Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week.. July 15, 2012
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Garibaldy is elsewhere and I can’t add to to what Ed wrote about this when he said:
And lo and behold, FG desperately tries to divert attention from Reilly’s behaviour by getting one of its PR firms to place a (more than usually dreadful) article in the Indo.
…and what rmtoh wrote about this when s/he asked “Hilarious. I’m genuinely puzzled as to whether this is serious or not”.
Any other contributions gratefully (?) accepted.
Eilis O’Hanlon presents her own inimitable understanding of Marxist theory. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/eilis-ohanlon-clearly-class-is-the-fear-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-3168383.html
FFS. Spot on Gearóid.
This line is a gem, of sorts…
“Swaggering brutes with short fuses and knives to hand when the fuse runs out are not the victims of society — society is the victim of them. And ironically, prosperity only made them worse.”
You see? Even if they get money they’ll always be the same! Not sure Marx would buy into that sort of essentialist nonsense.
Oddly enough, I’m just back from the Tolpuddle festival, where I heard Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, speak. He has something to say as well.
Yes, it reminded me very much of Jones’s ‘Chavs’ as well, in terms of the kind of anti-working class rhetoric we see in the media. I see noted Marxist-Leninist Henry McDonald chimed in on Twitter to agree with her.
This is very much the kind of thing Jones talks about:
After all, being a knacker isn’t an unavoidable affliction. It’s a choice.
Had to steel myself to read that (or skim rapidly through it, not fully immersing myself in the sentences in case I needed to take a shower afterwards), and sure enough, it managed to annoy me even more than I expected.
Not only because of the rancid Victorian social-racism (‘classism’ doesn’t have quite enough of a bite to do justice to her hatred of the poor, who she clearly considers to be genetically inferior to untermensch like herself), but also because the decrepit gee-bag can’t make her point without digging up Brian Murphy’s grave; I knew Brian well enough (went to school with him for a few years) and I doubt he would be happy to have his death misappropriated by a sleazy bigot like O’Hanlon. The point she misses in that case, of course, is that while the newspapers might have had a few headlines about ‘posh boys’ etc., if the culprits hadn’t been from such nice upstanding families, they would all have done serious jail time.
And I don’t think any of us should have trouble imagining what the headlines would be in the Sindo if a teenager from a middle-class family was beaten to death in Ballsbridge by four guys from Ballymun in Celtic jerseys; I’m sure there wouldn’t be so much as a hint or an allusion to class in the reporting of the case.
Ha, just read that again, obviously ‘untermensch’ should have been ‘ubermensch’, but there is something a little sub-human about E O’H when you think about it
Eoghan Harris must be giving Marxism for Beginners lessons at the Sindo.
The SP have asked Wallace to give all relevant information. Little publicity for this.I think the Wallace affair and the gutter press will toughen up the ULA for the struggle ahead.
I suppose O’Hanlon will not mention the practice of licences being given away for half nothing.
Eoghan Harris must be giving Marxism for Beginners lessons at the Sindo.
I was recently informed that, some time ago, the CPI did a review on one of the bould Eoghan’s outpourings titled
” A little Marxism is a ….”
Thanks to WBS for doing this. This was unsurprising but silly.
http://www.independent.ie/business/its-high-time-we-tackled-public-sector-and-debt-3168409.html
Interesting that he should exclude the |IDA and Enterprise Ireland from his scorn. It seems that the only Public bodies with which he has personal experience are fine and operating quite impressively. It is only the areas with which he has no experience and no apparent expertise which receive his criticism.
And if there is an argument for having business men run public bodies (and I don’t accept that there is), surely it is bodies such as the IDA and Enterprise Ireland where they could contribute.The idea that business men have some understaidng of international diplomacy denied to the rest of us is tired ideological drivel that would never be published by a quality newspaper.
Agreed, Tom – but far from ‘never…. published by a quality newspaper’, it’s the core belief of INM as a company: that businessmen understand everything better than the rest of us do.
But only leading businessmen who deliver global solutions, going forwards. The others are just losers, like the rest of us.
Perhaps the Independent group could look at its own debt