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

[SpineyNorman]

I'm sure there must be something Laurie can do about this lack of wadical literary and journalistic initiatives in London (what about the rest of the country Laurie, are we not edgy and important enough to matter?) she seems to upset about but I just can't think what that might be. What could a well connected young journo with a massive social network of wadicals and journalists do to overcome a lack of wadical journalistic initiatives? It's a complete mystery.

Oh, hang on, no it's not - fucking start one yourself if it's so important

 

[J Ed]

I've changed my mind, pretty certain now that she deliberately conflates criticism of her with systemic sexism.

 

[Delroy Booth]

This was?

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed

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For example: recent meeting with London radicals wanting to expand media platform. Refused to consider lack of women editors a major problem

https://twitter.com/aaronjohnpeters/status/327494981126336512

@aaronjohnpeters
@PennyRed there are no editors and the hope is to get people involved who don't already have 80k followers

Zing

 

[butchersapron]

https://twitter.com/aaronjohnpeters/status/327494981126336512

@aaronjohnpeters
@PennyRed there are no editors and the hope is to get people involved who don't already have 80k followers

Zing

So she met with wankers on the internet for a one second exchange rather than

"I'm actively involved in a number of campaigns that aim to change and challenge the bourgeois commentariat model. "

list them laurie, list them.

 

[SpineyNorman]

https://twitter.com/aaronjohnpeters/status/327494981126336512

@aaronjohnpeters
@PennyRed there are no editors and the hope is to get people involved who don't already have 80k followers

Zing

I think he might have just checked Laurie's privilege for her

 

[butchersapron]

This is peters the dissent entrepreneur of course.

How is my mum going to get involved aaron?

 

[Belushi]

I'd love to be able to swan off to New York and slag my fellow radicals (sorry, cantankerous middle aged men) off via twitter every time I dont get my own way on here

 

[frogwoman]

http://disillusionedmarxist.wordpre...train-journey-an-article-for-the-new-inquiry/

 

[Casually Red]

I've changed my mind, pretty certain now that she deliberately conflates criticism of her with systemic sexism.

it truly is the man

 

[SpineyNorman]

I'd love to be able to swan off to New York and slag my fellow radicals (sorry, cantankerous middle aged men) off via twitter every time I dont get my own way on here

I'm guessing you've not seen this little exchange yet:

@ChrisJDavies @pennyred ain't you cosmopolitan sneering at the UK you international jet setters

ChrisJDavies ‏@ChrisJDavies 36m
@pasparakis @PennyRed So flying abroad is elitist. In 2013. Riiiight. Any other 'cosmopolitan' affectations? Refrigeration? Roads? Literacy?

Yes, that really was his reply - not being able to afford to fly to the US is comparable to being illiterate and having no access to roads or refrigeration. I mean, it's 2013 ffs! Everybody does it.

 

[butchersapron]

Get that other posh one from the planes in there tamsin or something

 

[el-ahrairah]

actually, i'd have bought her macbook off her. i bet she's not techsavvy enough to have perma-cleansed it...

 

[Casually Red]

that bloody woman..shes like a cosmopolitan lefty danny dyer

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I'm guessing you've not seen this little exchange yet:

@ChrisJDavies @pennyred ain't you cosmopolitan sneering at the UK you international jet setters

ChrisJDavies ‏@ChrisJDavies 36m
@pasparakis @PennyRed So flying abroad is elitist. In 2013. Riiiight. Any other 'cosmopolitan' affectations? Refrigeration? Roads? Literacy?

Yes, that really was his reply - not being able to afford to fly to the US is comparable to being illiterate and having no access to roads or refrigeration. I mean, it's 2013 ffs! Everybody does it.

I wonder if this person realises which group of people in this country has the highest rate of illiteracy. Or just ignore me, because clearly, not being able to read is some quaint 19th century thing. My bad.

 

[JimW]

actually, i'd have bought her macbook off her. i bet she's not techsavvy enough to have perma-cleansed it...

But that would mean condemning yourself to reading things she's written! Think it through, man!

 

[chilango]

actually, i'd have bought her macbook off her. i bet she's not techsavvy enough to have perma-cleansed it...

...but the "Ctrl" "C" and "V" keys would be really worn.

 

[Casually Red]

ive just googled the woman...wtf is with the flock of seagulls hairdo..sorry thats barnet to you people
The 80s were horrific enough, we dont need reminding .

 

[SpineyNorman]

Being disciplined by the wider movement = run away, i'm not subject to their laws. All so predictable and sordid now.

I think I'm starting to see how Laurie's mind works. Whereas we normals see a perfectly reasonable statement here, one that criticises her for fucking off to the US because the people she professes to speak for try and hold her to account, she'll see something completely different.

She'll see:

A tirade of misogynistic abuse = seek solace in progressive new york - I don't have to take orders from middle aged male normals*. All so typically female and hysterical.

*even if they're young women they're de-facto middle aged male normals due to posting on Urban.

 

[butchersapron]

Like thatcher was a man because no woman could reach that position. Only men.

 

[frogwoman]

you're not the boss of me

 

[Casually Red]

 

[cesare]

you're not the boss of me

I've been fucking saving that one

 

[Treacle Toes]

you're not the boss of me

 

[Casually Red]

bollocks..just showed me age there

 

[Bakunin]

Or even "I've got crabs".

Or if you're a Tory MP:

'Could someone pass me the circular cheese grater and the bottle of malt vinegar? I'd get it myself, but I'm a little tied up at the moment...'

 

[SpineyNorman]

What kind of thing would get me banned from twitter? Going on there winds me up and I end up trolling the trolls - it's really not healthy. But I know that unless I'm banned I'll keep going back, I can't do it voluntarily

 

[sihhi]

That's where this comes in handy:

Courtesy of Proletarian Democracy. Winner gets to speak first

Anticipating divisions along immigrant or non-white men against white women - Occupy Richmond Virginia chair said 'white men, even white women' - here it is in action:

If any of the info about the two are wrong please change or correct it.

 

[butchersapron]

Ten minutes applause. You at the back too. Fantastic.

 

[Treacle Toes]

'Dear Weaponisers...?'

Is that shit real?

 

[butchersapron]

'Dear Weaponisers...?'

Yeah, what's the prob?