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he doesn't do dry satirical commentsIs this actually intended as a serious question, or is it meant to be some kind of wry satirical comment on all the nonsense spouted around this issue?
he doesn't do dry satirical commentsIs this actually intended as a serious question, or is it meant to be some kind of wry satirical comment on all the nonsense spouted around this issue?
After reading the comments section after the article?Oh christ.
never read the comments after an article, any article.After reading the comments section after the article?
Quite.
Aye, good advice.never read the comments after an article, any article.
I said that I hate Russia - note, not Russians - on that thread, and I explained why - because of what the Tsarist empire did to Jews, and because of what the (Russia-dominated) Soviet Union did to Ukraine.
He's a homophobic cunt, not a nazi.
CR's main interest in this thread, as in so many others, is to attack the so-called "trendy left", ie anyone who's not like him. He doesn't give a fuck about the women attacked on NYE, he doesn't give a fuck about refugees or migrants or anyone else, they're all just grist to his reactionary mill.
Eh?
What I meant was that there seems to be some background to that post. Has he simply decided that because Frogs is Jewish, she must hate Russians (in which case he'd be a weird dick), or do they have history in which she's given him cause to suggest that?
I have an off switch for CR and don't read much of what he posts so I may have missed some big stuff, but I have had about a million beers with him and he doesn't come across as racist/anti Semite, irl.
Bullshit.
Nope, he's ripped the piss out of me over that at least a hundred times now. Unlikely to ever let me forget it either .
100 times? Really???? Keep on wriggling Merle.
Yes, at least 100 times, and once he even got his cock out and wiggled it at me, for added emphasis .
Is that what turned you into a rampant homophobe then Merle?
People keep comparing it to Tahrir Sq but that's not a good comparison for all sorts of reasons. A better comparison is the Eid sexual harassment incident in 2006, where there was no suggestion that the secret police were seeking to discredit people who were simply out to enjoy themselves, no suggestion that anyone was actively discouraging women to stay off the street, but where the police stood by and did nothing and the mainstream media ignored it all until bloggers forced it to their attention. The Egyptian blogger at the link below found the behaviour abnormal and outrageous - if he hadn't, he'd hardly have written about it in these terms.Interesting article in The Independent that poses questions to Jess Phillips and challenges her Birmingham comparison.
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So does the nature of the attacks. Mass assaults on this scale, apparently with some degree of organisation, are a new phenomenon in Europe but not in Egypt, where hundreds of female demonstrators have been brutally assaulted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Patterns of sexual violence differ from country to country, depending to a great extent on what is regarded as acceptable male behaviour, and it doesn’t help anyone to pretend that women everywhere face the same problems.
I’m a fan, Jess, but please admit you’re wrong
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she told her local paper on Friday that there are groups of drunk men “in every city” and women have to “constantly worry about being felt up”. She still hasn’t acknowledged that what she’s talking about is very different from being surrounded by 20 men who – I’m sorry for being so graphic – try to thrust their fingers into your vagina.
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Interesting article in The Independent that poses questions to Jess Phillips and challenges her Birmingham comparison.
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So does the nature of the attacks. Mass assaults on this scale, apparently with some degree of organisation, are a new phenomenon in Europe but not in Egypt, where hundreds of female demonstrators have been brutally assaulted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Patterns of sexual violence differ from country to country, depending to a great extent on what is regarded as acceptable male behaviour, and it doesn’t help anyone to pretend that women everywhere face the same problems.
I’m a fan, Jess, but please admit you’re wrong
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she told her local paper on Friday that there are groups of drunk men “in every city” and women have to “constantly worry about being felt up”. She still hasn’t acknowledged that what she’s talking about is very different from being surrounded by 20 men who – I’m sorry for being so graphic – try to thrust their fingers into your vagina.
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People keep comparing it to Tahrir Sq but that's not a good comparison for all sorts of reasons. A better comparison is the Eid sexual harassment incident in 2006, where there was no suggestion that the secret police were seeking to discredit people who were simply out to enjoy themselves, no suggestion that anyone was actively discouraging women to stay off the street, but where the police stood by and did nothing and the mainstream media ignored it all until
bloggers forced it to their attention. The Egyptian blogger at the link below found the behaviour abnormal and outrageous - if he hadn't, he'd hardly have written about it in these terms.
The Eid sexual harassment incident
I note he calls for the same approach I suggested the left should consider as a response to this. And has pretty much the same level of outrage I'm being denounced as a nut for having . If not more . Luckily for him his ethnicity is Arab so they can't denounce him as a racist .
It didn't eclipse it for me, rather point up the difference in our respective societies.Found mesel agreeing with the opinions in you link until we got to this,
"I am often told that I am too westernized or too liberal by people I know, and they are not wrong or inaccurate. My values are for the most part western values. However, there are two middle-eastern traits in me that I can never give up: The first is my stupid insistince on always paying for the bill when I am with a girl I am dating, and the second is my protectiveness of women. I have no tolerance for those who assault women sexually in any way, and that almost got me kicked out of my school in Boston when I broke the leg of one of my roommates who raped a friend of mine. The incident only resulted in him getting a broken leg because people stoped me before I killed him. And I had the full intention of killing him. Rapists do not deserve to live. And that’s how I feel towards every single one of those pieces of shit that attacked women on the streets of cairo the other day.
People can debate solutions based on dialogue, education, or whatever and that’s their right. My solution is far simpler: Any egyptian man whose mother raised him right should beat the living crap of any man he sees on the street that assaults or harasses a female. Think of them as your sisters, and act accordingly. The Police isn’t interested in protecting the women, and that’s fine, but that means that we should take this job as our own. Those who insist on acting like animals will be treated as such, and deserve no sympathy or mercy from us. I assure you, if we did this, if we undertook this as part of our national duty, there will no longer be a problem on our streets"
It then felt like the majority of the piece was no more than an opening for his 'hard man attitude' and a show of bravado and 'white Knightery'
Which then, sadly eclipsed, the truly horrifying events he had described up until then.
Thats not the point, of course people change, ive posted myself about racist beliefs that i used to hold and so on.
The point is that he is advancing a far right position in this thread , is using others in some cases reasonable points to hide behind, and has a consistent pattern of far right, sexist and homophobic views stretching back years.
If he wasnt posting far right shit now his previous history would not be an issue.