Rob Walker
@ImRobWalker
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I'm Rob Walker. PhD research on: the manosphere; misogynies; masculinities; fascisms @StirUni
Birmingham, England
Joined November 2012
Thrilled to share my new article (w/@KaySocLearn) in Gender and Education: ‘If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next’ Read here: https://t.co/6EOzb5Nnx0
#Misogyny #Fascisms #Education #AffirmativeEthics #ForMyMom
tandfonline.com
This paper critically examines the influence of misogyny in neoliberal UK educational settings, linking misogynistic ideals and ‘manfluencer’ practices to growing fascistic tendencies. Viewing this...
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Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket, not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
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“Why not just politely say you’re not interested?” OK LET ME SHOW YOU 🧵
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Make no mistake that the NHS (that is to say our healthcare needs) is the greatest untapped asset the U.K. has to offer the world’s capitalists. Remember this when you see people calling for the end of the NHS… It’s not about health, it’s about money!
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i’ve reported this to the police, last time they said since the account was outside of the uk they couldn’t do anything and immediately dismissed my case so my expectations aren’t high. if i can’t go through this legally i want to use this to point out how big of an issue this is
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so apparently you’re now able to generated high quality sexual videos of people without their consent using grok… generative ai has no place in our society if we want to protect women and other vulnerable people.
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Why? He's shown himself to be a fucking idiot incapable of grasping basic concepts. This excessive adulation of ex-soldiers needs to stop.
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Ask yourself why footage of presumably SEALs is unclassified and on your timeline
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.@fletchjack from the BMA explains they've been trying to get round the table with Wes Streeting for several months but Streeting didn't even bother replying to their letter Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
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Whenever theres a 'crackdown on disability benefits' not one single paper ever asks the obvious question as to which exact large employers are eagerly hoovering up unemployed deeply mentally ill people?
"6 million people are choosing to sit at home on the sofa instead of working" say MPs- desperately hoping no vaguely competent journalist points out there are only 723k vacancies-most completely unsuitable or unobtainable for those currently not working.
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“When I listen to politicians talking about the benefits system, it’s very clear that they don’t use it, and that they haven’t had very much direct experience with it.” Journalist, Angela Haggerty says she is “shocked” by the level of “misinformation” on welfare #bbcqt
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“But in an age in which one in four people now self-report as disabled, it’s clear that we are now going to have to draw a line on what health issues the state can support people with.” More misinformation from the leader of the opposition You CANNOT self report as disabled
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Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessme...
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These are the people Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy were absolutely determined to inflict on the people of Birmingham - against the advice of local police.
Today in Stuttgart 🇩🇪. Extremist supporters of the Israeli 🇮🇱 club Maccabi Tel Aviv who have traveled to the city sing openly in German streets: "You are Arab-wh*res (...) We will f*ck you and drink your blood (...) We will r*pe your girls." German police did not intervene.
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"Warning as lead and arsenic wash up on beach." Remember those plastic beads now washing up along a 70 mile stretch of the English coast, the ones belonging to Southern Water that they told you were inert and totally harmless? Turns out they're contaminated with lead, arsenic
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Heavy metals are found on plastic pellets which washed up on the Sussex and Kent coast.
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“Working-class people are being pushed out of culture. It’s becoming a middle-class profession, because you can’t be a breadwinner and work at the library.” https://t.co/JZ16Ej2fcJ
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The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
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This is what integrity looks like: Yes, Tories shat the bed with the immigration system and yes we need to regulate it better, but when racism is spilling into our streets and out the mouthes of sitting MPs, this is how you respond to it - zero tolerance my l. 👏
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The biggest Neo-liberal myth is that the economy of a nation works like that of a household. Neo-liberalism, Thatcherism, Trickle-down economics or whatever you call it (much like medieval religion) is based on myths/lies as without them, the whole thing would crumble.
When Republican candidates talk about balancing the books, eliminating the deficit, and removing federal debt we shouldn't forget about the brilliant David Graeber.
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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