He's riffing on that well-worn Erich Fromm quote, "nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity".
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
lol the Tim Lott CiF piece is so perfect for the Guardian ------> bin
― ey mk II, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:26 (nine years ago) link
It's perfectly pitched to provoke. It's good to see that his writing skills haven't completely atrophied from writing those 'man about the house' family life articles.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:09 (nine years ago) link
literally listing your boring reactionary beliefs in a rewrite of the same column you've been writing for a decade ≠ writing skills
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:14 (nine years ago) link
good to know that if you self-identify as a Good Lefty you can pretty much believe whatever shit you want though
Lol at the Owen Jones/Julie Bindel spat
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
I think that Tim Lott piece is pretty good tbqh, had me nodding in agreement throughout
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
it didn't really have much more of a point beyond 'i self-identify as left-leaning but a lot of people disagree with me', which is a bit 'so what' in my book, whereas it could potentially have been a much more thorough and interesting piece.
― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Lex otm. It is something that comes up again and again - comfortable centre-leftists who still dominate practically every sphere of liberal journalism getting shook and defensive when their assumptions are challenged on Twitter. Either stand your ground and engage or ignore it, don't whine because someone thinks you're less right-on than you believe you are.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
This is just Chait redux. Yes it's another centre-left middle-aged white man whining but you'd have to be in complete denial not to realise that purity tests, dogma and groupthink are a problem. It's easy to avoid that issue by clowning Lott.
I preferred this less whiny piece by an activist, which identifies similar problems:
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2014/11/everything-problematic/
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
That's a really good article.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
hands up itt who self identifies as a good lefty, hands up now
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Either stand your ground and engage or ignore it, don't whine because someone thinks you're less right-on than you believe you are
I was under the impression he was engaging by writing this article in a mass circulation broadsheet newspaper/website. Does every debate have to be conducted on Twitter nowadays?
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
see you're falling squarely into the trap identified by the piece there, those are not reactionary beliefs
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
xxp i self-identify as a bad lefty
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Xp, he's not engaging substantively on any issue, he's highlighting the fact that he no longer feels comfortable talking about things because people disagree with him and might think badly of him.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
He seems very comfortable in talking about things, especially if one of those things his himself
― anvil, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
I have made a typo, some may consider my point undermined, I would like to pre-emptively bring this up before anybody else does and suggest it is an attempt to derail my argument
― anvil, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Amused by the idea that engaging with people you disagree with on Twitter is wise or even possible. I try it and it's worthwhile maybe 20% of the time.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
So ignore it.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
i liked that mcgilldaily piece
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari),
wise
i try only engage with people if they are in a listening mode.... and, more importantly, if I am in a listening mode, though sometimes I get tricked, or forget
― anvil, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
on twitter? lol
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
on twitter? oh no, i dont respond to anyone!
― anvil, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
phew
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
SV talking sense
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I like the McGill piece too - it has empathy and intelligence - although it fails to acknowledge the stranglehold that nuance-free dogma has over all areas of the political discourse, and the consequent doom of any intellectual approach that doesn't appropriate cultural (and therefore commercial) methodology. Would like to see it reposted to Hoos' activism thread
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
one of its strengths imo is that she was writing about the specific community she had experience w/ + not drawing conclusions to "all areas of the political discourse"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Fair. I wonder if there are areas of political discourse that escape the trappings of dogma, though. Hers is a very widely-applicable cautionary tale. I'd like to see how she attempts to effect sociocultural change going forward
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
yes, very good article; personally relate to a lot in it
― drash, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
magill piece is ok I dont have much time for the personal/confessional "let my experience teach u about the woooorlllld" type of piece even when it would suit my argument
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
But the personal/confessional angle is what rhetorically enables her to make her critique (e.g. "I will not mention a single sin that I have not been fully and damnably guilty of in my time"). All those disclaimers & qualifications & acknowledgments-- deftly done & rhetorically necessary for her addressees (within the radical left) to hear her.
― drash, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
her whole point may be that it soecifically does not. being right makes you right and anyone can make any point.
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
well maybe more rhetorically clever than entirely ideologically self-consistent but i think you can say "experience can be very valuable" w/out reducing it to "experience is the only thing of value"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
idk maybe who cares
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that's one of the interesting things about the essay. She deploys her personal ideological bona fides ("I was/am one of you") to render her argument persuasive; but one of the things she argues is that personal/group ID (like a shibboleth) is not determinative of political rationality or truth. (She uses a ladder in order to dispose of the ladder at the end.)
― drash, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
fair analysis, you could argue it a dozen or ways I guess
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
I relate because I'm very familiar with that rhetorical situation-- having to very carefully navigate political discussion, hedging and qualifying, maintaining your bona fides and walking on eggshells (I'm not, by temperament, an egg-crusher— though that sure seems like fun sometimes).
― drash, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if being "right" or speaking "truth" is an important part of politics
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
one v other, or either
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
either
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
getting made and getting paid are the two main components iirc
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
"Kimmel said Kanye West had told him, Kimmel, that Obama calls him, Kanye, at home."
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 March 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
did Kimmel ask kanye if Obama calls kanye and Kim kimye also could kanye, Kim (or kimye) tell kimmel if they think Barack was born in kenya
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 13 March 2015 13:05 (nine years ago) link
Barack in the USSR.
Have they used that one yet?
― Mark G, Friday, 13 March 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
No because it doesn't exist.
― nashwan, Friday, 13 March 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Never stopped them before.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
His live sets are notoriously unpredictable. At the Wireless festival in London last summer he was reportedly booed after pausing the music to offer the crowd an extensive mid-set rant. On the other hand, his Watch the Throne tour with Jay-Z was regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop tours ever.
Whatever else might happen, it’s unlikely West’s Glastonbury appearance will be uneventful.
The Guardian is Glastonbury’s media partner.
― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 March 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
sure
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 March 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
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― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link