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

[DaveCinzano]

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

'So-called', but so saying it in French makes it sound plus vrai.

 

[Steel Icarus]

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.

Stop oppressing people with stunted senses of humour

 

[Balbi]

Having to resist the urge to explain how it's not what she wants it to be.

Oh, brava froggy, brava!

frog woman ‏@hrb264
Message to the commentariat, @ProletarianDem is not mocking diversity, we are mocking YOU

 

[SpineyNorman]

Just checked my privilege by the way. I've got 10 privileges and 3 oppressions. And I found a lump that I'm going to have to ask the doctor to check out.

 

[rekil]

Better put out something on Multitudinous Positionism just to mix things up a bit more.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just checked my privilege by the way. I've got 10 privileges and 3 oppressions. And I found a lump that I'm going to have to ask the doctor to check out.

So that's +10 -3 = 7 but your suspect growth gives you a lumpenprole POWER POINT of +/-2 (depending on the argument and who you're intersectionalising with).

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Can we add a funny/humourless axis to the intersectional wheel? It would bring new meaning to the word humourist.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[fractionMan]

thread continues to deliver

Week Woman ‏@WeekWoman
Wow. This is actually not at all hilarious. It is however horrifically smug & entitled http://proletariandemocracy.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/pd-

 

[frogwoman]

the irony.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

excellent work comrades!

 

[Balbi]

*passes tin helmet to froggy*

 

[not-bono-ever]

Im sorry, but those tweeters really are po faced disparaging wankers - I dont think they like someone mocking ( i.e understanding ) their big words and facile posturing.

 

[BigTom]

 

[weepiper]

Still lolling at someone using 'soi-disant' with a straight face

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Still lolling at someone using 'soi-disant' with a straight face

Surely you mean a visage impassible.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Balbi]

In fairness, froggy's tweet did settle the ire of that particular tweeter. They did say that PD should have been more explicit. That's the point of good satire though.

Hold up, more coming in.

 

[Orang Utan]

Being unable to laugh at yourself is the mark of a wrongun

 

[DaveCinzano]

In fairness, froggy's tweet did settle the ire of that particular tweeter. They did say that PD should have been more explicit. That's the point of good satire though.

Let no ire be settled till the last tumblrist has been hung from the wifi repeater pole with the guts of the last tweetocrat

 

[Belushi]

Being unable to laugh at yourself is the mark of a wrongun

I've just realised there's no ginger spoke on the Wheel of Oppression, I'm fucking outraged on your behalf

 

[DaveCinzano]

...no ginger spoke...

Quite right - seen & not heard, etc.

 

[Balbi]

Ah right. The complaint is now that our satire could have been done better, as twitter is not good for indicating the context of things. Which is, as i've just pointed out, a problem with arguing on twitter and certainly not a reason to stop doing it.

 

[frogwoman]

Also where are gypsies on the wheel of oppression? a pretty big thing to miss out

 

[fractionMan]

The wheel of infinite spokes

 

[Balbi]

Ok, @weekwoman doesn't do 140 characters.

 

[Orang Utan]

Quite right - seen & not heard, etc.

Ginger prejudice is a difficult one to address as it only tends to be white males that suffer from it, this confusing the parameters of the wheel of privilege

 

[BigTom]

I've just realised there's no ginger spoke on the Wheel of Oppression, I'm fucking outraged on your behalf

We're saving that for the expansion pack! Gotta make that cash, money for the workers' bomb.

 

[fractionMan]

Some spokes should be longer than others.

 

[Belushi]

and the Meek, even God thinks they have a tough time of it

 

[DotCommunist]

post tweets people- especially the humourless ones

 

[Orang Utan]

Ah right. The complaint is now that our satire could have been done better, as twitter is not good for indicating the context of things. Which is, as i've just pointed out, a problem with arguing on twitter and certainly not a reason to stop doing it.

How typically arrogant of the privileged creators of Proletarian Democracy to make satire that stupid people cannot comprehend. There's another two spokes to your wheel - stupid/clever