GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

[Rob Ray]

You might as well have done really and I think in your own way you were.

I'm not in the least bit surprised that you think so.

 

[Shechemite]

It is strange for anarcho-communists to throw around terms like moron. The reality of so many people with a learning disability to me at least demonstrates why need community in order to have freedom for all. Oliver Lewis (not an anarchist to my knowledge) puts it well in this article.

Reducing mental health detention of people with autism and/or learning disabilities (via Passle)

On New Year's Day, the Sunday Times featured the story of 'A', a 24-year-old man with learning disabilities and autism who has been locked in a small ro...

insights.doughtystreet.co.uk

“The difficulty is that the opposite of institutionalisation isn't liberty (ha, that would be easy!), it's community. Achieving the right to live in the community, as set out in Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, [1] requires housing, specialist support services, access to leisure, sports, culture, transport, family.”

Anyway, AmateurAgitator, do you think people on the left using (and angrily defending such use) terms like ‘moron’ make it easier or harder for right wing shits like GB news to appeal to people with LD and their friends and families?

 

[Dystopiary]

Think this could be an interesting subject for a thread elsewhere.
Not confident in starting one myself though. If I was maybe Knobbing and Sobbing would be a good place as it affects people personally.

 

[agricola]

Tbf I think GB News would be all over the question "why can't I use the N word," though they'd probably balk at the angle being taken.

TBF they would probably headline it as "The first British casualty of the Dambusters Raid, and why woke fascists want to to CANCEL him".

 

[Ax^]

you people are weird

why has the last 5 pages not been in the bookfair thread

 

[krtek a houby]

you people are weird

why has the last 5 pages not been in the bookfair thread

They weren't allowed a stall

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Here's an article from Teen Vogue about it, as you're struggling: The Origins of the Word "Moron" Are Actually REALLY Sinister.

Generally I'd say it falls into that category of "disputed" slurs, where a commonality of use often bypasses its original meaning to project it as simply meaning something akin stupid or foolish, but it remains both historically and, less consistently, contemporaneously a term used to insult and degrade people with disabilities. Generally speaking you could go a month saying it to people who either won't care or won't bother to say owt about it, but for some people it'll be hurtful.

Which I suppose if you don't care about upsetting people won't matter to you all that much, but then you'll just have to live with being called a dickhead once in a while – and if so, you don't really have a leg to stand on re: complaining about feeling insulted. After all, if you don't respect them why would expect them to respect you?

I will read that article but at the same time I think this is clearly bollocks. No one uses that word in that way anymore and I doubt they have for a fucking long time. And btw the words imbecile and idiot were used in the same way - idiot being the most extreme (and used in relation to IQ)- yet no warning for those who use those words on these forums (includiing against me) and those words aren't used in that way anymore either . I do agree that the concepts of IQ and intelligence are basically a crock of elitist shite and are no doubt tied to eugenics, but I still find this ridiculous and it strikes me as an attempt to shut down different views (including my views) being expressed, or simply a way to generally police language.

 

[Ax^]

AA might be worth backing down to save face

as you covered yourself in so much glory in the last few pages

HTH

 

[AmateurAgitator]

AA might be worth backing down to save face

as you covered yourself in so much glory in the last few pages

HTH

Get fucked you idiotic, moronic fucking imbecile..

 

[existentialist]

Get fucked you idiotic, moronic fucking imbecile..

How's that bruised ego doing?

 

[Ax^]

Get fucked you idiotic, moronic fucking imbecile..

well as long as we are not getting personal AA




Ya Daft Cunt

 

[existentialist]

Haha, I thought - in the interest of this thread - I'd go and watch a bit of GB News livestream.

Whatever teething troubles it had, it still has them. Long pauses, really quite amateurish presentations (some Scottish bloke?).

Proper clunky. I might have to ban it from my browser very soon.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Here's an article from Teen Vogue about it, as you're struggling: The Origins of the Word "Moron" Are Actually REALLY Sinister.

Generally I'd say it falls into that category of "disputed" slurs, where a commonality of use often bypasses its original meaning to project it as simply meaning something akin stupid or foolish, but it remains both historically and, less consistently, contemporaneously a term used to insult and degrade people with disabilities. Generally speaking you could go a month saying it to people who either won't care or won't bother to say owt about it, but for some people it'll be hurtful.

Which I suppose if you don't care about upsetting people won't matter to you all that much, but then you'll just have to live with being called a dickhead once in a while – and if so, you don't really have a leg to stand on re: complaining about feeling insulted. After all, if you don't respect them why would expect them to respect you?

Funny coz this all seems so very thick, dumb and stupid and something a moron would post.

 

[Ax^]

you are all ganging up on me

let me trigger you all


Tedious troll is running out of material

 

[AmateurAgitator]

All I did was post some facts about Corbyn and Ash Sarkar but its inconvenient isn't it. It just can't be tolerated by too many twats on here.

 

[Ax^]

Corbyn on this thread

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Corbyn on this thread

That was on another thread

 

[A380]

Funny coz this all seems so very thick, dumb and stupid and something a moron would post.

Just preserving this. For posterity.

 

[Rob Ray]

Funny coz this all seems so very thick, dumb and stupid and something a moron would post.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't really respect you enough to be particularly insulted by this.

 

[krtek a houby]

All I did was post some facts about Corbyn and Ash Sarkar but its inconvenient isn't it. It just can't be tolerated by too many twats on here.

It's not you.

It's us.

Please, find it in your heart to forgive.

 

[Shechemite]

, AmateurAgitator, do you think people on the left using (and angrily defending such use) terms like ‘moron’ make it easier or harder for right wing shits like GB news to appeal to people with LD and their friends and families?

i think was a polite question. Care to answer AmateurAgitator?

 

[Chilli.s]

Thread has become a multi poster transcript of a gbnews show

 

[krtek a houby]

Thread has become a multi poster transcript of a gbnews show

It's GB gorn mad, ah tells ya

 

[8ball]

Thread has become a multi poster transcript of a gbnews show

It’s wall-to-wall anarchist bookfair controversies on there, let me tell ya..

 

[8ball]

i think was a polite question. Care to answer AmateurAgitator?

Tbf I had to read that question a few times to see what you were driving at.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Just to note in case there's a mix-up here AmateurAgitator, the Anarchist Federation isn't running the London Anarchist Bookfair. Two different crews.

No doubt there are atleast one or two members on the collective.

 

[8ball]

No doubt there are atleast one or two members on the collective.

I’m getting some weird deja vu.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Again, and this is specifically aimed AmateurAgitator, if you want to shit talk the Bookfair, bite the fucking bullet and do it in the Bookfair thread or shut up.

What I was posting about was related to GB News though, but nevermind.

 

[Ax^]

their a story of women sending their knickers to Piers Morgan

with a message from one cunt to another

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't really respect you enough to be particularly insulted by this.

I don't give a fuck what you think of me knobhead