DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
If not WORST BOOKFAIR EVER (see you next year)
I think you must have difficulty with comparisons, what you mean is you don't think they're equivalent - of equal value - which is rather different. How much worse is working for a small new rw telly station with very few viewers than working for a big bank with many many years collaborating with apartheid south Africa? I don't know. But I do know they can be compared.Well, having carped at them, I think that's a fair enough statement from the Bookfair lot and a reasonable reason for denying a stall - I don't think her cosying up with Spiked is comparable to Pickman's model taking a Saturday job at one of the many nefarious bad capitalist employers, different dynamic with Lisa finding an outlet for her writing IMO.
I also think Carl Steele made some fairly reasonable points about the Stalinists ending capitalism but only after a fashion, so we could go round that one again if everyone's not lost the will to live.
We've all got to work for a living but Lisa is already a well paid academic. No need for her to take the Right's blood money.I think you must have difficulty with comparisons, what you mean is you don't think they're equivalent - of equal value - which is rather different. How much worse is working for a small new rw telly station with very few viewers than working for a big bank with many many years collaborating with apartheid south Africa? I don't know. But I do know they can be compared.
It's a sad thing when your dedication to pedantry renders you unable to comprehend a simple English sentence. The word has long had a sense, indeed I'd hazard its primary sense is, that of comparable and equivalent.I think you must have difficulty with comparisons, what you mean is you don't think they're equivalent - of equal value - which is rather different. How much worse is working for a small new rw telly station with very few viewers than working for a big bank with many many years collaborating with apartheid south Africa? I don't know. But I do know they can be compared.
I'd say it's not even about being in need of the money, but the level of control and ideological content of the work - I can't speak for anyone else, but if Mckenzie wanted to make a bit of money on the side and got a job processing expense claims for GBNews or working as a receptionist at RT I'd have no problem with it. I dunno what Pickman's did at that bank, but I imagine he probably wasn't the person in charge of deciding whether to invest in South Africa or not, it was probably a fairly routine job following instructions, not one where he was expressing his ideas as part of the bank's work?We've all got to work for a living but Lisa is already a well paid academic. No need for her to take the Right's blood money.
Her appearances generally involve her telling her for balance co-guests that they're fucking idiots though soSurprised that Ash Sarkar doesn’t cop much flak for it then.
Does she do a column or just turn up for a studio back and forth?Surprised that Ash Sarkar doesn’t cop much flak for it then.
Does she do a column or just turn up for a studio back and forth?
I think so.Is there a difference?
I think so.
Column makes you an associate of the outlet in a different way, can add to their credibility etc.Two left wing pundits who represent their positions on non left wing outlets and getting paid for it.
Where’s the difference?
That's one pov of course, but for me I think it's refreshing someone's going out and putting anarchist arguments out there. I've seen her and other comrades going into tr demos and arguing with the people there who otherwise don't have their views so challenged and for me it's a worthwhile exercise.We've all got to work for a living but Lisa is already a well paid academic. No need for her to take the Right's blood money.
To be honest I did my best to throw a spanner in their worksI'd say it's not even about being in need of the money, but the level of control and ideological content of the work - I can't speak for anyone else, but if Mckenzie wanted to make a bit of money on the side and got a job processing expense claims for GBNews or working as a receptionist at RT I'd have no problem with it. I dunno what Pickman's did at that bank, but I imagine he probably wasn't the person in charge of deciding whether to invest in South Africa or not, it was probably a fairly routine job following instructions, not one where he was expressing his ideas as part of the bank's work?
I'm not sure she is a well-paid academic.We've all got to work for a living but Lisa is already a well paid academic. No need for her to take the Right's blood money.
If a right wing organisation liked Spiked have given you a column on their website then why? It's not like a panel show where you need a range of views to be credible. What agenda do Spiked want you to pursue for them? That's the difference surely.
Yep, first para sums it up for me. Don't doubt second para but not seen that due to no Twitter....and ftr I don't think writing for Spiked, or appearing on GBNews/RT etc. is the "right thing to do". I think it's a mistake, personally and politically. that only leads to bad places. It shouldn't - on its own - lead to becoming a persona non grata in the broad anarchist movement though.
That said, judging by the ongoing beef between Lisa and the AFed on Twitter, it looks very much like it is - of course - the "Trans issue" (sic) lying behind all of this.
You're not missing anything. It's grimly predictable.Yep, first para sums it up for me. Don't doubt second para but not seen that due to no Twitter.
I didn’t know she had a spiked column and haven’t read it. However, if she remains true to her politics then where’s the criticism? As Pickman’s says surely it’s beneficial to put Anarchist arguments to a wider audience? Presumably Spiked reaches more folk than the book fair does?
Again, assumptions aren't terribly useful here. Lisa's annoyed plenty of people entirely independently of any views she might have on trans rights, and the 2017 fight is not the defining element of decisions made by a collective formed in 2020.it looks very much like it is - of course - the "Trans issue" (sic) lying behind all of this.
Fair enough.Again, assumptions aren't terribly useful here. Lisa's annoyed plenty of people entirely independently of any views she might have on trans rights, and the 2017 fight is not the defining element of decisions made by a collective formed in 2020.
Surprised that Ash Sarkar doesn’t cop much flak for it then.