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.
“Thank you for acknowledging the source for your post at 20h41 above (ie, Wikipedia).”
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You’re more than welcome Habb, but I’ll take no instruction from a person who hasn’t posted a link in god knows how long, and when the said person did post a link (I think it was called Stopfake, fitting for you) it turned out to be a false site.
“Fred, if I were you I’d check my facts first.”
I know the facts, an entire pod of sperm whales has been sighted in the North Sea, sperm whales that venture into the North Sea rarely make it out again. Your Spanish whale is irrelevant.
Giyane, 8:49 pm; thanks. That made me laugh. I needed that.
Settle up with JSD for goodness sake. If he is a Freemason, he’s not one that’s been told any sinister secrets yet, and judging by his overall sense of morality, he never will be.
Giyane, 9:04 pm; every fucking one of us is a troll. There are only trolls left because Craig hasn’t posted for so long.
RoS
They managed to do an autopsy on a 4.5 ton whale. They didn’t manage to secure the evidence from a 13 month old girl.
Clarke
” If he is a Freemason, he’s not one that’s been told any sinister secrets yet, and judging by his overall sense of morality, he never will be.”
Yes I agree with you on that.
The problem is not that Craig hasn’t posted, which is very reasonable considering the technical and political struggles he is trying to overcome in order to make electricity in Ghana – global interests trying to profitalise the industry. The problem is the innate decency of the majority here on CM blog who don’t want to have a go at the fairer sex for allowing themselves to be neo-con tools.
He gave us that one, knowing it would shut us all up for a while. Bastard conniving neo-con tool.
I know first hand that Fred is close to a good, specialist source of information on ocean mammals.
Those whales died from getting beached, but of course their food was also contaminated. There’s nothing left in this planet’s biosphere that isn’t contaminated.
“They managed to do an autopsy on a 4.5 ton whale. They didn’t manage to secure the evidence from a 13 month old girl.”
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Indeed Gyiane it appears to be gross incompitence on the polices behalf. There should be an inquiry into the handling of the case over the death of Poppy Worthington.
RoS:
“and when the said ” sea-lion ” did post a link ”
i.e. the sea-lion is not real, and nor are his links.
fascinating discovery, first sign of madness you know
Clark, are you saying that Fred is somehow related to a sea-lion or connected in some fishy way?
Res didn’t – Is 9/12 the sequel? Has it got even more (less crap?) CGI?
Giyane, me and Fred and a mutual acquaintance watched the seals, in turn watching us, up in Caithness. Our mutual acquaintance works with a volunteer organisation, rescuing seals, porpoises and dolphins off the coast in that area.
Exexpat don’t be a tw- tw- twat.
“It probably died of starvation or dehydration.”
Said Fred.
However Andrew Brownlow, from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme. Said
“The whales were in good condition and so hadn’t died from dehydration.”
He did however, say.
“But we weren’t able to look at the brains so we can’t rule out various illnesses.
Some people never give up. I thought one would have benefited from a break but he is back with the same personal insults and invective because he has no arguments. Being seconded by an Israeli apologist speaks for itself.
Republicofscotland
““Thank you for acknowledging the source for your post at 20h41 above (ie, Wikipedia).”
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You’re more than welcome Habb, but I’ll take no instruction from a person who hasn’t posted a link in god knows how long, and when the said person did post a link (I think it was called Stopfake, fitting for you) it turned out to be a false site.”
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It’s not a question of taking instructions from me but, rather, of honesty and good manners from you.
All of what I post is my own writing and so there is no need to provide links or quotation marks.
Much of your stuff appears to be quoting from somewhere or other and so the least you could do would be to put those bits in inverted commas so that the reader can see clearly where you are quoting and where your post comes from you personally.
John Goss, you start carefully checking your facts and the sites you link to and I’ll stop calling you names. Deal?
“Giyane, me and Fred and a mutual acquaintance watched the seals, in turn watching us, up in Caithness. Our mutual acquaintance works with a volunteer organisation, rescuing seals, porpoises and dolphins off the coast in that area.”
We had a porpoise stranded up the Wick river New Year Day, you might know the photographer.
http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Porpoise-saved-in-dramatic-new-years-day-rescue-01012016.htm
clark
you won’t let me pull your leg. maybe you’re a mer-man. Did you try to intervene between fred F*** *** *** *** re***d and the uncommunicative seals?
Good thing you’re not a politician. Kerry dissed Nuland, and Malley dissed Samantha Powers.
Neo-con feminist tools they deserved dissing. http://www.voltairenet.org/article190025.html
Sometimes you have to stick your surreal knee, into their surreal balls.
And I don’t even know if Habbabkuk really is an “Israeli apologist” since so many leap to conclusions without bothering to inquire deeply enough to find out. Habbabkuk publishes such surprisingly weak pro-Israel arguments that I have speculated he puts them up just to stimulate the arguments that demolish them.
There’s nothing wrong with my facts. I can tell the difference between tanks and combined harvesters.
I don’t remember having a go at you…Clark, why are you so angry?
You admit it yourself were fooked so why take it out on people who might actually empathise with you?
Sincere question.
Mr Goss
“Some people never give up. I thought one would have benefited from a break but he is back with the same personal insults and invective because he has no arguments. Being seconded by an Israeli apologist speaks for itself.”
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I suppose the above non-comments were meant for Anon1.
Actually, I find that Anon1 makes rather pertinent points in response to the propaganda you and the other Illustrious Twelve churn out. Judging by your usual manner of response – exemplified by the above – Abon1’s comment obviously hit quite a few raw nerves.
As for “never giving up” – well, you should know what you’re talking about there. You are a franchise of Radio Moscow, unflagging in your efforts to talk up rasPutin and rubbish the West, the US and Israel (the only democracy on the Middle East).
Finally, I make no apologies for defending Israel against ridiculous (and malicious) smears such as it is committing “genocide”.
“All of what I post is my own writing”
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Habb, and what a load of nonsense it is, most of the time it isn’t even worth reading.
Give me Fedup John Goss or Giyanes comments any day.
The vast majority of my comments are of my own making unlike your comments, I try to make them interesting. You however base your comments on diversion and slander.
If for some reason you can’t bring yourself to read my comments, then just skip on by, I promise I won’t be offended.
New years day? wasn’t that the day humbug the sea-lion got banned? call that rescue work?
Fred, that was a good rescue; please convey my admiration to our mutual acquaintance. But I should be able to criticise charlatans on Internet radio without being told to fuck off, and it was never right of that person to use me as a conduit for jealousy, abuse and threats.
Clark
“Habbabkuk publishes such surprisingly weak pro-Israel arguments that I have speculated he puts them up just to stimulate the arguments that demolish them.”
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They are so weak that they get the usual Israel-haters foaming at the mouth on a regular basis.
BTW – and at the risk of confirming your hypothesis – where’s Node (aka Queen Mary II) with his weekly itemization of Israeli “genocide”? 🙂
Habbabkuk, no, John Goss’ comment was for me.
Republicofscotland
“The vast majority of my comments are of my own making”
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That is simply untrue.
Unless of course you consider putting together large chunks of unattributed quotation with a couple of lines of your own ravings constitutes “your own making”.
Others on here have noticed as well, you know.
“Finally, I make no apologies for defending Israel against ridiculous (and malicious) smears such as it is committing “genocide”.
a newer, bolder humbug!
Emboldened perhaps by his recent night-time canine bonding with Glenn_UK and JSD.
In the case of zionist liars, reverse the statement, you will be closer to the truth:
“I make no apologies for defending” Israeli genocide actually means: “sorry, I get paid”