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Vaush Banned

IT'S A MASSACRE pic.twitter.com/M7gejEUeKp
— Vaush (@VaushV) December 14, 2021

Hasnan banned

yes. it is for exactly what you think it is. anti white racism for using the term “cracker.” https://t.co/5cukDRubze
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) December 14, 2021

Ethan Klein

can i say cracker as a white man or am i not allowed to say it as a jew? What are the perimeters?
— Ethan Klein (@h3h3productions) December 14, 2021

"Insulting and disgusting"

Absolutely deserved. White people who never owned a slave, let alone "cracked a Black person with a whip", definitely don't like being called a slave owner. That's incredibly insulting and disgusting.
— Alixium (@AlixiumMusic) December 14, 2021

What Libya’s “slave auctions” tell us about the humanitarian system - The New Humanitarian

Lessons remain unlearned

shut your saltine ass up you fragile little bitch. https://t.co/CaODz81BUk
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) December 14, 2021

It is a slur

this is a cracker btw. since many people wonder who’s the type of person that is offended by the word (a word i’ve probably never used before this weekend) it’s mfs like this. pic.twitter.com/d2hRt20OVX
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) December 14, 2021

Penn & Teller - Profanity - I love you dog. - Video

"'cracker' being a bannable offense is so hilariously deranged"

"cracker" being a bannable offense is so hilariously deranged. just placating the most fragile manchildren in the world who themselves know they're just feigning outrage over nothing
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) December 14, 2021

"a reddit moment. brought to you by the cracker discourse"

a reddit moment. brought to you by the cracker discourse. where this redditor says my anti white racism would make me the most racist person ever in the 1900s, you know when hitler was alive, along w jim crow laws in the south. pic.twitter.com/xrW1Lf8x2d
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) December 12, 2021

Destiny

White people in the US today don't own slaves or colonize, though. https://t.co/wqswZCXBDE
— The Omni Liberal (@TheOmniLiberal) December 13, 2021

Vaush fans take it well

lol ok dude pic.twitter.com/dYmuBwplZR
— The Omni Liberal (@TheOmniLiberal) December 13, 2021

Big Joel

Wait I’m sorry is there even a kind of person who’s offended by the word cracker?? Like do we even need mental gymnastics to defend calling people white in a spicy way? We need to have a convo about what makes words slurs lol pic.twitter.com/RLIskfgiHj
— Big Joel (@biggestjoel) December 12, 2021

you know, in the end, yeah i guess I do think white people should simply be more okay with being teased for their whitness than other kinds of people.
— Big Joel (@biggestjoel) December 13, 2021

"There it is, finally, was it so hard to say this?"

There it is, finally, was it so hard to say this?

Now just apply literally any of your sociological understandings of any group of people EVER and you will realize how absolutely absurd this expectation is. https://t.co/ncJI3HcROm
— The Omni Liberal (@TheOmniLiberal) December 13, 2021

Hasan defending racial slurs before

anyone who thinks gusano is a racial slur has to start calling it g word going forward. its identical to cracker, redneck or even karen. it represents a certain type of behavior/ political attitude etc
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) July 15, 2021

"I will never stop marveling at how white people have ruined the world -- and the planet. "

I will never stop marveling at how white people have ruined the world -- and the planet.
— saira rao (@sairasameerarao) November 26, 2021

UK ‘Online Harms’ Bill: at Best Naive, at Worst Authoritarian Censorship and a Cynical ‘Money-Grab’

Annual revenue of Google from 2002 to 2020 - Statista

Sir David Amess killing: Boris Johnson urged to enact ‘David’s Law’ to remove online anonymity - Evening Standard

Online Safety Bill: New offences and tighter rules - BBC

Young People Philosophy Sanitized

Porn sites should have legal duty to stop children accessing them, MPs say, as they also call for new 'cyberflashing' law and tougher sanctions on internet fraud to be added to Online Safety Bill - Mail Online

Covid: PM faces big rebellion as MPs vote on new restrictions - BBC

Full list: the vaccine passport rebels - The Spectator

"What a sight!"

What a sight!

Thank you to the incredible @RAFRedArrows for an amazing show. pic.twitter.com/eAMrxP7H0P
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) June 12, 2021

Corbyn opposes vaccine passports - Video

Dept of health prepared

The department of health deleted this tweet, but it's clear they have already decided what is going to happen before Parliament even gets a vote. Are we sure we live in a democracy? pic.twitter.com/gsc007DRr0
— Mikky 🇬🇧 (@big_mikky) December 12, 2021

perpetual cycle of lockdowns - Video

Pub vaccine passports not British - Sir Keir Starmer - BBC

"Keir Starmer: It's Labour's patriotic duty to vote for Plan B Covid restrictions"

Keir Starmer: It's Labour's patriotic duty to vote for Plan B Covid restrictionshttps://t.co/Fdtt7kcQkJ
— GB News (@GBNEWS) December 14, 2021

"two jabs and a booster"

🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Sajid Javid says vaccine passport will not be valid unless people have had two jabs and a booster, rather than just two jabs, "once all adults have had a reasonable chance to get their booster jab".
— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) December 13, 2021

53.9% of those eligible for a booster have had one.

In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 53.9% of those eligible for a booster have had one.

18-24: 9.8%
25-29: 14.0%
30-34: 16.1%
35-39: 19.3%
40-44: 31.8%
45-49: 38.4%
50-54: 59.6%
55-59: 67.8%
60-64: 78.4%
65-69: 87.7%
70-74: 91.5%
75-79: 96.5%
80+: 91.3%
— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) December 13, 2021

Coronavirus death rate: What are the chances of dying? - BBC

"How is the NHS focusing on vaccinating an 18-year-old a bigger priority for this government than working through the NHS cancer backlog?"

How is the NHS focusing on vaccinating an 18-year-old a bigger priority for this government than working through the NHS cancer backlog?
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) December 12, 2021

Random restrictions generator goes brrrr....

Random restrictions generator goes brrrr.... https://t.co/eV3vXcYBz4
— Jonathan Wong (@WGthink) December 14, 2021

Whitehall officials HAVE drawn up plans to restrict numbers in pubs and restaurants and even close them down in the coming week

🚨🚨🚨 | BREAKING: Whitehall officials HAVE drawn up plans to restrict numbers in pubs and restaurants and even close them down in the coming weeks.
— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) December 13, 2021

Its about jabs, not health

You are asking the wrong question. Ask, would vaccine passport or Neg lateral flow to enter venues be an incentive to encourage people to get jabbed?

Mutations of the virus take place in the unvaccinated.
ICU beds/hospital admissions are majority patients unvaccinated. https://t.co/v7DvRBUNRr
— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 14, 2021

Comments disabled

Comments disabled, because she is talking shit. https://t.co/r7BgGtOELD pic.twitter.com/f9MDQ1Evp7
— Secretary of Akkad (@AkkadSecretary) December 14, 2021

Fight the dislike ban

Well this is neat https://t.co/bhmv5Q8KWH pic.twitter.com/CIJ8RkPoak
— Secretary of Akkad (@AkkadSecretary) December 5, 2021

MP campaigning against

Steve Baker has been such a strong voice throughout on this issue.

Thank you @SteveBakerHW

Let's hope more MPs realise that vaccine passports have absolutely no place in a liberal society.

They are anti-science and deeply divisive. #TogetherDeclaration @Togetherdec pic.twitter.com/Up8wSonrQV
— Together (@Togetherdec) December 13, 2021

Vaccine passport support andrew neil wakes up

Encouraging piece in Daily Mail by South African doctor who first alerted world to omicron. She says its symptoms generally very mild, even with no vax, and accuses PM Johnson of “hysteria”. If she is right - if - then perhaps latest UK measures are more political than medical.
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) December 14, 2021

The First real world analysis of Omicron from S Africa shows it is 29% MILDER than the initial covid variant

🚨🚨🚨🚨 | BREAKING: The First real world analysis of Omicron from S Africa shows it is 29% MILDER than the initial covid variant
— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) December 14, 2021

We don't want to overwhelm the NHS, but lets overwhelm the NHS

“We don’t want to overwhelm the NHS….”

🤦🏻‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/RitvV2cXns
— Víx♥🌸 (@KernowMaiden) December 13, 2021

NHS overwhelmed after millions answer call for Covid booster jabs - Telegraph

NHS yearly breaking point

The government want to restrict our freedoms because NHS is facing a winter capacity crisis because of Covid. But how does the NHS capacity crisis compare to previous years?

Thread / 1. pic.twitter.com/5rztAOLH5B
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) December 13, 2021

We have already removed 100k+ staff by mandatory vaccine

Up to 115,000 NHS staff lost due to vaccine mandate.

We are now discussing locking down the economy to save the NHS. https://t.co/CiVio0KFH2
— Secretary of Akkad (@AkkadSecretary) December 14, 2021

Personal story

5 years in the army. A working lifetime in the NHS. Volunteered to go back to work during Covid. But the government has made me a second class citizen and can deprive me of my citizenship. No words for how angry it makes me.
— Prit Buttar (@Dienekes_) December 13, 2021

Anti-Vaxxers Are Terrified the Government Will ‘Enforce’ a Vaccine for Coronavirus - Vice

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