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Rusty Nails

Rusty Nails

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briantrumpet said:
A rather relevant comment that Arday was being used as a token by the right wing press for all black academics, but strangely the same has not been the case for Matt Goodwin. Strange that.
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The Mail has been one of the leaders in the right wing press pile-on with Arday. They have spent days on the story, with front page headlines, and double page spreads inside, all designed to demonise Arday and "woke" academia. Yesterday they even had their tame in-house psychiatrist with a full page article on what causes people to fantasise/exaggerate.

Now that he has died, no doubt brought on by the pressures and criticism he has been subjected to, they have just mentioned that he has been found dead in a small article inside the paper.

B@stards!
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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Rusty Nails said:
The Mail has been one of the leaders in the right wing press pile-on with Arday. They have spent days on the story, with front page headlines, and double page spreads inside, all designed to demonise Arday and "woke" academia. Yesterday they even had their tame in-house psychiatrist with a full page article on what causes people to fantasise/exaggerate.

Now that he has died, no doubt brought on by the pressures and criticism he has been subjected to, they have just mentioned that he has been found dead in a small article inside the paper.

B@stards!
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And The Times has been deleting some of its online content, apparently. Oh that some others would reflect and do the same. Pretty rich stuff coming from Toby Young at The Spectator, who got into Cambridge only because of who his father was, I gather.

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midlandsgrimpeur

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briantrumpet said:
A rather relevant comment that Arday was being used as a token by the right wing press for all black academics, but strangely the same has not been the case for Matt Goodwin. Strange that.
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Have only just read this, was thinking exactly the same last night. We all, quite rightly poked fun at MattGPT, but that was as far as it went. The guy was not hounded by the press and online commentators endlessly, they didn't dig into his background and start trying to verify every statement he has made or achievement he has claimed.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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midlandsgrimpeur said:
Have only just read this, was thinking exactly the same last night. We all, quite rightly poked fun at MattGPT, but that was as far as it went. The guy was not hounded by the press and online commentators endlessly, they didn't dig into his background and start trying to verify every statement he has made or achievement he has claimed.
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It's the same phenomenon, over and over: if you're in an 'out' group, your actions and misdemeanours are equally applied to everyone on that out group – like non-cyclists will moan at me for the cyclists who go through red lights with a "you cyclists!" implication. Yet turn it around, and cyclists don't pick on drivers and ask them aggressively why drivers go through red lights.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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Pblakeney said:
I do, when the subject is raised. Well, not aggressively I'll grant you.
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I've been known to ask, as even friends have done it to me, and they've really not thought through the implication of what they've just said. It's quite enlightening. I think I said to a neighbour "Well, I don't go through red lights' so I'm not sure why you're asking me."
 
Stevo 666

Stevo 666

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Surprised you can't see the concern where a country is in schengen and has a
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If by Spain you mean a tiny enclave attached to a different continent to its mainland. It doesn't follow that they can then get to mainland Europe though and as a country they get around 60,000 "irregular" migrants a year despite being geographically more vulnerable to those looking to get out of Africa. The US by contrast with it's attempts at being tough had 2.8 million arrivals in 2024 of which less than 700,000 were repatriated.

As for causing problems in the Schengen countries, that's politics for you - a country sees and opportunity to use a situation to push its narrative such as a right-wing government in Italy using the situation for their anti-immigration propoganda even though virtually all those that crossed the border being returned within days. There is an element that bought into the whole thing and now seem unable to accept that they believed a load of exaggerated claims.
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history of regularising illegal immigration. Most have been returned - although not all - but there was no guarantee that would happen.

As said before, best if they don't come in the first place then it doesn't need to be dealt with. Or at least as few as possible.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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briantrumpet said:
I've been known to ask, as even friends have done it to me, and they've really not thought through the implication of what they've just said. It's quite enlightening. I think I said to a neighbour "Well, I don't go through red lights' so I'm not sure why you're asking me."
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Not surprisingly, in the circumstances, this comment just cropped up – in the case of cyclists, we are all the same (jumping red lights, etc.); and they see a couple in the morning commute, and so it's common (having not clocked the dozens and dozens who didn't).

And if it's that bad with cyclists, just imagine what it must be like to be on the receiving end of unwitting and witting racism because of these cognitive biases.

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