Lockdown Update Day 146

[elisi]

Tories seem to think that being an asylum seeker is actually a crime. This heartlessness & lack of concern for human right created #WindrushScandal This current hysteria about desperate migrants crossing the Channel in rubber dinghies will also end badly https://t.co/9buukSynQJ

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) August 8, 2020

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The more things change, the more they remain the same. Daily Mail with the same level of empathy for refugees in 1938 as they do today. pic.twitter.com/a0jjFdlftz

— David Jackson (@DJ995031) August 9, 2020

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ETA: From a year ago:

Using drones to watch refugees drown exposes the inhumanity of border enforcement
Too many of us believe in a myth of a border that can be humane because it scares us to face up to the bloody reality

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And today's art: Alison Saar, Breach (large figure on raft), 2016, US artist whose work explores themes of African cultural diaspora (x).

Comments

[trepkos]

This government disgusts me. And I'm sure a Keir Starmer government would be little better.

[elisi]

*nods sadly*

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that art is phenomenal!

[elisi]

I wanted something to tie in with the refugees in boats, but... complex & intelligent. This more than fit that description.

[sea_thoughts]

You know what I think of the Tories.

[elisi]

What we all think...