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

[DotCommunist]

I really don't think she was going for blackface, I recon she was going for guerilla chic. Which has not gone well.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Idiots like Laurie Penny who think that the main problem with NATO, or the G8 or whatever, is that they are run by white men are the reason why the CIA were so enthusiastic about Obama getting elected... and they were right. I'm sure that black families in Michigan are much happier being kicked out of their houses with a black President and Yemeni families often think to themselves "well, half my family were wiped out in a drone attack but looking on the bright side at least it was the responsibility of the first black commander in chief!"

It's like how people in Northern Ireland had it so much better when we had a female Prime Minister as well.

 

[cesare]

I really don't think she was going for blackface, I recon she was going for guerilla chic. Which has not gone well.

Whichever it was, she's done it spectacularly badly

Monetizing her bad taste.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I really don't think she was going for blackface, I recon she was going for guerilla chic. Which has not gone well.

I don't think it makes her racist really but people would have far more reason to find that pic offensive than some of the made up shit she gets faux offended by.

I think the most significant thing about that pic is what it says about her attitude - it takes a stunning lack of self-awareness to see that pic, not realise the first thing that comes into most people's heads when they glance at it will be 'why the fuck is she blacking up', and then make it her fucking profile pic

But I think, given the way she's slandered all of us as misogynists without foundation, and me and love detective as racists for no reason, we have the right to make out she was intentionally blacking up because she's a massive racist. Her next profile pic may well feature a white pointy hood.

 

[frogwoman]

"I can explain everything"
"Actually no, wait, I can't"

 

[DotCommunist]

I don't think it makes her racist really but people would have far more reason to find that pic offensive than some of the made up shit she gets faux offended by.

I think the most significant thing about that pic is what it says about her attitude - it takes a stunning lack of self-awareness to see that pic, not realise the first thing that comes into most people's heads when they glance at it will be 'why the fuck is she blacking up', and then make it her fucking profile pic

But I think, given the way she's slandered all of us as misogynists without foundation, and me and love detective as racists for no reason, we have the right to make out she was intentionally blacking up because she's a massive racist. Her next profile pic may well feature a white pointy hood.

Some of those that work Statesman, are the same that burn crosses!

urgghhh! come on!


*extended guitar bit*

 

[cesare]

"I can explain everything"
"Actually no, wait, I can't"

"It was a deliberate action to see how people reacted"

 

[frogwoman]

"It was a deliberate action to see how people reacted"

"Should we all be racist now Laurie?"

 

[nino_savatte]

Sir John Tenniel?

 

[Idris2002]

Sir John Tenniel?

Who he?

 

[nino_savatte]

Who he?

Here's one he made earlier

Tenniel, who drew cartoons for Punch had a habit of depicting the Irish as ape-like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel

 

[Idris2002]

Here's one he made earlier

Tenniel, who drew cartoons for Punch had a habit of depicting the Irish as ape-like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel

Well, the Irish riot picture is American, so I doubt if Tenniel was personally involved (though maybe he was).

 

[rekil]

Well, the Irish riot picture is American,

I think it's Thomas Nast, Harpers Weekly.

eta: yeah, signature on the bottom right

 

[J Ed]

Here's a bit of Crabapple-Penny-Harris style pornography as activism

http://www.spiegel.de/international...ctedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/7g6Df7PG7i

A new documentary explores the lives of "Fuck for Forest," a group of Berlin-based neo-hippies determined to save the rainforests with a for-pay eco-porn site. It paints a sad picture of failed idealism -- but the group isn't taking the criticism lying down.

The activists have been living in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain for the past seven years. First, there were three of them: Tommy from Norway, Leona from Sweden and a German woman named Natty. Later, they were joined by Dan, from Norway, and Kaajal, a woman from India. They collect their clothing and food from dumpsters and think that drugs are a waste of time. "We're looking for people who enjoy sex and nakedness," they say. Their lives are disjointed, their apartment is a mess, their sex is a free-for-all -- and they call it freedom.

These are neo-hippies, and they resemble rare plants. They can't sing, but they do it anyway. They can't juggle numbers, but they are collecting money to help save the rainforests. They claim to have already raised over €400,000 ($530,000). Tommy, Leona and the others run a website for eco-porn where, for a fee, members can watch people having sex in the woods.

The group calls itself "Fuck For Forest" (FFF), and Polish director Michal Marczak naturally chose the same name for his recently released documentary, for which he accompanied them for a couple months with camera in hand. Marczak's film, which is showing at cinemas in Germany, is an unusual portrayal of Berlin -- and an absurd and comical masterpiece that goes beyond the fringe existence of a handful of nutcases, and the bleak world of pornography, to paint a portrait of a city whose threadbare, prudish Prussian atmosphere is only made bearable by the desires and confusion of the foreigners who end up here for one reason or another.

The perpetually bare-breasted Leona and the perpetually guitar-plucking Dan and their friends have a mission: They are fucking to save the world. For €12 a month, payable by credit card or bank transfer, users can feel like they are saving the rainforests and buying porn in good conscience. They have access to dozens of videos in which the members of FFF have sex with each other and with others.

The clips show sex between men and women, men and men, women and women, plus a good deal of group and public sex -- everything that millions of people gape at on Internet porn sites every day, much of it for free. But FFF's pay pornography differs from the standard fare on sites like YouPorn thanks to the group's signature shaky camera work, absurdly poor lighting and blatant poetic ambition. For instance, in the video "Jungle," which was shot in Mexico, Dan stands at the edge of a stream and plays a wooden flute while Natty kneels before him and fellates him. "We try our best to put our human errors to the test", says the narrator's voice in a clumsy attempt at rhyming.

Unfortunately...

But the saddest moment is when the inconsistencies in the sex commune's worldview -- its euphoria and its failures --- become apparent on their trip to South America. Marczak accompanies Dan and his friends to the Amazon basin, where they want to bring the indigenous peoples their money and their message of sex and ideals. But the locals don't want any money or messages from these white freaks, who look like gophers in a compost heap. They're only interested in the chainsaw that another German wants to sell them. You could say that German technology has won out over German idealism.

Somewhere in the border region between Peru and Brazil, Dan and Tommy bitterly complain about the huge TVs that the natives have in their huts. They are so enthralled by the beauty of a young girl that they are half-tempted to take her along with them. They give long-winded lectures to the inhabitants of a jungle village, explaining how they have collected money and why they want to purchase land for the indigenous people.

The reaction is devastating. "I don't need your money," snaps an Indio woman. The hippies are called liars and pedophiles, and for a few moments it looks as if the locals are going to chase them out of the village. Leona, Dan and Tommy briefly fight back their tears and trudge away from the crowd. "If you don't want our money," they say, "then we'll go."

 

[nino_savatte]

I think it's Thomas Nast, Harpers Weekly.

eta: yeah, signature on the bottom right

Ah... similar style though. No?

 

[andysays]

I don't think it makes her racist really but people would have far more reason to find that pic offensive than some of the made up shit she gets faux offended by.

I think the most significant thing about that pic is what it says about her attitude - it takes a stunning lack of self-awareness to see that pic, not realise the first thing that comes into most people's heads when they glance at it will be 'why the fuck is she blacking up', and then make it her fucking profile pic

But I think, given the way she's slandered all of us as misogynists without foundation, and me and love detective as racists for no reason, we have the right to make out she was intentionally blacking up because she's a massive racist. Her next profile pic may well feature a white pointy hood.

Here's a pic she's welcome to use:

 

[andysays]

Well, the Irish riot picture is American, so I doubt if Tenniel was personally involved (though maybe he was).

It's a mid C19th meme, innit...

 

[andysays]

Here's a bit of Crabapple-Penny-Harris style pornography as activism

http://www.spiegel.de/international...ctedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/7g6Df7PG7i

Unfortunately...

You're just giving SpineyNorman more shit for his anti-Green trip

I'm sorry you got stung by that Bolivian Arse Wasp, mate (what were you doing exposing your arse in Bolivia in the first place?) but you really need to fucking get over it now...

 

[Idris2002]

It's a mid C19th meme, innit...

You don't say.

 

[SpineyNorman]

You're just giving SpineyNorman more shit for his anti-Green trip

I'm sorry you got stung by that Bolivian Arse Wasp, mate (what were you doing exposing your arse in Bolivia in the first place?) but you really need to fucking get over it now...

It's a centuries old tradition of the yamaho tribesman on the eastern yoghurt plains. Implying that it's some form of pervery, as you appear to be doing, is just a post-colonial form of discursive white supremacism or summat

The tribesmen I met hated arse wasps too. And fucking hippy greens

 

[sihhi]

A photographer called Clayton Cubbitt tweeted this it links to his site here
http://instagram.com/claytoncubitt

signing it as "Laurie Penny, anarcho-feminist badass."

Following up on the photographer Cubbitt. Just two tweets before he posted "Give your body its freedom" with a link to a photo of a naked body. His other work seems to revolve a lot around nakedness, if you do a google image search you get lots of naked bodies. And in both cases it's female naked bodies (in places genitalia too) no male bits through .

His bio is fantastic:

Photographer. Filmmaker. Writer. Raised in New Orleans. Based in NYC. Available for commissions and exhibitions internationally.

I mix art and fashion with technology. Kanye West loved my fashion story about black skinheads. I’m the guy behind those Hysterical Literature videos. I get zef with Die Antwoord. My Long Portraits inspired a Superbowl commercial. I got dirty during Hurricane Katrina. I think subculture is culture. I think deeply about how the present creates the future.

My dad was a Canadian national running pot over the border from Mexico. My mom was a Cajun hippie runaway, go-go dancing on Bourbon Street. They met, married, and went on a lifelong road trip, conceiving me in the back of a VW van at a national park out west. I saw more by age ten than most people do their whole life, and this informs my work.

Editorial clients include: Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vibe, The FADER, Glamour, Elle, GQ, Surface, SPIN, Clear, Planet, URB, Vellum, Vice, Nerve, Metropop, Oyster, Smithsonian, Icon, Dezeen, Zink, XXL.

Advertising clients include: Dolby, Converse, Nike, Charles & Colvard, HarperCollins, Eli Lilly, Ad Council, David Yurman, Interscope Records, Mulholland Books. Agencies include: Saatchi & Saatchi, BBDO, Grey Worldwide, VSA, Brand New School.

Who else loves the line: "I saw more by age ten than most people do their whole life, and this informs my work." ?

 

[Dillinger4]

Have her advertising clients been mentioned before? Because I find that particularly disgusting for a 'political activist'

 

[andysays]

It's a centuries old tradition of the yamaho tribesman on the eastern yoghurt plains. Implying that it's some form of pervery, as you appear to be doing, is just a post-colinial form of discursive white supremacism or summat

No, it's just a bit unwise when there's wasps around, as you have obviously discovered.

The tribesmen I met hated arse wasps too. And fucking hippy greens

Something that unites people the world over

 

[sihhi]

Wikipedia entry begins:

Clayton James Cubitt, a.k.a. Siege, is an American photographer, filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn. He is known for applying an "arrestingly controlled and sleek sense of style" to art, portrait, erotic and fashion photography. He has been described as "one of a new breed of photographers no longer content to draw a distinction between the worlds of fashion, art, and porn."

He is also like Malcolm Harris a socialist.

http://instagram.com/p/SkL9v5pXjG

Who else would make this kind of symbol?

 

[sihhi]

Have her advertising clients been mentioned before? Because I find that particularly disgusting for a 'political activist'

They're his clients. On his website http://claytoncubitt.tumblr.com/about

 

[Idris2002]

ACTUAL AMANDA PALMER LYRIC:

You are a socialist cokehead, we know from your clothes.

 

[Tom A]

signing it as "Laurie Penny, anarcho-feminist badass."

It's anarcha-feminist you vile sexist excuse for a human being

 

[sihhi]

ACTUAL AMANDA PALMER LYRIC:

You are a socialist cokehead, we know from your clothes.

That's why supporting Obama is good, especially via charity events endorsed by textile and perfumery firm Calvin Klein:

 

[Idris2002]

sihhi - I know you hate music, but this is rather good, I thought:

 

[tufty79]

Who else would make this kind of symbol?

my old housemate her anarchoprinter business card is pink, and she's a soi-disant all of the above