Goldsmiths University Diversity officer facing sack
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Brainaddict
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Since this thread long since veered into general student politics stuff, I'll just leave this here...
Why Are Male Activist Students So Keen to Enforce A Macho Culture At Demonstrations? | SOAS SPIRIT
Why Are Male Activist Students So Keen to Enforce A Macho Culture At Demonstrations? | SOAS SPIRIT
J Ed
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God if he thinks that shouting at a demonstration is 'macho' I can't imagine the contempt he must feel, for example, towards the International Brigades.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
"We intrinsically believe that in order to make a difference, not only do we need direct action (of course), but also, we need to fight,we need to get out there and hit things, set cars on fire, maim a defenceless animal and get arrested for doing these things, all in the supposed name of anti-austerity. "
Do we? Really?
Do we? Really?
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
It seems blissfully unaware of...well, most of history really. And ironically, given the source, of much political action outside of Europe.
There's the ghost of a good point in the article. People engaging in risky behaviours at protests should be aware of whether they are unwittingly putting other people at risk. But that's just not being a dickhead, and doesn't require the parade of jargon and wrong-headed notions in that piece to explain it.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
He seems to have absolutely nothing to say on what he thinks should actually happen instead.
Be aware of privilege
???
Profit!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The author is obviously in the "right on"wing of privilege theory, or he'd have realised that by listing the qualifications of the people he cited, rather than just their names, he was in effect silencing criticism through a form of appeal to authority. Brother needs to check his privilege!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
On a majority of protests I've been on, the majority of protesters of whatever sex, gender, sexuality, class or ethnicity have stuck very much to a philosophy of "I won't start anything, but if the opposition/Old Bill start something, I'm not going to turn the other cheek". If there's a small core of middle-class male student knobbers doing shit he's claiming, then that's an issue for him and other protesters to police. I used to find that shoving fighty aggressive knobbers in the direction of the action soon saw them pegging it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
He'll probably change his name to something more snappy than Gil Southwood.
Perhaps something like Laurence Pennywood - Laurie to his mates?
butchersapron
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bimble
floofy
Yes I think she's been repeatedly told to remove the video for a while, and has stood her ground of course. Maryam Namazie – Just another Freethought Blogs site
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Islamic Society President Resigns Amid Homophobic Tweet Allegations
But, you know, solidarity with that kind of thing.
But, you know, solidarity with that kind of thing.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
Shocked, I tell you.
It's almost as if modern young devout Muslims don't discuss sexuality with members of things like LGBT societies, but try to enforce their codes on other Muslims.
J Ed
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Don't ask, don't tell (between the intersectionalistas and the obscuritanists that is)
butchersapron
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As sihhi suggests -these people are active far beyond a university - where are they active? Can we at least map them?
J Ed
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The Islamists or the intersectionalistas?
butchersapron
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Teeny little group of us - london anarchist's will remember - opposing (UBA etc) this well before edl got on it. Opp for the left to have hard left critique of islam and build wider coalition with muslims. Got called racists.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
In a sense yes, the young devout at Goldsmiths are happy to use the 'free speech first last' line against other LGBT groups in other universities whenever they want to, and to do so by calling LGBT groups Islamophobic. Their solidarity is with other ISOCs bringing in sexist and homophobic older devout speakers into universities.
fractionMan
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page 100 here we come
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
#killallshortthreads
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
Roughly translated ...ban all white " macho " men from demos. It's a step up from " kill all white men " , I'll give him that much .
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
If it keeps homophobic catholic anti-semitic pro-assad, pro nazi torturer uber using freaks with gun fetishes without the balls to join up - then yeah.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
I'd say the mainstream of young Pakistani Kashmiri or Bengali heritage third or second generation see themselves as Muslims.
Inevitably a fraction of them will become devout on conventional lines.
This is what the heroic opponent of "fag lovers" was promoting on his social media:
Here's the winter version:
Light Upon Light |
with separate categories for Sister Ticket & Brother Ticket so the conference hall chairs can be split accordingly
It's not a surprise small businesses from Pakistani, Kashmiri or Bengali backgrounds advertise HT or IERA or Knowledge1st or Witness Pioneer events near where I am or where you are. Mapping them is irrelevant they're all over the place.
90% of the time they are non-politics themed events just religious ones, so attack the event and you attack the religion.
They visit everywhere:
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Of course you should map them as far as you can - map everything.I'd say the mainstream of young Pakistani Kashmiri or Bengali heritage third or second generation see themselves as Muslims.
Inevitably a fraction of them will become devout on conventional lines.
This is what the heroic opponent of "fag lovers" was promoting on his social media:
Here's the winter version:
Light Upon Light |
with separate categories for Sister Ticket & Brother Ticket so the conference hall chairs can be split accordingly
It's not a surprise small businesses from Pakistani, Kashmiri or Bengali backgrounds advertise HT or IERA or Knowledge1st or Witness Pioneer events near where I am or where you are. Mapping them is irrelevant they're all over the place.
90% of the time they are non-politics themed events just religious ones, so attack the event and you attack the religion.
They visit everywhere:
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Beware the traps of Shaytaan, Mish Moneypenny!
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
What do you map though? How far do you go down the line is trivial sexism worth recording? I have always though even when really young it was somehow off having men going in one door and women in the side door to pray in different rooms in the same building. Holloway masjid lets a group do Arabic lessons there, I asked for info and but it is brothers only or sisters only, needs a minimum to get a class going so as far as i can see it's brothers only now.
The Turkish not from rural Kashmir local religious leader did a home religious wedding ceremony managed to attack feminism by name, while administering the vows.
The harder ones build on this bedrock of 'the mainstream norm', so the harder ones segregate family-based events aswell as classes and prayers, then they segregate all social events and as many work scenarios as possible. Their approach is 'you're not doing proper Islam, you're doing the wishy washy souped up namby pamby kind' the real kind is the real truth and contentment.
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