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Comparing the way police treat far-right vigilantes to pensioners holding placards condemning genocide is like comparing apples and oranges. Yes, it's unfair, but the problem is that police now never consider human rights in the way they make decisions. It's all about what is most convenient to them

The far-right embraces face masks (in a way that's deliberately intimidating) precisely because it is also an effective means of protecting their identity from the police. That doesn't mean we should now abandon a tactic that keeps friends and allies safer, just because it benefits our opponents too

If you are calling for the use of new powers to ban face masks to crack down on the far-right, it's worth remembering that no consideration was ever given by ministers for the practical risks of this new law both putting people like you in greater danger and excluding participation in protest rights

is that true? wikipedia has a source that says it was first used to describe actually racist policing, not made up over policing of white people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-tie...

and the police policing marginalized communities more than fascists is very much a thing, not just of convenience, because the police are likely to be fascists themselves

The Bylines piece that Wikipedia refers to says the term is based on the idea of over-policing of racialised communities. You can argue it is a borrowed idea but the notion of "two-tier policing" in its current sense is entirely about far right victimhood and that is what makes it unhelpful