Urban v's the Commentariat

[Theisticle]

How many facebook 'friends' has the PD account got? We should strive to have only 1 - A.Worker

Nearly 1,500 friends. Private indeed.

 

[equationgirl]

The thing is, if madam miaow does continue to contact LP after she's been asked not to several times, that's heading into harassment/stalker territory no matter how deserving the cause or righteous the argument.

 

[DaveCinzano]

How many facebook 'friends' has the PD account got? We should strive to have only 1 - A.Worker

I did a rough tally and would say that there were around 1,200 Friends. Including Alex Callinicos!

 

[DaveCinzano]

The thing is, if madam miaow does continue to contact LP after she's been asked not to several times, that's heading into harassment/stalker territory no matter how deserving the cause or righteous the argument.

A tangent, but that reminds me of this:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/journ...ons-fraudster-served-police-harassment-notice

 

[rekil]

I did a rough tally and would say that there were around 1,200 Friends. Including Alex Callinicos!

(How do we monetize this depth of market penetration )

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Not really part of the "Commentariat" but this piece of academic wankery was too funny not to share:

What Is Cupcake Fascism?
by Tom Whyman

The Radical Possibility and Cake

The constellation of cultural tropes that most paradigmatically manifest in the form of the cupcake are associated in particular with infantilization.

If we see the paradigmatic mechanisms of social oppression operative today in the form of a cupcake, then the clue to the overthrowing of these mechanisms exists also in cake, albeit of an entirely different kind. It is precisely in the truly cake-like, the spongy and the moist and the excessive and the unhealthy. Against the austerity of the cupcake-form, we need to recapture, in our social reality, a sort of joy: the joy of being open to genuinely alternative possibilities.

http://www.full-stop.net/2014/04/03/blog/tom-whyman/what-is-cupcake-fascism/

 

[treelover]

Just been reading that the Prof is related (not sure how close) to the late Count Anton Arco-Valley, the assassin who killed Kurt Eisner.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oh man.



No doubt in reference to those earlier tweets. Whilst Penny and I'm sure Crabapple get some horrific, disgusting and truly repulsive abuse, lets not pretend that the abuse from those on the left does might also fall under legitimate critique.



Vagenda?! Are you shitting me? They are published in the New Statesman and Guardian. Hilarious they are considered 'real' journalism, but I digress.

Yes, there needs to be better diversity in the media but I hardly think Penny is the best person to make the argument. Why not let one of the above groups write the article instead? No matter what you think, you are mainstream, Laurie.

http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2014/04/where-are-real-outsiders-new-media

Hmmm, that's an "interesting spin on "careerist" that Ms. Penny is making.
Especially given that "careerist" has long been an insult deployed against anyone who is overtly career-oriented, regardless of gender. Is she, once again, doing a Humpty-Dumpty with the meaning of words? Sure looks like it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

You forgot about 'building a personal brand'

Just as long as weeps also remembers to "monetise her hotness".

 

[ViolentPanda]

How about artisan self promoting hack?

From there it's only a short step to being a self-actualising media node.

 

[cesare]

I've a vague memory of Madam Miaow from the SWP meltdown thread, or am I misremembering?

 

[butchersapron]

Laurie Penny thread - and previous she had made serious allegations about the way she was treated by ex-swp bigwigs in RESPECT.

 

[cesare]

Laurie Penny thread - and previous she had made serious allegations about the way she was treated by ex-swp bigwigs in RESPECT.

Didn't she also blog about her (bad) experiences of the SWP when the contents of the SWP conference were publicised?

 

[butchersapron]

Didn't she also blog about her (bad) experiences of the SWP when the contents of the SWP conference were publicised?

Quite possibly - they were around for a long time before that too.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Didn't she also blog about her (bad) experiences of the SWP when the contents of the SWP conference were publicised?

You'll probably find more stuff searching on ‘Anna Chen’ than ‘Madam Miaow’.

 

[cesare]

Quite possibly - they were around for a long time before that too.

I think I've found it, but the blog page looks very different now, she must have redesigned it: http://madammiaow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/swp-sex-implosion-its-dehumanisation-in.html

Cheers butchers. I don't really keep track of the individual members of the commentariat but this one rang a bell. Just trying to put her in context. Thanks.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Laurie Penny thread - and previous she had made serious allegations about the way she was treated by ex-swp bigwigs in RESPECT.

It was the Socialist Alliance not RESPECT she was the SA press officer until John Rees assaulted her with a ballon and called all Chinese petit bourgeois

 

[equationgirl]

Just been reading that the Prof is related (not sure how close) to the late Count Anton Arco-Valley, the assassin who killed Kurt Eisner.

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley to give him his proper surname (he has a ton of first names - proper aristo )

 

[rekil]

According to wiki quoting a (paywalled) Times article, Laurie's bestest teacher pal and legend "Anthony Seldon is tipped as a contender to replace Tony Little as Head Master of Eton College in September 2015"

 

[frogwoman]

http://disillusionedmarxist.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/twittersectionalists-1/

 

[Bakunin]

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley to give him his proper surname (he has a ton of first names - proper aristo )

Aristo's usually need lots of names, it reflects their many centuries of dedicated inbreeding.

 

[DaveCinzano]

According to wiki quoting a (paywalled) Times article, Laurie's bestest teacher pal and legend "Anthony Seldon is tipped as a contender to replace Tony Little as Head Master of Eton College in September 2015"

QUALITY ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP

 

[Greebo]

QUALITY ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP

So does scum...

 

[frogwoman]

http://tressiemc.com/2014/03/05/the-trigger-warned-syllabus/

Excellent piece on trigger warnings in academic syllabuses...

 

[Greebo]

<snip> trigger warnings in academic syllabuses...

That could make teaching literature, the classics, Old English, Norse, sociology, economics, politics, peace studies, or comparative religion, challenging to say the least.

 

[rekil]

http://disillusionedmarxist.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/twittersectionalists-1/

The first comment is

 

[toggle]

That could make teaching literature, the classics, Old English, Norse, sociology, economics, politics, peace studies, or comparative religion, challenging to say the least.

I could put a trigger warning of 'contains nauseating levels of racism and bigotry' on just about everything I've read this year.

 

[equationgirl]

So does scum...

and turds.

 

[Belushi]

I'm just going to put a sign saying 'Trigger Warning!' on the inside of my front door.

 

[Bakunin]

That could make teaching literature, the classics, Old English, Norse, sociology, economics, politics, peace studies, or comparative religion, challenging to say the least.

Not to mention military history or criminology.