Daniel C. Blight

RT @sov_media: THE BRITISH, FRENCH AND DUTCH EMPIRES WERE THE WORST! In this exchange on Mehdi Hasan's Head to Head with Nigel Biggar, pos…

RT @aaronzwinter: This is censorship and a political statement

RT @NoreenMasud: The more international attention the case gets, the more likely the HO is to overturn it - please share if you can, intern…

RT @Lowkey0nline: Israel has bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and even Egyptian territory in the last month. An Israeli air force commander ju…

On point

RT @PriyamvadaGopal: When you work on racism, colonialism etc, you do get complacent--you think, come on, everyone gets this now, the world…

Oh man he’s so lost. Genuinely makes me sad. 'illiberal ideological capture' of universities | Eric Kaufmann talks on... youtu.be/ZUHk2T4MTIM?si…

RT @BrightonUCU: This is our 14th week of indefinite strike action. @uniofbrighton's attempts to bully us, to break our resolve & to starve…

@LozzaFox Hi Lawrence, happy to talk through the invention of race with you if you’d like to explore that idea of immutability in a little more detail?

London is a multiracial city. A persons value has nothing to do with their skin colour. Britain is an extremely tolerant nation which “truly values” people irrespective of their skin colour. Genuine diversity is in thought and expression. Your “diversity” seeks to divide people

RT @BrightonUCU: Thanks for your solidarity @johnmcdonnellMP! Great to see you at the @WorkersSummit23 We will not come back to work until…

@SwipeWright Gender is not the same thing as sex – this is a well-established norm in sociology – so why are you conflating the two and using it to underpin this flimsy single case analysis?

Gender activists like to insist that everyone has a "gender identity," which is said to be some deep, internal sense of their sex. The case of David Reimer, the boy who was raised as a girl after a botched circumcision and later came to the realization he was actually a boy, is

RT @lastpositivist: Love that to pass our national citizenship test you have to agree we like to have a good laugh at ourselves or we'll fu…

RT @profdavidharvey: Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It wil…

Wow

Paul Gilroy set Eyerman the challenge 20 years ago apparently, and he’s now written it. I hope it’s good.

@wokal_distance Ideas of social construction have been present in philosophy (e.g. classical rhetoric) for thousands of years. The idea that this is postmodern and explains “wokeness” isn’t right at all.

23/ You must force the woke relativist on to the ground of objective truth. Don't let them advance relativism while acting like their view of wokeness is objectively true. /fin

1/ 🚨RELATIVISM!🚨 Relativism says truth claims are not objectively, absolutely, universally true, they're only true relative to the culture they emerge from As John Searle explains, this view has eroded standards of quality with disastrous results So, Relativism: A Thread🧵

RT @Race_Class: Shocked to hear that Cathy Bergin, R&C author and leading scholar in the field of histories of race and resistance, is faci…

@jeremy_millar_1 He has the right and freedom to express his desire to get paid by any visual means he deems most likely to get him paid.

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The left need to care more about growth, I agree. But the way we measure growth is outdated. GDP is a relic unfit. We’ve seen how wildly the financial markets swing due to unforeseen events. We need to care more about growth. But we also need to redefine what growth actually is.