I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Sat 6 Oct 2018 16:52

I mean honestly what are these people afraid of? What message do they think they’re sending by refusing to make a public statement on learning their name & reputation might have been deployed as a weapon to hurt others? Doesn’t that bother them at all?

Sat 6 Oct 2018 16:47

As far as I can make out every single one of them acted in the most cowardly fashion possible: did not stay to fight to launch an honest internal investigation, did not resign in protest, did not make a stand of any kind, but just slunk off hoping nobody would notice

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Sat 6 Oct 2018 16:39

What I find most revealing is the number of those who resigned from the editorial board amidst allegations of abuse that made public statements clarifying why they did so. Correct me if I’m wrong but it’s my impression that number is zero. #hautalk https://t.co/XMhx9TSnmu

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Sat 6 Oct 2018 11:27

So let me get this straight: Susan Collins (R Maine) voted to place a man she believes to be an unrepentant rapist hostile to women’s rights on the Supreme Court because she feels the problem with America is that people get too upset about that sort of thing.

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Thu 4 Oct 2018 11:24

Telling that the “left” Guardian felt it was important to hire at least one Tory as a political editor, presumably for balance, but did not feel it appropriate to hire any editors who weren’t hostile to the Labour leadership https://t.co/oZBGOqbTbp

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Thu 4 Oct 2018 08:54

for the record, I replied, outlined why I thought people were angry, & asked what purpose she thought we be served by a personal meeting. Since there obviously wasn’t one (other than to try to shut me up in public) she couldn’t think of anything & didn’t reply. https://t.co/KXF5hc2jTf

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 23:42

it’s gotten to the point where the Guardian opinion section employs something like a dozen columnists who are just there to scold its readers & come up with reasons those readers are wrong to support candidates whose policies actually reflect their values & ideas

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 23:01

this is basically a police function, the media are endlessly blowing the whistle & insisting that certain political positions must not be taken seriously, & are growing increasingly angry at their own readership for refusing to be policed

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:59

what’s interesting is they don’t do this to others who are much more outre, like Nigel Farage or Boris Johnson, who openly play the clown but are nonetheless treated like legitimate actors. Corbyn, who is perfectly serious, is instead treated as a clown

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:58

basically the British press has for 3 years treated Corbyn & McDonnell as two tinfoil hat wearing loonies who wandered off Speaker’s Corner & somehow ended up in charge of the Labour Party; they honestly think it doesn’t matter if half what they say about them is true or not

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:56

so it’s easy to see what that means in practice: aside from the open contemptuous mockery, it means that people feel it doesn’t matter if others misrepresent your position, because, hey, it’s crazy anyway, what difference does it make? You can see this happen to the Labour left

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:55

when I said this about the ancient or medieval world everyone treated me as an interesting even important scholar, when I said the exact same thing about the period after 1945, I was treated as a tinfoil-hat-wearing lunatic

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:54

I’ve had plenty of chances to observe it because I often seem to move back & forth in liberal estimations between “legitimate scholar” & “crazy guy” – i.e., in Debt, I argued that there has long been a close tie between forms of money creation & military mobilisation & tribute

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:52

this habit of what I call “lunatic fringing” deserves a name, because it’s a form of policing, of declaring who is a legitimate political voice or actor & who isn’t.

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Wed 3 Oct 2018 22:50

I think it’s time we demand British journalists put an end to the policy “lunatic fringing” the Labour Leadership, applying standards completely different than those applied to the Tories, Blairites, or even UKIP. The continual stream of lies in this AS scandal is the last straw. https://t.co/ZytbYZxyUR

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Tue 2 Oct 2018 10:36

the coordination of the BBC, Guardian, etc, coverage of the AS smear campaign over the summer needs to be investigated & exposed. The editors who made the decisions to run dozens of stories leaving out key information need to be identified.

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Tue 2 Oct 2018 10:34

who is making the key decisions on political coverage at the Guardian? Who made the decision to hire Pippa Cerar, a known Tory hack who’d aggressively promoted Goldsmiths in the London elections, as Deputy Political Editor? https://t.co/nYreYDkjXt

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Tue 2 Oct 2018 03:05

it’s a sad day when RT regularly provides better coverage of British politics than BBC or the Guardian. https://t.co/Nkk5NnCjTp

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Mon 1 Oct 2018 08:48

important letter to Guardian about scandalously inaccurate reporting on AS charges against Labour. (Not sure why no one asked me to sign this one.) https://t.co/ut4N6027gQ

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Sat 29 Sep 2018 14:11

the question is: are there any investigative reporters than can investigate newspapers themselves when they pull this kind of thing? An expose on the role of the Guardian in developing these smears would be genuinely historically important https://t.co/s9UqKRBWtW

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Sat 29 Sep 2018 01:42

the Guardian coverage of the controversy, like previous coverage of Corbyn & McDonnell’s leadership, systematically violated basic standards of normal journalism, such as citing at least one representative of each side of a controversy https://t.co/2bC4vcE9Fm

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Sat 29 Sep 2018 01:33

and by an absolutely extraordinary coincidence, EVERY SINGLE ONE of those hundreds of false or misleading statements made the Labour leadership look worse instead of better

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Sat 29 Sep 2018 01:30

This is why people like me are calling on people like @PippaCrerar to resign: while all UK news sources were systematically misleading in the Labour AS controversy, the Guardian actually ran a higher # of false statements even than the Sun or Daily Mail https://t.co/NS5jqZj6SL https://t.co/r1fsXeiBs7

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Thu 27 Sep 2018 23:36

You heard it here first: Deputy Political Editor of the Guardian declares anyone who disagrees strongly with the paper’s editorial line should feel honour-bound to boycott the paper. In other words if you continue to subscribe, they count that as support for their editorial line https://t.co/3Ny4M6BwC1

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Thu 27 Sep 2018 11:20

oh sorry Chuka Umunna (I glanced over at the suggestion box on the left of the screen to get the real spelling, since there he still is, asking me to follow him.)

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