A case for expropriation in a nutshell posted by Richard Seymour

This is today's Daily Express front page:



People joke about such mega-combo-bigotry headlines from the Mail and the Express. But this, utterly vile, combination of racism and incitement to homophobic hatred is real. The Express has to be made to pay a price for this. The owners and editors of the Daily Express are scumbags, and the newspaper should be taken over and turned into a public utility.

Labels: asylum seekers, gay rights, homophobia, immigration, media, racism, scum

Learning the ropes posted by Richard Seymour

Turns out that if you want to edit a major newspaper, the correct training ground is provided by football fan forums. There, under an anonymising moniker, you can puff up your chest and gas all macho about the blacks and women. For example, you could try out lines about kicking a "stupid bitch" "in the cnt", discuss how black people are "on average a little under 10 per cent thicker than whites; 15 per cent thicker than east Asians", and complain about "thousands of organisations catering exclusively to black and asian minorities." "**** 'em, close them down", you might add. "Why do blacks need a forum of their own? As a power base and cash cow for ****s and in order to perpetuate the myth of widespread discrimination". Given the degenerate culture of the British media, I'd expect its leading personnel to appear quite regularly in such forums. And imagine the possible zeniths of such cultural cross-fertilisation: a swearing contest between Rod Liddle, Roger Alton and Kelvin Mackenzie; Richard Littlejohn and Howard Jacobson debating the merits of Roy Chubby Brown's wanking and rape jokes; all of the above engaging Melanie Phillips in a discourse on 'golliwogs', Muslims and immigration. The coffee houses and salons of the Enlightenment have truly found their successors.

Labels: independent, media, racism, scum, sexism