*Already* Tory backbencher #MiriamCates has invoked the spectre of "cultural marxism", the far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory. #Braverman also mentioned it a few years back, as have various members of the far-right #CommonSenseGroup
https://nitter.net/peterwalker99/status/1658027580870541312
Cates says UK children are being indoctrinated with “cultural Marxism”. Your regular reminder that this is a conspiracy theory often associated with the far right and antisemitism, eg https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/26/tory-mp-criticised-for-using-antisemitic-term-cultural-marxism
#ExtinctionRebellion is taking credit for the protester who very politely interrupted Jacob Rees-Mogg's speech to accuse those Tory MPs attending of "fascism".
https://nitter.net/XRebellionUK/status/1658046751276662784
BREAKING: XR DISRUPTS THE NATIONAL CONSERVATISM CONFERENCE, CALLING OUT THE FACIST IDEOLOGIES OF SENIOR CABINET MEMBERS AND MPS This morning, an ordinary person stepped onto the stage and interrupted Jacob Rees-Mogg's opening speech at the #NationalConservatism conference
"Flagship conservative conference bars reporters from left-leaning newspapers"
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/national-conservatism-conference-block-left-progressive-novara-byline-times/
#ExtinctionRebellion interrupted #Braverman's speech as well.
https://nitter.net/DominicPenna/status/1658097722287702019
#Braverman: "The ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators is the sort of fact that has become unfashionable in some quarters. Much like the fact that 100% of women do not have a penis."
Classic far right racist and transphobic rhetoric from our supposed Home Secretary, spoken at what's widely acknowledged to be an international far right event.
Just spotted that #DannyKruger MP also made a reference to "the intelligentsia, the globalised elite—whose loyalties[?] are to everyone and no one".
https://nitter.net/lewis_goodall/status/1658124041062940673
Sound familiar?
https://helenldecruz.medium.com/the-anti-semitic-origins-of-citizens-of-nowhere-3e50436e6fc3
Context: Kruger is part of an MP group (CSG) that bemoans "cultural Marxism" and co-founded a think tank (NCSU) whose manifesto also bemoans "cultural Marxism" and additionally "globalism", both antisemitic tropes.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211012081659/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600db9746c455e4aedfc29ef/t/605f8deab0d20a364deee35a/1616874986470/12+propositions+for+a+new+social+covenant.pdf
We’ve just been asked by the organisers to stop voxing delegates of the conference on film. Apparently it’s against NatCon media policy. So one the self-described free speech champions don’t support their own guests/delegates freedom to talk to journalists at their conference.
"Now we have #JohnHayes … He is talking about the “widening chasm” between the people and 'the liberal establishment'. … Hayes has referred to 'the establishment' as 'our masters', who do not permit proper conservatism to thrive. We are, it seems, on the fringes of conspiracy theory territory. … Hayes said we need an education system that doesn't 'indoctrinate' people with ideas like critical race theory."
"Now…#KevinRoberts of US think tank…#HeritageFoundation, who has already favourably compared Brexit and the Tories to Donald Trump and Viktor #Orban … Roberts has repeatedly referred to left wing politicians as 'globalists', a term which is associated with far right and antisemitic conspiracy theories … Roberts argues that the left detests the nation state, democracy, the [family], dissent, 'and even objective truth' … " (1/2)
"Roberts introduces a concept called the "woke industrial complex", which seems to be another way to refer to "globalists". He's used this term about a dozen times. … To stress the point: a conference attended by two UK cabinet ministers and various other Tory MPs and large numbers of other UK figures from the right has heard a keynote speech filled with terms associated with the far right and antisemitic conspiracy theories." (2/2)
Oh, of course the media darling "UK's sTrictESt hEadTeachEr", once fawned over across all the breakfast shows and appointed "social mobility tsar" by the Tories, is at the far right conference moaning about "woke schools".
Late addition, but I just noticed that #MiriamCates (also of the CSG) actually went there and dropped in a reference to "#CulturalMarxism". She knows perfectly well what it means.
She was condemned in pretty strong terms by #JohnMann, the Tories' "antisemitism tsar", who directly called it antisemitism:
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/tory-mp-condemned-for-using-cultural-marxism-slur-in-conference-speech/
Will she face any consequences? Of course not. And will he resign, when the whole reason he left Labour was the party's tolerance of antisemitism? We'll see.
Hughster
