What a load of utter shit. The pair of them are pathetic and can fuck right off. Wish I had a platform in the media so I could construct strawman caricatures of my political opponents. I'd find much better things to call Penny than a brocialist.
The cheek of talking safe spaces and then letting Russell Brand guest edit the magazine you work for. Then complaining he's a sexist after he's done so and once the revenue from having a special celebrity edited edition of the staggers has been banked.
Well why not resign from the Staggers on principle then Laurie, rather than aid a Manarchist in what they're doing? No chance. She didn't resign when they were getting ad money from homophobic christians claiming to be able to cure gay people of their illness, I doubt some minor hypocrisy like this would get in her way. She's more than happy to defend Niall Ferguson (fellow oxbridge twat and celebrity politico) when he's outed himself as a homophobe but if you're not an intersectional liberal with a private school and oxbrdige background you're a bigot.
Then there's this notion of Brand being a leftist. Where's that come from? What kind of "leftist" is he, the borderline anti-semitic David Icke/Infowars kind? I never went to the meeting where Brand was confirmed as an official member of the political left, and he's been pretty vague about it himself. I disown the bastard from day one, they put him in charge of their fucking shit moribund liberal magazine, and I'm the brocialist and they're the glorious intersectional crusaders against oppression.
The bottom line is if you subscribe to any materialist analysis of the world, you are going to spend your political life being accused of sexism and homophobia by Laurie Penny unless you renounce your 20th Century misguided notions of socialism you're the enemy. Anyone too stupid, to uneducated, to technologically illiterate to partake in the narrow and elitist discourse of intersectionalism either at university or on twitter is a rape apologist, misogynist, privilege keeping piece of shit to these people. That this means they can pour scorn and contempt and effectively write off millions of people, for being white, being male, being healthy, being thin, being [insert non-transferable privilege category], it means they can politically rationalise their deep-felt hatred for anything that's not in their tiny fucking bubble. And whilst they do this the left withers and dies, unable to win support from anyone outside this exclusive club, and the far-right wins the support of millions of alienated people all throughout Europe. They'll hang the fucking lot of 'em, and they've got nothing whatsoever to counter it with.
And this one made me laugh.
Probably? Closet? Let me be absolutely definite. Laurie Penny is a liberal. Laurie Penny is more liberal than Edmund Burke. LIBERAL. That's why she was encouraging people to vote Lib Dem at the last general election. And why she works for the New Statesman. Let's get that quote up again shall we:
Only participation within the confines of liberal democracy makes you a relevant civic entity according to Penny. It's not just a tool from which more radical demands can be made, but the end in itself. Note the exact wording, the use of the word civic as in civil society. Only those fully invested in liberal democracy have any "relevance" the rest are untermensch. This is Liberalism 101. This is statement John Locke would've been more than happy with. Yes Laurie you're a liberal and I'm going to call you a liberal, coz it's a damn sight more accurate than you dismissing anyone who objects to your deeply flawed and narcissitic political theory manarchist. Tough shit.
And this passive aggressive bit of bullshit at the end:
The reason you get such a hard time in the comments Laurie is because you're an idiot, a shit writer, and the only reason you even have the job is because the British media is notoriously narrow and drawn from a tiny group of well-educated middle class careerists such as yourself. Had you been born poor you wouldn't be doing this job. You're a living breathing testament to how far someone with fuck all merit but the right sort of background can go in Britain, not the first and not the last.
And fuck Richard Seymour too. Barely out of his own Trotskyite rape-cult he's now talking as if he's some sort of authority on dealing with sexism within the left. It's like listening to Jimmy Savile's chauffeur opine about how to spot a peadophile. How did the years he spent defending the SWP and Respect from accusations of engrained sexism and a dysfunctional and poisonous party culture get forgotten so quickly? I don't wanna here this "I knew nothing, I'd heard the rumours but it was all just hearsay" bullshit coz if I, as a teenage idiot who doesn't even live in London, could work out the SWP was a disgusting cult within my first few interactions with them then this big brain heavyweight's got no excuse for going along with it. I reckon the dirty fucker only left the SWP once he realised his career as a verbose bullshit artist within the liberal media would be in jeopardy if he stuck around, it's not like was anything but a stupid swappie loyalist practically his whole political life.
