London Anarchist Bookfair Saturday 18th October 2014

[frogwoman]

I think so too - very sound

 

[treelover]

tosh and nonsense. you mean early 70's

Kevin fits right in there

 

[Citizen66]

Why are non anarchists being provided space for closed meetings at the book fair? Isn't there a church hall somewhere they can all fuck off to?

 

[butchersapron]

Why are non anarchists being provided space for closed meetings at the book fair? Isn't there a church hall somewhere they can all fuck off to?

Wasn't the bookfair lad - calm down.

 

[Pickman's model]

Why are non anarchists being provided space for closed meetings at the book fair? Isn't there a church hall somewhere they can all fuck off to?

this may be the bookfair thread but we're no longer discussing saturday - we're discussing a wholly separate event held on sunday.

 

[chilango]

Tell you what I was a little wary given the tales of intersectionalism and other nonsense causing spats at the Bookfair recently but the meeting I attended was engaged with very amicably, respectfully and positively by its attendees afaics. Everyone listening and contributing without hassle or the end for flappy hands or anything. Was great.

 

[Citizen66]

Wasn't the bookfair lad - calm down.

Oh.

 

[IC3D]

Wasn't aware of any black people at the fair to be offended about dreadlocks. (I know ba)

RIP Steve Ash. He was due to attend a debate on Saturday and I was looking forward to his shtick. It was shit Steve they were banging on about yoonions for a hour wish you could of made it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Tell you what I was a little wary given the tales of intersectionalism and other nonsense causing spats at the Bookfair recently but the meeting I attended was engaged with very amicably, respectfully and positively by its attendees afaics. Everyone listening and contributing without hassle or the end for flappy hands or anything. Was great.

normal service will be resumed next year

 

[Wilf]

it's not like the auld days. no one who was there will ever forget the battle of holloway road in '05.

I still have flashbacks. Of course it was all shitty soundsystems back then, if you wanted to annoy the staff in a pub nowadays you'd just use your phone.

 

[imposs1904]

I think his wife and daughter are members as well

Naah, there's Kevin (okay but dull), Des (throws a good party when he's not ill) and Steve (needs to die)

i thought jock was in the north east?

eta: and I thought it was his son, rather than a daughter, who was a member.

 

[DaveCinzano]

As any fule kno the real deal was the Battle Of The Apple Tree in '99.

 

[JTG]

A friend of mine threw the 'cultural appropriation' thing at me the other day (in jest) so it's a bit of a raw nerve tbf I just find it really really odd that these people would seek to accuse me of being racist/abusing my white privilege/whatever just because I've had dreadlocks for the last 11 years. I have them for no other reason than that I like them and it's better than the shit, unmanageable hair I'd have otherwise. Fuck all to do with a religion I'm uninterested in or cultures I know little about. It's weird.

But then again, I'm uninterested in identity politics which doesn't prioritise class over anything else.

 

[JTG]

The sex-worker/student thing - getting really annoying.

Yeah I've noticed that. Agreed.

 

[imposs1904]

Isn't the main objection to white people having dreadlocks is that they never look good? It's on a par with having a ginger afro.

 

[butchersapron]

Isn't the main objection to white people having dreadlocks is that they never look good? It's on a par with having a ginger afro.

He's slagging the kelly boy now.

 

[JTG]

Isn't the main objection to white people having dreadlocks is that they never look good? It's on a par with having a ginger afro.

I have heard people say that

 

[jakethesnake]

Are mohican hair cuts not cultural appropriation too?

 

[JTG]

It's just a hairdo. That's all

 

[Citizen66]

I wonder what music these people listen to and what cultural traditions they tread clumsily on in the process.

 

[DotCommunist]

wagner

 

[JTG]

I wonder what music these people listen to and what cultural traditions they tread clumsily on in the process.

That's covered in one of the twitter exchanges I posted. Language/music/body art etc is all fine, it's only the hair that's important

 

[el-ahrairah]

african drums, fine. tibetan singing bowls, ace. dreadlocks WORSE THAN HITLER SIT DOWN CUNTS

 

[8115]

eta - deleted, just being bitchy.

 

[imposs1904]

He's slagging the kelly boy now.

I was thinking more this bloke:

 

[butchersapron]

He's a very nice bloke as it goes. And you've reminded me i need to do some stuff for our dave. FWIW the oroginal was clearly a public ID with outsider later not so much.

 

[imposs1904]

He's a very nice bloke as it goes. And you've reminded me i need to do some stuff for our dave. FWIW the oroginal was clearly a public ID with outsider later not so much.

I just remember the hair distracting me when I used to watch him on one of those Open University programmes that would pop up on a Sunday between Dennis Pennis provocations and an Audie Murphy movie on BBC2. I keep meaning to read his The Ball is Round but it's a bastard doorstep of a book, so I'll just have to fall back on my current reading of Matthew Le Tissier's ghosted autobiography. (Very enjoyable, btw.)

 

[DaveCinzano]

WORSE THAN HITLER SIT DOWN CUNTS

Bit harsh but I see where you're coming from

 

[el-ahrairah]

Bit harsh but I see where you're coming from

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you've gone too far this time, cinzano

 

[JTG]

african drums, fine. tibetan singing bowls, ace. dreadlocks WORSE THAN HITLER SIT DOWN CUNTS

Anyway, white people had dreadlocks hundreds of years ago. Pirates of the Caribbean told me so