexit, threat of Islam, immigration, etc). A situations that requires exceptional measures. Law could be put aside for now."
At the heart of this is consolidating social control at home: there are a few threats against "our values" and "democracy". In order to reproduce social relations and power relations, various tools are deployed, including ideological demonization of the Other even when that Other was born and brought up in our midst. There is always the enemy within and the enemy without.
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