Talkin' bout a revolution; incessantly!
Julie Burchill | 28.11.2001 23:01
A fair bit's been said on this since my last posting, a lot of it constructive. But I still think that what's been left unsaid- especially in view of my old buddy Mustermann's refusal to addess anything I actually wrote. And, by the way, congratulations for knowing another language. Me too; naroj karrin.
What's particularly galling is that you attack me for dealing in stereotypes, but are perfectly happy to speak about "people who have been brought up not to care about anything other than football, soaps, shoes, holidays and what Jennifer Lopez is wearing". You're also happy enough to blithely equate economic disadvantage with child abuse.
It's actually important, for reasons other than it makes you sound like a twat (well, reasons connected with that, anyway). Because when you condescend to people like that, you alienate them, and that works DIRECTLY AGAINST the "cross-class programmes" you and others advocate.
So, in response; no, you don't have to acquire rickets or whatever to be in my "gang", whatever that is (and it cartainly isn't the SWP, you cheeky bastard.) But what you might need to do is actually LISTEN to people, engage with their arguments, and possibly wonder what *meaning* people give to things like decent clothes, shoes and J-Lo's arse, rather than working from the assumption that anyone who could find amusement in such things must be an inert, brain-dead automaton.
Falemenderit.
What's particularly galling is that you attack me for dealing in stereotypes, but are perfectly happy to speak about "people who have been brought up not to care about anything other than football, soaps, shoes, holidays and what Jennifer Lopez is wearing". You're also happy enough to blithely equate economic disadvantage with child abuse.
It's actually important, for reasons other than it makes you sound like a twat (well, reasons connected with that, anyway). Because when you condescend to people like that, you alienate them, and that works DIRECTLY AGAINST the "cross-class programmes" you and others advocate.
So, in response; no, you don't have to acquire rickets or whatever to be in my "gang", whatever that is (and it cartainly isn't the SWP, you cheeky bastard.) But what you might need to do is actually LISTEN to people, engage with their arguments, and possibly wonder what *meaning* people give to things like decent clothes, shoes and J-Lo's arse, rather than working from the assumption that anyone who could find amusement in such things must be an inert, brain-dead automaton.
Falemenderit.
Julie Burchill
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