Mark Fisher on privilege, twitter, commentariat, etc.

[co-op]

Letting people out on bail is SO TOTALLY AND UTTERLY FASCIST!

 

[rekil]

Surely there's some mileage in a Comrade Bala defence fund?

Since he's a forrin, does intersectionality now have its own Assange?

 

[butchersapron]

A P_d outreach winter: the arc of forgiveness.

 

[rekil]

"poor hegemony etiquette"

 

[DotCommunist]

third worldism his only crime. That and the whole cult thing

 

[Nigel Irritable]

See?

 

[caleb]

The PD twitter machine has been de-activated, it was swamped with intersectionality this and stavvers retweets that. One of the "kill all men" people posted this. Link.

I just, dunno.

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Unless it's a different Adam Ford, wasn't this guy involved in The Commune? What... happened?

 

[Balbi]

Attacking a group of 20 and 30 somethings who're all internet geeks and culture geeks by saying they live in a 'vampire castle' is like trying to get your dog to stop biting you by stuffing its mouth with treats.

 

[butchersapron]

We all live in a vampire castle.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Surely there's some mileage in a Comrade Bala defence fund?

What better way to subvert the fascist-capitalist machine, with it's worship of the individual over the collective, than to enslave the individual not only symbolically but in material actuality? With the individual in bonds only the collective remains. Freedom of the mind through the shackle of the body.

 

[butchersapron]

 

[Balbi]

We all live in a vampire castle.

Paul and John were bastards to Ringo like that.

 

[J Ed]

This was just posted by the Sheffield Uni Women's Committee facebook http://colorlines.com/archives/2013...hot_seat_for_full_geisha_costume_at_amas.html

Wearing the national costume of another country = blackface

 

[butchersapron]

This was just posted by the Sheffield Uni Women's Committee facebook http://colorlines.com/archives/2013...hot_seat_for_full_geisha_costume_at_amas.html

Wearing the national costume of another country = blackface

Note the lack of attack of the geisha tradition. One of the most disgusting open displays of all sorts of power ever.

 

[barney_pig]

A kickstarter project to defend comrade Bala?

 

[rekil]

A kickstarter project to defend comrade Bala?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Demand that "Left" "Unity" speak out about the fascist clampdown on our Maoist comrades*!

(*critical support, natch)

 

[butchersapron]

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Maybe yes?

 

[rekil]

Maybe yes?

Oh go on then.

Spoiler

 

[ViolentPanda]

We all live in a vampire castle.

Speak for yourself, matey! I happen to live on a Yellow Submarine!

 

[ska invita]

This was just posted by the Sheffield Uni Women's Committee facebook http://colorlines.com/archives/2013...hot_seat_for_full_geisha_costume_at_amas.html

Wearing the national costume of another country = blackface

Video is taken down, but very likely it was disgrasian

 

[butchersapron]

Wow. That is bizarre. Do we know who it was that accused him of said 'privilege'?

'White males' is the only thing i can find. He seems to be rambling about being expelled from the US as well or something - but he thinks the Fisher piece was 'obnoxious'.

 

[butchersapron]

He makes a good point in the middle of this:

If you say only the very, very most oppressed have the right to complain, you destroy solidarity & end up w only charity

Now, this is not at all the way those who came up with the analysis/term/concept meant it to be used - in the hands of those people using it in the individualistic and competitive way that we'e been decrying, this is what it becomes.

 

[kavenism]

He makes a good point in the middle of this:

If you say only the very, very most oppressed have the right to complain, you destroy solidarity & end up w only charity

Now, this is not at all the way those who came up with the analysis/term/concept meant it to be used - in the hands of those people using it in the individualistic and competitive way that we'e been decrying, this is what it becomes.

Which ties in very well with Fisher's point about theirs being a priestly discourse. Original sin (for being male, white, heterosexual etc), shame (for the latter), and charity (to be dispensed by Penny et al only to those most deserving and/or who repent).

 

[ska invita]

Which ties in very well with Fisher's point about theirs being a priestly discourse. Original sin (for being male, white, heterosexual etc), shame (for the latter), and charity (to be dispensed by Penny et al only to those most deserving and/or who repent).

charity maybe, but no real absolution
forgiveness maybe if we collectively reach heaven

 

[white rabbit]

The left's ability to stare into its own navel is something the continues to baffle me. Is it frustration that causes people to get so worked up about minutiae? When the big battles are won, the little battles can be fought. Or does anyone think we first need an agreement about whether social or economic class is more important?

 

[Idris2002]

Which ties in very well with Fisher's point about theirs being a priestly discourse. Original sin (for being male, white, heterosexual etc), shame (for the latter), and charity (to be dispensed by Penny et al only to those most deserving and/or who repent).

Priests are a Catholic thing. This is mere Calvinism.

 

[kavenism]

Priests are a Catholic thing. This is mere Calvinism.

Minus the necessity for good works.

 

[rekil]

Surely there's some mileage in a Comrade Bala defence fund?

I was thinking of combining this with a clickbaitish "why hollywood blockbuster The Hunger Games's so-called revolution is destined to fail" piece. Why the 3rd film had better feature the creation, growth and admin of a proper mass party, plus the struggles with internal opposition, pathetic rival sects, etc. The kind of stuff the class really wants to see, rather than Jennifer Lawrence fighting a monkey.