Professor said:
As did I.
The 'event' in Oslo seems to be more frequent of late. Always seems somehow less talked about these attacks than Islamist terrorism. The nail bomb in Old Compton Street always seemed particularly vicious.
It was the right song to reflect this.
The Oslo attack is awful. One of a few attacks recently. This time an Iranian I think so a little outside the ‘normal’ Islamic stuff which is Sunni rather than Shia so not sure until they release more what it’s about other than it’s obviously an attack on people for being gay with some sort of ‘religious’ justification in their warped, pissy little brains.
I’m feeling very low to be honest about this whole few days. I’m deeply concerned about the continuing rise in religious justification for being monstrous to other people.
We have Islamic attacks in Oslo, right wing commentators here thinking it’s ok to use the pride flag to mimic a swastika for the sake of social media ‘likes’, the lurching to ever increasing religious authoritarianism amongst the right wing of America, constant attacks on women and women’s rights. We seem to be going backwards at an alarming rate of knots. When exactly did it become so ok to revel in stupidity? When did it become ok for our political leaders to just stand there and lie? Over and over again.
This culture war stuff has become dangerous to an alarming degree. People are just content to cheer on anything which ‘annoys’ people they don’t like. Even if it’s transparently nonsensical or appalling.
I notice that the thread on abortion has disappeared today. No idea whether stuff was put in there which required removing since yesterday? Not sure why if so individual posts weren’t removed rather than a thread? I guess we will never now learn what these ‘facts’ were. Imagine my surprise.
