←back to thread

243 points Jimmc414 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.339s | source
Show context
aeternum ◴[] No.42130415[source]
Real reason: The Guardian can't handle when readers community note them using.. The Guardian.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1821189070401249385/p...

replies(10): >>42130445 #>>42130532 #>>42130621 #>>42130659 #>>42130717 #>>42130985 #>>42131005 #>>42131035 #>>42134175 #>>42142921 #
oneeyedpigeon ◴[] No.42130659[source]
It's difficult to tell because the tweet doesn't link to the original, screenshotting it instead. But the explanation is probably that these are two different meanings of the term "two-tier policing".
replies(2): >>42130859 #>>42130998 #
llm_trw ◴[] No.42130859[source]
It's exactly the same meaning but with the sign reversed.

Turns out identity politics is a terrible idea. Now the Guardian et al are finding out exactly why when the people they disagree with are doing it too.

replies(2): >>42130912 #>>42130913 #
llamaimperative ◴[] No.42130912[source]
But uh... isn't it possible that one exists and the other does not?
replies(2): >>42131139 #>>42131169 #
llm_trw ◴[] No.42131139[source]
> But uh... isn't it possible that one exists and the other does not?

Going through the airport between 2001 and 2021 showed that having a Muslim sounding name was going to be a trigger for a random inspection. The Rotherham child rape gangs investigation into the police clearly showed that complaints against South Asians by Whites were ignored for decades to avoid accusations of racism.

The average Guardian reader was only going to be exposed to the first and not the second. So the Guardian went full bore with the basest form of tribalism to explain the things its readers saw.

Now the same people who were gleefully destroying the social fabric in the name of progress are acting shocked at what happens when it unravels completely. I have the worlds smallest violin for them.

replies(2): >>42131166 #>>42135606 #
1. ◴[] No.42131166[source]