Ralf and Florian wrote: » One of Louise's followers is feeling triggered.https://courtneyfromtheinternet.com/2016/12/19/a-very-alternative-blogmas-3/
midnight city wrote: » She refers to him as a white man as if they are some sort of enemy. Her male relations are prob all white men. But she is just parroting the nonsense she reads online from her hero's in America no doubt. It's pathetic.
Wibbs wrote: » Adult acts like whinging petulant teen, doesn't want to be treated like a whinging petulant teen. So, more of the same really. The lack of insight with these muppets and let's be frank, many of those who troll them, is staggering for me. Aye, just like eejits shouting "cuck" online and I'd be willing to bet she also possesses that daft mid atlantic accent so prevalent of late. Likely calls her mother "mom", if she regards her much at all(daddy is usually the focus to a farcical faux freudian degree).
darkdubh wrote: » Is she Irish? Louise O Neill goes on with that white male line a lot too. Might make some sense in The States but sounds very silly coming out with stuff like that in an Irish context.
Widdershins wrote: » Fond of the hyperbole isn't ze?
darkdubh wrote: » Oh dear.https://twitter.com/notcourtneylove/status/811542378741989376
Richard Hillman wrote: » Psycho.
Wibbs wrote: » More than a tad harsh Id say. I reckon it's simpler than that. Standard operational adolescent angst with added standard operational adolescent attention seeking* made atomic powered by social media. Throw in imported US college gender war daftness and simmer. Never mind that increasingly in some quarters victimhood is not something to be overcome, but something to be wallowed in. Better yet if one can gather other victims to wallow with. Again ArseBook and Twatter fuel this kinda thing and make it far more publicly viewable than for previous generations. Older folks reading and tutting may have an ould look back to their putting the world to rights while at university stuff and how embarrassing it may seem today. Difference is they could be forgotten. Much harder today.
Wibbs wrote: » More than a tad harsh Id say. I reckon it's simpler than that. Standard operational adolescent angst with added standard operational adolescent attention seeking* made atomic powered by social media. Throw in imported US college gender war daftness and simmer. Never mind that increasingly in some quarters victimhood is not something to be overcome, but something to be wallowed in. Better yet if one can gather other victims to wallow with. Again ArseBook and Twatter fuel this kinda thing and make it far more publicly viewable than for previous generations. Older folks reading and tutting may have an ould look back to their putting the world to rights while at university stuff and how embarrassing it may seem today. Difference is they could be forgotten. Much harder today. *BTW nada particularly wrong with that. It's part of the job of being an adolescent, though adolescence seems to be lengthening well into the twenties in western society. Among the chattering classes anyway. It's often how real insight, both personal and societal comes along. The old are usually too rigid to work that angle and usually starts to look even dafter when they try.
Widdershins wrote: » LON's style of writing made me assume she is in her late teens or early twenties, so I was surprised to read that she is over 30.
Ulysses Gaze wrote: » I'd agree. The writing in her columns makes her come across as if she is stuck in emotional arrested development.
py2006 wrote: » This YouTuber (JaclynGlen) does great vids. Una/Louise needs to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODsUeHZ13o Its a response to a recent video entitled, 2017 New Years Resolutions for White Guys.
mzungu wrote: » In the world of identity politics, do albinos in places like Africa and the sub-continent have white privilege?
TheDavester wrote: » The Courtney one has blocked/"protected" her tweets unless your a confirmed follower of hers
Richard Hillman wrote: » The lack of "exposure" will KILL HER. She'll be back soon.
Ralf and Florian wrote: » Not in Tanzania anyway.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/tanzania-albinos/
mzungu wrote: » Aye, they do get a very rough time of it. I hear in Malawi it is especially bad. If we are to follow the original theories of "privilege" and remove it from its current function on Twitter/FB as a means to shut down debate. It refers to the structures of power in society and who benefits from it. Using sub-Saharan Africa as an example, albinos are the minority within their society and are usually ostracised (and worse) because they look different. Then who there has the privilege? It would be the ruling class (and the slowly growing middle class) as they would be the ones who the power structures of that society benefit. In the case of an albino, they would most likely have a worse time than even the poorest in the shanty towns. So, going by that then one could say that even people living in abject poverty in Bangui or Dar Es Salaam have "privilege". But, of course, this is not true at all. That would be one of my issues with the term "white privilege" or "privilege" as it simply ends up reducing somebody to just their colour irregardless of background. To one degree or another, different races, and even individuals, have some form of privilege that gives them an advantage over another. Thus making it a bit of a pointless navel gazing exercise. In sub-Saharan Africa the ones with "privilege" are not white, yet nobody goes around calling out "black privilege" or anything like that. Ditto in Asia. It seems to primarily just be a western self-loathing thing.
Water John wrote: » http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/rape-consent-cork-jazz-column-jen-hough-3063524-Nov2016/ This is worth a read. I think Louise may be extreme but abusing her does nothing for anyone's argument. I would say to all, listen to how people feel.
