Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[Spanky Longhorn]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Can we put the Kingster in here?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/shortcuts/2012/dec/10/leggings-for-men-meggings-trend

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

He doesn't explain why Dave Wells is sound

 

[love detective]

 

[Sue]

That either induced seasickness or just general nausea -- not sure which.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's not an uncommon reaction to being megged

 

[Bakunin]

I'll fucking say.

Seconded.

Notice how it's no longer a life-threatening incident once she's been outed for lying about it and it's more useful to admit that her recollection might ascribe greater significance to the alleged incident than those of her alleged saviour.

 

[Firky]

Bored.

 

[Balbi]

And cue firky getting a twittersquall. I'd do a Johann Hari one, or - no waiy, you've already been called a misogynist.

 

[Balbi]

@PennyRed: The internet is a real place. It's where I live, my public space. I don't like feeling that I can't go there without fear of violence.

One for the album.

 

[rekil]

It's upsetting, because I want and need to come back to the UK, but the constant trolling and threats of violence make it hard to work.

Laura is like an anti Zainab Al-Khawaja. Also, has molly booted her out? What does this cataclysmic turn of events mean for the future of The New Left.

 

[el-ahrairah]

This actually is what she does - privilege meets personal post-modernism. I deserve to be everyone i want to be. So i am. That can be a really healthy and inspiring thing coming from someone with insight, sense, humility and respect for wider society. Coming from her it just inadvertently demonstrates how shallow she is. I want a pony.

we all want a fucking pony

 

[el-ahrairah]

The thing with the "revolutionary middle classes" (pffft) is that they're always vanguardists. Always chiefs rather than Indians; always staff officers rather than enlisted men. They're scum attempting to ride to power by pretending to represent the masses, and that is all most of them are. Ms. finger should know better, given her position, and the fact that she doesn't speaks volumes about who her commitment is to, and it ain't "the workers".

innit. and whenever people talk like that i know that they're not including me or mine in that in group.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Jen Dziura, puppet of murrca's death machine! CommunISN'T. Ah, mentioned previously here.



"Do my job for me for nothing, I'm shit."

if she was half the feminist she says she is, she'd know that there was a group called Nordic Model Advocates who are pretty vocal and persuasive.

 

[articul8]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
The internet is a real place. It's where I live, my public space. I don't like feeling that I can't go there without fear of violence.

Internet, I live in you

 

[Firky]

And cue firky getting a twittersquall. I'd do a Johann Hari one, or - no waiy, you've already been called a misogynist.

Was making a coffee and suddenly my phone started going mad. I now fantasise about violence to women, deserved cancer and something about nuts magazine I didn't quite get or understand.

 

[Balbi]

Horrid. She tweets and tweets until shes thick.

 

[love detective]

Laura is like an anti Zainab Al-Khawaja. Also, has molly booted her out? What does this cataclysmic turn of events mean for the future of The New Left.

mental how she can't come back to the UK because someone on the internet is trolling her

(btw firky, i think that thing was out of order mate, there's many ways to have a go at her but that isn't the most effective or clever, she'll come out of it looking better than you will)

 

[el-ahrairah]

none of us can go on the internet without fear of violence. fortunately it's only internet violence, so nevermind.

also, that reminds me of johnathonbishop's whining.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Was making a coffee and suddenly my phone started going mad. I now fantasise about violence to women, deserved cancer and something about nuts magazine I didn't quite get or understand.

1. you kind of did.
2. you kind of did.
3. sausages.

 

[Firky]

It's actually just a reworded image nicked off another website

Quite afraid to go on the internet now incase someone calls me a twat or worse does a cartoon

 

[el-ahrairah]

i knew i'd seen it before somewhere.

 

[Firky]

The original is hate filled misandry

 

[Delroy Booth]

Tbh firky I didn't find it particularly funny myself, it's just witless abuse with an undercurrent of violence at women that makes me uncomfortable. And I know I've criticised Laurie shitloads myself on here, but still there's so much on this thread which is just stalkery and weird.

 

[framed]

FFS, it's funny. It is hardly an incitement to violence against women. The bloke being beaten up looks nothing like a woman... or Laurie Penny!

 

[love detective]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
For every writer and activist, the class we're from matters - but not as much as the class we fight for.

She doesn't have a clue how revealing comments like this are

 

[Mr.Bishie]

It made me lol

 

[Firky]

I can see people's point that they think I want to smack LP up but it's more of an assault on her politics than her physical self, it's quite easy to understand the allegory (?) behind it, surely?

If only I was Steve Bell.

 

[Delroy Booth]

I'm sure you didn't intend it to be a satirical masterpiece, or a sincere relfection of your desire to beat up Laurie Penny, tbh you'd be best off just apologising for any offense caused and putting it behind you i reckon.

 

[Bakunin]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
It's upsetting, because I want and need to come back to the UK, but the constant trolling and threats of violence make it hard to work.

Can I take it that attempts at investigative journalism are beyond Penny Dreadful, then? IIRC, one of the common indicators of a journalist really having something to say that's worth hearing is if they face such threats on a fairly regular basis.

And didn't Her Majesty once spout off about how good journalists are supposed to be fearless?