David Heinemann 🌳

Hello. I’m a working class person from a broken northern town. What you are seeing in the streets of these towns right now is the anger that these people in these broken towns feel about decades of neglect, only directed towards peoples who aren’t responsible for that neglect. Because that’s the playbook. It’s always been the playbook. Far right agitators - some of them in suits who now sit in the House of Commons - will always say “blame the brown person” because it’s simply easier than dealing with the consequences of shutting industry, breaking community and sitting down and listening to disenfranchised voices. There are racists in these mobs, but there are many lost and scared people too. And anyone who dismisses the rioting as simply the far right rising is making the same mistake as the many who cast every Brexit voter as a racist did. People are unhappy. Towns like mine are broken. Fix the towns, fix society, make the voices of the far right agitators unappealing and impotent, and you’ll find harmony. Fight racism, always, but talk to the people on the fringes. They’re not lost causes, I refuse to think any human being is