It’s pretty good show. Most of the discussion involves social media researcher and Fordham professor Alice Marwick and Helen Lewis of the New Statesman. Those of us in the Google+ Hangout pop in briefly with comments and questions.
FWIW, I appear only briefly in the show proper, but I have a somewhat longer (and a bit more coherent) comment in the ten minute “online only” portion that immediately follows the show (and which is also on this video).
It was a somewhat strange, if educational, experience, my first appearance on TV. (The next time I get webcammed into a show, I won’t reflexively look down at the laptop while talking.) It all went by really, really quickly. Weirdly frantic behind the scenes as the producer tried to slot us all in.
The comments on the video on YouTube nicely illustrate the problem we were discussing; that is, they are a rancid pile of misogynistic shitlordery.
My favorite comment is this one from Urhoboman5 about Rebecca Watson:
At 5;30 that chick has a youtube channel. Just type in rebecca feminist and you’ll find it. Interesting how most of her videos are voted down. Sometimes as much as 80% negative because the stuff she says is pure nonsense.
That’s right. He actually thinks that the fact that her videos are targeted by downvote squads proves that she’s wrong to talk about harassment. She’s harassed by dudes who don’t like her talking about harassment so therefore it’s “nonsense” for her to talk about harassment. Brilliant.
because your a reactionary nationalist asshole, duh
The First Joe, is this all because David was interviewed by Al Jazeera? You know that doesn’t makes all Islamic homophobes, right?
it’s kind of amusing how joe too stupid to come up with a comeback besides ‘nuh-uh y-y-youre the racist’
Joe, shut the fuck up. Your caps lock ragey tantrums aren’t fooling anyone, ya racist, misogynistic crank.
Because you lack the wit to understand the difference between recognizing someone is downtrodden and acknowledging that person’s misbehavior?
Joe, we don’t like homophobia regardless of who it comes from. No one here is going to argue that homophobia is ay-okay as long as it comes from Muslims.
So why are you so angry with us?
NWO slave is the only smart person in here. The rest of you are losers.
Joe’s angry because a.) he can’t read, and b.) the mind rays are telling him to be.
Pear_tree said:
“Interesting so not believing all Muslims are evil is racist. You learn something new every day.”
No. Failing utterly to condemn evil thuggery by extremist Islamists who are actually fucking attacking people is racist. It’s racist because the people who pander to these evil thugs believe Islam = a race and they are putting this FICTIONAL race of Islam above all other people. THAT IS RACIST.
“Two things, the attack was horrendous and there are no excuses. ”
Thank you for saying that. You will be astonished to here that across two separate threads with several posts repeating the point, you are the FIRST and so far ONLY manboobzer to even give a flying fuck about a young gay man who was beaten and stabbed multiple times and left paralysed.
And the reason for that? Is your fellow manboobzers are racists who put the FICTIONAL race of Islam above everybody else. This young gay man happened to be a white person, it is VERY telling that no-one else here stopped even for a moment to condemn the violence he suffered.
“However, the BBC article neither mentions the sexual orientation of the victim or the religion of the perpetrator. It is horrific he did such a thing and boasted about it. I don’t see how it is proof if Muslim homophobia.”
I strongly suggest you read the article by Johann Hari – he writes for The Independent newspaper here in the UK, and actually lives IN that neighbourhood – I already quoted it at length, but here’s the link again:
http://johannhari.com/2011/02/25/can-we-talk-about-muslim-homophobia-now/
See also this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/07/muslims-britain-france-germany-homosexuality
I got a BLACK DADDY (or MOMMY) that means I’m NOT RACIST and can’t be held accountable when I rail against MUSLIM GAY BASHERS.
Dude, we got Christian gay bashers over here. It’s so bad someone can set fire to a box of Cheerios on the lawn of General Mills (shortly, a box of Cheerios AND the lawn of General Mills) while attacking them for being pro-gay, and everyone correctly assumes this guy is a fundie Christian.
But your big thing is MUSLIM GAY BASHERS. Do you have no Christian or secular gay bashers in Murrie Olde Engelond?
joe is indignant as fuck about a dumb persons definition of what racism is
youve confused joe with someone who’s interested in solving things. he’s only interested in blaming things on people he doesnt like. being a dumb right wing racist, that adds up to a lot of people.
Jock itch?
Hey, Joe! We condemn homophobia. A homophobe can be a member of any race or religion. No matter what race or religion any given homophobe happens to be a member of, homophobia sucks.
If someone attacks someone else for being gay, that’s wrong. Come to that, violently assaulting people is wrong in general, no matter what the motivations of the attacker are.
IT IS WRONG AND WE CONDEMN IT.
How clear do I have to make this?
Jonathan Hari has also been discredited for making up interviews, and quoting from other sources as if he was the interviewer.
It is interesting from a Google nothing before 2010 mentions his sexual orientation, and the only report in 2009 that mentions where he was going says an off-licence with a female friend. This disagrees with later reports which suggests he left the George and Dragon. The contradictions between the reports are intriguing. It surprises me the Daily Mail would cover up Islamic homophobia. However, it may be legal limits on what they can say as there wasn’t enough evidence for a hate crimes charge.
@Anathema – fuck all this “code words” and “dog whistles” bollocks.
Let’s get something clear:
Here in the UK, hell, even here in my smallish town we have (just off the top of my head) Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Nepalese, Afro-Carribean, Zimabawean, South African, Nigerian, Ghanian, Tanzanian, Malawian, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Portugese, US, Canadian & South American people. People of pretty much every colour and creed on Earth. If I walk down my street and pass 20 people, odds are about 15 of them will not be speaking English. And you know what? I’m totally cool with that. Actually, I’d say there’s a lot to love about living in such a cosmopolitan place.
I am NOT cool with violent fascist fuckbags of any colour or creed. (Fuck off BNP!)
What’s more:
The odds are that the young muslim man who stabbed Olly Hemsley was not an immigrant.
EXTREMIST Islam is not very frequent among first generation immigrants to the UK (probably because many of them fled brutally oppressive Sharia type regimes) EXTREMIST Islamism is more frequent among 2nd or 3rd generation muslims who were born here – i.e. BRITISH muslim people, there’s also a fair few indigenous converts who wind up as extremists (Richard Reed “the shoeb0mb3r”) ….
Joey Joe-Joe Jr. Shabadoo reminds me of something I read on SRS.
Men’s Rights is a social justice cargo cult. They use the terminology social justice in bizarre and primitive matters.
“People use these words and society slowly changes. Perhaps if I use those words…”
Here’s a link to wikipedia because I’m sure Joe has no idea what “cargo cult” means.
@The First Joe
of course you support the BNP and the EDL, why? Because your hatred of Muslims and your general xenophobia is overpowering. And because you are regurgitating verbatim EDL talking points regarding ‘Islam not a race’
And you express concern for gay stabbing victims of ‘muslim’ offenders, because you view these victims as useful to your agenda. Otherwise I doubt you would give a shit.
I still have fond memories of Antifa in the eighties and early nineties in London. Ass kicking boneheads and watching them run.
Mixed race is not an excuse for being a tosser.
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Sunburn!
30 seconds on google tells me that the head of the British Equality & Human Rights Commission believes that Christian homophobes are a bigger problem in the UK than Muslim homophobes. Go take it up with him.
@The First Joe
everybody agrees that people who commit crimes are criminals and should be dealt with by the law. Criminals stab people. If you would recognise that first, then maybe you can then talk about their motivation, Calmly. You asshole.
If SRS said that, then they got something right. The game is rigged.
Dumb YouTube comment:
> Interesting how most of her videos are voted down. Sometimes as much as 80% negative because the stuff she says is pure nonsense.
Relying on online voting to gauge veracity?
On YouTube?
*sigh*
Son, let me just quote the wise words of CmdrTaco, on topic of online polls: “This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you’re using these numbers to do anything important, you’re insane.”
And that’s “important” as in having a coherent plan for using the poll results. Using a poll to determine truth of arguments is as stupid methodology as they come. All a poll can, in this case, to determine is whether or not the opinion is unpopular – and if it stuck the nerve of votebotters, you can start asking why they’re unpopular opinions.
Joe, what’s the difference between a fictional race and a real race?