The right are in power everywhere – but they can't stop playing the victim | Owen Jones



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They own most of Britain’s media and sit in No 10. Why are these champions of liberty upset about millennials on Twitter? So this is how liberty dies. “A monstrous imposition!” is how our modern-day Boudicca, the Tory backbencher Sir Desmond Swayne, decried the new law compelling customers to cover their faces before entering a shop. Sir Desmond does not have a blanket objection to covering his visage, you understand: he has previously described blackface as an “entirely acceptable bit of fun” after boasting of dressing up as the late soul singer James Brown. But while Sir Desmond may believe that all freeborn Englishmen have a sacred right to racist fancy dress, measures to stop the spread of a pandemic that has killed one in every 1,000 of his fellow citizens represent objectionable tyranny. He is far from alone: social media abounds with Tory activists ripping up their membership cards, assailing an authoritarian government that “is not remotely conservative”. The anti-mask revolt on the right is a global occurrence. In Texas, anti-mask activists believe such an imposition belongs in a “communist country”, while Oklahoma City backed off from imposing a compulsory mask order after threats of violence. On one level, this is just another expression of dog-eat-dog individualism: to hell with the common good if it requires sacrifice on my part, however minor. But it is entirely in keeping with another phenomenon: of the modern right’s embrace of victimhood. Continue reading…


The right are in power everywhere – but they can't stop playing the victim | Owen Jones

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