Patrice Riemens on Mon, 4 Feb 2019 14:10:11 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> PS: Paul Mason: Britain's impossible futures (Le Monde diplomatique, English edition) 

On 2019-02-04 13:53, Patrice Riemens wrote:


A woman harasses Brazilian skateboarders on a London street, demanding
they stop speaking ‘Brazilian’. The confrontation, emblematic in its
stupidity, goes viral on Twitter on 29 January.


It was not easy to find the incident Paul mason is refring to:

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/speak-english-when-youre-walking-on-this-street-couple-subjected-to-vile-rant-for-speaking-portuguese/30/01/

it was on FB not Twitter
It was a couple, not skateboarders
It was Portuguese not Brazilian, though the shouting woman did see the couple as 'Brazilian') 

Just a little exercise n fact checking ... ;-)
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