Comments on: Bumper Sunday Morning Netcast

By: Jennie

Jennie — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:37:43 +0000

Sorry, James, got caught up doing Other Stuff.

“typical vindictive puerility” – feminists are always vindictive and puerile and we shouldn’t listen to them

“due to the prejudiced, sourceless bigotry that somehow imagines that an Austen reference that was long ago faded through overuse constitutes a valid substitute for anything beyond the most meagre of anecdotal evidence” – take a joke and twisting it to be something malevolent – a favourite trick of the BNP and their ilk, made all the more ironic because of the accusation of bigotry pasted on to the beginning.

“Does this not make a refreshing change from the mainstream press and its ceaseless distortions” – OMG the Liberal media are always printing LIES about us!! Another favourite BNP line.

One in each paragraph so far – do you want me to continue? Because I do have better things to do than massage your ego by paying you attention for something which I had, to be frank, long since forgotten about.

By: James Grieves

James Grieves — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:26:28 +0000

Apparently not. Ah well.

By: James Grieves

James Grieves — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:04:00 +0000

Alright Jennie, if I was “using the language of bigotry” could you cite some particular instances? Just a few examples would be endlessly and deeply helpful.

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:40:15 +0000

BenSix: using the language of bigotry =/= actively being bigoted, necessarily.

Yes, Sophie’s article could have been worded better; but so could James’s. That is, in fact, the substance of my point. Both of them have needlessly annoyed people who might otherwise have agreed with them.

By: BenSix

BenSix — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:46:45 +0000

I’m not sure how James has descended from being merely ‘condescending’ to being actively bigoted. I happen to agree that Sophie Platt’s article made unsubstantiated generalisations regarding a particular demographic (a much reviled one, I might add), and therefore an impassioned rebuttal seems justified.

(Not like me, of course, as I NEVER make sweeping statements.)

By: James Grieves

James Grieves — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:19:05 +0000

What language might that be, Jennie?

By: Jennie Rigg

Jennie Rigg — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:58:49 +0000

James, if you take a hard line against bigotry you might do well to use less of the language of it when lambasting groups which are still oppressed, no? Or maybe, given your comments here and elsewhere “condescending” is just your default tone and you don’t actually MEAN it, it;s just accidental…

By: Aaron Heath

Aaron Heath — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:21:10 +0000

Perhaps I should have written it while a tad less agitated ~ James Grieves

Nah. This blogging. All about the moment.

Publish and be damned I always say.

By: Aaron Heath

Aaron Heath — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:19:02 +0000

Indeed, as I say in the post most of the links are shamelessly stolen from his.

Plagiarism, huh? You’ll be turning MSM soon. ;o)

By: James Grieves

James Grieves — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:16:33 +0000

Jennie: I take a hard-line against bigotry and its presence in that article left me riled. Perhaps I should have written it while a tad less agitated, but I don’t think that it was either patronising or condescending. What it was was critical, although I do agree over the main gist of the article, with my objections being mainly aimed at the trappings.

I’ll be watching Batman as soon as I get a free day.

By: septicisle

septicisle — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:40 +0000

Indeed, as I say in the post most of the links are shamelessly stolen from his.

By: Aaron Heath

Aaron Heath — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:32:52 +0000

Septicisle’s review of the weekend papers is worth a glance, especially the Torygraph link.. Mike Power does an awesome paper review every weekend that's also worth keeping an eye on.

By: Aaron Heath

Aaron Heath — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:29:58 +0000

Hoping to go see Batman tomorrow.