tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post7458430662436924669..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Poverty to Prison PipelinePhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-35222040431426730942021-03-22T22:06:41.094+00:002021-03-22T22:06:41.094+00:00«Also, don't all forms of violence increase wh...«<i>Also, don't all forms of violence increase when economic conditions are lowered? So isn't the correct response to any increase of violence against women be not a twitter row about how bad men are but instead, should be a campaign to end universal credit?</i>»<br /><br />That seems very naive to me, as especially in the USA, but also in the UK, "woke" politics is based on neoliberal "methodological individualism", and what marxists used to call "bourgeois freedoms", in particular:<br /><br />* Taking personal responsibility (abuse of women by men, but not by women).<br />* Absolute property rights to one's body (e.g. abortion, sex reassignment).<br />* Freedom of contract (sexual revolution, non-binary marriage).<br /><br />I suspect that one of the reasons why neoliberal media and politicians give such enormous prominence to "woke" politics is to pish the ideology they are based on so it will eventually lead to the return of indentured debt servitude, which is the prize that bankers have sought throughout history.Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-29637872409789008372021-03-22T16:33:22.174+00:002021-03-22T16:33:22.174+00:00I always thought draconian law and order policy wa...I always thought draconian law and order policy was a preserve of the right and hysterical overreaction to crime was a preserve of the far right. And when Boffy reacted in this way to the murder of the girl it only confirmed that view.<br /><br />And wasn't threatening to rain down terror on criminals your position when it came to the overreaction to the the tragic but thankfully rare murder of a girl the other day?<br /><br />I mean you didn't say cut off their goolies or round them up without a fair trial but I kinda get the impression that is what you were thinking?<br /><br />It is certainly the impression I get from the wokists, when you point out that the data doesn't match their hysteria they have to go and make data up and pretend it is all unreported. How convenient that when data doesn't match your assertions you can simply create a load of data and then hey presto your argument works!<br /><br />That is wokism is a nutshell and one reason among many that I detest it.<br /><br />Also, don't all forms of violence increase when economic conditions are lowered? So isn't the correct response to any increase of violence against women be not a twitter row about how bad men are but instead, should be a campaign to end universal credit?<br /><br />The least you should get from socialists is a demand to reestablish the welfare state, which at least recognised that in this system people can fall into hardship and despair at any moment.<br /><br />DFTMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-13187980727113816762021-03-20T20:20:53.736+00:002021-03-20T20:20:53.736+00:00Middle and upper-middle class mothers usually real...Middle and upper-middle class mothers usually really dislike competition for the "good jobs" from the children of lower class mothers, as that reduces the value of their "tiger mom" investment in their own children, and so endorse and support a system that handicaps and excludes (via prison in the harder cases) those potential competitors from the lower classes. How do you change that? It is a powerful and primeval instinct, sometimes I think it is more an antropological issues than a political or ideological one.<br /><br />One way is to make most jobs be "good jobs", but that is expensive, so for example New Labour pumped up "meritocracy" about which (usual quote) R Hattersley (The Guardian, 2001) about middle and upper middle class oriented politics:<br /><br />«<i>Tony Blair discovered a big idea. His destiny is to create a meritocracy. Unfortunately meritocracy is not the form of society which social democrats want to see. [...] A Labour government should not be talking about escape routes from poverty and deprivation. By their nature they are only available to a highly-motivated minority. The Labour Party was created to change society in such a way that there is no poverty and deprivation from which to escape</i>»<br /><br />Or this beautiful example of the above from R Sylvester (The Times, 2009):<br /><br />«<i>A No 10 aide admits that Mr Brown does not have the natural empathy with the middle classes that Mr Blair did. “The moment Tony sent his son to the Oratory those voters thought — ‘he gets it’,” he says. “Gordon wouldn’t understand that. He knows that he has to reassure Middle England but he’s not part of it.”</i>»<br /><br />(Curiously the latter article seems to have disappeared from search results except in some quotes here and there)Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-63718853865502399252021-03-20T17:10:10.262+00:002021-03-20T17:10:10.262+00:00Bang on, fabulous article Ruth
Bang on, fabulous article Ruth<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033511630582898884noreply@blogger.com