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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Please note the English and Australian usage:

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

That’s a good point, I’ve never blocked anyone before, didn’t know how it works. You saw though.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Congratulations, first person I’ve ever blocked.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Ordered you. God I’m so glad I don’t know you. Good luck with your virtue signalling - it’s people like you that led to MAGA.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

All this proves is that you trawled my timeline, trying to find something problematic, and failed.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

You’re still posting about me now. If I don’t matter to you, just let it go.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Says I don’t matter to her, goes on to post multiple times about me.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There are about 15 separate people telling me how terrible I am at the moment, sorry if I don’t reply to everybody individually. I can’t tell who’s who, sorry if that makes you feel ignored.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My friends and colleagues see my exactly as I expect to be seen. You think you know me from a few 300 character posts on social media.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Don’t worry about it, I’m off to join ICE.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I like this message. I’ve never been good at taking criticism, I get very defensive. Particularly when I can’t see that I did anything wrong. I still don’t think my initial comment deserved calling out, but the following argument took me by surprise and I was wrong to engage in it.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’ve decided Blusky is more vicious that Twitter. The reason is that the people who pile on you on Bluesky are people you agree with. On Twitter it’s a bunch of Neanderthal racists so it doesn’t matter what they say.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Take it negatively if you like, I know there is nothing I can say that won’t be.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’m happy to admit to cowardice. I also think people misunderstood where I was coming from and the whole argument was something I’m not used to. I thought I was being supportive, if I was being racist I don’t want it staying up for the world to see. I was about to delete my account completely.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If I were really against racism, I’d clearly be against myself. I’m clearly fully in support of, and indulging in, racism.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I just don’t normally get into arguments at all. The last time I did it was defending Muslims.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’m actively fighting racism - we have our own fascist threat rising in the UK, I joined and campaign for the Green Party specifically to prevent Reform from taking office. My job is helping African immigrants out of homelessness - I guess that could be seen as white saviour complex…

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I do know that, we call it “othering” in the UK. It can seem positive but still be racism.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

OK I agree I’m a racist no matter how hard I try not to be, and will try harder.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I can admit that given the language barrier, and my misunderstanding of the point of your post, and my not knowing who you are, I came across as racist. That said, my responses would have been the same if a white person had posted them. I apologise. Should I try harder or stay out of it completely?

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Oh I can see I’m not up to speed.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If someone looks at my profile and reads my posts, that’s one thing. Posting a screenshot and saying this is a racist is very different.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I am learning today. I’m learning not to comment on strangers posts without checking who they are first. I’m well aware of non-intentional racism, I’ve been guilty of it in the past, I thought I was up to speed.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I haven’t, someone reposted his comment, I thought it made sense and commented with what I thought was a slightly daft but supportive comment.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The only time I pushed back (intentionally) was when you suggested I was doing it for racist reasons. I’m not going to block you because I am going to take the lesson on board, but I do want you to know that I think it’s all a misunderstanding, probably based on UK/ISA cultural differences.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Then we’re talking semantics. I think most of this thread has been based on assumptions. I didn’t realise your position when making the post, I added a comment and was surprised at the response. I did not intend to suggest you were any way wrong, I did not intend to argue.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

In this country, aggro is short for aggravation

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I didn’t argue, I just missed the significance of the “white people” part of the post. I totally agree that the gerrymandering is racist and never intended to imply otherwise. I was so surprised at the type of response I got, I just thought he didn’t know the film.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Yes, as in aggravation. You posted a photo of me to your 25k followers and invited them to pile in on me because I’m “racist”, and they are doing so. That is definitely aggravation by any measure. Save it for people who actually are racist.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Because this is not worth the aggro. I’m a fully left wing ant-racist person and somehow I’ve been portrayed as racist and vilified. All for making a lighthearted, not at all racist comment about a film based on American voters getting more stupid.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

As I said on the other thread, I haven’t changed sides, I was saying I came in support and for no good reason received what felt like abuse.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I spent a lot of time learning about conspiracy theories for my book. While I don’t think it’s true to say that all conspiracy theories are antisemitism, the algorithms always lead you to articles/videos that eventually say “the Jews are to blame”.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

You missed out, Infinity war/Endgame are awesome and tie up a surprising number of storylines

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Reform's election success would not have been possible without thick, gullible morons like this chap, who thinks refugees get given £5,000 handouts over and over again.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Me too - first record I ever bought was Licence to Ill.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Perfect, just as universities are cutting humanities courses

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That is true, but not by anywhere near as much. The estimate for Muslims was roughly 3x the truth, for Jews it was 16x. By the way, I don’t have huge problem with all this, I just wanted to point out how perceptions will be skewed when data is presented this way - I don’t think its useful

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m annoyed with myself for getting sucked in and aware I sound a bit “all lives matter”, which also annoys me, but now I feel I have to defend a minor point about where the UK public is - way more people are Islamophobic than Antisemitic but the graph makes it look the opposite.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There’s a constant narrative in this country that Muslims are worth less than Jews - it’s constantly in the press, just try replacing the word Muslim with the word Jew in negative headlines and stop to think what the reaction would be. I’m just a bit sick of it, and this graph seems to further it.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The important factor here is that when surveyed, the UK public believed there were about 5 million Jews. Omitting the actual figures means that the average person will be misled by this graph. The same would apply if they thought there were only 5000 Jews in the country, but in reverse.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A recent survey showed that the UK population massively overestimated the number of Jews in the country - average estimate was 5 million as oppose to 300k. So yes, including the actual numbers is important as the average person is misinformed and does not know how to read graphs.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

But if you thought there were similar numbers of Jews and Muslims in the country, you’d think most of the country hated Jews and were fine with Muslims.

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TimWhitehouse @timwhitehouse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I am aware of that and I’m annoyed I’ve been coaxed into arguing a corner. But presenting the facts that way makes a weighted comparison which diminishes Islamophobia.

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