tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post2030236378432881646..comments2024-03-19T07:45:47.298-05:00Comments on Althouse: "I want to see queer and trans people of color with radical social and political analyses dominate independent media by creating and growing our own platforms, so we can centralize and control our own narratives."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52006482354833417352015-01-05T02:20:11.040-06:002015-01-05T02:20:11.040-06:00If these people came into power on a Monday, they&...If these people came into power on a Monday, they'd be hacking off testicles by Thursday afternoon. Let's stop pretending otherwise.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14483740275045966355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84369992630062335492015-01-04T21:53:15.574-06:002015-01-04T21:53:15.574-06:00OK, I read the article and I think I got it. Corre...OK, I read the article and I think I got it. Correct me if I'm wrong.<br /><br />They want to be able to punish people they disagree with, or just don't like - primarily heterosexual white males - in whatever way they see fit on any allegation, or even nothing at all. None of this "due process" crap which was invented by racist dead white men a couple of hundred years ago. <br /><br />They want to criminalize the speech of people they disagree with, or just don't like, to prevent them from tainting the pure young minds they've worked so hard to train.<br /><br />Amirite?<br />Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49048406398446864332015-01-04T17:35:01.915-06:002015-01-04T17:35:01.915-06:00If this is a declaration of war show them honor by...If this is a declaration of war show them honor by taking it seriously. Marginalize these clowns to the maximum extent and meet violent rhetoric and violence by bringing back the contemptuous back of the hand slap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16345663124389938972015-01-04T13:26:18.271-06:002015-01-04T13:26:18.271-06:00I'm going to grow my own platform this year in...I'm going to grow my own platform this year in my garden but trouble already - the way they looked at me in the garden store when I asked for platform seeds. Not sure I can go back there for anything.<br />Maybe I'll take out an Emily Dickinson poem written with my fountain pen - there was trouble over that too at CVS mainly over ink in a bottle but when I get all that then I'll write out this poem from the greatest women writer ever <br />"I'm nobody -<br />Who are you?<br />Are you nobody too?<br />Don't tell - <br />They'd banish us you know.<br />How dreary to be somebody -<br />How public = like a frog -<br />To tell your name the livelong day<br />To an admiring bog."<br /><br />And bury it and see if it comes up a platform.<br /><br />You know even if they get a platform to grow there will be nobody but us nothings to listen to them. Hardly worth it, really wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47902094762098742832015-01-04T12:54:42.349-06:002015-01-04T12:54:42.349-06:00Totally unfair attack on an admittedly screwy bunc...<i>Totally unfair attack on an admittedly screwy bunch by a covert comedian.</i><br /><br />My my my guess the Post must have deleted every single one of those "many" "perceptive" comments you saw calling the article a hoax.<br /><br />Now plodding lumpen-liberal Ruth Tam is a sly subversive comedian? Dude, you should have just slunk away quietly when your were caught out in your first dumb fib.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41701669328785628242015-01-04T12:15:09.621-06:002015-01-04T12:15:09.621-06:00Asking people for quotes and printing them in the ...Asking people for quotes and printing them in the Washington Post is "attacking" them?<br /><br />Can you at least come up with a coherent troll here?Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49154978513009155982015-01-04T11:54:11.610-06:002015-01-04T11:54:11.610-06:00Totally unfair attack on an admittedly screwy bunc...Totally unfair attack on an admittedly screwy bunch by a covert comedian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79413360391549089062015-01-04T11:37:06.408-06:002015-01-04T11:37:06.408-06:00Anonymous: I thought the comments on the original...Anonymous: <i>I thought the comments on the original were perceptive. Many said, and I agree, that it must be a hoax. Judging by the comments here, the hoax is working well by drawing out your bigoted commentators.</i><br /><br />No, "many" made the perceptive observation that the "leading feminists" were parodies of themselves, which does not mean what you seem to think it means. As of this minute, there's not a single comment there alleging a hoax.<br /><br />Since you think the quotes from these very serious ladies (you can look 'em up, you know) are so stupid and crazy that the article must be a hoax, you obviously must a hateful bigot yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54453174288590190872015-01-04T10:40:06.135-06:002015-01-04T10:40:06.135-06:00"it must be a hoax"
Why? What leads you...<i>"it must be a hoax"</i><br /><br />Why? What leads you to that conclusion?Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44826789588563731032015-01-04T10:26:54.635-06:002015-01-04T10:26:54.635-06:00I thought the comments on the original were percep...I thought the comments on the original were perceptive. Many said, and I agree, that it must be a hoax. Judging by the comments here, the hoax is working well by drawing out your bigoted commentators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78741484901750015442015-01-04T09:47:06.028-06:002015-01-04T09:47:06.028-06:00Garbled and dispiriting does pretty much define th...Garbled and dispiriting does pretty much define them.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-85733477831965034762015-01-04T09:23:11.745-06:002015-01-04T09:23:11.745-06:00jr565: First world feminism is about rich white l...jr565: <i>First world feminism is about rich white ladies problems and not real issues.</i><br /><br />I guess you didn't notice the racial distribution of this dozy bint parade. "Whiny and stupid" is an equal-opportunity condition.<br /><br />As far as I can see, contemporary "first world feminism" is about providing a "safe space" for mentally unstable people to drool and babble in, and hustling up foundation- and tax-funded jobs for otherwise unemployable parasites with degrees in IHateStraightWhiteMen Studies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64639766183281381852015-01-04T09:05:29.936-06:002015-01-04T09:05:29.936-06:00Queer and trans people of color with radical polit...Queer and trans people of color with radical political and social views. Both of them!Skylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10574746114813075566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25142432570367702192015-01-04T08:50:35.215-06:002015-01-04T08:50:35.215-06:00"Isn't the whole point of Indy media that...<i>"Isn't the whole point of Indy media that no one group can dominate it?"</i><br /><br />I assume you're being rhetorical here. <br /><br />From the snippets provided, it sounds like most of these people are devoted to advancing the interests of tiny in-groups at the expense of everyone else (especially the outiest out-group of them all, white heterosexual men). The tinier the interest group advanced, the more crazed the proponents sound.Paco Wovéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053886112561036768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20007069722729659162015-01-04T08:48:01.873-06:002015-01-04T08:48:01.873-06:00Fivewwheels- these folks really do believe that jo...Fivewwheels- these folks really do believe that jobs are created by fiat (and not AT Fiat)Someone way smarter than I am observed, in answer to Granny Warren's "you didn't build that" speech- that is the way these people think- start a program, hire your friends with trans--gender studies degrees. Also- are we sure this article is not a parody?gandersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509861132672952113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1995892247977744532015-01-04T07:38:31.098-06:002015-01-04T07:38:31.098-06:00I couldn't read most of them--what most striki...I couldn't read most of them--what most striking is the sameness of all the New Year's wishes. 25 slightly varying ways of saying the same thing.tim maguirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07717622436074043099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-935729231060484332015-01-04T07:32:00.549-06:002015-01-04T07:32:00.549-06:00First world feminism is about rich white ladies pr...First world feminism is about rich white ladies problems and not real issues. They've gone so far past A Room Of One's Own. But ladies still have to bitch. So now it's about exaggerating rape statistics to pretend that there is a rape epidemic. Because there is really nothing modern feminists have to argue about.<br />Of course, they could go down to Afghanistan to see where real feminism is needed. jr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-92011125156373853162015-01-04T06:58:04.538-06:002015-01-04T06:58:04.538-06:00And yet they have pussies, so we talk to them, but...And yet they have pussies, so we talk to them, but this new generation takes even that incentive away.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56906919461987667222015-01-04T06:49:48.576-06:002015-01-04T06:49:48.576-06:00We have an amazing opportunity with @heforshe for ...<i>We have an amazing opportunity with @heforshe for one half of humanity (men) to join in solidarity with the other half of humanity (women) in creating a shared vision of gender equality that benefits all of humanity<br /><br /></i>Yeah, sure. Men, you do all the work. Women will just sit back and watch, judging your efforts. <br /><br />Typical.MadisonManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212179466758420208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77421435797395964702015-01-04T06:45:59.385-06:002015-01-04T06:45:59.385-06:00I just want them to write clearly. Sentences that...I just want them to write clearly. Sentences that are devoid of jargon would be a good start.MadisonManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212179466758420208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64660642239048206452015-01-04T06:36:19.726-06:002015-01-04T06:36:19.726-06:00The good ship "Who Cares?" is out of the...The good ship "Who Cares?" is out of the port and long gone over the horizon.Vet66https://www.blogger.com/profile/13991214729039112573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15544946051636219032015-01-04T06:27:15.077-06:002015-01-04T06:27:15.077-06:00Imagine going back to 1974 and saying to a feminis...Imagine going back to 1974 and saying to a feminist of that time: "Forty years in the future the biggest problem facing women will be the lack of outlets for trans-sexual and racial minority free-lance writers."<br /><br />Don't you think that the 1974 feminist would be overwhelmed with how many problems had been solved?Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05136370778467544815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5078177165535228802015-01-04T06:17:08.192-06:002015-01-04T06:17:08.192-06:00Charlene Carruthers, 29 | Black Youth Project 100...<i>Charlene Carruthers, 29 | Black Youth Project 100 National Coordinator | @CharleneCac<br />I hope to see a continued resurgence of young Black people owning their power to end police and domestic violence. </i><br /><br />So, you're going to just DEMAND shit, in louder and louder voices and actions, while offering NOTHING in return? Yeah, that ought to work.SomeoneHasToSayIthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03648946322945404947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13334213891262550452015-01-04T02:00:33.946-06:002015-01-04T02:00:33.946-06:00what stupid human beings they are
what stupid human beings they are<br />Lylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09082051710068390275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8890946972790417322015-01-04T01:38:09.314-06:002015-01-04T01:38:09.314-06:00Translation: We want to be heard. We want an alter...Translation: We want to be heard. We want an alternative to the corporate mindfuck.<br /><br />This is the language of their university classes. What's changed from my own college era is the melding of softened biz/tech lingo into the eternally awkward mix: "creating and growing our own platforms," etc. (Isn't the whole point of Indy media that no one group can dominate it?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com