Warren Ellis Picks 5 Books By Women You Should Read - "Even in the macho world of comics, Ellis has always written interesting, funny, cliché-defying female characters"
Warren Ellis Accused Of Grooming Young Women For Decades
Another male feminist bites the dust
Being Classically Liberal - Posts | Facebook - "Seems poignant that the major threat of the far left is higher taxes, while the major threat of the far right is, well, Dachau or Verdun"
"Communists killed my family but sure, it’s the high taxes I fear."
Further reply (original tweet was deleted): "It also started with smashing store windows and “say what we want you to say and you’ll be ok,” but it didn’t end with that. My great grandfather died in a gulag because that’s how leftist fantasies always end."
Other comment: "Same here- My great grandmother escaped her house while her parents and baby brother were taken to the gulags. She was around 13 years old. Parents died and little brother raised in a prison. He was unrecognizable when she saw him again when he was 17."
Simon Boyi Chen on Twitter - "Mr. Willink, as a former Chinese national whose family survived Maoist China, I’m profoundly worried that “progressive” activists like AOC are adopting the same tactics as orthodox Communists, with their cruel deception of self and others to suit their total ideological aims."
Simon Boyi Chen on Twitter - "As a former Chinese national whose family lived through Maoist China, and in light of recent developments, my warning to everyone in the English-speaking West is that it is careening towards its own Cultural Revolution. Don't tell me I didn't warn you all."
Simon Boyi Chen on Twitter - "As a former Chinese national whose family lived through Maoist China, my warning to everyone in the English-speaking West is that the same class resentment that fueled orthodox Communism is now fueling Social Communism, with the same cruelty of character, conceit, and deception."
Female Imams Aren’t The Only Feminist Solution. I Know Because I Am One - "When Zara Mohammed was announced as the first female secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, my phone lit up with messages... What I care less about is something that Emma Barnett, host of BBC Woman’s Hour, recently took Zara to task for: the number of female imams in the UK. And I say that as a female imam myself. In an interview about Zara’s momentous appointment, Barnett homed in on this one, non-existent statistic: “How many female imams are there in the UK?”... Cue facepalming from Muslim women across the country at the lack of religious literacy from an experienced journalist, and at the shaming of a Muslim woman of colour by a white woman on a woman-led radio show.Barnett likened statistical representation of female imams to the number of Muslims recorded in the UK census, and the appointment of female imams to female priests and rabbis. She hadn’t done enough basic research to know that there is no registry of imams (of any gender) where this statistic could be recorded and – thankfully! – no central body within Muslim communities that has appointed itself responsible for work on this area of representation... As many people on Twitter pointed out, it speaks volumes that Woman’s Hour tweeted this particularly hostile clip – extracted from a longer interview – twice within 48 hours to continue shaming a Muslim woman for tackling patriarchy in a way that prioritises the needs of her community... What Zara and other activists do is vitally important for the wider Muslim community and they must work in a way that prioritises the needs of their communities, not the white saviour priorities of white feminists like Emma Barnett... The number of female imams is only one indicator for meaningful leadership changes in Muslim communities and it’s not the most important one. Not when leadership is so varied and specific to the communities being served.Reducing our feminist progress to this one question about the number of female imams marginalises the other brilliant progress happening and imposes the priorities of white feminism on Muslim women."
Strange how this logic doesn't apply when it comes to "white" people - if 51% of CEO are men this is proof of immense sexism. And if there were no statistics on what proportion of CEOs were men this would be greeted with shock and horror, and yet more "proof" of "patriarchy"
The progressive stack means that questioning Muslim misogyny means you're racist
BBC vs Zara Mohammed: An exercise in Islamophobia - "the BBC's aggressive line of questioning reinforced Islamophobic stereotypes"
"Minorities" have no accountability. Liberals treat them like children
Muslim Council of Britain's first female leader won't question lack of female imams in UK - "The first female leader of the Muslim Council of Britain has said that questioning the UK’s lack of female imams is "not within parameters" of her role." Proof that feminism's obsession with having women in power is misguided since that is neither necessary nor sufficient to have equality
Mark Manson - Posts | Facebook - "The storybook narrative instills sexual insecurity and promotes lofty standards, which, when unmet, causes both men and women to become ornery and unaccommodating to the realities of attraction and the courtship process.When men feel like they can never be good enough to win the vagina, they decide to come up with ways to trick women into liking them. Sometimes they do it through manipulation. Sometimes they do it through overcompensation. In extreme cases, they may do it by force.When women feel like they can never be good enough to have their vagina won from them, they try to trick men into earning it. They play hard-to-get, create a bunch of unnecessary drama, or always keep the man guessing as to what their intentions really are.Be careful of the narratives you follow in romance."
The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case | WIRED - "Imagine a popular social network that takes privacy super seriously. By default, your posts are visible only to people in your real-life community. Not only does the company not use tracking cookies, but it promises it never will. It even announces that future changes to the privacy policy will be put to a vote by users before implementation.It’s hard to imagine now, but such a social network once existed. It was called Facebook... The bipartisan coalition, led by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, alleges that Facebook achieved its dominance through a years-long strategy of anticompetitive tactics, including its acquisitions of budding rivals like Instagram and WhatsApp. As it built up that dominant position, the suit argues, it began offering users a worse and worse privacy experience... Together, the lawsuits confront a question that has long shadowed the push for antitrust enforcement against tech platforms: How do you prove people are being harmed by a product that’s offered for free? Judging by the complaint filed by the states, which is more thorough than the FTC’s, the answer will hinge on privacy... With Facebook, the lack of competition is easy to prove. The company is by far the biggest social network in the US and, thanks to Instagram and WhatsApp, owns two of the other biggest. Facebook itself boasted in 2011 that “Facebook is now 95% of all social media.” (Today, Facebook insists that it faces robust competition from everything else that a person could devote their attention to. That is generally not how markets are defined for antitrust purposes, however.)... Since the 1970s, antitrust law has revolved around the so-called consumer welfare standard, under which a monopoly is deemed illegal only if it hurts consumers. In practice, that turns most antitrust cases into arguments over whether a given merger will or won’t lead to a price increase. The consumer welfare standard is controversial—the House antitrust subcommittee has suggested scrapping it—but for now remains the law of the land. That poses a special challenge for a case against a company like Facebook that doesn’t charge users any money... In a paper titled “The Antitrust Case Against Facebook,” the legal scholar Dina Srinivasan argued that Facebook’s takeover of the social networking market has inflicted a very specific harm on consumers: It has forced them to accept ever worse privacy settings. Facebook, Srinivasan pointed out, began its existence in 2004 by differentiating itself on privacy. Unlike then-dominant MySpace, for example, where profiles were visible to anyone by default, Facebook profiles could be seen only by your friends or people at the same school, verified by a .edu email address. “We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user,” vowed an early privacy policy.As the company grew, Srinivasan argued, Facebook tried to backslide on its privacy commitments, but it faced discipline from a market that it still hadn’t cornered. In 2007, it rolled out Beacon, a product that allowed it to track user activity even when they were off the site. Facing fierce backlash—Beacon publicly reported your purchase habits on friends’ NewsFeeds—the company discontinued Beacon within the year. Zuckerberg called it a “mistake.” After rivals like MySpace exited the stage, however, Facebook had less to fear. Today, its “pixel” tracks users all around the internet, just as Beacon did (but without the ill-considered NewsFeed posts). According to Srinivasan, this is just one of many ways in which Facebook rolled back privacy protections once it sensed users couldn’t take their business elsewhere... The most revealing insight comes from the summer of 2011, when the company was gearing up to fend off the threat of Google’s rival platform, Google+. The complaint quotes an email in which Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote, “For the first time, we have real competition and consumers have real choice … we will have to be better to win.” At the time, Facebook had been planning to remove users’ ability to untag themselves in photos. One unnamed executive suggested pumping the brakes. “If ever there was a time to AVOID controversy, it would be when the world is comparing our offerings to G+,” they wrote. Better, they suggested, to save such changes “until the direct competitive comparisons begin to die down.” This is close to a smoking gun: evidence that, as Srinivasan hypothesized, Facebook preserves user privacy when it fears competition and degrades privacy when it doesn’t... Facebook had to commit to preserving user privacy as a condition of its WhatsApp acquisition; WhatsApp’s founder later quit after Facebook broke its promise"
Multinational corporations don’t care and aren’t your friends - "Apparently, Disney and Star Wars care very much about racism and Black Lives Matter. But when it affects their bottom line then they are quick to bend the knee especially to CCP (The Communist Party of China) which is one of the biggest movie markets in the world at the moment. If they really cared, then why did you let China lighten the skin of John Boyega and move him to the back of movie posters because they don’t like black people over in China apparently. If they really care about the rights of minorities and black people they wouldn’t allow them to edit any of their movies for the Chinese market... companies like Blizzard bend over backwards to ignore the human rights violations that occur openly just to get a piece of that pie. And by doing so playing by their censorship laws as well, which are some of the most restrictive, oppressive, and authoritarian in the modern world today. Yes, Blizzard absolutely “cares” about social issues like minorities, black people, and the LGBTQ community but will gladly look the other when its one of the biggest MMO markets in the world. In a country known for its massive human rights violations including the persecution of the Uyghurs, Chinese Christians, Falun Gong, Tibetans. Not forgetting things like forced organ harvesting, political dissidents like Dong Yaoqiong, or the disappearance of innocents like Gedhun Choekyi Nyima... And if you still don’t think this is just some soulless virtue-signaling attempt at jumping on the bandwagon here is fucken China one of the countries known for dozens of ongoing human rights violations that I pointed out earlier in the article telling the rest of the world Black Lives Matter. And let’s not forget it’s been less than a month when black people were denied service, evicted, assaulted in the streets of Guangzhou, China."
Sadiq Khan has failed Londoners - "With recent polling suggesting that Conservative candidate Shaun Bailey may be closing in on Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan ahead of next year’s London mayoral elections, it is beginning to look like Khan won’t walk his re-election campaign as easily as many previously expected.The mayor divides opinion. But for many in Labour’s London bubble he is an embodiment of social progress and represents the very best of contemporary diversity...
‘My friend Sadiq Khan is a source of inspiration. The first Muslim mayor of a major Western city and a source of pride for us all. We’ll never let those who seek to divide us win.’
This wasn’t Mr Forensic’s finest moment. His statement is factually inaccurate. The Dutch city of Rotterdam – a major economic logistics hub and the largest seaport in Europe – has had a Muslim mayor since January 2009. Ahmed Aboutaleb, a Labour politician of Moroccan Berber ancestry, has also spoken robustly on the threat of Islamist extremism to the Netherlands’ liberal democratic values. Perhaps Khan could take a leaf out of Aboutaleb’s book. While the kind of identitarian grandstanding provided by Starmer may go down a treat in many parts of London, much of the country has little time for it. And if religious identity is the most inspirational thing about Sadiq Khan, then that does not say much for his performance in office. So, what of the mayor’s performance? One of the issues where Khan has come in for serious criticism is crime. Recent government figures published by the Office for National Statistics found that London has suffered an exponential rise in a range of criminal offences when compared with the rest of the UK. This includes notable increases in murders, robberies, thefts, and drug-related offences. This is against a backdrop of Khan laying much of the blame on Conservative-led austerity, while increasing his own press office spending by 26 per cent over the past four years. What’s more, Khan has been as useful as a chocolate teapot in defending London Metropolitan Police officers in the capital, who have increasingly been subjected to violent assaults during a series of high-profile disorderly protests and unlicensed music events... The mayor has come across as spectacularly relaxed about increasing violence towards London’s police officers – which rose by 40 per cent under lockdown.In times of national crisis, a country needs its political figures to cultivate a sense of collective solidarity and inclusive patriotic spirit. Instead, the mayor of London sought to play racial identity politics with the Covid-19 pandemic... Khan has all too often found himself entangled in egotistical international spats"
To liberals, minorities are to be valued because of who they are - not what they do
