What are you radicalising to?

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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by Madrigal » Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:51 pm

ashi wrote:
Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:33 pm
I will start things with Gail Dines' "Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism" from 2012, with the note that everything mentioned here has become significantly worse in the time since.
This sounds like everything I would agree with but I need to make some time on the weekend to watch it, thanks. :)

Radicalizing? I feel like I'm going in the opposite direction. Although I've made a plan of finishing the left-wing books in my library before the next fascist takeover forces me to throw them away. /not paranoid at all

I keep wondering what an emergency disposal plan would be like (yep, still talking about this) and all I can think of is the garbage chute in the building, but if someone finds a bunch of commie books published in Argentina I think it would be a dead giveaway, since I'm probably already identified as the Argentinean.

I just finished The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, which took me ages because it goes into so much detail about how state agencies changed under Stalin and those who followed. But it's a good book. Now I want to read more things about the follow-up to WW2. No particular reason. :ph34r:

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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by Utisz » Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:20 am

ashi wrote:
Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:33 pm
I will start things with Gail Dines' "Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism" from 2012, with the note that everything mentioned here has become significantly worse in the time since.
There's a lot of parts I agree with and a good few parts I disagree with, or at least would say that she's overreaching.

I guess overall I am not sure about the context of the talk. Like if it is intended to be an academic lecture, playing devil's advocate, I think that there are many parts that are problematic (anecdotal accounts, no references provided, too much pov presented in a matter-of-fact way). If it is intended to be a talk from an ideological perspective, it makes more sense.

I agree in large part from an ideological standpoint with neoliberalism, with the danger of individualism, with the problems of hegemony, with the importance of collective agency and looking out for the most vulnerable, etc. I also agree that some of the examples she gave from third wave feminism are batshit crazy.

I think she is being disingenuous or naive in other parts. She seems to relate fandom of 50 Shades of Gray as something that stems from ideology, permitted by Third Wave Feminism, for example. My sister went to the premiere of the movie with some of our cousins. The Third Wave Feminism washed up some distance before the hilly regions of the West of Ireland from which my family is from. She rebukes an account from a woman working in the porn industry via a superficial and pretentious reference to Marx (though I guess she sort of has a point about neglecting the vulnerable). She quotes some horrible anecdotes from the porn industry for impact, but one could do something similar for any social activity, like talking about people who were decapitated while driving cars (not to equate the two, but just to say that the anecdotal form of argument is poor).

This is not to say that she is incorrect, and for sure the porn industry is fucked up in many ways ... just the manner and certainty with which she portrays certain viewpoints are not academically sound in my opinion, and immediately switch me into devil's advocate mode. If the talk is intended to be ideological, then more power to her.

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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by SomeInternetBloke » Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:18 am

SomeInternetBloke wrote:
Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:13 pm
Dunno why but this felt like some kind of deprogramming session. Ya know? :popcorn:

Before I didn't think she was attractive. After watching this I think she's hot. I like to hide how I'm into most chicks who care enough to shove something in their head so they're interesting. Or some other bombastically attractive trait that withers away into decrepitude across time.
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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by HighlyIrregular » Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:49 am

I started posting about supporting common core, then stopped, then I saw a Facebook page where they teach kids things like biscuits are hard and cookies are softer, and the difference between a shrimp and a prawn, so I'm posting again. I want the best the nation has to offer deciding what and especially how to teach, not some yokel with a calculator who was loyal to Trump.

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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by puerile_polyp » Mon Jan 03, 2022 10:29 pm

this guy

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Re: What are you radicalising to?

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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by elfsprin » Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:01 am

DJ Drug Problem wrote:
Tue Jan 04, 2022 2:19 am
That was fun but also I feel like it would be better with Dolly Parton, Betty White, and AOC.

Or any women really.
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Re: What are you radicalising to?

Post by DJ Drug Problem » Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:07 am

elfsprin wrote:
Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:01 am
DJ Drug Problem wrote:
Tue Jan 04, 2022 2:19 am
That was fun but also I feel like it would be better with Dolly Parton, Betty White, and AOC.

Or any women really.
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