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No way. LP is not an expert on having to leave your kids to go to work. Who on earth thought she was a good person to voice that opinions? :facepalm:

This will be the same LP that flies to and from wherever at the drop of a hat to chase articles or quaff champagne with her neoliberal friends like Molly. She's part of the economic system.
 
tbtommyb said:
She did a wonderful 'oooh, I'm sure you didn't mean to say...', nicely closing down debate.
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She did do that, didn't she?

Though I'm a little perplexed about why C4 News' production team put her up 'against' Bousted. Did they book her hoping for some sort of feminist line about a women's right to work trumping the issue of tired kiddies? As it happened they did both identify economic forces compelling parents to increasingly sub-contract child-care.
 
equationgirl said:
No way. LP is not an expert on having to leave your kids to go to work. Who on earth thought she was a good person to voice that opinions? :facepalm:

This will be the same LP that flies to and from wherever at the drop of a hat to chase articles or quaff champagne with her neoliberal friends like Molly. She's part of the economic system.
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A useful part of it too, I don't think for a second that she has that much influence but most people must find the influence that she does have alienating. A fair few people must look at her and think that if she represents left-wing politics then they want no part in it.
 
brogdale said:
Though I'm a little perplexed about why C4 News' production team put her up 'against' Bousted.
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I guess she did make an interesting broader point, though one that was also covered by the other person as it happened.

Personally, moving to the topic of the debate, I don't see the obsession with starting school so early. Especially so for older teenagers, who are probably really shit at getting up early and could fit in more easily with a finishing time of 5pm or something. I suppose it is to give teachers time to do the rest of their work.
 
equationgirl said:
No way. LP is not an expert on having to leave your kids to go to work. Who on earth thought she was a good person to voice that opinions? :facepalm:

This will be the same LP that flies to and from wherever at the drop of a hat to chase articles or quaff champagne with her neoliberal friends like Molly. She's part of the economic system.
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Yeah, yeah and all that...but I'd be a little uncomfortable with the notion that being a parent is a necessary pre-condition to speak up for working parents.

Like I said above, I wonder if C4 thought she might oppose the union's concern about kiddies' hours with a straight-forward 'right to access the labour market' line?
 
tbtommyb said:
Personally, moving to the topic of the debate, I don't see the obsession with starting school so early. Especially so for older teenagers, who are probably really shit at getting up early and could fit in more easily with a finishing time of 5pm or something. I suppose it is to give teachers time to do the rest of their work.
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The prime function of all under 16s schooling is facilitating adults going to work (not education as idealists might say, or even conditioning that some cynics would purport). That's why everyone gets their knickers in a twist about a teachers strike while hardly anyone notices if the uni / FE lecturers do.
 
fogbat said:
Decolonisation sounds like a radical surgery for Crohn's.
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Damn it, Jim, I'm a psychiatrist, not a proctologist.

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weepiper said:
I forgot, she already got the prize for this, a successful journalism career despite never having been on the fucking sharp end of having to leave your kids to go to work to pay the bills.
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Didn't she also win the George Orwell prize for counter revolutionary literature?, she will be handing lists of intersectionalists to M15 before the decade is out.
 
she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, for her blog, at a time incidentally when the only way for blogs to be entered into the Orwell Prize was for the blogger to nominate themselves
 
George Eaton has a piece on the new statesman blog entitled UKIP's own privately educated clique in response to Farage's attack on the Media/tory private school network lash up. As luck would have it, a new issue of his own mag comes out today - i wonder did he consider an audit? Anyway, going from the listed authors on the front cover we find:

Andrew Marr (Prep school then not one, but two private schools and on, of course, to oxbridge)
John Banville - (Irish, normal)
Will Self (Private school-->oxbridge)
Hilary Mantel (normal school)
Craig Raine (Private school-->oxbridge)
Ralph Steadman (normal, but talks like a private school type)
Tracey Thorn (normal)
Alexander McCall Smith (private school)
Adam Foulds (private school-->oxbridge)
Frances Wilson (private school-->oxbridge)
Karl Ove Knausgård (Scandinavian)
Baddiel (private school-->oxbridge)
Vince Cable (normal-->oxbridge-->murderer)
Laurie Penny (need i say? Private school-->oxbridge)
Mark Haddon (private school-->oxbridge)
Clive James (normal school, turned down private school scholarship-->oxbridge)
HG Wells (private school-->mars)
Stalin (Private seminary-->constructor of Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart)

Who's winning George?
 
Ireland's main anarchist group, the WSM, or at least what's left of them, dive further into the new identity politics package. First it was intersectionality, now it's privilege theory. Here one of their main dudes produces a facile blogpost defending the concept. It's been doing the rounds of their members on Facebook, with only outsiders disagreeing (in so far as I've seen at least).

http://selfcertified.wordpress.com/...wledging-privilege-doesnt-make-you-the-enemy/

How is this stuff progressing inside AFED or SolFed, if at all?
 
Nigel Irritable said:
Ireland's main anarchist group, the WSM, or at least what's left of them, dive further into the new identity politics package. First it was intersectionality, now it's privilege theory. Here one of their main dudes produces a facile blogpost defending the concept. It's been doing the rounds of their members on Facebook, with only outsiders disagreeing (in so far as I've seen at least).

http://selfcertified.wordpress.com/...wledging-privilege-doesnt-make-you-the-enemy/

How is this stuff progressing inside AFED or SolFed, if at all?
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I hasten to add that the class analysis of some of these champions of labour extends as far as asking if the green stuff on your plate is mushy peas or avocado (I like both by the way).
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And what the fuck is wrong with that? :mad:

(Author clearly some kind of petty bourgeois deviationist)
 
Intersectionalists saying describing antisemitism as racism is racist because it is white people trying to say that the religious discrimination they experience is the same as what people of colour experience. And white people shouldn't say they experience racism.

The person who said this is a middle class white women in her 50s
 
I'm on the verge of deleting the lot of them because they're just fucking me off so much with their bullshit but they're the ones organizing the demos and everything else round here.
 
frogwoman said:
I'm on the verge of deleting the lot of them because they're just fucking me off so much with their bullshit but they're the ones organizing the demos and everything else round here.
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Out of curiosity, what sort of groups are they in? They just seem so absurd.
 
frogwoman said:
Intersectionalists saying describing antisemitism as racism is racist because it is white people trying to say that the religious discrimination they experience is the same as what people of colour experience. And white people shouldn't say they experience racism.

The person who said this is a middle class white women in her 50s
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I've often thought an intersectional analysis of the Rwandan genocide would be err... interesting.
 
SpineyNorman said:
Anyone who genuinely thinks antisemitism isn't a form of racism is an historical illiterate and fuckwit who shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone.
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I know, they were saying that it was just white people trying to compare what religious discrimination they have experienced to the experience of people of colour and as white people they don't experience the oppression they do therefore its racist.

I didn't comment because I had work to do but they are in a pathetic pissing contest to prove who is the most intersectional and it is pathetic and actually what they were saying was very insulting.
 
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