Feminism a Neo-Con Tool 2656


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.


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  • giyane

    Atom shit 22.07:

    Nice try Alcyone. Tough talking Guardian garbage, or similar, from its American corporate owners.

    have you checked for PPI yet, darlings?

    Why garbage? because your quote from Orbit assumes that USUKIS are incompetent and Russia knows what it is doing. No. USUKIS employ zionist ‘Chaos’ politics against Islam so that it looks like they don’t know what they are doing. but they do know what they are doing and they are using Russia as a Sherriff under a bent attorney/Judge, to take the aw and the world , into their own hands.

    As I have said before, do you think USUKIS is going to get caught out by its own chaos?

    p l e a s e

  • giyane

    Where are all the other bogeymen when you need them?

    Is there a new sabbath for the New World Order cult. Sunday’s used, Saturnaliaday’s taken, Frigday’s gone. Are they all worshipping mummified cats in a mock pyramid near junction 10 of the M6 in Wolverhampton, with a Hillary Clinton hologram through from Wodnesday to Thorsday gloming.

    There’s more cameras on the M6 now than lenses in a fly’s eye. Blair wanted to charge for using it until they realised you’d have a 50m mile queue down the old roads.
    Yes I was eating an egg and salad sandwich between M6/J9 and M6/J11, washed down with coffee from my thermos while i was paying my gas bill on my mobile phone.

    What you going to do about it? Everyone else was doing the same, and speeding at the same time.

  • BrianFujisan

    Finian Cunningham… is Among the Great Writers at Global Research Cheers Macky

    Makes one want Cry AGAIN

  • Exexpat

    [[email protected] – 4 copies recovered from Spam 3 deleted 1 timestamp updated from 23:47 yesterday]

    John I’m going to see your media horseshit article and raise you with:

    THIS FUCKING MANIAC> “it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill, than to control…”

    https://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/flashback-brzezinski-tells-elite-audience-it-is-infinitely-easier-to-kill-a-million-people-than-it-is-to-control-them/

    Chillingly, ten minutes into the presentation, Brzezinski who was the creator of Al-Qaeda, the group that has been used to justify the illusory “war on terror,” which has led to the slaughter of over a million people in Iraq, said: “And these new and old major powers face still yet another novel reality, in some respects unprecedented, and it is that while the lethality -the lethality of their power is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at an historical low.”

    “I once put it rather pungently, and I was flattered that the British Foreign Secretary repeated this, as follows… namely, in earlier times, it was easier to control a million people, literally it was easier to control a million people, than physically to kill a million people. Today, it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill, than to control…

    Listen to his voice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO2U9jJoWsM

    Don’t have nightmares peeps 🙂

  • nevermind, did Lord Feldmannn ignore Elliott Johnson?

    Thanks for that link Brian, it has been taken down.

    Brescinzki always was a nutter, he should have been taken down the JFK way, 911 would have never happened.

    That the BiBICe is making its Panorama staff redundant in a move to get rid of investigative journalism to be replaced by their favourite slogan ‘move on, nothing to see here’ is not very surprising, that he is of Afro Caribbean parents is indicative of their establishment bias when it comes to employing new staff, imho.

    The BBC is as bad as Fox news, the only difference is, its not owned by Rupert.

  • BrianFujisan

    Sorry Nevermind..Try again…. Check the Human Reaction of Paid Lawyers..And More importantly …Hands on Head Girls in Back Ground.

  • nevermind, did Lord Feldmannn ignore Elliott Johnson?

    Thanks Brian, one angry soldier there, I would have been equally mad at officials. He says he was fighting ‘terrorists’ on the Golan, surely he means Golani’s who defended themselves against being raped by Israel’s foreign policy and illegal occupation….

  • fedup

    Thanks for that link Brian, it has been taken down.

    No it is still there, and must thank Brian for this clip, meltdown indeed, as the ex golani vigilante thug in uniform goes on record;

    “I pee myself at night, as I dream they are coming form me and asking “why did you kill me”, I have killed more than forty people for you [the gathered bunch of whatever]”.

    ======

    BiBICe is making its Panorama staff redundant in a move to get rid of investigative journalism to be replaced by their favourite slogan ‘move on, nothing to see here’

    Panorama was no longer investigative but a bugle for propaganda and lost it’s audiences a long way back!

    ======

    THIS FUCKING MANIAC> “it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people. It is easier to kill, than to control…”

    Thanks for this clip Exexpat, as you have heard for the first time the masses are politically aware! That means the “sheep” no longer let the establishment to do the thinking for them and use their own brain cells.

    Hence the notion of the oligarchs and plutocrats controlling the horizontal and vertical is no longer applicable. However these virulent psychopaths using the skewed systems at their disposal are dreaming of killing millions of people! This can only be true if we the people let them get away with it!!!

    The fact that we can stop them is clearly rattling them and they are getting more and more vociferous in their desperation. This is even manifest in this blog by the excuser of genociders, thieves, child abusers and child torturers: “Are you a person of interest” carried along side the moniker of the acting rabbi! This is clearly indicative of the frustration of the acting rabbi in it’s mission being met with failure given the landscape of the blog and the extent of the comments rejecting it and it’s moronic, and mendacious world-view.

  • BrianFujisan

    One ThuG 40 Inocents = how many more Thugs..And we are thus reminded –

    Precisely why a particular local struggle metamorphoses into an international cause célèbre is not subject to mathematical demonstration. How does one prove that one people’s suffering is the worst? But surely the Palestine struggle possesses sufficient appalling features in its own right such that anti-Semitism need not be dragged in as a critical, let alone the overarching, explanatory factor. If you eliminate the “terrorism” background noise, it’s hard to come up with a more pristine instance of injustice. “What crime did Palestinians commit,” my late mother (who knew something about human suffering) once rhetorically asked, “except to be born in Palestine?”[1] The longevity of the conflict puts it in an “elite” class: if its inception is dated from the Balfour Declaration, nearly a century has elapsed; from the Nakba, seven decades; from the West Bank/Gaza occupation, still, five decades. Its various phases and facets embrace the gamut of human misery: ethnic cleansing, foreign occupation, and siege; massacre, torture, and humiliation. Its inequity endows the conflict with a biblical resonance: is it not David versus Goliath when a tiny battered people does battle with the regional superpower backed by the global superpower? The sheer cruelty and heartlessness bewilders and boggles: in the past decade, Israel has unleashed the full force of its high-tech killing machine on the “giant open-air prison in Gaza” (British Prime Minister David Cameron) not less than eight times: “Operation Rainbow” (2004), “Operation Days of Penitence” (2004), “Operation Summer Rains” (2006), “Operation Autumn Clouds” (2006), “Operation Hot Winter” (2008), “Operation Cast Lead” (2008-9), “Operation Pillar of Defense” (2012), “Operation Protective Edge” (2014). The incommensurability of the suffering makes mockery of affectations of “balance”: during Israel’s last “operation” in Gaza, 550 Palestinian children were killed while one Israeli child was killed, 19,000 Gazan homes were destroyed while one Israeli home was destroyed.
    Although it might not be the only epitome of human suffering in the contemporary world, Palestine surely qualifies as a “worthy” candidate. What is more, whereas so much of the world yearns to “Give peace a chance,” Israel conspicuously yearns to “Give war a chance, and another chance, and another chance” (is there a day that goes by without Israel contemplating yet another attack on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran?); Israel flouts the global consensus supporting a two-state solution by appropriating and incorporating the last remnants of Palestine; Israel’s current head of state is an obnoxious loudmouth Jewish supremacist, while the Israeli people “shoot and cry,” “love themselves to death and pity themselves ad nauseam” (Gideon Levy)[2]—don’t Israel’s singular warmongering, brazenness and self-righteous arrogance themselves accentuate the conflict’s image as one of pure good versus pure evil?

  • nevermind, did Lord Feldmannn ignore Elliott Johnson?

    What is more, whereas so much of the world yearns to “Give peace a chance,” Israel conspicuously yearns to “Give war a chance, and another chance, and another chance” (is there a day that goes by without Israel contemplating yet another attack on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran?); Israel flouts the global consensus supporting a two-state solution by appropriating and incorporating the last remnants of Palestine; Israel’s current head of state is an obnoxious loudmouth Jewish supremacist, while the Israeli people “shoot and cry,” “love themselves to death and pity themselves ad nauseam”

    great post Brian

    Its like a screaming child that’s not happy with having been shown a new sandpit to play in, jealously kicking and screaming to keep other children out, acting spoiled, smiling at being handed ice creams and trests, sustenance and safety from others, whilst hitting the other kids who dare to encroach or want to have an ice cream too.

    Bored with its sandpit affairs, getting too fat on the feed, it’s now decided to chase the kids off the neighbouring lawn, despite being told off by the playground keeper in no certain term that beating children is not the way to go about it.
    Most of the adults don’t care, some cheer it on, others are aghast at the brat, but nothing happened to stop his terror, to ever change the situation, he grows up hating others and reading about Churchill’s exploits and dark moments. Today the child has grown up into a man.

    He has now applied its childhood experience to a country, granted to previous generations by the global community, Israel.

  • Dave Lawton

    Giyane@5:56 am

    “The smartly dressed, black leather jacketed men in Germany organising the grope fest on new year’s day may have been Mrs Merkel’s agents, Turkish Muslim Brotherhood imams, or Asian imams. They are, in my book, all the same.”

    The order went out the day before New years eve to assault and rob it was posted on SITE at the time.

  • Republicofscotland

    So David Cameron turned up in Aberdeen yesterday, and pledged £125 million pounds over 10 ten years to help the oil industry, the dutiful press also turned out and reported how broad the shoulders of Westminster are.

    In reality, the pitiful contribution to the oil industry from Westminster is nothing short of insulting. Westminster has received more than £300 billion pounds in taxes from the North sea oil and gas industry. For a British PM to swan up to Aberdeen, and offer a token investment, makes a very clear statement, of intent towards the Golden Goose.

    The SNP leader and FM Nicola Sturgeon, matched David Cameron’s pledge of £125 million pounds, even though revenue from the North sea flows to the Treasury. It say a lot of about Westminster that Holyrood, and Scotland has matched the investment even though Scotland gained virtually nothing from oil and gas revenues over the past 40 or so years.

    Infact FM Nicola Sturgeon, has listened to the industry (something Westminster never did) and pledged another £254 million pounds over the next ten years, more investment is required.

    When you realise in the year 2014 alone the industry spent £14.8 billion on North sea exploration and development, then Scotland’s £254 million looks small change. But Scotland didn’t reap the benefits that Norway has, from oil and gas.

    It was Westminster that saw their coffers swell for decades, numerous governments didn’t have the foresight to create an oil fund for times of austerity and recession. They played fast and loose with oil revenue and now the industry needs help, Westminster has offered £125 million pounds over 10 years.

    Westminster over the last 40 odd years has as one media editor, once said, Larry Elliot I think.

    “An entire era of UK North sea oil, can be summed up in three words, discovered, extracted, squandered.”

    Roll on Scottish independence.

  • Republicofscotland

    Fred won’t be pleased about this.

    Kezia Dugdale branch manager of London Labour in Scotland, stood up yesterday at FMQ’s and said the NHS and in particular A&E was at breaking point in Scotland.

    The FM Nicola Sturgeon countered Miss Dugdale’s now famous “NHS rhetoric” in spectacular style.

    By reading out loud that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine had conducted and reported on A&E services around the globe. The result was that the UK has the best performing A&E services in the world.

    Within the UK Scotland has the best performing A&E service.

  • Republicofscotland

    The UK’s intelligence services known as the Governments Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), working in conjunction with the National Security Agency (NSA), systematically surveyed Israeli drones from Cyprus in order to collect information on military operations in Gaza, watch out for potential strikes on Iran, and monitor drone technology the Jewish State was exporting around the world.

    http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Report-US-UK-intelligence-hacked-into-Israeli-drones-under-operation-Anarchist-443228#article=6017NUJFMjE3NzIzNTc4RkU2NkQ5RkIxRENFRkFGQTk1QjU=

  • Republicofscotland

    Westminster’s mentality- Google makes billions of pounds but pays £130 million pounds in corporations tax.

    The oil industry pays Westminster over £300 billion in taxes not including employee tax. Westminster gives struggling industry £5 million less than Goole paid, in corporation tax, and spreads it over 10 years.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35416812

  • fred

    “A report from Barclays on the consequences of Brexit claims British departure would be more disastrous for the EU than for the UK. It also explodes the myth that Brexit would lead to Scottish independence, concluding that such would be the disintegrating effect of Brexit on the EU that Britain would be seen as a safe haven and Scottish voters would react by abandoning support for independence and nestling closer to a United Kingdom whose stability would contrast with the chaos on the continent.

    That contradicts the central thesis of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP administration that Brexit would “trigger” a second independence referendum, when Scots would overwhelmingly decide to throw in their lot with the EU and abandon a “sinking” UK.”

    http://capx.co/exploding-the-myth-that-brexit-would-trigger-scottish-independence/

  • fred

    “By reading out loud that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine had conducted and reported on A&E services around the globe. The result was that the UK has the best performing A&E services in the world.”

    That’s not what the Royal College of Emergency Medicine is saying here:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35440422

    Dr Cliff Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the NHS was reaching a “critical point” in winter.

  • fedup

    Wikileaks done it again boys. The Fraternal Order of Police Grand Lodge has been breached and it’s data is out.

    The Fraternal Order of Police is the world’s largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers, with more than 325,000 members in more than 2,100 lodges.

    Get on downloading the files and encourage others to do so , the light of publicity is the best disinfectant to combat the pernicious latent virus of cronyism and other greater sins.

    Good reading! There is enough to keep anyone going for months.

  • Republicofscotland

    That would be the same Barclays bank that received the biggest bail out of all, to the tune of $863 billion dollars.

    Don’t make me laugh Fred…is it April Fools day already?

    Barclays have absolutely no credibility anymore.

  • Republicofscotland

    Nicola Sturgeon yesterday cited comments from a leading medical college saying the UK “has the best performing accident and emergency services in the world” and that Scotland “has the best performing A&E services in the United Kingdom” as she brushed off an attack from Kezia Dugdale on the state of the NHS north of the Border.

    http://www.thenational.scot/news/scotlands-ae-the-best-in-world—sturgeon-hits-back-on-health-record.13026

    Far better than Labour, Tory or Lying LibDems.

    Speaking of the lying b*stard party self confessed liar Alistair Carmichael has counter sued for punitive damages against the Orkney four. Thankfully decent people have funded most of the costs.

    Even though the only Scottish MP of the lying b*stard party lost two of the three points in court he was cleared, what an injustice.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    That contradicts the central thesis of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP administration…

    That’s as maybe, and open to free interpretation by all sides. But it unequivocally contradicts the thesis of the pro-EU Blair, as handed to Europe on all media …

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3417882/Tony-Blair-warns-Scotland-quit-UK-Britain-votes-leave-EU.html

    (…shortly before this broke and swamped it:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12128204/Tony-Blair-accused-of-giving-superficial-evidence-to-inquiry-in-damning-MPs-letter.html )

  • BrianFujisan

    Republicofscotland
    – 2:34 pm

    Thanks For that…Nothing under the table then Ya think..Dirty deeds done dirt Cheep If you get ma drift. 🙂

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