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

[Greebo]

Here's a bit of Crabapple-Penny-Harris style pornography as activism<snip>
Unfortunately...

Anyone who can play the flute while being fellated worries me; either the fellator/rix isn't good enough to be distracting, or the flute playing wasn't that great in the first place.

 

[killer b]

Kanye West loved my fashion story about black skinheads.

oh, i loved that too. shame he's a bellend.

 

[J Ed]

From FB

Richard Seymour


Off to the American mid-west on a civilising mission. Will bring back shiny trinkets from the natives.

Many a true word said in jest

 

[Tom A]

From FB

Richard Seymour


Off to the American mid-west on a civilising mission. Will bring back shiny trinkets from the natives.

Many a true word said in jest

Oh god...

 

[Idris2002]

From FB



Many a true word said in jest

 

[el-ahrairah]

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...

i went to see that at the cineman. it was hilarious. those hippies were awful awful sex-cases, especially the older bloke, and they were basically scorned out of town by the townspeople.

 

[el-ahrairah]

ACTUAL AMANDA PALMER LYRIC:

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

"we know the smell of our own"

 

[Buckaroo]

Voice of a generation is on Newsnight now, talking about her generation.

 

[Bakunin]

Voice of a generation is on Newsnight now, talking about her generation.

Monetising her fakery.

 

[Joe Reilly]

Voice of a generation is on Newsnight now, talking about her generation.

...and..."poor people".

 

[rekil]

For fuck's sake, I work for a living.

.

 

[coley]

On NN tonight!
Is this it. Today's 'left'
We're doomed, whey seriously fucked.

 

[tufty79]

at first i was all 'yes! the scales have finally fallen from his eyes!'

Markoneinfour

It's so strange sometimes to see someone who used to write for ONEinFOUR on Newsnight. That @pennyred is on telly more than I watch telly

https://twitter.com/MarkOneinFour/status/350417645385940992
and then i was ''

Markoneinfour

And hurrah for that!
https://twitter.com/MarkOneinFour/status/350417737794863106

https://twitter.com/MarkOneinFour/status/350417737794863106

 

[SpineyNorman]

at first i was all 'yes! the scales have finally fallen from his eyes!'

Markoneinfour

It's so strange sometimes to see someone who used to write for ONEinFOUR on Newsnight. That @pennyred is on telly more than I watch telly

and then i was ''

Markoneinfour

And hurrah for that!

Hurrah for the blackshirtsface

 

[Greebo]

Apologies for the almost 24 hour delay; intersectionality was mentioned on Woman's Hour yesterday, and "check your privilege" was explained.

 

[tufty79]

just to go back to my snippiness like a dog to vomit for a min

A worthy rival to the Activist Trauma Database

i contacted the person my old housemate recommended off there, on the email address given on the ATD website

she was quite puzzled as to how i'd got her 'private' email address
sounds familiar...

 

[treelover]

whatever her faults and they are legion, on Newsnight, I thought she did a good job, whether she was the right person to be on the panel, is another matter.

btw, what was Ed Howker going on about?, "NL made a deliberate attempt to embed benefits in all parts of society", well, yes, in work benefits, but savaged disability and other benefits..

 

[The39thStep]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 14h
On BBC Newsnight tonight talking about hardening attitudes to welfare. My top has a huge rip and I've no time to go home and change.

Its all about me

 

[rekil]

Voice of a generation is on Newsnight now, talking about her generation.

Apologies for the modsplaining but you have to say "g-g-g-generation". Like Jacqueline Taïeb here.



As noted on the other thread, when Laura defends her g-g-g-generation, she defends this.

Privately-educated pupils are almost seven times as likely to get into Oxbridge as those from state comprehensives. They are also twice as likely to be admitted to Britain's top 30 universities.

Figures show some 48 per cent of pupils from independent schools won places at 30 top universities over the period, compared with just 18 per cent from state comprehensives and 27 per cent from sixth-form colleges.

Some 100 elite schools – almost all from the fee-paying sector – accounted for more than one-in-10 places at these universities.

More than five per cent of privately-educated pupils got into Oxford and Cambridge over the three year period, compared with just 0.8 per cent of those from comprehensives.

One hundred top schools – three per cent of those in England – account for almost a third of Oxbridge admissions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...ces-dominated-by-just-five-elite-schools.html

 

[Tom A]

I hope her career dies before we get old.

 

[frogwoman]

can someone post the limp bizkit song

 

[Tom A]

can someone post the limp bizkit song

 

[butchersapron]

Nice to see that the others that she somehow talks for, 'a million of them' all live incredibly 'miserable lives'.

 

[J Ed]

Its all about me

Every rip in her clothes is symbolic of another opened food bank

 

[The39thStep]

Nice to see that the others that she somehow talks for, 'a million of them' all lives incredibly 'miserable lives'.

Not surprisingly in my book if they really haven't grasped the trinklet like significance of Discordia and Pussy Riot and aren't allowed to blackup

 

[treelover]

Laura's not the worse, anyone see that hipster ring wing Libertarian on QT last night?, arguing "the state must get out of people lives"

 

[sihhi]

Script-keeper: Jeremy Paxman (Malvern College; until q recently weekly columnist at The Spectator; Oxford University)

Left: Laurie Penny (Brighton College; assistant to politics editor at The New Statesman; Oxford University)

'Centre': Ed Howker (Bradford Grammar School; Associate editor at The Spectator)

Right: Robert Oxley (Campaign Manager for TaxPayers Alliance, until recently Researcher for expenses cheat Tory MP Anne Main; Sheffield University)

NB All three schools are major private schools (part of the Headmasters' Conference of the top 243)

 

[Joe Reilly]

whatever her faults and they are legion, on Newsnight, I thought she did a good job, whether she was the right person to be on the panel, is another matter.

btw, what was Ed Howker going on about?, "NL made a deliberate attempt to embed benefits in all parts of society", well, yes, in work benefits, but savaged disability and other benefits..

It was an emotional Tet offensive, she kept piling it on, I think she even said people were "starving" at one stage. It was like the exchange with David Starkey where she kept adding to the excuses - but in reverse. The only people moved by that drivel would have moved to the right. Though he didn't say it outright, Howker was probably talking about the extension of tax credits...

 

[SpineyNorman]

Laura's not the worse, anyone see that hipster ring wing Libertarian on QT last night?, arguing "the state must get out of people lives"

But the right libertarian is openly a right wing libertarian and therefore doesn't pretend to be progressive. Laurie 'everyone who disagrees with me is a racist misogynist with unexamined white male privilege - even if they're black women' Penny is supposed to be a friend of the oppressed and voice of a wadical generation.

 

[sihhi]

The opponents were someone from the Spectator and a chief of the TaxPayers' Alliance they're not going to be anything other than right-wing.