Flick Harrison on Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:01:27 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Shame of going against the tribe

Funny that Mr Computers couldn’t tell the difference between a personal and group reply.

But anyway, Morlock’s posting of Caitlin Johnstone just put him in my Killfile.  As Brian points out, he’s terrible and not credible in many ways but this is the last straw for me.

Johnstone is an embarrassment the way she pushes the hurtful and dangerous Seth Rich conspiracy and seems to think that any discussion of Putin’s alt-right governance, or crimes and outrageous acts by Trump, can be rebutted with a meme about Hillary.

She, like Morlock, is at the very nexus of a libertarian fascism that moors itself only in fighty contempt for anyone’s deeply-held beliefs.  She calls America a deeply racist country and then turns around and mocks the people rallying against the Charlottesville neo-nazi rallies and even goes so so far as to discredit Heather Heyer’s mother and posit some kind of vague conspiracy theory about the whole thing implicating the “deep state.” 

Not only that but she blocks everyone who debates her.  Her comment sections are filled only with wave after wave of “Thank you so much for writing this!” or minor fine-tunes / riffs off her points, which is quite suspicious for someone posting such inflammatory nonsense.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/13/on-caitlin-johnstone-and-david-cobbs-attempt-to-destroy-the-green-party/


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:51 Brian Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 1:19 PM Morlock Elloi <[email protected]> wrote:
This resolved, for me, the mystery of disgust I had for the US
'progressives', 'left' and 'democrats'. I always thought that they were
far more sinister than the right, as they hijacked those who could do
something, the well-spoken professors, artists, journalists, the nice
educated people in khaki, turning the form into the value (the tanned
POTUS spoke so well, while the present one is grabbing p*ssies, etc
...), and castrating any possibility of the effect.

There is no mystery to the disgust that I feel for the ceaseless parade of your ignorance and spite, Morlock. To authenticate your personality you deal in vituperative generalities, exactly like so many other angry and violent narcissists who recently discovered that they do not personally rule the universe. Your racism, on display above in the comment about somebody who's black, not tanned, is tolerated here for reasons I don't understand. Your virulent anti-leftism is not considered fascist even though it conforms perfectly to the style of the trolling alt-right. You think your knowledge of computers replace anyone else's knowledge of anything else, and so you constantly spew your ungrounded opinions onto this list and probably everywhere you go. In this case, the slightest look at the most obvious place belies what you say. No, you are wrong again, all professors do not shamelessly follow what you call, in another bigoted phrase, "the tribe":


Your opinions are worthless, Morlock. Try shutting up for a day, maybe you will learn something about the world around you.
 
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