Billy Bragg

well yeah, im not proposing burning his records or sending him rape or death threats- or asking his associates to re-educate themselves. or even insisting anyone who ever sang with him comes out and disassociates themselves from him...

he's v snarky to david aaranovitch in that thread too- really not coming across as a clever guy anymore.

Ah, the good old women's rights are 'niche' argument.
'After the revolution, Love.'

The existence of women as a distinct category isn’t a “fairly niche topic” - it affects half the world population. The removal of sex based rights and exemptions disproportionately impacts on poor women, and women of colour.

People aren't perfect and I'm not comfortable with someone being attacked as a whole for their opinion on one fairly niche topic. Bragg has done a lot of good things socially.

he IS utterly closed-minded- and im surprised and disappointed.

hes rting oj and those other guys- sigh.

He's getting ratioed for this on Twitter. I don't think I saw one person agreeing with him. A superb lengthy response to him as well, using socialist class analysis-based arguments from Kristina Harrison. twitter.com/KJ_Harrison/status/1280851239702532101?s=19

Bragg really is vile about this issue and utterly closed-minded.

Or is it only men who should have their rights protected?

Must be - otherwise people like OJ and BB would recognise the need for sex based rights, regardless of gender.

It's ironic that this is all happening at the same time that the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling that limits access to contraception, and the UK has published a report detailing how women's health care concerns are ignored.

Always sad when a grown man is caught out flat out lying …. he is commenting on the situation of the sacked author Gillian Phillips without having read the article, then when someone requests that he actually read the article - he claims it is behind a paywall(!). It wasn't when I tested it twice. I never did like him

This is what happens with twitter. you end up taking your tribes word for it. You rely on the precis of other people. You don't read primary sources.

Twitter just intensifies any polarisation that already exists, and radicalises people one way or the other. Best kept away from.
Unfortunately it is also a tool of these febrile times. It can only get worse.

I marvel at the fact that Billy Bragg is so stupid he doesn't even realise that tweeting in favour of employers being able to sack their staff for wrongthink is not a good look for a socialist

I might be wrong but isn't pure Socialism (not the sort we have here, which I think is pretend Socialism) all about getting everyone to think in the same way. So maybe Woke culture is on the money😂

always sad when a grown man is caught out flat out lying …. he is commenting on the situation of the sacked author Gillian Phillips without having read the article, then when someone requests that he actually read the article - he claims it is behind a paywall(!). It wasn't when I tested it twice. I never did like him.

I thought socialism was about protecting workers’ rights not destroying them? Or is it only men who should have their rights protected?

Bragg is a v useful idiot in publicising the full horror of what TRAs are demanding - and how wonderfully encouraging is the pasting he’s getting for it!

Yep

I marvel at the fact that Billy Bragg is so stupid he doesn't even realise that tweeting in favour of employers being able to sack their staff for wrongthink is not a good look for a socialist. I can only assume that his rampant misogyny has damaged his ability to think straight.

awful, awful billy bragg.

if you look at his thread, he barely stoops to talk to women, he only replies to men.

i had no idea he was such an unthinking arsehole.

he talks about 'anti-trans feminists' - hes really got no idea and has just for the easy misogyny.

Hmm read and scroll down a bit- Now he wants us sacked.

If this is what we are facing if we vote Labour - I’m out.

The left has abandoned me.

Helen Joyce has his card.

mobile.twitter.com/billybragg/status/1280812307669495808

mobile.twitter.com/HJoyceGender/status/1280961288445874178

Billy Bragg

For someone who thought they could easily score some woke cookies, the replies should have come as a wake up call:

twitter.com/cocamidemea/status/1241552118772903936

People worried about Coronavirus in not indulging narcissistic bullying shocker.

I did spot that!

There's an amusing bit of nominative determinism with Malicia Dabrowicz.

"Taking the side of the oppressed" is not what feminism is about. Women aren't running around desperately looking for a boo-boo to fix. We aren't the Sunshine Squad, we aren't the happy helpers, we aren't the world's cheerleaders or the Comforters-in-Chief. The cause of feminism is females. Shamelessly advocating for female human beings to have justice and freedom in this world.

Chardine is an absolute chancer.
Malicia got a little snotty too... funny how these allegedly left wing feminist progressives are so quick do abandon leftist feminist principles isn't it?

Oh the irony. Just watched Dagenham - the industrial action that led to the Equal Pay Act and the title song comes on at the end sung by Sandie Shaw and written by Billy Bragg. Because Billy was your go to man for all that was Left and lovely. I haven’t looked at the lyrics. But yeah all those battles fought for women to get Equal Pay. Men know a lot about that don’t they. All those poor Transwomen getting paid less... oh hang on that never happened 😂

To be fair to Billy Bragg he has made it clear he won't sue.

As for, Chardine Taylor-Stone, however yet another intolerant, dictatorial leftie to keep an eye on.

Isn’t it on her Twitter feed, he said he won’t?