Interesting Links for 18-11-2018

[andrewducker]

Why do some schools still ban girls from playing football?

(tags: gender sports uk OhForFucksSake )

What do people think of the Brexit deal?

(tags: polls UK europe )

Sinn Fein leader says party will not save Theresa May's Brexit deal by taking seats at Westminster

(tags: Ireland UK europe politics )

UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

(tags: UK austerity OhForFucksSake )

Most White Women Are Very Happy With White Supremacy

(tags: racism usa voting women )

Owner of the Scotsman and i newspapers is bankrupt

(tags: newspapers UK fail )

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn say he does not know how he would vote in fresh EU referendum

(tags: UK europe labour OhForFucksSake )

Comments

Sinn Fein leader says party will not save Theresa May's Brexit deal by taking seats at Westminster

[jack]

Q. Will the Sinn Fein MPs take seats at westminster?
A. No.
Q. How about now?
A. No.
Q. OK, ok, but suppose they could ride in from the sunset on white chargers to prop up a hated right-wing government by increasing the regulatory distance between northern ireland and the republic?
A. Still no.
A. Also, are you fucking with us?

Re: Sinn Fein leader says party will not save Theresa May's Brexit deal by taking seats at Westminst

[anef]

This did raise a smile, albeit a rather bitter one.

[redbird]

Yeah, that's the thing about intersectionality: it's valid, important, and far from universally understood. A lot of white (and/or able-bodied, upper class, or lesbian and bisexual) women either haven't heard of intersectionality, or dismiss it as wrong or unimportant, mere rhetoric.

My idea of feminism/activism doesn't just mean that my feminism overlaps with (among other things) anti-racism, anti-Nazism, LGBT rights, and disability issues: it's saying that I'm not just voting my own interests. When I worked to restore voting rights to (largely non-white) ex-felons in Florida, it wasn't just because I thought I might benefit because that might, two or four or ten years down the line, help elect more Democrats to Congress. It's because I believed it was the right thing to do.

We keep hearing the question, Why do women/working class people/nonwhites keep voting against their own interests. And sometimes the answer is, it's because they've been misled or distracted from practical interests (this factory is closing, but the company closing it talks about patriotism), and other times it's because their priorities are different. In the long term, I not only oppose racism as a decent human being, I benefit from living in a less racist society. But being a woman doesn't somehow make me immune from racism; women are swimming in it too.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, agreed on all fronts.

This was rather lovely, I thought.

https://twitter.com/AllCharisma/status/1059931597313638400?s=09

[redbird]

Quite.

On British Austerity

[dewline]

Yeah, this is a Problem. And I wonder which international agreements Canada and our provinces and territories are falling - or jumping - into breach of here with our own dabblings in Austerity nonsense.