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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 19:32:57 JST Aral Balkan

It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/ex-tory-mp-threatens-sue-cambridge-university-slavery-research-antoinette-sandbach
Oh, my… It would be a damn shame if more people knew of this so please do not boost this post.
#AntoinetteSandbach #SamuelSandbach #Sandbach #british #britain #slavery #slaveOwners #tories #tory #uk #cambridge #colonialists #colonialism

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- costrike (costrike@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 19:58:31 JST costrike
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  @aral Oops!
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 19:58:31 JST Aral Balkan
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  - costrike
  @costrike Khee hee hee :)
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 19:59:27 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Maddler (2⁸²⁵⁸⁹⁹³³ -1)
  @maddler Thank you, your King and Country appreciate your service ;)
  
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- Maddler (2⁸²⁵⁸⁹⁹³³ -1) (maddler@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 19:59:28 JST Maddler (2⁸²⁵⁸⁹⁹³³ -1)
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  @aral I would never share anything like that and no one should.
  I'll make sure all my contacts get this.
  
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- Nigel Moss 🌻 (nigenet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 20:00:28 JST Nigel Moss 🌻
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  @aral Well gosh... who might have predicted it could have this effect... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antoinette_Sandbach&diff=prev&oldid=1173092391 😂
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  1. Antoinette Sandbach
    
    Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach (born 15 February 1969), known as Antoinette Sandbach, is a former politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire at the 2015 general election. The following day, 8 May 2015, she resigned as the Welsh Assembly Member for the North Wales region, having been elected as a North Wales regional Assembly Member at the May 2011 election. First elected as a Conservative, Sandbach had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and later lost a vote of no confidence by the Eddisbury Conservative Association. Following deselection as a Conservative, Antoinette Sandbach chose eventually to become a Liberal Democrat. She lost her seat to her former party in the 2019 general election. Early life Born in Hammersmith, West London, Sandbach is the eldest of four sisters.She is a descendant of prominent slave owner Samuel Sandbach. Her paternal grandmother was Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach, a great-granddaughter of Samuel Sandbach and a prominent landowner in North Wales, whose estates included Hafodunos near Abergele and...
- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 20:01:27 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Nigel Moss 🌻
  @nigenet Oh no, the tragedy ;)
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 23:52:32 JST Aral Balkan
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  - AngharadHafod
  @AngharadHafod I mean, she is/was/will again be a Tory?
  
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- AngharadHafod (angharadhafod@toot.wales)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 23:52:33 JST AngharadHafod
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  @aral The story here is that she'd rather cover it up than admit that her forebears did bad things. It's really not that difficult a thing to admit, if you recognise it; many people have ancestors who were involved in bad things in the past.
  Which could be taken to imply that she still thinks they were right?
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 00:06:46 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Paul Brownjohn
  @Paulos_the_fog I’m not a lawyer but logically that should be an absolute defense against defamation regardless of jurisdiction.
  
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- Paul Brownjohn (paulos_the_fog@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 00:06:47 JST Paul Brownjohn
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  @aral
  Isn't there an absolute defence in English law that the defamatory statement is true?
  
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 22:45:18 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Alan Rew
  @alanrew Yep.
  
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- Alan Rew (alanrew@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 22:45:20 JST Alan Rew
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  @aral This is known as the Streisand Effect.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect?wprov=sfla1
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  1. Streisand effect
    
    The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.Attempts to suppress information are often made through cease-and-desist letters, but instead of being suppressed, the information sometimes receives extensive publicity, as well as the creation of media such as videos and spoof songs, which can be mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks. In addition, seeking or obtaining an injunction to prohibit something from being published or to remove something that is already published can lead to increased publicity of the published work. The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly...

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