KolmogorovComplicity
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KolmogorovComplicity
9mo ago
A couple of major socially relevant features of a UBI are that it gives people time to pursue their own ends (for good or ill) and lets them decide where to live independently of work opportunities.
A fake job doesn't allow for these unless it's so fake that you can never show up, move halfway across the country, and keep getting your checks. My guess is these WMATA jobs aren't quite that fake; they're more like 'sit in an office slowly plodding through useless paperwork' or 'stand around on a job site with your six buddies watching the one new guy work.'
KolmogorovComplicity
10mo ago
Whether or not her post was intended as a call to action would matter under US law, but the UK crime with which she was charged ('inciting racial hatred') has no such requirement.
That identity must work this way, at least in majority-white nations, is a core belief of modern progressives. This view is independent of Zionism. It's held by many anti-Zionists, and is, in fact, a major element of the progressive case against the state of Israel.
Almost certainly, Phillips is not a Zionist who is motivated to delegitimize British ethnic identity because of her Zionism, but rather a Zionist who is also a progressive or who is trying to appeal to progressives, and so must start from the default progressive position on ethnonationalism and then explain why Jews should be an exception.
And progressivism is, of course, culturally and politically dominant in Britain today. The forthright position you might wish a Zionist to take, that both the British and the Jews have a right to their own ethnically-delineated nations, would get Phillips bucketed as 'far right,' and depending on details might provoke a visit from the police.
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