Urban v's the Commentariat

[el-ahrairah]

have we had this yet?

very important.

http://mcdlr.com/check-your-privilege/

 

[seventh bullet]

Fuck off.

 

[DaveCinzano]

have we had this yet?

very important.

http://mcdlr.com/check-your-privilege/

This ought to be some kind of a loyalty card scheme - free lattes at Waitrose in exchange for guilt ticks.

 

[el-ahrairah]

woo, that makes it worth being a white man.

 

[TruXta]

Each tick saves a child in Africa.

 

[Pickman's model]

Each tick saves a child in Africa.

i thought ticks gave people lyme's disease.

 

[TruXta]

i thought ticks gave people lyme's disease.

They do.

 

[Pickman's model]

They do.

so they're hardly likely to save lives in africa then.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Each tick saves a child in Africa.

...but kills a kitten in Heaven.

 

[barney_pig]

I had my induction training for the nhs the other day. Finally got around to joining the union (unite, can't stand unison), and on the second day, I got my equality and diversity hour training. I was able to put all I have learnt on here to good use and mansplained to the black female nurse at the front of the lecture theatre the correct attitude toward transgender patients and work colleagues.

 

[J Ed]

Helen Lewis was on the Sunday Politics arguing that Rachel Reeves should be a future Labour leader because she is 'economically competent'.

Oxford-educated Red Tory. Ugh.

 

[Theisticle]

Helen Lewis generally is pretty rubbish in her views. Hence why she's perfect editorship material for the NS.

 

[J Ed]

Helen Lewis generally is pretty rubbish in her views. Hence why she's perfect editorship material for the NS.

I won't ever forget that during the Grangemouth dispute the biggest injustice according to her was Unite picketing the bosses. She is just awful.

 

[Pickman's model]

I won't ever forget that during the Grangemouth dispute the biggest injustice according to her was Unite picketing the bosses. She is just awful.

so she's perfect for the role of spectator editor as well as new statesman editor

 

[treelover]

Helen Lewis was on the Sunday Politics arguing that Rachel Reeves should be a future Labour leader because she is 'economically competent'.

Oxford-educated Red Tory. Ugh.

Lewis or Reeves, or both?

Btw, time was the N/S supported and covered the direct action movement.

 

[Pickman's model]

Lewis or Reeves, or both?

Btw, time was the N/S supported and covered the direct action movement.

time was when and why?

 

[J Ed]

Lewis or Reeves, or both?

Lewis

 

[Theisticle]

That Twitter thread is nauseating.

LOL, I forgot that she backed Jane Austen on the £10 note campaign. Big win. http://www.newstatesman.com/helen-lewis/2013/07/women-bank-notes-i-was-wrong

 

[Theisticle]

Lewis is also responsible for the god awful Vagenda blog on NS and now infesting the Guardian with the same crappy writing.

 

[frogwoman]

Lewis

Why is it always wrong? Some elderly people in my village picketed a councillors house over the closure of a daycare centre, clearly they must be manarchist scum

 

[treelover]

Lewis or Reeves, or both?

Btw, time was the N/S supported and covered the direct action movement.

Around 93-96 when Steve Platt was editor, went on for a fair bit longer when Hargreaves was Editor

 

[J Ed]

Why is it always wrong? Some elderly people in my village picketed a councillors house over the closure of a daycare centre, clearly they must be manarchist scum

It's always wrong cos Helen Lewis is a class warrior for the establishment

 

[frogwoman]

What does this mean?

Ppl on asexuality spectrum constantly erased + derided by queer spaces. Poc viewed as more primal= poc asexuality invisible #queeringcolour

 

[Pickman's model]

What does this mean?

Ppl on asexuality spectrum constantly erased + derided by queer spaces. Poc viewed as more primal= poc asexuality invisible #queeringcolour

it's a longwinded way of saying 'ignore'

 

[J Ed]

What does this mean?

Ppl on asexuality spectrum constantly erased + derided by queer spaces. Poc viewed as more primal= poc asexuality invisible #queeringcolour

They are saying that LGBT people and groups don't take asexuality into account and that people who aren't white are seen as more sexualised than white people and by extension not recognising that people who aren't white can be asexual is racist. I think...

In other news I overheard someone in a very posh accent talking about 'white privilege' in a train station the other day, first time I've ever heard that stuff mentioned in real life outside of uni.

 

[Wilf]

In other news I overheard someone in a very posh accent talking about 'white privilege' in a train station the other day, first time I've ever heard that stuff mentioned in real life outside of uni.

Like some awful moment in a horror film where you realise it wasn't just a dream and the monsters are real.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Like some awful moment in a horror film where you realise it wasn't just a dream and the monsters are real.

 

[Greebo]

Pansexuality currently being discussed on Woman's Hour. Struggling not to roll my eyes at how up themselves the interviewees seem to be.

 

[Greebo]

FTR pansexuality seems to be being used in the context of "why the obsession with my genitals and who or what I choose to fuck?" . There was I thinking that the entire thing of treating people as people is part of normal life and yet another sexuality/gender-related label should be superfluous.

 

[butchersapron]

Pansexuality currently being discussed on Woman's Hour. Struggling not to roll my eyes at how up themselves the interviewees seem to be.

Up everyone and everything if they're pansexualists.