Manufacturing outrage

Feminism, Race
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Flavia Tamara Dzodan on the meltdown of socalled feminist leader Hugo Schwyzer and how the mainstream feminist media helped built him up and enabled him to attack women of colour:

I despise the TMZ of feminist media that “reports” our issues and sells us a lip gloss version of our politics and gives space to people like him so that he can shit on us and tell us how we should take it in the face while he puts Women of Color in “their (our) places”. This is how White Supremacy works and I am pointing all my fingers at Jezebel and xoJane and The Atlantic and every other publication that paid him to publish his repulsive opinions. The shame is on each of you and not merely on his cock shots or pathetic sexting. The shame is on every editor that thought selling women like Blackamazon or brownfemipower (or even my fucking self) for page clicks was a worthy trade off. Each and every one of those editors that knew what he was, how he acted and how his misogynist racism operated behind the scenes has played a part in this. And you get to “represent” feminism. You are the filters of who gets published and who doesn’t. You are the ones that hold the doors and set the agendas. The dick pics are also on you. You helped create the monster, now I hope you enjoy the money shot. And don’t say you weren’t warned. Countless others aside from myself had extensively documented his antics, his skeevy politics, his racism, his misogyny. But he brought the page clicks. At our fucking expense. Sisterhood! Yay!

Brownfemipower:

today’s foundations and 501c3s are being brought on at the insistence of feminism. clicking outrage is encouraged. change dot org gets paid for outrage. jezebel got paid for hugo outrage. the “movement” is carefully controlled by clicks, outrage and grants all hidden under the disguise of “change” and “sustainability”. liberal reformists steal radical content and get paid to translate it into a liberal vision.

radical women of color were turned into “The WOCs” and feminists write reports congratulating themselves on everything they’ve done

Y’all better quiet down!

Civil liberties, GLBT rights, Video
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Sylvia Rivera was a gay trans woman, veteran of the Stonewall Riots that kickstarted the gay liberation movement in the US in 1969. Here she’s addressing a gay and lesbian crowd at the 1973 Christopher Street Rally, only four years later, a crowd that doesn’t want her to speak at first, tensions between trans and cisgendered gay people already high as a more assimilatist gay movement tries to rid itself from its more “embarassing” elements.

Disagree With An Atos Decision? Then Starve

Health, Tories, UK politics
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There have been a lot of problems with the Work Capability Assessment run by companies like Atos, testing and retesting whether people are disabled enough for Employment Support Allowance (ESA), as claimaints are declared fit for work when they’re patently not. Now things are going to be made worse, as the possibility to appeal against these decisions is going to be made, both by complicating the process to do so and by stopping ESA during the appeal process, with claimants needing to apply for Job Seeksers Allowance instead:

This will mean that those appealing an ESA decision and claiming Jobseekers Allowance will be placed in a potentially fraudulent position. They will be appealing an ESA decision based on the fact they do not believe themselves able to work, and will be claiming JSA based on a claim that they are able to work.

It’s been quite clear for a while now that the current UK government is engaging in the salami slicing of welfare, discontinuing some benefit schemes, means testing others, tightening up access in general. The point in these exercises is clearly not limiting fraud or other tabloid friendly excuses, but to throw people off of welfare regardless of whether they need it or not. This has been the clearest in the way disability benefits have been handled, with no regards for the wellbeing and health of the people affected.

To put it blunty: the suicides, the unnecessary deaths of people cut off from disability benefits, the starving, that’s the system working.