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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism

Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP.

He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more direct than neglect – a form of genocide or ethnic/class cleansing – but it’s still murder. Calculated to destroy and gentrify the centres of cities where the Tories struggle to get voted in (and like in Kensington where Grenfell Tower is, get voted out).

And so right about what I call ‘faux-rage’ – the fact we can’t live real moral lives because of Syria and selling arms – but what he describes as the ‘faux-morality’ and the ‘liminality we create through our taste’. I’ve been butting up against that within the so-called liberal and progressive world recently where the groupthink and in-crowd sheep-like nature is depressingly strong. I regularly do that within other spheres – homophobes, fascists, religious fundies etc – but it increasingly seems the problem is also within the Left, some of our own who think in binary black-and-white but don’t really get upset at these things. But boy do they bleat about their pretend righteous hollow rage!

It’s proxy-offence for perceived racism from middle-class white people, it’s faux-outrage for homophobia to LGBTQ people from cis straight people – and all of these they are power ploys from the usual rich white cis straight middle class for taking the agency of minorities away – while smoke-screening the fact that their own classism and lack of poverty is the elephant in the room. The elephant might be dressed in a rainbow flag, dreads and a fuck patriarchy t-shirt, but it’s an elephant all the same. This is fiddling while Rome (or Aleppo) burns, these ‘progressives’ don’t WANT you to fix the systemic stuff, riot, protest too aggressively, etc because it might upset their own applecart.

They aren’t radicals – and sad to say, this is as much in the LGBTQ community as other more obvious targets for ire – like those saying Otto Warmbier had it coming. Can you just LISTEN to yourself for a minute? You are making sure we all get thrown into the gas chamber with that stupid shit…Or are you just an agent provacateur FBI/CIA/MI5/police stooge? Because really I’m not sure anymore, some of these right-on people wanting a ruck just seem like me to be plants – just so fucking dumb and not understanding even the basic 101 of political strategy that either the starry eyed likes of BLM and such-like interrupting Pride marches and trying to hijack our symbols (although that is apparently an ad agency and Philly government!) and protests are dumb as shit, or actually po-po themselves?

Stranger things have happened, really.

And again with the rest from stopping debate on campuses to those thinking Otto Warmbier deserved to die for allegedly stealing a poster (since when are we agreeing with North Korea now?). Division from within, resist these people – always go for love, unity, and if not that, go punch a fascist. But don’t listen to these twunts who aren’t socialists, they aren’t radical, they’ve never even read a Marx quote unless it was on a meme, they know NOTHING of class theory, or if they do they are keeping quiet cos they themselves are trustafarian wanna-be radicals with rich Daddies and Mummies.

The revolution MIGHT be started on social media, but it won’t continue with memes and likes, and these people will stifle it because they are not working class, they are the chattering class who wants to divide us with think pieces, blogs and bullshit. And that’s just as much the black middle class as white, they’ve all learned some rather evil tricks cos they want to deflect their own collusion in the system, they want book deals, they want journalism jobs, they want notoriety. What these people don’t want is solutions. That was blazingly obvious after the Grenfell Tower fire – a complete model of how the system (doesn’t) work – and many of these ‘progressives’ just kept quiet. They don’t want absolutes, they want pie-in-the-sky cos you can keep changing those goal posts, for profit.

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