Mocking an Eton boy's death is the worst politics of envy - Owen Jones

[Bakunin]

'There's a bear coming!'
'Well that's me one step closer to the Tory party leadership then.'

This is such a grizzly thread.

 

[J Ed]

I don't like the SWP and I don't like the SW article either but let's face it - it was a stupid joke about something that has already happened to someone and the death received far more coverage than it would have had the child not been an Etonian.

However, a whole article dedicated to slagging off the left and gasp the politics of envy on the flimsy pretext of an article in a newspaper read by very few people? Owen Jones' approach here reminds me of Mehdi Hasan's pitch to the Daily Mail where he offered to attack the 'left' from the left, not a million miles from the likes of Dan Hodges. He is protecting Eton/the political caste's left flank, nothing else.

To agree to have your words under, assuming he hasn't chosen it, a title including 'politics of envy' is just incredible. As if we should all just be in awe of his Oxbridge self, Etonian mates and partner, vote Labour and shut up otherwise we are falling prey to the 'politics of envy'... no thanks. I don't want what you're selling.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

...the death received far more coverage than it would have had the child not been an Etonian.

Utter bollocks. There would have been exactly the same amount of coverage if the kid had not been an Etonian.

 

[J Ed]

Utter bollocks. There would have been exactly the same amount of coverage if the kid had not been an Etonian.

True, you are right. I suppose that there would be more of a 'why was he there?' angle.

 

[Theisticle]

What a shock...

 

[J Ed]

What a shock...

Helen Lewis is a scab cunt she can fuck off

For her no doubt the left is sanctimonious when it talks about the NSS' racist Fabian past, their anti-union policy and her attacking Unite's tactics

 

[rekil]

"Did working class teen provoke polar bear? (and how could he afford the trip?)"

 

[equationgirl]

Did working class teefrom broken home try to butcher endangered bear after stealing cash for extreme adventure trip?

Furthest I ever got was the malverns, not the bloody arctic

 

[smokedout]

"Did working class teen provoke polar bear? (and how could he afford the trip?)"

should we blame the parents?

 

[Pickman's model]

True, you are right. I suppose that there would be more of a 'why was he there?' angle.

truant skips school to play in snowy waste; killed by polar bear

 

[DotCommunist]

should we blame the parents?

the bloke in charge of the guns didn't know how to take the safety off the rifle he was supposed to use in defense against bears.

This bespeaks a wide-ranging culture of ineptitude amongst the upper classes and I demand a full 15 minute piece on ITV news cunting them off as a class in general. Can't look after thier kids? Care.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

True, you are right. I suppose that there would be more of a 'why was he there?' angle.

yep his parents would have been slated, calls for younger siblings taken into care etc

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Anyway the polartariat need to eat the rich

 

[Pickman's model]

Anyway the polartariat need to eat the rich

it's radical environmentalism at its best

polar bear: i bet you flew here and all
little boy: y-y-y-yes

end of conversation

 

[The Pale King]

What a shock...

Note that 'boring' is her critique - she knows she is in the entertainment business, where 'stories' are what matter.

 

[Pickman's model]

yep his parents would have been slated, calls for younger siblings taken into care etc

and it wouldn't have stopped there

 

[Roadkill]

I was in a pub the other year with someone who - by virtue of position - you'd expect to have a certain amount of decorum, who suggested loudly that the fact it took the polar bear a couple of swipes to kill him shows just how thick the skull of the average public school kid is.

Not nice IMO. Class absolutely is relevant - most of us wouldn't get opportunities anything like what he had - but Jones is right that it's a bit less than humane to laugh at him. Not a way I'd care to go out.

 

[twistedAM]

No one ever seems to mention the Eton toffs shooting an endangered species after it had had its lunch in its own yard.

 

[George & Bill]

My friend's dad used to work in the George Foreman factory and he was a bit of a teef so back at his house he had bare grills.

 

[DrRingDing]

The SWP piece was puerile and out of order, but Owen is certainly settling some old scores in that article, Bone, etc.

never liked 'the hospitalised copper' in CW either

Settling some old scores my arse it was a petulant whine.

 

[DotCommunist]

I was in a pub the other year with someone who - by virtue of position - you'd expect to have a certain amount of decorum, who suggested loudly that the fact it took the polar bear a couple of swipes to kill him shows just how thick the skull of the average public school kid is.

Not nice IMO. Class absolutely is relevant - most of us wouldn't get opportunities anything like what he had - but Jones is right that it's a bit less than humane to laugh at him. Not a way I'd care to go out.

Polar bear attack would be mercifully brief though. If the choice was three days dying from a gut shot or 3 minutes by angry glacier mint mascot, I'm going with the big white paw of justice.

 

[Pickman's model]

Polar bear attack would be mercifully brief though. If the choice was three days dying from a gut shot or 3 minutes by angry glacier mint mascot, I'm going with the big white paw of justice.

or a painful death lasting months or years from some nasty disease, i'd be in the ring with a polar bear like a shot.

 

[Citizen66]

I was in a pub the other year with someone who - by virtue of position - you'd expect to have a certain amount of decorum, who suggested loudly that the fact it took the polar bear a couple of swipes to kill him shows just how thick the skull of the average public school kid is.

Not nice IMO. Class absolutely is relevant - most of us wouldn't get opportunities anything like what he had - but Jones is right that it's a bit less than humane to laugh at him. Not a way I'd care to go out.

It is terribly unsporting to chortle at the death of a fine fellow. They just create jokes like jeremy kyle and benefits street for their guffaws. Whilst killing them slowly.

 

[Limerick Red]

Revenge of the polar-tariat.

heh? Heh? Had it being done yet?

 

[Pickman's model]

Revenge of the polar-tariat.

heh? Heh? Had it being done yet?

spanky's quite good at the decent phrase

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Revenge of the polar-tariat.

heh? Heh? Had it being done yet?

 

[Pickman's model]

Revenge of the polar-tariat.

heh? Heh? Had it being done yet?

a google shows no results for "polar-tariat"

 

[DexterTCN]

Utter bollocks. There would have been exactly the same amount of coverage if the kid had not been an Etonian.

I think the correct past participle is an Eatened.

 

[J Ed]

I can see that this issue has been polarising

 

[Celyn]

Poor bloody woman, fancy being saddled with a name like that.

It's a wonderful name. Not much chance of identity theft.