I loved this because it could be describing the diversity of the London marches though we have a lot more working class South Londoners here. As a nurse from a left wing family (though not politically active myself as an adult) I found 2020 the most disorientating year of my life. The left (in the main)have been repulsive in their calls for harder lockdowns and the medical professions (the majority)seemed to have dumped prior knowledge from March 2020 in the bin. I felt very isolated from friends and family with my opinions on the whole COVID narrative in 2020 but at the beginning of 2021 decided to go alone to a March in London I remember feeling huge trepidation that I might end up in a crowd of fascists then feeling embarrassed that I’d believed the media nonsense as soon as I saw the crowd was just a real reflection of Londoners weighted perhaps with hippies. I have been on every March since and I think everyone is aware of the diversity and finds it funny and energising . It has a genuinely authentic ground up feel to it which is so different from the heavily curated marches organised by the left in recent years and those people the educated woke professionals are so obviously missing and yet not missed.
Thank you so much for this, Jennifer. We need more people to tell the truth about the social and political composition of the anti-Covid response protests in the world. I watched the London protests on Youtube, and it was overwhelming to watch, let alone imagining how it must be to actually participate! Of course, most people are simple workers, all over the spectrum. And beyond a doubt most of them have never been politically active or organised before. This also gives me hope, though the ruling class will do anything to smear protesters as right-wing, and not shy away from infiltrating protests to get the media coverage they need (i.e., they smuggled in some guy doing the Hitler salute at a protest here 2 weeks ago, and THAT was the only photo that got around in the press). It is also true that the wokies are doing the dirty ruling classes' work. But they were never really separate from the Antifa in Germany and Switzerland whose painfully stupid equation of "Holocaust deniers" and "Covid deniers" has become an active talking point of the left. So the only thing we can continue to point out that our protest is directed not against a particular political orientation - left or right - but against what is WRONG. We have to start talking again about what is wrong or right, good or bad. The old political categories no longer work.
I loved this because it could be describing the diversity of the London marches though we have a lot more working class South Londoners here. As a nurse from a left wing family (though not politically active myself as an adult) I found 2020 the most disorientating year of my life. The left (in the main)have been repulsive in their calls for harder lockdowns and the medical professions (the majority)seemed to have dumped prior knowledge from March 2020 in the bin. I felt very isolated from friends and family with my opinions on the whole COVID narrative in 2020 but at the beginning of 2021 decided to go alone to a March in London I remember feeling huge trepidation that I might end up in a crowd of fascists then feeling embarrassed that I’d believed the media nonsense as soon as I saw the crowd was just a real reflection of Londoners weighted perhaps with hippies. I have been on every March since and I think everyone is aware of the diversity and finds it funny and energising . It has a genuinely authentic ground up feel to it which is so different from the heavily curated marches organised by the left in recent years and those people the educated woke professionals are so obviously missing and yet not missed.
Thank you so much for this, Jennifer. We need more people to tell the truth about the social and political composition of the anti-Covid response protests in the world. I watched the London protests on Youtube, and it was overwhelming to watch, let alone imagining how it must be to actually participate! Of course, most people are simple workers, all over the spectrum. And beyond a doubt most of them have never been politically active or organised before. This also gives me hope, though the ruling class will do anything to smear protesters as right-wing, and not shy away from infiltrating protests to get the media coverage they need (i.e., they smuggled in some guy doing the Hitler salute at a protest here 2 weeks ago, and THAT was the only photo that got around in the press). It is also true that the wokies are doing the dirty ruling classes' work. But they were never really separate from the Antifa in Germany and Switzerland whose painfully stupid equation of "Holocaust deniers" and "Covid deniers" has become an active talking point of the left. So the only thing we can continue to point out that our protest is directed not against a particular political orientation - left or right - but against what is WRONG. We have to start talking again about what is wrong or right, good or bad. The old political categories no longer work.
Meant to say we don’t seem to have the antifa problem it’s more the attacks and smears from the woke “new” left and MSM.
"the biggest violation of human and civil rights in the history of mankind since 1945" lol
Indeed it is.