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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about hot takes, the Christmas parade, and intent....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

like your head is full of Raspberry,

0:08.0

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0:10.0

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0:15.0

Money never felt like Monzo.

0:18.0

UK residents, Tease and see supply.

0:21.0

Well, howdy there internet people,'s bow again so today we're going to talk

0:25.5

about hot takes and Christmas parades and assigning intent to things and why this story's going to disappear.

0:36.0

Why it's not going to be a massive round-the-clock story for the next two weeks,

0:42.0

as is often the case after situations like this.

0:48.8

As soon as it happened last night, as soon as news broke, speculation began.

0:56.8

Was the suspect right wing, left wing, were they white, were they black?

1:01.6

And it started right then. People attempting to assign intent, assign a

1:08.2

political motive to it because that's what sells. That's what gets

1:11.5

viewers, that's what gets clicks.

1:14.0

I do have to say I am super proud of every political

1:17.6

violence expert I follow on Twitter

1:19.7

because everybody was screaming into the void. We don't know any of this. We can't

1:24.5

answer this question. We can't speculate as to intent. But that was

1:32.1

ignored for the sake of ratings.

1:35.0

News outlets, ran coverage guessing about what it was, asking questions

1:41.0

when they're supposed to be providing answers.

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