Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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Fez909
toilet expert
Thought so, cheers.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I didn't mean to attack his posts. It was meant as a pastiche of them
Thought it was a run in to him being banned
Fez909
toilet expert
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
I know I'm going to regret saying this, but I don't actually think that it's particularly surprising or wildly unreasonable that L. Penny is hostile to anyone associated with this thread. She really does get a huge amount of unjustified (and often misogynist) abuse online, which is necessarily going to make anyone defensive and/or uninterested in engaging with the content of online criticism. And even leaving that aside, if I came across a thread online with 8,000 comments about what a dickhead I am, I'm pretty sure I'd sulk about it too. Even if thousands of those critical points were fully justified.
TruXta
tired
Do you regret it now?
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
so i had a little search to see what they say about us. this was my favourite.
"Yes, its a jew run site, the bloke that owns it is a 'Welsh' jew as are at least two moderators. They instantly ban anyone who questions their 'politics'.
It claims to be an anarchist protest site, in reality its a money making opportunity, the jew who runs it uses it as an advert for himself and in the process gets lots of work from various bluechip companies including BP and the BBC doing their web design.
They also have a disturbing amount of new breed pc cops who agree with their pro-drugs, blacks can do no wrong, type views."
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Not yet, but it's in the post.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
"A few do praise some left-wing groups but most just slag them off as well.
It's as if they think their are to good for these groups.
As if they are some kind of elite & these groups aren't worthy of them."
It's as if they think their are to good for these groups.
As if they are some kind of elite & these groups aren't worthy of them."
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
"they all hate each other on the basis of peculiar ideological formulae the unilluminated are not privy to"
Fez909
toilet expert
This is an odd sort of influence:
Parish councilor says blocking people on Twitter isn't always the best policy as they may have a point and they're engaging you.
Another councillor and cabinet member replies: "Hate people who block you!"
Third person add LP to the conversation saying she has started blocking people due to bad experiences.
Cabinet member immediately backtracks, "well maybe hate was a strong word but it does highly irritate me!"
https://twitter.com/Baz_k/status/281786632137494528
Why would adding LP to the conversation cause an immediately climb down from a view held a politician? Very odd, they usually never back down.
Parish councilor says blocking people on Twitter isn't always the best policy as they may have a point and they're engaging you.
Another councillor and cabinet member replies: "Hate people who block you!"
Third person add LP to the conversation saying she has started blocking people due to bad experiences.
Cabinet member immediately backtracks, "well maybe hate was a strong word but it does highly irritate me!"
https://twitter.com/Baz_k/status/281786632137494528
Why would adding LP to the conversation cause an immediately climb down from a view held a politician? Very odd, they usually never back down.
framed
Leave it!
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
SpineyNorman
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frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
Not only Jews, but Welsh fcuking Jews!!!
the worst sort of jews.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
You cunting fucking cunt etc
I'm sorry, but I don't talk to homophobes.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
We hate the Judean People's fucking Front
SpineyNorman
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Are you calling me a puff?
Laurie, if you're reading this and think you've 'got' me please engage your sense of humour before taking further action.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
I suspect that the racist nonsense came from a quick glance at the IWCA article, or possibly just its title, followed up by a silly refusal to back down when arguing with people she has pretty understandable reason to feel attacked by. Or, perhaps I'm being soft and she really does think, from an American-liberal-identity-politics sort of direction, that criticism of state-multiculturalism is automatically racist.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Self lloathing?
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Probably both.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
Jackobi
swallows anything
"If you have the stomach for it, google something like "Laurie Penny hate".
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100195117/in-defence-of-laurie-penny/
Okay.
Of the top seven results, LP's Wikipedia, LP's old blog, an article written by LP, and the above quoted Telegraph article. Of the three remaining top results, one is notably entitled 'I hate Laurie Penny', in which the author explains, "The thing I hate most about Laurie Penny is in fact, nothing to do with her, obviously. It’s hating being misrepresented."
It's stomach churning, a comment on one of LP's own articles even states, "I don't hate many people, but Laurie Penny truly does get on my nerves."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100195117/in-defence-of-laurie-penny/
Okay.
Of the top seven results, LP's Wikipedia, LP's old blog, an article written by LP, and the above quoted Telegraph article. Of the three remaining top results, one is notably entitled 'I hate Laurie Penny', in which the author explains, "The thing I hate most about Laurie Penny is in fact, nothing to do with her, obviously. It’s hating being misrepresented."
It's stomach churning, a comment on one of LP's own articles even states, "I don't hate many people, but Laurie Penny truly does get on my nerves."
covered 15 pages back. she's writing a book about emasculated men or something.
editor
hiraethified
Wow. A Welsh Jew?
*checks contents of underpants
No pretty sure that's not me.
I must have forgotten about the BP work too - maybe that was happening when I was playing for Goya Music? Crazy days, for sure.
I remember that some years ago, spineless little fuckwits on that ARRSE site took exception to a thread here that I hadn't even seen (let alone participated in) and decided to get their own back by writing to all my clients to tell them that I supported the cold blooded murder of 'our boys' or some such nonsense.
Still, ever since I became a web tycoon things have worked out fine, although I am still under growing pressure every day to apologise to Boris.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Possibly so. On a sort of related note, I see that some New Statesman columnist went slightly off-piste in a piece about "Privilege" politics and promptly got monstered on twitter. His actual article wasn't very good and missed most of what's wrong with Privilege theory in favour of hand-wringing about how it's divisive, which effectively set himself up for his peers to chastise him for his possession of a pasty skinned penis. New Statesman then published a response which simply presented criticism of "Privilege" theory as a lack of interest in black, women's, gay, etc liberation.
The interesting thing about this stuff is how quickly its making inroads into British liberalism, from the New Statesmen to, ahem, the Anarchist Federation.
framed
Leave it!
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I don't have a photographic memory that stretches as far back as 15 pages of this interminable thread.And if I did recall something from 15 pages back I would seriously give some consideration to this...
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