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.
Exexpat, 10:03 pm:
You accused me of closed-mindedness about 9/11, a subject over which I have agonised for years.
Thousands of entirely innocent people (and some guilty ones) were murdered on 9/11. You dismiss this as trick photography. Resident Dissident says that a friend’s relative was a victim so, with no evidence whatsoever, you dismiss this as a lie. This is highly disrespectful; I expect respect to be extended to everyone, not just myself.
Oh dear. “That is simply untrue” becomes “That is the simple truth”.
Google translation from Zionshit to English.
So Jeremy Corbyn has visited the Argentinian embassy in London. Where he intimated that in the future it could be possible for Britain and Argentina to “power-share” the Falkland Islands, if he’s elected PM.
I bet that had the pompus bigwigs lurking in the bowels of Westminster and Whitehall, in a frenzied
Stupor. No doubt Thatcher’s ashes will be bubbling up furiously all over the grounds at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, at the mere thought of it.
Habbabkuk, 10:13 pm:
Yes. This is why there’s a moderation rule “engage with the arguments, not the commenter”. Too many rise to your bait Habbabkuk, and of course they get caught. You are expert at provoking this, but it doesn’t advance the debate, so your own claims of performing “quality control” are moot.
Clark
“Resident Dissident says that a friend’s relative was a victim”
Google translation from Zionshit to English: There was no corroborative evidence.
So long as zionshite like mark regev speak zionshit, you will find people don’t believe it.
That is a problem created by the neo-con NWO War on Islam zionists, not by the other side.
RoS
“Thatcher’s ashes will be bubbling up furiously”
They will have been mixed with graveside limestone granules to reduce sulphur emissions and CO2
can I go now, I want to listen to the news?
Guano
There was plenty of corroborative evidence – put perhaps not as much as the shit you leave all over the place.
Could be a result of oil exploration companies in the North Sea using underwater explosives.
http://oilandgasuk.co.uk/knowledgecentre/underwatersound.cfm
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/02/03/u-s-navy-to-blow-up-whales-dolphins-other-marine-mammals-please-take-action-now/
Haven’t accused you of anything Clark. You’re taking things personally. The comment was addressed at resident dissident.
“with no evidence whatsoever” you assume this friend story to be true! This from our very own pro-establishment troll who’s very name is a lie..
Resident Dissident, I think you’re widely misjudged here, but you do provoke it. Ultimately, peace cannot be achieved only by fighting battles. At some point has to come reconciliation. We’ve seen this comments section polarised into opposing camps, mostly by arguments over the Russian government. Social media seemed to becoming more, er, militarised a few years ago. We know that commenters are paid to defend the Kremlin’s policies no matter what, and I fully expect that influence to extend to this blog – Usmanov, for instance, likely holds a grudge against this place.
No matter the sides, all sides have their valid points. Polarisation encourages only confrontation and conflict. Respect, empathy and understanding serve the objective of peace.
Did you ever check up on confessions from torture comprising the basis for most of the 9/11 Commission Report?
Clark
For Heaven’s sake do stop that feeble, mealy-mouthed hand-wringing of yours.
“Could be a result of oil exploration companies in the North Sea using underwater explosives.”
The graffiti? No, that was some retard with a can of spray paint.
Clark
You do good work, and I thank you: but this rock of a forum may be too Sisyphean to be rolled all the way to the top.
Take care,
John
Exexpat, the Internet was a wonderful innovation. It was designed to be very difficult to censor, and it brought publishing internationally within the reach of ordinary people. It revolutionised the news landscape.
But, like our planet itself, the Internet is becoming increasingly polluted. Any fool can put out sensational theories which become popularised and spread very widely. The clearest example has to be 9/11. Demolition by nukes, computer graphic aircraft, energy weapons in orbit – the noise has all but submerged reasoned debate. Who does this serve? In whose interest is it that, if you mention 9/11, people immediately think of “conspiracy theories” and hardly anyone has even heard that the official US investigation was based mostly on torture? Even YOU hadn’t heard that until I mentioned it, had you? It took ME nearly ten years before I encountered it, because it’s mixed with a vastly larger quantity of, frankly, distracting rubbish.
I despair. We’ll never get anywhere going the way we have been.
Habbabkuk, 11:09 pm; wassup? Combat can’t defend reason, you know.
If i’m 95% certain (that will do for me) that 9/11 is Media Fakery why would I be interested in a report from the same said criminals?
Wonder if Craig could shed any light on whither this is an actual breach of protocol, or whether Salmond is looking for a grievance?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/25/alex-salmond-uk-embassy-tehran-iran-dinner-philip-hammond-foreign-office?CMP=share_btn_tw
Exexpat, 11:34 pm; NOT the report, the TORTURE. That’s everything you need right there. The report is invalid under international law.
Airdrieonian, 11:35 pm; good link. It looks like a breach of protocol to me. If you use the contact form (link at top of page) it’ll go to Craig’s Inbox.
Still Burns Night T Minus 8 Mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB0P57nQds
“Wonder if Craig could shed any light on whither this is an actual breach of protocol, or whether Salmond is looking for a grievance?”
If it was a British government delegation then the British government should pay for the dinner.
If it was a Scottish government delegation then the Scottish government should pay for the dinner.
If it was a SNP party delegation then the SNP should pay for the dinner.
It all depends on who’s delegation it was.
This is a good article by an American about why the USA is up to its neck in Guana (no offence Giyane).
“Now, its domestic economy a hollowed-out shell, its transportation infrastructure in horrendous decline, its skilled labor force increasingly non-existent, its university engineering and science students mostly from abroad–mainly China and India–the United States of America is in the throes of a terminal decline, a decline caused by no one but her own people who tolerated the looting and destruction of a once-beautiful nation by a greedy, power-addicted cabal of bad people with names like Rockefeller, Gates, Russell, DuPont, Buffett and others whose names are hardly known to the broad public.”
http://m.journal-neo.org/2016/01/17/travails-of-a-bankrupt-hegemon/
Well Any Hoo…. Fedup Keeps Asking … It takes Long times .And Whilst NOT Wabi Sabi…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115454618@N06/12959425013/in/dateposted/
“If i’m 95% certain (that will do for me) that 9/11 is Media Fakery”
Must have been all those double ls in the victims names as pointed out in the Clues forum. Anyway you know what they say about double ex’s.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kremlin-reacts-to-kadyrovs-attacks-on-jackals-opposed-to-putin/556411.html?utm_source=email_tmt-editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=55-issue-2016-01-25&utm_content=title_2
The Kremlin doesn’t appear to worried about constraining its “friends” who were probably behind the murder of Nemtsov.
Asperger’s syndrome gets in the way of ‘lets pretend’ games. More common in males the disorder affects about 1 in 100.
“This is a good article by an American about why the USA is up to its neck in Guana”
This type of propaganda was very common in the cold war as Marxist Leninism collapsed – history now appears to be repeating itself as Putin’s and the oligarch’s brand of gangster capitalism is going through the same fate. Where did all the oil and natural resource money go? Certainly not into investing in the Russian economy.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russians-real-wages-fall-95-in-2015/556842.html
Dumb stories are ho-hum and flow easily from ‘Popular Mechanics’ whose so called ‘experts’ were aligned with the Kean/Hamilton Commission, the ambiguous bunch of well-doers known to have put down diligent FAA folk solid in their duties.
This is one example of their bull-shit from knowing only half the facts. N.B. The firing sequence for Trident missiles does not use a variant of Microsoft op sys. That is all I can give away.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/
Yes ‘Res Diss’ keep up the ‘soft soap’ – clearly Putin’s Russia invested heavily in machines of war and defence from the natural resource income. A wise move in this world, since nobody trusts US/UK hardware after the collusion between Microsoft and Siemens in serving the Israeli’s to produce Stuxnet and other well programmed worms.