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  1. L, G, B, T, Q, I, A and + go out clubbing (or whatever young deviant letters do these days).

    Anyway the bouncer looks at their serifs and shakes his meaty head. L, G and B are OK, he says reluctantly, but there's no way he is letting T, Q, I and A in wearing THAT. And + can forget it, they're blacklisted. This is a No Maths bar.

    What would do if you were L, G and B?

    A - Go in and dance, its not your fault that TQIA+ dress funny

    B - Go home with your friends, but next clubbing night, LGB go out by themselves.

    C - Go home with your friends, look for more inclusive places next time.

    D - Go home with your friends, come back the next day with placards to protest outside the club.

    E - Agree loudly with the bouncer, and say TQIA+ aren't your friends, never seen them before.

    #lgbtqia #respectability

  2. L, G, B, T, Q, I, A and + go out clubbing (or whatever young deviant letters do these days).

    Anyway the bouncer looks at their serifs and shakes his meaty head. L, G and B are OK, he says reluctantly, but there's no way he is letting T, Q, I and A in wearing THAT. And + can forget it, they're blacklisted. This is a No Maths bar.

    What would do if you were L, G and B?

    A - Go in and dance, its not your fault that TQIA+ dress funny

    B - Go home with your friends, but next clubbing night, LGB go out by themselves.

    C - Go home with your friends, look for more inclusive places next time.

    D - Go home with your friends, come back the next day with placards to protest outside the club.

    E - Agree loudly with the bouncer, and say TQIA+ aren't your friends, never seen them before.

    #lgbtqia #respectability

  3. Foreign influence in Australia

    "The reach [of the Israel lobby] extends into the newsrooms and it has been there for decades. Veteran ABC journalist John Lyons documented it in his 2021 book Dateline Jerusalem, writing that in forty years of journalism he had never encountered a lobby as formidable, well-funded, or relentlessly effective as the pro-Israel lobby in Australia, and that material the lobby succeeded in suppressing here was routinely published in Israel without consequence or controversy."

    Andrew Brown: michaelwest.com.au/the-enforce

    #influence #lobbying #media #policing #respectability #Zionism #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #genocide #JewishSupremacy #hasbara #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission

  4. Foreign influence in Australia

    "The reach [of the Israel lobby] extends into the newsrooms and it has been there for decades. Veteran ABC journalist John Lyons documented it in his 2021 book Dateline Jerusalem, writing that in forty years of journalism he had never encountered a lobby as formidable, well-funded, or relentlessly effective as the pro-Israel lobby in Australia, and that material the lobby succeeded in suppressing here was routinely published in Israel without consequence or controversy."

    Andrew Brown: michaelwest.com.au/the-enforce

  5. "Pathologising structural criticism as anger, or as other negative emotional expressions from dispossessed community members, is easier than interrogating one’s own privilege and position within global power structures, especially when the realities that ‘there’s no such thing as meritocracy’ and ‘everything is political’ are both brushed off as matters of subjective opinion that require “nuance.”"

    wrzky.com/pathologising-struct

    Damn girl @wrzky

    #politics #respectability #politicalwriters #poverty

  6. The Irish republican "tradition’s hardest won insight is this: the legitimacy of a grievance does not depend on the respectability of its expression. Irish diplomats spent thirty years explaining this to British counterparts who insisted there could be no negotiation while the IRA was bombing, that calm discussion could not happen while the law was being broken, that to engage with the grievance was to legitimise the method. Those diplomats were right and the British were wrong. The Good Friday Agreement happened because enough people on both sides eventually accepted that the legitimacy of a grievance had to be addressed on its own terms, regardless of the respectability of its expression. That insight was built in Belfast and Derry, Dundalk and Crossmaglen and the H-Blocks, by people who counted the dead. It is the most important political idea Ireland has given the world in a century, and it belongs to the tradition I write from."

    If you are looking for explanation and context for the last week in Irish politics, read this: forlouth.medium.com/the-money-

    #respectability #militancy #activism #protests #Ireland #Republicans

  7. The Irish republican "tradition’s hardest won insight is this: the legitimacy of a grievance does not depend on the respectability of its expression. Irish diplomats spent thirty years explaining this to British counterparts who insisted there could be no negotiation while the IRA was bombing, that calm discussion could not happen while the law was being broken, that to engage with the grievance was to legitimise the method. Those diplomats were right and the British were wrong. The Good Friday Agreement happened because enough people on both sides eventually accepted that the legitimacy of a grievance had to be addressed on its own terms, regardless of the respectability of its expression. That insight was built in Belfast and Derry, Dundalk and Crossmaglen and the H-Blocks, by people who counted the dead. It is the most important political idea Ireland has given the world in a century, and it belongs to the tradition I write from."

    If you are looking for explanation and context for the last week in Irish politics, read this: forlouth.medium.com/the-money-

    #respectability #militancy #activism #protests #Ireland #Republicans

  8. Michael Parenti’s greatest contribution was not a single book or argument, but a stance: the refusal to flatter power, the refusal to forget history, the refusal to trade truth for respectability.

    #parenti #politics #respectability #marxism #socialism #capitalism

    groundxero.in/2026/01/25/micha

  9. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  10. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  11. A quotation from Ben Franklin

                                            A Cure for Poetry,
    Seven wealthy Towns contend for Homer, dead,
    Thro’ which the living Homer beg’d his Bread.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
    Poor Richard (1739 ed.)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #PoorRichardsAlamanack #arts #fame #legacy #poetry #respectability #selfaggrandizement #civicpride #heritage

  12. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

  13. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation @youth

  14. CW: Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood 🧶

    "The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."

    "The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."

    Maya Rosen: jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of

    #liberals #victimhood #tourism #darkTourism #separatism #communautarism #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #fragility #warOnGaza #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael

  15. CW: Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood 🧶

    "The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."

    "The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."

    Maya Rosen: jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of

  16. "Let’s take that number-one narrative, which is I was taught to treat everyone the same. You know, actually no one was - or could be taught to treat everyone the same. We can’t do it. We don’t do it."

    "A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as I’m nice and friendly, I’m finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."

    NPR’s Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/r

    #progressives #liberals #colorBlind #colorBlindness #colours #postRacial #fragility #respectability #domination #boundaries #sociology #coloniality #entitlement #whiteness #psychology #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #DemocraticParty #VoteBlue #KamalaHarris #ColorLine

  17. "Let’s take that number-one narrative, which is I was taught to treat everyone the same. You know, actually no one was - or could be taught to treat everyone the same. We can’t do it. We don’t do it."

    "A white progressive generally believes niceness is all that it takes. As long as I’m nice and friendly, I’m finished. And niceness not only is not courageous. But niceness is not going to get racism on the table."

    NPR’s Jennifer Ludden talks to author Robin DiAngelo about her book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism": npr.org/2018/08/18/639822895/r

    #progressives #liberals #colorBlind #colorBlindness #colours #postRacial #fragility #respectability #domination #boundaries #sociology #coloniality #entitlement #whiteness #psychology #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #DemocraticParty #VoteBlue #KamalaHarris #ColorLine

  18. First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
    —Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

    🧵 @socialpsych

    #CulturalStudies #JudithButler #fragility #respectability #NineEleven #post911Wars #Oct7 #Oct7War #postOct7War #FirstWorldism #domination #boundaries #grievability #imperialism #geoPolitics #victimhood #resources #sociology #protest #protests #coloniality #stateRacism #indignation #entitlement #whiteness #islamophobia #moralPanic #psychology #masculinity #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #terrorism

  19. First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
    —Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

    🧵 @socialpsych

    #CulturalStudies #JudithButler #fragility #respectability #NineEleven #post911Wars #Oct7 #Oct7War #postOct7War #FirstWorldism #domination #boundaries #grievability #imperialism #geoPolitics #victimhood #resources #sociology #protest #protests #coloniality #stateRacism #indignation #entitlement #whiteness #islamophobia #moralPanic #psychology #masculinity #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #terrorism

  20. “Politeness blunts the tongue of criticism, ridicule, satire or irony. On the other hand, radical rudeness breaks down the doors to the arsenal of verbal, literary, and linguistic devices available to launch a counterattack against corrupt militant brutes in government who use bullets, prison sentences, and mass graves to silence their opponents.“

    ~ Dr. Stella Nyanzi, 2022 in pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-intervi @supremacy 🧵

    #respectability #activism #anger #Nyanzi #civility #profanity #patriarchy #feminicides #feminisms #rudeness #resistance #struggle #violence #stateViolence #politeness #quotes #germany #uganda

  21. “Politeness blunts the tongue of criticism, ridicule, satire or irony. On the other hand, radical rudeness breaks down the doors to the arsenal of verbal, literary, and linguistic devices available to launch a counterattack against corrupt militant brutes in government who use bullets, prison sentences, and mass graves to silence their opponents.“

    ~ Dr. Stella Nyanzi, 2022 in pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-intervi @supremacy 🧵

    #respectability #activism #anger #Nyanzi #civility #profanity #patriarchy #feminicides #feminisms #rudeness #resistance #struggle #violence #stateViolence #politeness #quotes #germany #uganda

  22. I am so happy to arrive here!
    I have migrated from various bigger servers of #microblogging. Phew.

    I was born and raised in France, moved to #GreaterParis. So i will give a few hints on the country in English: #merit #respectability #rapeCulture #coloniality #stateRacism #universalism. Come to #France2024! 😒 <snark>
    (Much more can be found "en français" at @[email protected]: #patriarcat #cultureDuViol #fragilité #islamophobie #colonialité #décoloniale #FranceIsraël #racismeDÉtat #paniqueMorale #guerreCulturelle.)
    I am a white male person working on my fellow condition: #patriarchy #fragility #entitlement #whiteness @supremacy.

    I do consulting on #naturalWine and you may find #joyful wine at my #search engine: frenchscout.com/natural-wines?
    I am in my fifties. So i will discuss #militancy and #MoralBeauty. I mean: #feelGood is a primary fuel for our actions and our opponents behaviours. I will illustrate with #resources, easy #sociology, #photos of #protests. So follow #ActionPics for upcoming threads.

    #France was and is a leader in harnessing outside land, energy and labour. (Second to English cultures.) So i have a few hints on #islamophobia #counterTerrorism #israelism #StandWithIsrael @military.

    #introduction #stateViolence #proZionism #stateRacism #moralPanic #cultureWars

  23. I am so happy to arrive here!
    I have migrated from various bigger servers of #microblogging. Phew.

    I was born and raised in France, moved to #GreaterParis. So i will give a few hints on the country in English: #merit #respectability #rapeCulture #coloniality #stateRacism #universalism. Come to #France2024! 😒 <snark>
    (Much more can be found "en français" at @[email protected]: #patriarcat #cultureDuViol #fragilité #islamophobie #colonialité #décoloniale #FranceIsraël #racismeDÉtat #paniqueMorale #guerreCulturelle.)
    I am a white male person working on my fellow condition: #patriarchy #fragility #entitlement #whiteness @supremacy.

    I do consulting on #naturalWine and you may find #joyful wine at my #search engine: frenchscout.com/natural-wines?
    I am in my fifties. So i will discuss #militancy and #MoralBeauty. I mean: #feelGood is a primary fuel for our actions and our opponents behaviours. I will illustrate with #resources, easy #sociology, #photos of #protests. So follow #ActionPics for upcoming threads.

    #France was and is a leader in harnessing outside land, energy and labour. (Second to English cultures.) So i have a few hints on #islamophobia #counterTerrorism #israelism #StandWithIsrael @military.

    #introduction #stateViolence #proZionism #stateRacism #moralPanic #cultureWars

  24. As Rita Jabri Markwell put it:
    • trauma is a genuine wound;
    • fragility serves as an exercise of power over oppressed peoples.
    In the Zionist case, fragility depends on genuine wounds (collective Jewish historical trauma) to leverage its power and silence dissenters.

    Randa Abdel-Fattah: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zion @supremacy

    #freeSpeech #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #proZionism #JewishState #israelism #USPol #campuses #philoSemitism #silencing #JudithButler #PalestinianLivesMatter #warCrimes #genocide #diversion #smokeScreen #fragility #warOnGaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy

  25. As Rita Jabri Markwell put it:
    • trauma is a genuine wound;
    • fragility serves as an exercise of power over oppressed peoples.
    In the Zionist case, fragility depends on genuine wounds (collective Jewish historical trauma) to leverage its power and silence dissenters.

    Randa Abdel-Fattah: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zion @supremacy

  26. Nicole Narea, "a first-generation American", wrote: All three [university] presidents refused to say that students should be punished for invoking those [hateful] phrases across the board — only when it rises to the level of harassment, discrimination, or incitement to violence.

    “I have little doubt that if student activists actually were issuing unequivocal calls for the genocide of Jews on university campuses, they would be swiftly disciplined by their administrations — and rightly so,” Berkman said. “This should have been an easy question for Magill, Kornbluth, and Gay to answer, but because they felt they couldn’t contest the description of pro-Palestinian rhetoric as inherently genocidal, despite knowing that description to be untrue, they ended up looking foolish.”

    Internal discord at elite institutions and bipartisan doubt about the sanctity of higher education was the outcome that Stefanik and her Republican colleagues wanted — but not because they’re any great defenders of Jews.

    #Stefanik has echoed the antisemitic “great replacement” theory that Jews have pushed immigration and multiculturalism as a means of amassing political power over white Americans: In a 2021 campaign ad, she railed against what she characterized as Democrats’ plan to “overthrow our current electorate” by allowing undocumented immigrants to enter the country, leading to accusations of antisemitism.

    (15 Dec 2023) vox.com/politics/2023/12/15/24 @supremacy

    #freeSpeech #equation #conflation #confusion #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #proZionism #JewishState #support #USPol #campuses #philoSemitism #academicFreedom #israelism #Congress #education

  27. Nicole Narea, "a first-generation American", wrote: All three [university] presidents refused to say that students should be punished for invoking those [hateful] phrases across the board — only when it rises to the level of harassment, discrimination, or incitement to violence.

    “I have little doubt that if student activists actually were issuing unequivocal calls for the genocide of Jews on university campuses, they would be swiftly disciplined by their administrations — and rightly so,” Berkman said. “This should have been an easy question for Magill, Kornbluth, and Gay to answer, but because they felt they couldn’t contest the description of pro-Palestinian rhetoric as inherently genocidal, despite knowing that description to be untrue, they ended up looking foolish.”

    Internal discord at elite institutions and bipartisan doubt about the sanctity of higher education was the outcome that Stefanik and her Republican colleagues wanted — but not because they’re any great defenders of Jews.

    #Stefanik has echoed the antisemitic “great replacement” theory that Jews have pushed immigration and multiculturalism as a means of amassing political power over white Americans: In a 2021 campaign ad, she railed against what she characterized as Democrats’ plan to “overthrow our current electorate” by allowing undocumented immigrants to enter the country, leading to accusations of antisemitism.

    (15 Dec 2023) vox.com/politics/2023/12/15/24 @supremacy

    #freeSpeech #equation #conflation #confusion #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #proZionism #JewishState #support #USPol #campuses #philoSemitism #academicFreedom #israelism #Congress #education

  28. Read our Editorial #29, in which @IsaLischewski calls out the #respectability politics of legal academia and the burdensome expectation of impeccability that come with it.

    voelkerrechtsblog.org/editoria

  29. #activism #anger:
    “We were brought up to be good girls, to be decent, to be polite, to speak nicely to authority. Women here are not to be heard, they shut up, they don’t speak, they’re to be seen as beautiful,” #Nyanzi told the Globe and Mail in 2017, explaining perfectly the origins of “civility” and why #profanity is a powerful tool to upend that #civility, which is foundational to #patriarchy: lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-civil #feminicides #feminisms #respectability

  30. #activism #anger:
    “We were brought up to be good girls, to be decent, to be polite, to speak nicely to authority. Women here are not to be heard, they shut up, they don’t speak, they’re to be seen as beautiful,” #Nyanzi told the Globe and Mail in 2017, explaining perfectly the origins of “civility” and why #profanity is a powerful tool to upend that #civility, which is foundational to #patriarchy: lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-civil #feminicides #feminisms #respectability