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

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

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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