Urban v's the Commentariat

[red & green]

Don't know what LP is going on about most of the time - seems to be her personal interests

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[el-ahrairah]

Something about "metric for achievement" makes me die inside a bit.

not just you. it makes me feel like i live in a planet of weird aliens/

 

[Lo Siento.]

Celebrity Internet Leftie Death Match!







And the Bonus Ball:

someone else on his TL accusing Chavs of enabling racism (presumably on the grounds that it draws attention to the white working class and racist stereotype).The whole Thornberry episode is like a masterclass in divide and rule.

 

[Limerick Red]

How there you , I'm a socialist

 

[equationgirl]

Who on earth actually says 'I was attracted to the way she described her metric of achievement'? What wanky pompous bollocks.

 

[J Ed]

Who on earth actually says 'I was attracted to the way she described her metric of achievement'? What wanky pompous bollocks.

Yet another example of how it is becoming impossible to differentiate between the intersectionalistas and corporate HR wankers.

 

[equationgirl]

Yet another example of it would be impossible to differentiate between the intersectionalistas and corporate HR wankers.

Not even our extremely corporate appraisal system uses that type of phrase.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Celebrity Internet Leftie Death Match!







And the Bonus Ball:

I'm on team OJ with that one. The Artist Taxi Driver needs to be brought down a peg or two.

 

[DotCommunist]

I don't understand the beef

 

[rekil]

Laurie back on form after trying to make a hero out of a nazi. Having a go at the real enemy. Horrid white socialists exploiting Ferguson to promote their brand.

 

[Belushi]

No black person would ever believe that racism is fundamentally rooted in economics

 

[butchersapron]

White socialist bastards.

 

[DotCommunist]

using ferguson to score a vague intersectionalist id politics point. nice

 

[Flavour]

Haven't you all forgotten that race is more important than class? I thought we'd cleared that up quite comprehensively by now.

 

[J Ed]

White socialist bastards.

Indict them along with Wilson!!

 

[Flavour]

I bet they were men, too, those white people.

 

[J Ed]

I bet they were privately educated too!!! Wait, that's ok isn't it? At least not as bad as being a white bloke!

 

[Belushi]

I bet they were privately educated too!!! Wait, that's ok isn't it? At least not as bad as being a white bloke!

People can't help being privately educated! Unlike being a white bloke.

 

[frogwoman]

Laurie back on form after trying to make a hero out of a nazi. Having a go at the real enemy. Horrid white socialists exploiting Ferguson to promote their brand.

Weev would never have done this

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Russell Brand advertising protests against water charges in Ireland.

 

[Idris2002]

Haven't you all forgotten that race is more important than class? I thought we'd cleared that up quite comprehensively by now.

Yes, and the political strategies flowing from that insight have been such an amazing success in pig AmeriKKKa.

 

[butchersapron]

Haven't you all forgotten that race is more important than class? I thought we'd cleared that up quite comprehensively by now.

Thing is flav - not one of us has said that class is more important than race, we've said that class regulates race, that the race line is a class line and that a flattening down of them into competing identity politics harms both/all. They are the ones who demand that we have said that class is the more important - when that way of ranking things in order of importance rather than looking at how they interact is actually a ludicrous approach.

(and yes, i did forget to reply to your pm)

 

[rekil]

No black person would ever believe that racism is fundamentally rooted in economics

Meanwhile, Kshama Sawant, whose existence and organisation's minimum wage campaign is yet to be publically acknowledged by LP, weighed in and dropped this bomb.



She also gave a couple of jabs to identity politics at a thing about the Seattle 1999 protests - 32:25ish mark.

Spoiler

 

[el-ahrairah]

i don't know who kshama sawant is, but i agree with that malcolm x quote.

 

[rekil]

i don't know who kshama sawant is, but i agree with that malcolm x quote.

If I was a Guardian/Staggers journo, I'd label her "the American Pussy Riot".

 

[el-ahrairah]

oh. i thought that was the pussycat dolls?

 

[frogwoman]

If I was a Guardian/Staggers journo, I'd label her "the American Pussy Riot".

She's CWI. I have a lot of time for her tbh.

 

[frogwoman]

If I was a Guardian/Staggers journo, I'd label her "the American Pussy Riot".

Seattle - you've probably never heard of it

 

[DaveCinzano]

Seattle - you've probably never heard of it

Was that that time Kurt Cobain flashed his tits to protest about non-Fairtrade instant coffee or something?