UPDATE
Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.
Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.
This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.
The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.
Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.
As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.
Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.
But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.
Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.
And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.
Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.
Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.
“That we don’t piss our pants is down to conditioning. Try to deliberately piss your pants and you’ll discover just how powerful conditioning really is.’
OTOH if you offer someone a million quid, they might do it one second. That’s also conditioning.
Let’s leave it here shall wee?
(Pun intended)
Alcyone, it’s only through conditioning that you think of pissing your pants as “gross”. In healthy people, urine is sterile.
Anon1, if we really want to “remember the dead” as you put it, the dead of both, or all, sides should be remembered. Those remembering could wear black. Images of the injuries of conflict could be displayed.
I didn’t stage a protest. I spoke to the children to convey some of the horror of war, and I quietly complained to a responsible adult, the manager.
Craig
“Feminism A Neo-Con Tool”
Where is feminism on the mass-rape and abuse of European women by migrants, on Rotherham, FGM, honour killings, stoning of adulterers, and so forth?
Ignoring, excusing, relativizing and, when pushed, crying racism. While they harangue the normal, heterosexual male for asking a woman out for a drink.
So it’s now come to light that up to 33,000 British troops could be suffering from Gulf War illnesses, 25 years after the first bombing campaign began.
Over 10,000 are now receiving pensions related to Gulf war conditions. Some medical professionals think that medicines given to troops to protect them from nerve gas attacks in the Gulf war, have caused debilitating conditions years later.
Still I suppose to the global corporations who benefitted most from the Gulf war, any amount of deaths and suffering caused by the conflict was entirely worth the campaign going ahead. Afterall why should they care about cannon fodder, when the next poor generation can be exploited.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/12102249/Up-to-33000-veterans-could-be-suffering-Gulf-War-illnesses.html
Clark
“Anon1, if we really want to “remember the dead” as you put it, the dead of both, or all, sides should be remembered. Those remembering could wear black. Images of the injuries of conflict could be displayed.
I didn’t stage a protest. I spoke to the children to convey some of the horror of war, and I quietly complained to a responsible adult, the manager.”
Well, Clark, I’m afraid you are just going to have to accept that the military in this country, as in every other country, and that includes the cadet forces, wear uniform when they pay their respects to the war dead. We wear black at funerals.
They do not need you to convey to them the horror of war. It is taught in every classroom and remembered in every Remembrance service. But doubtless you believe you have some unique insight into this.
Yes, we don’t seem to be encouraged to remember those 10,000 or 33,000 casualties of war. Just the “dead” or “fallen”*, who aren’t so likely to complain of their lot.
*”Brutally killed” would be more accurate, but let’s sanitise war, eh? Or we might put the youngsters off joining up.
Iran’s president Rouhani looks like clashing with Iran’s supreme ruler the Ayatollah Khamenei.
Rouhani has become popular with the Iranian public, due to his clever negotions with the US, which had led a easing of sanctions against Iran.
However Khamenei who had underwent prostate surgery in 2014. Took over in 1989 from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, has always made sure that no group, including among his own hardline allies, gains enough power to challenge his authority.
Khamenei will back hardliners in their political disputes against moderates.
As long as religious fanatics like Khamenei rule Iran, with an iron fist, it’s unlikey that Iran will open up more to the West, than the West would like.
“Have you been following the RoP? An explosive start to 2016, wouldn’t you say?”
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Do us all a big favour Anon1 either post a link containing RoP in it which proves that you’re genuine or give it a rest. Because if it is the latter, then you have no credibility at all.
I trust you’ll produce the goods to back up your claims, though knowing you you’ll post a link to the dubious Royal Oman Police website, which is completely untrustworthy.
Thanks in advance.
Anon1:
“Where is feminism on the mass-rape and abuse of European women by migrants, on Rotherham, FGM, honour killings, stoning of adulterers, and so forth?”
Pay attention. Feminism is a neo-con tool. So is Political Islam.Why? because bad people need good slogans to sell peeps their stupid ideas.
Political Islam, together with the police/ government, organises everything from sexual abuse of vulnerable young women to driving the Syrian people out of their homes into tents in a hostile land. Who ran the brothel in Coventry where Baby P was brought up? An Asian policeman.
Do you really think the feminist neo-con lobby is going to speak against the political Islam neo-con lobby?
You might just as well go and shout ra ra into the north wind. You sound like your old picture, a madwoman shouting outside a supermarket at the crowd.
Sit down and listen carefully to the informed speakers on the blog and eventually you will understand.
Jeremy Corbyn has said he’d like to see the return of sympathy strikes. Where workers show solidarity with other workplaces by taking industrial action in support.
Margaret Thatcher’s Employment Act 1980 banned secondary strikes, restricting walkouts to groups with a problem directly with their employer.
It’s refreshing to see a leader of the Labour party actually stand up for workers to choose where and when and who to strike, with or for. Solidarity has been missing from the Labour party of late.
Under the Tories working conditions, rights and pay have all, been eroded, so much so that there’s now a whole generation of working poor, that can’t make ends meet.
Clark
“Habbabkuk, 10:51 am, yes of course Rob can speak for himself. I just don’t like to pry.”
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Thank you for that, Clark.
I agree with you that prying is not especially pleasant but I don’t think it is prying when potential customers ask someone the price of the commercial services he/she is offering, surely? After all, Rob volonteered the information that he owns/runs a gite; no one forced it out of him as far as I recall.
Do you not find it strange that someone running a business of that sort should appear so unwilling to post his/her daily rates?
Habbabkuk Rob may have already decided that he’d rather not have you, or me, as paying guests. Or maybe the rates are negotiable, but only privately. Try e-mailing him; I think there’s contact info at his blog, or try postmaster [at] his domain.
Speaking of domains, have you read Le Grand Meaulnes? You may even have read it in the original French, Le Domaine Perdu.
Republicofscotland
““Reading back through some of the recent comments, it’s a close call between RobG and Giyane for blog loon.
Sort it out, Mods. The comments are reading like the ramblings of the insane from a mental institute.”
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Didn’t Craig himself say something recently to the effect that “commenting” on here at least meant that there are likely to be fewer people shouting incoherently in supermarket car parks?
I’ve just discovered that Rob G works for the Foreign Office http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403054/Traumatised-British-Paris-hostage-hid-three-hours-Bataclan-refused-help-told-not-victim-terror-attack.html
“‘The [Overseas Terrorism Compensation] Scheme only applies to an incident which the Foreign Secretary has determined a “designated act”.
‘The incident in which you sustained injury has not been designated… Your application will be held meantime, and eligibility for an award will only be considered if the incident is designated.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3403054/Traumatised-British-Paris-hostage-hid-three-hours-Bataclan-refused-help-told-not-victim-terror-attack.html#ixzz3xWIuFhvE
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Clark
“Images of the injuries of conflict could be displayed.”
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They certainly could, although I think it’s easy enough to find such images all over the place throughout the year.
The problem with your splendid idea is that there are bound to be some malcontents and butters who would immediately say that that is also an attempt to glorify war and violence.
It’s a little bit the same as someone (Kempe?) pointed out about the Paris slayings: the “absence” of film, etc, proves they never happened and then when such film is produced the malcontents say it has been faked and that the slayings still never happened.
Clark
“Habbabkuk Rob may have already decided that he’d rather not have you, or me, as paying guests. Or maybe the rates are negotiable, but only privately”
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Didn’t you say you were going to let him speak for himself, Clark?
But your post does offer an elegant way out for Rob – if he’s unwilling to tell prospective customers on here how much he charges. perhaps he could at least tell us why?
So let’s wait for Rob later this evening.
Habasealion back on form.
Very well we will resume in one hour
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Giyane
I struggle to make any sense of your posts even when you’re not pissed, but most of them appear to contain two central themes, rehashed and repeated ad nauseam:
☆That all the bad things that Muslims do have nothing to do with Islam and are in fact orchestrated by Neo-Cons and Zionists (J..s), using a complex network of spies and informers mostly within the Asian community, who are in fact polytheistic Hindu kafirs working for the security services and Israel.
☆That you have moved into the Asian community, been rejected as an an oddball, and now you despise the Asian community.
The two are obviously linked. Please spare us from any more of your impenetrable garbage about your personal experiences with Islam.
“Or maybe Shayler puts up a front of insanity as cover to say the otherwise unsayable.”
Do any of you ever pause to consider that your theories are becoming more and more unhinged by the day?
Anon1
When the feminist neo-con tool is with her husband and children they are not being a neo-con tool at home. nor are the political islam neo-con tools being neo-con tools all the time.
This is a political tool role which you switch on for the microphone and you are rewarded for your neo-con soundbite. Unfortunately that’s all the neo-con tools think about, the crap they utter and the dollars they earn.
Pretty much the same as a troll, really. Now do you understand? Not too much pain for nonce-brain?
Anon (16h50)
I have to agree with you when you ask Guano to cease pestering us with his endless posts. After all, he has made his “point” – is there any reason to keep repeating it ad nauseam? Would not once every two weeks (say) be sufficient to bring new readers into the picture? The reputational damage to this blog must be considerable.
Habbabkuk
“After all, he did volonteer the information that he ran a business and even said something about bookings from UK visitors having fallen away somewhat owing to fears about terrorism.
Not fears about terrorism. Fears about being executed by the proprietor. Please avoid RobG’s house of horrors, Habbabkuk. It must be like the Texan motel in that horror movie whose name I forget.
Mods why on earth have you allowed this racist fuckwit anon’s constant and manifest racism, to go unchallenged, and letting this cretins moniker to be plastered around the blog?
anon1
When the feminist journalist Jackie Sutton spoke out about Erdogan’s Daesh abuse of women, Erdogan had her strangled in a public space used weekly by millions of travellers from all corners of the world.
I don’t need to challenge political Islam for myself. I don’t mind being rejected by fools. Political Islam is accustomed to operating in places which have no freedom of speech. they just strangle, rape and cut off the heads of the opposition.
You ask what feminism has to say about political Islam’s abuse of women:
The answer was silenced by Erdogan’s murderous son.
Habbabkuk
Re Giyane, thankfully the interminable and incomprehensible drivel usually begins with “In Islam…”, so I know to scroll past.
Something you don’t like about not welcoming rapists, Fedup?
Reputational damage
for a man who can’t even sit down without 20 cushions, worry about the reputational damage of your own anal uvula before worrying about my words of wisdom