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.
Fred, no, you said there is A CIVIL WAR – a description that obscures the external forces and infiltrated aggressors fueling, sustaining and escalating the conflict.
Syria was already in the Russian sphere of influence. The neocon/US sphere of influence, in this case, is the external aggressor.
“John Goss, people are scared of Muslims.” I think that’s true Clark, especially in predominantly English white communities. I saw more of it when I lived on the Isle of Man from people who may never even have met a Muslim. We had a free-range egg-supplier whose eggs were excellent with rich yellow yolks. Unfortunately I heard him once criticising Muslims and I doubt he had met one in his life. I doubt Anon1 has met one except in the company of other racists! But of course I don’t know. I just detest racists. Anon1 recently asked me to point to one comment of his that was racist. He added yet another one today – his slur on ‘Mooslims’ without any rationale – just pure hatred.
John Goss, please don’t call Anon1 a racist, even if you think he is; it will upset him and provoke further conflict. Just think of him as frightened.
We’re all frightened, and that’s understandable. We’re killing our own biosphere, and we live under continuous threat of each other’s weapons of mass destruction.
“Fred, no, you said there is A CIVIL WAR – a description that obscures the external forces and infiltrated aggressors fueling, sustaining and escalating the conflict.”
But which still makes it impossible to set up safe zones without putting in troops and equipment to protect it.
Which is the point I was making and is still just as valid.
Just to remind those obsessing over oil prices, its now at $35.13, for now reason whatsoever, demand has not gone up, abstraction is at a record high and now Iran , after ten years of sanctions, is again producing for the international market.
Oil reserves, for example Germany keeps a 90 day reserve, are brimming, anybody who has not stocked up whilst the prices are low is either a skinflint or too daft. This latest rise has more to do with price fixing and artificial intervention, a la Libor rate/Forex/Gold fix,etc., than it has to do with a supply and demand.
meanwhile, those voters flocking to Trump and Sanders are called ‘angry voters’ who are on the ‘wrong track’.
Well they are angry because the donkeys and elephants should have done a better job of it. Trump’s campaign core is racism and Sanders is making out he’s a socialist, two opposing camps with all the doom sayers anti federalists and gun lobbyists well anchored in the Trump camp and young new voters and many disaffected democratic pro immigration voters in the other.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-anger-idUKKCN0V80W6
“John Goss, please don’t call Anon1 a racist . . .”
Not only do I think he is a racist, not just with this comment but many others, I think the mods should ban him for it. I never make excuses for racists – frightened. He’s not too frightened to make the slur. He should suffer the consequences of his racist actions.
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Knee or hp replacement – £11,000
Hysterectomy – £6000
Doctors visit – £175 + drugs
Emergency medical appointment – £74 for 5 minutes
Source – netdoctor
Epithany does not come by staring at your naval…
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/26/anger-government-blocks-ttip-legal-documents-nhs-health-service
John Goss, you say “He’s not too frightened to make the slur”; why do you think he’s anonymous?
All the cheerleaders for Trump in this country are racist, sadly they see populism as more legitimate than multiculturalism, celebrities more important than role models.
Fred, yes your point about safe zones is valid. Sorry I accused you of playing dumb; I now think it more likely that you were inadvertently clumsy with your use of language.
Anon1 is anonymous because he’s frightened, Clark, he does not want to be found out and his argumentation clearly puts him into the PEGIDA/Bibi N. camp.
But its inconsequential really, because words here are just words, he be far too scared to be found out, so his is the racialism of a cheerleader, too frit for any real actions,imho.
I hope this makes us cry, for the tragedy we’re creating.
Burial; Come down to us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bb2JakOmo
John Goss
Make a cup of tea, sit down, have a think, and type out what you think is racist in what I said.
In detail, please. Try to give a straight account.
If this comment is not racist it is certainly anti-Islamic (religionist). You should be banned! It is the fine distintion all the right wing has tried to make between racism and cross-cultural religionism. It is fuelled by the hatred for which you have given yourself, by your comments, of Muslims.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/01/feminism-a-neo-con-tool/comment-page-24/#comment-575912
“It is fuelled by the hatred for which you have given yourself a reputation, by your comments, of Muslims.”
So it is not racist then. Glad we cleared that up.
For the record, the BBC’s Big Question show will be on iPlayer if anyone wishes to know who’s lying.
It’s unsurprising that Mr Goss is so far to the left that he believes even the unbearably PC ‘Big Question’ has an anti-Muslim agenda.
Yeah John Goss bend over and let him have a quick one too!!
That racist fuckwit anon should be called out for the scum that he is and if he is angry so fuck!!!!!!
I try to keep out of your way but your more and more bizarre pontifications have a limit mate!!!! The other day you were attacking the others for calling the genocide excusing acting rabbi as a zionist stooge!! This of course was pretty quickly put to bed by the said acting rabbi that put you right!
The result of your lets hold hand and sing kumbaya is the racist waste of skin retorts;
This of course is purely gaming the system and is making racims acceptable main stream set of “values”!
Of course if the said racist fuckwit had replaced the “Muslims” with the “Jews” you would have been the first one to jump up and down and denounce him for its racist conduct and attitudes.
We have cleared nothing up. I believe you are probably a racists too but your perpetual anti-Islamic slurs are disgusting. If anybody went on about Jewish people in that manner they would be banned straight away. I’m calling for your banishment and looking for support from others. And if anybody attempts to support your anti-Islamic or racist comments I shall be calling for the to be banned too!
So Mr Goss has as good as admitted that there is nothing racist in what I said.
He now thinks I should be banned for making ‘religionist’ comments.
To which the only reply in a free and secular society can be: “Fuck right off”.
Agreed and supported, I second the motion!
I’m off back to bed. I don’t feel well enough to remain awake.
Anon1
“John Goss
Make a cup of tea, sit down, have a think, and type out what you think is racist in what I said.
In detail, please. Try to give a straight account.”
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Mr Goss couldn’t give a straight accpunt to save his life – it’s not in the DNA of a former Communist fellow-traveller.
If Mr Goss swallowed a nail, it would come out the other end as a corkscrew.
So I was a racist, then I was not a racist, and now I am a ‘probable’ racist.
Against Bosnian Muslims? Indonesian Muslims? Jordanian Muslims?
Just admit it Mr Goss. You can’t bear criticism of Islam so you try to shut down debate by crying racism.
What a pathetic specimen you are.
“Fred, yes your point about safe zones is valid. Sorry I accused you of playing dumb; I now think it more likely that you were inadvertently clumsy with your use of language.”
Nothing clumsy about it. I said there was a civil war in Syria. According to Node the definition of a civil war is “armed conflict between a government and another group from within the same country.” I was just telling it how it is.
Mr Goss
“If this comment is not racist it is certainly anti-Islamic (religionist). You should be banned!”
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So first Mr Goss tries the slur that Anon’s comment is “racist” and then when he can’t sustain that slur any longer Anon’s comment suddenly becomes “religionist” (whatever that means).
You couldn’t make it up!
And of course Mr Goss’s “solution” is to call for Anon to be banned.
Personally I think Mr Goss should be banned for his hateful and treasonous support of President Putin and his Russia through thick and thin.
I see Hospitalsuperbug, Habba for short, objects to Thierry Miessan shedding light on the frantic lies of the neo-cons. Well that’s what he’s been programmed to say on his recent training days. No evidence yet that Hospbug can actually read.
For what it’s worth Thierry Miessan is a secular analyst, which one would have thought ( to use Hospby’s recent favourite, the French impersonal subject pronoun, that a neo-con shill would be happy with secularist analysis. Is it not a War on Islam?
The zionist war is waged by disgracing the name of Islam by getting Muslims to do every conceivable vice in Islam’s good name or slogan. Such as preventing civilians from leaving their homes so that they become human shields for them, sexually abusing women, de-humanising people by takfiring them, preparing refugee camps prior to driving innocent mwn women and children into them at the barrel of a gun.
Moderate Syrian opposition, pull the other one, it’s got pink tights, and Muslim Brotherhood freemason pompoms on.
“I’m calling for your banishment and looking for support from others. And if anybody attempts to support your anti-Islamic or racist comments I shall be calling for the to be banned too
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Very Stalinist, Mr Goss.
And the first one to stop clapping and sit down was taken away by the NKVD after the meeting.
BirdDroppings:
“I see Hospitalsuperbug, Habba for short, objects to Thierry Miessan shedding light on the frantic lies of the neo-cons.”
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Not at all, dear boy.
I merely invited interested readers to check put his biography (eg on Wikipedia) before lending undue weight to the fellow’s vapourings.
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You’re obviously so well acquainted with the chap that you can’t even spell his name properly!
Is that what an “Oxford” education (college and subject undisclosed) buys you?