American anarchists meaninglessly devour themselves at Portland Conference

[Casually Red]

The video is pretty miserable and demoralising viewing.

only if youre an anarchist . I was already giggling at the pic of the jazz handers before I even watched the vid . The calling the filth at the end was the coup de grace for me.

 

[Casually Red]

what's miserable is being a part of a political environment dominated by this politics, which i have been on numerous occasions. and, worryingly, the number of spaces which are subject to it is increasing. what happens periodically in the States is good to observe, to ward it off from here before the rot sets too deep.

would you agree this stuff is getting worse amongst UK anarchism..serious question .

 

[Casually Red]

These useless cretins need to have their faces rubbed in their record of total failure.

 

[Casually Red]

i was called a 'speciesist' once or twice, for eating greggs sausage rolls near the wrong people.

 

[Casually Red]

I'm fucking laughing, for fucks sake. Probably laughing a lot more than people hinting at agent provocateur tactics or trying to elucidate some wider critique of intersectionality. Never had a problem laughing at this, cos laughter is the only response. And where did I say he should have stayed away? I suggested he probably should have known better than to write that particular piece when he did (and I didn't even really say that, and not in those words).

You picked up on a 'but' in my post and turned it into 'wah wah wah stop laughing and listen'. Just a 'but'. It wasn't that at all.

hes only copping on now that hes been wasting his life hanging around with a complete load of wankers talking complete wank, basically .

 

[rekil]

Now the thread is officially embarrassing.

 

[likesfish]

The left are a complete joke with all thats going on nigel farage can get airtime and his collection of nutters ffs they hired a pakistani gangster as a spokesperson.
What can the left do doesnt matter how brilliant the pamphlet on a dead german is or your blogg post.
What matters is the people thats whats the point of socialism making the world a better place for everyone not a tiny fraction of a faction

 

[Nylock]

only if youre an anarchist .

Not all anarchists are that shit but, as you seem to have proven here, shit anarchists give the rest a shit name. Just like ppl who are shit at communism/socialism/labourism/whateverism who also give the rest a shit name. C'est la vie...

 

[SpineyNorman]

Is this lefties arguing amongst themselves?

We shouldn't argue or discuss. We should pretend to agree on everything and never address the stuff we disagree on. That's sure to be a recipe for success - nothing could possibly go wrong.

 

[ViolentPanda]

in a few years these post-students, trained in the dark arts, will start permeating the lower levels of government, liberal newspapers and the rest...

By which time intersectionality will have served its' purpose for them (i.e. getting them noticed), and will be discarded by them as a childish folly.

 

[ViolentPanda]

All I know is that I want nothing to do with it.

That's 'cos you is one of dem sissy white males, innit?

 

[likesfish]

We shouldn't argue or discuss. We should pretend to agree on everything and never address the stuff we disagree on. That's sure to be a recipe for success - nothing could possibly go wrong.

Discuss yes shout down and victimise someone for imagened "crimes" no.

 

[Idris2002]

We shouldn't argue or discuss. We should pretend to agree on everything and never address the stuff we disagree on. That's sure to be a recipe for success - nothing could possibly go wrong.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Discuss yes shout down and victimise someone for imagened "crimes" no.

I think you might have slightly (or rather spectacularly) missed the point there.

 

[Idris2002]

I think you might have slightly (or rather spectacularly) missed the point there.

BOW BEFORE THE HYPNOTOAD

 

[belboid]

Hello to the Independent's Heather Saul - I guess you got the story from here, anyhows

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...t-conference-descends-into-chaos-9367277.html

 

[butchersapron]

Hello to the Independent's Heather Saul - I guess you got the story from here, anyhows

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...t-conference-descends-into-chaos-9367277.html

Posted on libcom well before here.

 

[belboid]

Posted on libcom well before here.

but it only came up in todays paper, which is why it seems likely to be from here.

 

[frogwoman]

I finally watched the video, Jesus that's embarrassing

 

[butchersapron]

but it only came up in todays paper, which is why it seems likely to be from here.

Posted on there same day as this. I think it's more likely to be from here though. She seems another one of those journos who writes 5 articles a day on widely divergent topics that make me very very suspicious.

 

[belboid]

'Online correspondents,' it's what they have to do (write on widely divergent topics, that is, rather than nicking stories off message boards)

 

[butchersapron]

'Online correspondents,' it's what they have to do (write on widely divergent topics, that is, rather than nicking stories off message boards)

Being able to write shallowly about whatever is passed on to you sure. Being passed off as an expert in each area - as that other one i brought up last month - another thing altogether. There is something odd going on here.

 

[belboid]

as that other one i brought up last month

which was that one?

 

[butchersapron]

Rowena Mason

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I've seen this kind of thing happening; the shoutiest, rantiest people effectively deciding what can and cannot be discussed, and controlling the parameters of debate. It doesn't matter what your actual position is, if you're defending that position by simply sabotaging any attempts people make to express different opinions.

That seems vaguely familiar, somehow.

 

[rekil]

Old Portland news. Copper gets kicked out of the Red And Black cafe, compares it to the 'days of segregation'.

Spoiler

Their safe space policy looks kinda comprehensive, but what's the difference between sexism and heterosexism?

Our Safer Space Policy exists to, as best as we can, eliminate any oppressive actions, behaviors, and language in our space. These include, but are not limited to, racism, sexism, ageism, sizeism, classism, ableism, transphobia and heterosexism.

 

[Wilf]

At least there was a blogger on hand to stop him being silenced (in the face of their violence).

 

[SpineyNorman]

Old Portland news. Copper gets kicked out of the Red And Black cafe, compares it to the 'days of segregation'.

Spoiler

Their safe space policy looks kinda comprehensive, but what's the difference between sexism and heterosexism?

at a guess heterosexism = homophobia/transphobia

 

[Coolfonz]

We shouldn't argue or discuss. We should pretend to agree on everything and never address the stuff we disagree on. That's sure to be a recipe for success - nothing could possibly go wrong.

Works for the Tories.

 

[killer b]

what? which tory party is this?