revol68
what, fucking what?
Well have a gold star for being such a sensitive soul.
Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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rekil
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sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
Die Welt has always been the highbrow sexism version of Das Bild's lowbrow sexism.
Copies of Die Welt being destroyed, 1969, FDR.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I am certain that nobody would ever even hint at the suggestion that that particular person's behaviour or attitudes towards those of the feminine persuasion is or ever has been anything other than entirely unimpeachable.
Agreed?
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
The Springer press do more than 'boycott' they regularly accuse members of Die Linke of being Stasi spies, informers and agents, with zero evidence.
rekil
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Funny enough, a few days ago I asked people I know in Die Linke to pass the word and steer clear of Laura if she came near them or anyone else.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
That's probably the wisest thing for everyone, although the Germans look like they are better at it than we are. She made up quotes about the burlesque people so doing it to others is likely.
"Laurie Penny @PennyRed 20 Oct
Dear journalists who have, by duplicity and cheating, made it harder for others to access and write about queer and radical spaces: SNARL."
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Ironic considering the continuing saga of "outing" in the German media on that very subject.
rekil
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Didn't see that. Very interesting. Sounds like they did their homework.
binka
!!!!!!!!!
"salford - a greater manchester university" surely?
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
Can you rephrase that? What are you saying?
revol68
what, fucking what?
It's pretty obvious, I'm saying not punching women in the face on account of them being women is sexist. It's also why I slam doors in their faces.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
? I still don't understand. Is it a joke?
Yes, you're right.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
rekil
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This is intriguing. It'd be nice if she expanded but she's daft to mention it in the first place.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yes, it is very hard for Laura to write about "write about queer and radical spaces". Very hard indeed.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
I think a lot of people have sussed she makes up quotes and it wasn't the sub-editor's fault, so even people from that scene don't want her.butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I meant more that even without that access she can still write about them and get it published - would love to hear who told her to get lost.
(Will reply to PMs when i get home later today, phone doesn't really show me them properly).
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
I heard someone telling me she was at the Anarchist Bookfair last year, but if they saw her this year they ask her some questions.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
“Anyone can write, but to write well and often and for pay can be a hard and lonely job, because to do it honestly requires, at least at the beginning, a certain amount of boring self-analysis whereby professional and existential crisis feed exhaustingly off one another. To be an honest political writer or journalist today is constantly to negotiate and re-negotiate the complicated relationship between conviction and orthodoxy, between critical reportage and activism-as-journalism. That relationship never been more fraught than it is now, because the line between activism and media production has become smudged to the point of irrelevance. Anyone with a camera-phone that does the internet can report from a protest; anyone with a blog can write commentary about mortgage foreclosure and financial feudalism. But there’s a line in the sand, and you cross it when you start making most of your living writing about politics. Because once you have decided that you will always tell the truth you see in front of you, no matter what your bosses say, you have to decide what’s more important: your career or your conscience.” (Laurie Penny, essay on journalism in April 2012)
Now that she is back at the New Statesman, can we expect an expose of its anti-NUJ activities?
Also does she identify as an anarchist still? This picture from 2011 shows her with a red and black bade on her hat:
Some excerpts from the new book of journalism on Greece, Discordia.
“We are the media: put that on your slogan t-shirt and sweat into it. The disintegration of neoliberal capitalism as a workable model for democratic statecraft is coinciding with the collapse of print-and-television-model corporate media like two drunks falling down together in the street, giggling and swearing and blaming one another for the inevitable bloody pavement-dive. As the Arab Spring uprisings and the European riots and city occupations swept the Northern Hemisphere in 2011, commentators scrambled to blame Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger for the chaos, forgetting that civil unrest tends to owe more to social breakdown than social media.”
“In Athens, there are tourist bars, and there are bars where local people actually drink. Cantina Social is the latter, set back from the street down a narrow alley guarded by two sozzled old men in vests and a beast that can only be described as a dog because it is too big to be a wolf and too obviously carnivorous to be a horse.”
Molly Crabapple is fairly absurd: “Never have I seen a stripper without thinking she was a philosopher queen.” (Molly Crabapple)
With a very sinister take on sex work: “A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming “nice tits.” Saying “I’m beautiful,” let alone charging for it, breaks the rules.”
Now that she is back at the New Statesman, can we expect an expose of its anti-NUJ activities?
Also does she identify as an anarchist still? This picture from 2011 shows her with a red and black bade on her hat:
Some excerpts from the new book of journalism on Greece, Discordia.
“We are the media: put that on your slogan t-shirt and sweat into it. The disintegration of neoliberal capitalism as a workable model for democratic statecraft is coinciding with the collapse of print-and-television-model corporate media like two drunks falling down together in the street, giggling and swearing and blaming one another for the inevitable bloody pavement-dive. As the Arab Spring uprisings and the European riots and city occupations swept the Northern Hemisphere in 2011, commentators scrambled to blame Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger for the chaos, forgetting that civil unrest tends to owe more to social breakdown than social media.”
“In Athens, there are tourist bars, and there are bars where local people actually drink. Cantina Social is the latter, set back from the street down a narrow alley guarded by two sozzled old men in vests and a beast that can only be described as a dog because it is too big to be a wolf and too obviously carnivorous to be a horse.”
Molly Crabapple is fairly absurd: “Never have I seen a stripper without thinking she was a philosopher queen.” (Molly Crabapple)
With a very sinister take on sex work: “A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming “nice tits.” Saying “I’m beautiful,” let alone charging for it, breaks the rules.”
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Did she script the Brad Pitt advert?
love detective
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butchersapron
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