Urban v's the Commentariat

[andysays]

So this has escalated to LP retweeting

Martin Robbins ‏@mjrobbins1h
@PennyRed @arunindy @mollycrabapple Threads like this make me wish I could just go be a Tory.

I actually don't know quite what to say to that, except "we know".

Asking a question and singling out individuals is apparently beyond the pale when it comes to criticising entrepreneurial capitalism, though is completely fine when accusing someone of any other ism. You don't have to wish that you were a Tory, Penny, you are already speaking their language, just add in a few things about hard working families and you'll be a shoe in for 2030 Tory advisor for Intersectional Entrepreneurs

It's a minor point, but isn't it Martin Roberts (who ever he is...) wishing he could be a Tory rather that LolP?

There's still plenty to call her on without attributing the twattery of others to her

 

[The Pale King]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 17h
@mollycrabapple @arunindy @nychange Molly does a ton of work for charity and donates her art for free to activist causes. What's your point?

...It's the old golden circle. Her and pals are beyond criticism, anyone who does criticize them is 'policing', 'bullying', 'harrassing' etc. And allude to undefined charidee work if all else fails. It's the same move celebrities pull, done with the same grandness. Quite funny to see L. Penny pulling it in a twitter beef when the stakes are so small.

 

[frogwoman]

donates her art for free to activist causes

 

[J Ed]

It's a minor point, but isn't it Martin Roberts (who ever he is...) wishing he could be a Tory rather that LolP?

There's still plenty to call her on without attributing the twattery of others to her

Yea but she retweeted it, seems to be an endorsement

 

[seventh bullet]

donates her art for free to activist causes

Samsung?

 

[Theisticle]

Hilarious how Penny can't see how Crabapple's association with Occupy

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 17h
@mollycrabapple @arunindy @nychange Molly does a ton of work for charity and donates her art for free to activist causes. What's your point?

...It's the old golden circle. Her and pals are beyond criticism, anyone who does criticize them is 'policing', 'bullying', 'harrassing' etc. And allude to undefined charidee work if all else fails. It's the same move celebrities pull, done with the same grandness. Quite funny to see L. Penny pulling it in a twitter beef when the stakes are so small.

Indeed. It's not like her and Crabapple didn't attach themselves to the Occupy movement to further their respective careers. Oh, wait...

 

[andysays]

Yea but she retweeted it, seems to be an endorsement

No argument from me there - it's all part of the collective golden circle jerk

(thanks to The Pale King for triggering that image, BTW)

 

[Bakunin]

Hilarious how Penny can't see how Crabapple's association with Occupy


Indeed. It's not like her and Crabapple didn't attach themselves to the Occupy movement to further their respective careers. Oh, wait...

'These are our inviolate, deeply-held core political principles!'

'If you don't like them, we have others...'

 

[Bakunin]

the collective golden circle jerk

That was a dodgy 'specialist German 'art movie', wasn't it?

 

[andysays]

That was a dodgy 'specialist German 'art movie', wasn't it?

I'll happily bow to your greater knowledge of dodgy 'specialist German 'art movie'

 

[The Pale King]

No argument from me there - it's all part of the collective golden circle jerk

(thanks to The Pale King for triggering that image, BTW)

Any time Andy

 

[ViolentPanda]

twitter really is the worst thing to happen to human communication since the invention of esperanto.

Kial la malamas esperanton, kamarado?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Kial la malamas esperanton, kamarado?

Todoallestout.

 

[ViolentPanda]

donates her art for free to activist causes

Sting singing on the roof of the Barbican.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'll happily bow to your greater knowledge of dodgy 'specialist German 'art movie'

All have to bow before Bakunin's superior knowledge of specialist German "art" movies.

 

[Bakunin]

All have to bow before Bakunin's superior knowledge of specialist German "art" movies.

Well, after my last trip across the Channel I had to make the price of the ferry home somehow.

 

[revol68]

I hate LP and Molly Poshtwat but on the otherhand "calling someone out" because they did a black friday sale on their art is just Adbusters moralistic "anti consumerism".

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I hate LP and Molly Poshtwat but on the otherhand "calling someone out" because they did a black friday sale on their art is just Adbusters moralistic "anti consumerism".

This. People who do this are personalising politics just as much as the worse of the intersectionalistas.

Loads of people sell stuff on Etsy and EBay and do Black Friday style stuff, lots of working class people included, the system is changing.

 

[Bakunin]

Kial la malamas esperanton, kamarado?

VP, yesterday:

 

[J Ed]

Staggers sez movember is racist http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/11/why-movember-isnt-all-its-cracked-be

 

[Idris2002]

Staggers sez movember is racist http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/11/why-movember-isnt-all-its-cracked-be

With large numbers of minority-ethnic men—for instance Kurds, Indians, Mexicans—sporting moustaches as a cultural or religious signifier, Movember reinforces the “othering” of “foreigners” by the generally clean-shaven, white majority.

Personally, I don't grow a 'tache because it would make me look like Joe Stalin.

 

[butchersapron]

That's the Arianne Shahvisi from both Oxford and Cambridge Univerities is it?

 

[Idris2002]

That's the Arianne Shahvisi from both Oxford and Cambridge Univerities is it?

And they say women can't have it all.

 

[Pickman's model]

Personally, I don't grow a 'tache because it would make me look like Joe Stalin.

alive or dead?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Staggers sez movember is racist http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/11/why-movember-isnt-all-its-cracked-be

Good God. Do they often close comments?

 

[Idris2002]

alive or dead?

No man, no problem.

 

[Pickman's model]

Staggers sez movember is racist http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/11/why-movember-isnt-all-its-cracked-be

it must have been a quiet evening in the bar when that was written.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I think November is a racist month tbh

 

[Pickman's model]

I think November is a racist month tbh

yeh many's the time i've seen november creep up behind minority ethnic men and shout foul, disgusting abuse in their ears

 

[Belushi]

Staggers sez movember is racist http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/11/why-movember-isnt-all-its-cracked-be

We need a new spoke on the wheel of oppression! White clean shaven vs ethnic 'tache