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

[rekil]

It's almost as if The Lez forced the maoists to kick off the people's war by the power of sheer prickery.

 

[Balbi]

*toddles off to read more about intersectionality*

But from what I have read, imagine a whiny Carl Sagan saying "to create an apple pie, you must first create the universe" to a group of people that includes cordon bleu chefs and starving children.

 

[sihhi]

It's almost as if The Lez forced the maoists to kick off the people's war by the power of sheer prickery.

Here's Lezard attacking tourists (inauthentic ones ??) in that article linked earlier:

There was another one of those stupid studies, reported on last week in some of the papers, that London has not made it into even the top 50 of the world’s most liveable cities. The knee-jerk response to this is scorn. Yeah, right, that’s why no one wants to live here, property prices are so low, and it doesn’t take 15 minutes to get down the steps of Baker Street station because they are clogged with gawping, idiotic tourists.
(I know it is wrong to judge a book by its cover but these tourists are idiotic. You know they couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel, not only because of their zombie-paced, shuffling gait – one sometimes wishes one were a New Yorker so one could be rude to them with impunity – but also because they all eat in McDonald’s. What kind of degenerate Morlock goes all the way to a foreign city and then stuffs his pimply face with a Big Mac?)

http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/06/shepherd-bush-london-city

A Morlock is a reference to the cannibalistic animal-like underground race (descended from industrial workers) in the future in H G Well's The Time Traveller.

 

[gosub]

Any lefty chess sets out there? Paper sellers as pawns, that kind of thing.

First to lose their king and queen wins?

 

[Firky]

*toddles off to read more about intersectionality*

Don't you have any regard for your own mental well being?

 

[Balbi]

Mentalist

 

[Balbi]

Helen Lewis ‏@helenlewis
Hilarious. "Argue for hours about which journo is more privileged: fun for all your Twitter followers" http://proletariandemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/pd-privilege.jpgletariandemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/pd-pri… … ht @trillingual

Own up comrades, who tweeted her.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I blame Balbi's idea.

Now endorsed by New Statesman's Daniel Trilling

https://twitter.com/trillingual/status/289721898651230208

 

[rekil]

sihhi

http://proletariandemocracy.wordpre...he-intersectionalising-new-card-game-from-pd/

(Endorsed and RTd by Daniel Trilling from the new statesman)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Own up comrades, who tweeted her.

Damn you, TLP

 

[BigTom]

First to lose their king and queen wins?

There's a standard variant of Chess called "Suicide Chess" where the aim is to force your opponent to take your pieces and whoever gets them all taken first is the winner, not specifically to losing the King and Queen though but could and no doubt has been adapted (at least for losing the King, that's kind of obvious given the aim of Chess)

 

[cesare]

Now endorsed by New Statesman's Daniel Trilling

https://twitter.com/trillingual/status/289721898651230208

LP's retweeted that

 

[Balbi]

*dons tin helmet*

 

[rekil]

Rhona MacKenzie ‏@rkmackenzie
Warning: This may enrage you: RT "@ProletarianDem: Privilege: The Intersectionalising - New Card Game From PD http://wp.me/p2npJh-ip ”

 

[Balbi]

*gets flame proof suit on*

 

[Steel Icarus]

Lol. Loads of people seizing on it either to say how unfunny it isn't. Which makes it even funnier.

 

[weepiper]

oh lol lol

 

[cesare]

Rhona MacKenzie ‏@rkmackenzie
Warning: This may enrage you: RT "@ProletarianDem: Privilege: The Intersectionalising - New Card Game From PD
http://wp.me/p2npJh-ip ”

Ha ha

 

[SpineyNorman]

If this kicks off another twitter shitstorm can someone else be the racist this time please?

 

[Balbi]

I'm certainly stopping giving you ideas. If i'd taken this to the NS, I could have been given a bloody column

 

[weepiper]

1. Helen Lewis ‏@helenlewis
   @WeekWoman It's made by left-wingers to take the piss out of the lack of diversity in the commetariat. They have a point.
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   @helenlewis I realise it's made by soi-disant left-wingers, but it sounds more to me like it's mocking the concept of asking for more
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   Week Woman ‏@WeekWoman
   @helenlewis diversity / asking for more awareness of diversity from the commentariat to me. That's what I found disturbing.
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   Helen Lewis ‏@helenlewis
   @WeekWoman Isn't the point that diversity is limited to one thing in each case? As in, there are "acceptable" diversities

 

[DaveCinzano]

1. Helen Lewis ‏@helenlewis
   @WeekWoman It's made by left-wingers to take the piss out of the lack of diversity in the commetariat. They have a point.
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   @helenlewis I realise it's made by soi-disant left-wingers, but it sounds more to me like it's mocking the concept of asking for more
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   Week Woman ‏@WeekWoman
   @helenlewis diversity / asking for more awareness of diversity from the commentariat to me. That's what I found disturbing.
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   Helen Lewis ‏@helenlewis
   @WeekWoman Isn't the point that diversity is limited to one thing in each case? As in, there are "acceptable" diversities

We are so lucky having all these super clever people to tell us what it all means

 

[Balbi]

Interesting interpretations. It's not an attack on diversity, it is an absurd extreme of a theory and it is meant to be a joke.

The instant NOT FUNNY. WHITE. PRIVILEGE. reaction demonstrates exactly the issues i've been ploughing up.

 

[weepiper]

'soi-disant' 'commentariat'

 

[Steel Icarus]

LOLOLOL I may expire

 

[DaveCinzano]

'soi-disant' 'commentariat'

Ouinquocrats

 

[not-bono-ever]

just wait til LP get to work on this retweet, then you will be sorry

 

[SpineyNorman]

What does soi-distant (or even disant) mean anyway? Always makes me think of Soap Distant, that hollow earth Robert Rankin character.

 

[frogwoman]

You can tweet them that It is mocking the idea of a fuckin "commentariat" in the first place.

 

[DaveCinzano]

just wait til LP get to work on this retweet, then you will be sorry

RT? This is 1500 words money-in-the-bank, one-hour-before-filing GOLD.