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.
I am Irish-American.
Ah. That accounts for everything. The hostility is a reflex. I have experienced this in an Irish bar in Boston (and would probably not in Dublin, interestingly) Calm down. I’m not the scion of your ancestors’ oppressors. My people did 15 hours a day in Lancashire cotton mills under the same system…
…the cotton having been picked by American slaves…
Here is what the Wikipedia article…
So it’s not your own superior knowledge after all, then?
Lysias:
“The Young Turks paid as much attention to the moral dictates of Islam as ISIS currently does.”
Yes, because neither of them are/were Muslims, just Zionist agents fomenting the confiscation of Arab land in Palestine and now Syria.
Lawrence’s role in the Arab world was to photo Arab leaders with their pants down and invent the ladder system for torturing them into submission to British rule.
I would prefer it if you didn’t bring that piece of dog-do into the discussion.
If you’re talking about my hostility towards the Young Turk criminals, yes, my hostility towards murderous oppressors of small peoples no doubt has something to do with my ancestry. I also consider it a moral duty.
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed the hostility towards the Israeli oppressors of Palestinians in Dublin, but it is most certainly there.
“I’ll see your Salmond and raise you a Cameron, Fred.”
Do what you like I can’t stand David Cameron and have never voted Conservative in my life.
How come whenever I criticise the SNP the nats always pretend I support one of the other parties? Can’t they comprehend I criticise the SNP because they are incompetent and untrustworthy?
re 4.05
You’ve got a standard establishment attitude. You can find contempt for desert-dwellers as far back as in the Greek sources of the Roman period. It was because they feared them. There was a well-established deal lasting over many centuries whereby the Hijazis made their living from transporting and feeding the pilgrims on the Hajj. The Ottomans destroyed this at a blow without thinking in 1908.
Yes, I’ve known a good number. Doesn’t mean they’re always right though. Modern historians have had a tendency to rely on (British) documents, and to be unaware of anything that happened before 1800, although the economic system was much older.
34 Arabs executed as martyrs? Saudi’s done better than that this year. See above for the latest intended headless corpse. Cemal also seems to have transported 5000 Arabs, and moved Arabs to distant theatres of war – exactly as we did with Indians, Chinese and Anzac conscripts. Small beans in terms of what’s going on now.
Going a little further afield than Wikipedia, it seems that at one point we were considering taking Cemal on board….
Cemal’s independent attitude in Syria triggered a flurry of diplomatic exchanges between the Entente countries toward the end of 1915. This pertained to rumors about a possible coup by Cemal against the İstanbul government, with an eye to establishing himself as the ruler of Anatolia and Syria. The correspondence was about whether, how, and under what conditions this alleged scheme should be abetted, but the matter was dropped at the beginning of 1916.
Which might have at least preserved the governmental infrastructure. As has not happened in Iraq and Libya under our superior rules of engagement.
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7n39p1dn&chunk.id=s1.6.5&toc.id=ch06&brand=ucpress
You’ve got a standard establishment attitude.
Up to you to demonstrate that it’s wrong, though. That’s just a cop-out. My opinion, which is at least as good as yours, and stated to be nothing more, has been formed by quite a lot of reading round the subject. Which tells me that the desert Arabs were as tough as they come, and had to be as they were living in an unforgiving environment. Robbing and killing were a functional part of tribal life, at least around the Empty Quarter, into the 50’s. I don’t despise them at all. But they were hardly the material of which democratic governments are made.
I’ll concede you the Hizaz hajj trade, though with reservations. Which didn’t always go swimmingly, as tribes relieved of their escort contracts had a nasty habit of attacking the next year’s run. The railway merely unified them somewhat – they’d all been aced out.
And for the rest of the year?
“Do what you like I can’t stand David Cameron and have never voted Conservative in my life.
How come whenever I criticise the SNP the nats always pretend I support one of the other parties? Can’t they comprehend I criticise the SNP because they are incompetent and untrustworthy?”
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So if you believe Fred he’s neither a Tory or Labour man, he can’t vote Green either as he’s ran down windfarms in here in the past.
That leaves the self confessed liars party (Alistair Carmichael) seems appropriate for Fred to be a member.
My money however is on Fred supporting UKIP.
Lysias; “Their policies towards Arabs in Syria during the war may not have been as genocidal as the way they treated Armenians and Assyrians, but they were certainly draconian.”
The legacy is that despite being co-religionists, still today Arabs generally & strongly dislike Turks, so you can imagine the strong anti-Turkish sentiment in other places that had the misfortune to be under the Ottoman yoke.
Hi Arbed, good to hear the facts again, maybe Louise Un/mensch, who left a brief squirt on one of the pages, would read some of the facts of the case, less embarrassing that way.
I have posted a link to the Nyheter pages, regards the alleged cases of immigrants raping at a rock festival, this cover up really shows how much in a pickle the Swedish judiciary is regards rape, consent and judicial resolve vis a vis the accusations against JA, there is no way they can present a balanced egalitarian view. the media has already scuppered JA’s case.
All we have to find out now is, what the British police has planned on doing, should he walk out after a trial in the embassy, they spend over 10 million and have got nothing to show for.
please do keep us informed as to when and where the party is going to be held, I’m sure a few thousand will want to join in and bring a bottle of Schnapps.
“That leaves the self confessed liars party (Alistair Carmichael) seems appropriate for Fred to be a member.”
Calling you a retard is something of an insult to retards. You are too stupid to have any concept of anyone not being a brainwashed fanatic. When I have voted I have voted for the person not the party, I voted for the candidate I knew had worked hard to help help constituency and individual members of his constituency which is more than the turd in a bucket we have now does.
Why would a construct such as IS/Daesh, purporting to be struggling for for a global Islamic caliphate, be attacking the country with the most Muslim on earth? Indonesia
“Calling you a retard is something of an insult to retards. You are too stupid to have any concept of anyone not being a brainwashed fanatic. When I have voted I have voted for the person not the party, I voted for the candidate I knew had worked hard to help help constituency and individual members of his constituency which is more than the turd in a bucket we have now does.”
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Erm…Fred when you vote for the “individual” you’re still voting for that party Fred, unless that individual isn’t linked to any party, and stands as a independent.
Oh do say your hard working rep is an independent, Fred voting for “an independent” sounds wonderful.
Or I take it from your hostile response that you are indeed a member of the LibDems. Willie Rennie can’t help pushing the #SNPBAD mantra so I understand your loyalty to Mr Rennies representative in your area.
But I may have picked you wrong, because you didn’t actually say what party your wonderful local rep is attatched to.
“Oh do say your hard working rep is an independent, Fred voting for “an independent” sounds wonderful.”
I don’t have to say anything about me. I posted the facts, a review in the Times about Alex Salmond’s radio show. I didn’t post about you ore anyone else here. You are the ones who can’t discus the facts without attacking me personally, you are the one desperate to talk about me so you don’t have to talk about Salmond or SNP failures.
But it won’t work because as soon as the focus turns towards me I start flaming.
Understand now?
“Why would a construct such as IS/Daesh, purporting to be struggling for for a global Islamic caliphate, be attacking the country with the most Muslim on earth? Indonesia”
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Well Nevermind Indonesia has strong links to friends with form, I for one find the official narrative, leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/worst-kept-secret-israel-indonesia-do-business-together/
And it’s the worst kept secret in the world that Mossad has a base in Indonesia. Mossad coperates closely with the Indonesian special forces group called Kopassus.
Fred’s heading for a meltdown, the reason for it? I’ve asked him which political party he supports or votes for.
What’s the big deal Fred?
If you don’t want answer fair enough just say I’m not telling you.
Don’t however go into a big song and dance routine about it.
Talk about being highly strung.
“What’s the big deal Fred?”
The big deal is that whenever I post inconvenient truths I get personal abuse from the Nationalists.
I post a review of Alex Salmond getting his arse handed to him on live radio so Baal decides to imply I’m a conservative and a fan of David Camerons. Then you start telling people I’m UKIP.
It won’t work with me sunshine so you can FOAD.
re 4.40
I thought I’d given my reasons. The British historians relied on British documents, and thus absorbed their point of view. (The British in the Middle East in the First World War were actually very ignorant of local conditions). Don’t want to believe any unreliable old Arabs. I’ve got a Syrian student at the moment who’s writing a history of a Damascus suburb, though it only peripherally touches the modern period (which is not my thing). It’s an eye-opener when you look at it from their point of view.
You’d be surprised how much an economy can revolve around a single annual event. It’s a bit like holiday areas here in France: they do all their business in one mad rush in July and August.
It wasn’t the basis of the economy though, more what was seen by Westerners. Outside visitors, like Thesiger in the case of of the Empty Quarter, are quite good at giving a comprehensive description of a society, but there’s lots of things they miss because they don’t know the society well. Tribal life was very structured, in spite of, or more because of, the lack of a central government. Years ago in the 80s, I had several trips where I got invited to Saudi official receptions for their colleagues (not Westerners). It was very interesting to discover what they said to one another, when the Westerners weren’t there, nor many from Riyadh.
Fred, I haven’t even read your Alex Salmond comment, I am interested in which political party you vote for, you said you didn’t like the Tories and in a previous thread you told me your not a Labour man either.
Instead of you saying I’m not telling you, you go into a speel about coming under attack from all sides from anyone who voted for the SNP and independence.
Mountains and mole hills spring to mind.
“Fred, I haven’t even read your Alex Salmond comment, I am interested in which political party you vote for, you ”
Well you can fuck off and wonder then.
I’m looking forward to Assange finally being freed as it is blindingly obvious that he was set up by that silly woman and the Swedish state acting for the US.
Speaking of nasty women as soon as you hear those two special words “bomb Iran” you know you are dealing with a top of the range neo con idiot, Mensch must feel really proud of the demented company she keeps, reptiles like Netanyahu, McCain, Cheney. Rumsfeld, Christie, Fiorina, Huckabee, and a host of other world class numskulls talk just like that..
“Well you can fuck off and wonder then.”
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And you wonder why you receive negative comments.
For anyone interested, a fascinating interview with David Bowie about how ‘Life on Mars’ came to be made. I think it’s from a Danish tv station and looks as though it was broadcast sometime in the 1990s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5fV4KaMGbY
I bet that there are still some hypocritical & deluded “Freedom of Speech” advocates who will seek to defend this latest piece of sick filth from Charlie Hebdo;
“What would Aylan have become if he’d grown up? A bum groper in Germany”
https://www.rt.com/news/328821-charlie-syrian-boy-cartoon/
“And you wonder why you receive negative comments.”
No, I know why. Because retard Nationalists aren’t capable of arguing the facts so they attack the person.
Fred : I voted for the candidate [Lord Thurso] I knew had worked hard to help help constituency and individual members of his constituency which is more than the turd in a bucket [Dr Paul Monaghan] we have now does.
http://paulmonaghan.scot/former-john-thurso-election-agent-joins-snp/
IAAF corruption investigator, and part time porn star Dick Pound today.
“The report also claimed the IAAF Council, which included Coe, “could not have been unaware of the extent of doping in athletics”.
But Dick Pound, whose report damns IAAF governance, insists he “can’t think of anyone better” than Coe to lead it.”
I can.
Fred : So what?
So an expert believes that Caithness is well rid of your Lord and better off under the SNP.