Urban v's the Commentariat

[cesare]

why would they, when there's a sign in the new statesman's editor's office reading

 

[frogwoman]

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=htt...eryl-sandbergs-ban-bossy-campaign&h=BAQGi-6wJ

 

[frogwoman]

not being funny but why do people care so much about this sort of thing?

 

[Delroy Booth]

 

[caleb]

1. I wonder if Karama identifies as a 'PoC'?
2. 'Folks' - what's the intersectionalist obsession with that word? It's fine on twitter, despite being a cliche, but in an official letter? lol.

 

[seventh bullet]

I'd be thankful for being excluded by that bunch of pricks because it would lessen my chances of having a stroke.

 

[cesare]

This is exactly the same reasoning that some feminists give for excluding MtF at radfem events.

 

[Wilf]

I'd be thankful for being excluded by that bunch of pricks because it would lessen my chances of having a stroke.

Oy, check your vascular privileges!

 

[rekil]

Micah M.White PhD doing some "mansplaining" here. Or cuntsplaining rather. Trying to tell Kshama Sawant how to do #activism. The fucking nerve of these useless pigs.

For Occupy, a movement that famously eschewed a top-down organization, rallying around any leader, even one who sings from the same choirbook, has its own challenges. White, who coined the term, said he supports Sawant -- yet still yearns for an even bolder kind of politician who might, say, serve a month before handing the office to someone else.

“My advice for her would be, be careful to think you won’t be in power too long,” he said. “When these people get elected, they act as if they’re going to be there a very long time.”

"These people" eh?

 

[Bakunin]

Micah M.White PhD doing some "mansplaining" here. Or cuntsplaining rather. Trying to tell Kshama Sawant how to do #activism. The fucking nerve of these useless pigs.


"These people" eh?

Aside from the obvious practical difficulty of anybody being in a job for only a month having barely had time to learn all the ins and outs before handing over to someone else who also spends their month figuring out the job. Repeat ad infinitum.

 

[rekil]

Aside from the obvious practical difficulty of anybody being in a job for only a month having barely had time to learn all the ins and outs before handing over to someone else who also spends their month figuring out the job. Repeat ad infinitum.

Surely Mr.White's month was up long ago so why hasn't he fucked off and let someone else bagthe google goodies and be the go to guy/gal for any vaguely lefty stories.

 

[Theisticle]

Monetize those murdered in the Syria conflict

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/14/syria-war-3-years-dead-faces-activist-voices

 

[rekil]

Why not just print the photos she's copied?

 

[DotCommunist]

actual conflict chic

 

[Theisticle]

As I drew faces for the #100000Names Oral Memorial for Syria, more deaths appeared on Twitter. A Canadian photojournalist named Ali Mustafa, dead from a barrel bomb in Aleppo. Anwar Banoud, who ran aid convoys from Turkey to Syria, dead. Hamza, a Palestinian actor, killed by security forces in Yarmouk.

I keep drawing Syria’s dead. Drawing means preserving. I sometimes draw bystanders and sometimes heroes, but always humans, clever and brave and vulnerable. They look outward, from the computer screen, toward the world.

Jesus.

 

[Bakunin]

Monetize those murdered in the Syria conflict

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/14/syria-war-3-years-dead-faces-activist-voices

Coming soon to an auction site near you, probably at an inflated price.

And will Syrian refugees and similar unfortunates be seeing any of the profits..?

 

[Idris2002]

actual conflict cheek

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[Theisticle]

On the earlier point about Penny's brand, this is my big issue about their journalistic conduct. They both need to insert themselves into the story to raise their own sense of self-importance - whether through badly written anecdote or sketches.

The sketches literally tell us nothing about these people and we assume they are entirely accurate depictions. It doesn't garner any further sympathy had we just seen regular photographs of the victims. Instead, it's about brand Crabapple. This mix of art and journalism is just terrible because it places needless emphasis on the author.

Journalists are not the story, just the storyteller.

 

[J Ed]

But the Western left paid little attention to Syria’s activists.

For the last decade, the left has struggled against the murderous idiocies of the War on Terror. Guantanamo. Iraq. Weddings drone-bombed in the name of “freedom”. When Syrian activists and the Free Syrian Army began asking for weapons and no-fly zones in what actually was a fight for freedom, the Western left mostly looked away.

Who is this 'left' she is talking about? For that matter, what the fuck is she talking about? Oh, it's time to for her to monetize some neoconservativism - Hitchens with a pencil

No wonder they let her into Gitmo to do some sketches

 

[Theisticle]

It's a lot of self-serving bollocks to claim drawing is 'preserving.' So is photography. But would brand Crabapple fly all the way to the region if she couldn't in turn boost her own profile? I find her intentions suspect.

 

[Theisticle]

Who is this 'left' she is talking about? For that matter, what the fuck is she talking about? Oh, it's time to for her to monetize some neoconservativism - Hitchens with a pencil

No wonder they let her into Gitmo to do some sketches

It's like that nonsense she keeps spouting about people in their own country organising protests and a lack of support from the strawman left because of the U.S.

 

[J Ed]

This is just so vapid I don't have any idea how to deal with it.

 

[Theisticle]

Fuck, she is far worse than Penny. Lots of people want a solution in Syria. A solution that does not include dropping iron fragmentation bombs across Syria. How many sketches would she be drawing of the dead that were murdered by Western forces? Probably none.

 

[J Ed]

Fuck, she is far worse than Penny. Lots of people want a solution in Syria. A solution that does not include dropping iron fragmentation bombs across Syria. How many sketches would she be drawing of the dead that were murdered by Western forces? Probably none.

Well she was cheering on the far-right protests against the Venezuelan government and denying the existence of the far-right in Ukraine while decrying anyone sceptical of Euromaidan as being right-wing 'MRAs' the other day. She is a fucking idiot.

 

[The Pale King]

This is just so vapid I don't have any idea how to deal with it.

Where's the politics here? It's just a meaningless bifurcation - 'Syrian women' v 'white dudes', 'neocons' v 'the left'. Which side you take depends on what pose you want to strike. And this:

"In wars, it’s easy to see the dead as gore on a Twitter feed, as statistics to be shrugged away."

...is hideous, frankly. She comes over like she's educating us, but she actually reveals herself to be deeply callous. 'Gore on a twitter feed' ffs

 

[Theisticle]

Are they too dense to also realise that some on the right oppose intervention in Syria? Quite a few Tory MPs did. I'm sure some Republicans might. This is not a problem solely for the left.

I guess their version of the left are white 'MRA' brodudes.

 

[rekil]

Well she was cheering on the far-right protests against the Venezuelan government and denying the existence of the far-right in Ukraine while decrying anyone sceptical of Euromaidan as being right-wing 'MRAs' the other day. She is a fucking idiot.

Links pls!

 

[J Ed]

Links pls!

Not gonna look through everything but here's a taste of it ..

 

[MAD-T-REX]

Hey Molly, read this: http://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope

 

[benedict]

Yes! Even when writing fiction LP can't help but make herself the central character:

"Six months ago, Ruby Peeton was an A-star student. Captain of the netball team. On her way to Cambridge. That was before she got involved in the dangerous underground world of Seer swapping."