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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Talcum X deletes thousands of tweets

29 replies

Bittermints · 23/11/2018 22:29

Apparently. order-order.com/2018/11/23/owen-jones-mass-deletes-thousands-old-tweets/ I wonder why.

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Ladygodivasroom · 23/11/2018 22:31

Maybe he's joined UKIP?

LizzieSiddal · 23/11/2018 22:32

Gets popcorn out.

I wonder if he’s on the wrong side of...something or other.

lydiamajora · 23/11/2018 22:34

"Talcum X" continues to be the funniest nickname I have ever heard.

Ladygodivasroom · 23/11/2018 22:34

It is quite wonderful.

UpstartCrow · 23/11/2018 22:35

Because he's a historical revisionist? Grin

Bittermints · 23/11/2018 22:35

Ladygodivasroom Grin

Speculation on Twitter that he might be hoping to get elected as an MP. Hmm

I don't understand why he's bothered deleting old tweets. Isn't it highly likely that somebody's archived them all? Nothing put out on the internet ever really disappears.

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Melanippe · 23/11/2018 22:35

He did the same when he switched to worshipping Corbyn.

Bittermints · 23/11/2018 22:35

Yes, I don't know who invented it, but it's marvellous.

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Popchyk · 23/11/2018 22:36

Wasn't he threatening legal action against Jolyon Maugham, QC?

LizzieSiddal · 23/11/2018 22:37

Obviously taking lessons from LM.

Weezol · 23/11/2018 22:39

I expect his mum told him to tidy his room and he's got confused.

Popchyk · 23/11/2018 22:44

Maybe Stephanie Hayden, the self-identifying lawyer, is suing Owen Jones? And he's having a tidy up.

Seems to be suing everybody else.

pachyderm · 23/11/2018 22:49

Ooohhh...interesting. anyone know which ones?

draws up chair

casts on 120 stitches*

uglyandlovingit · 23/11/2018 22:49

I don't get the "Talcum x" nickname?!?

Popchyk · 23/11/2018 22:55

Someone who considers themselves as a modern-day Malcolm X.

But white presumably.

Serfisafleur · 23/11/2018 22:59

It's a play on the name Malcolm X, the civil rights activist for black liberation, but for a baby.

HandsOffMyRights · 23/11/2018 23:13

Thanjs for the clarification. I too, erm, thought it was because he's white Blush

Turfisasod · 23/11/2018 23:15

I hate to piss on anyone's chips but "Talcum X" was originally used to refer to Shaun King, the Black Lives Matter activist who isn't black. (He claims to be mixed race but both his parents are white, when this was made public he claimed his mother had been unfaithful to his father with a light skinned black man)

FloralBunting · 23/11/2018 23:16

Yes, it's an amusing play on words that takes the mick out of someone who thinks he is a brave social justice type in the manner of big, controversial names of the past, and is in fact a rather disappointing little plasticine whiner.

BirdseyeFrozen · 23/11/2018 23:20

I think Lucy Masoud used it to refer to him. Grin

Oh for the deleted tweets to surface at an inopportune moment, floating upwards like unwanted turds, in Hyacinth Bouquet's lavvy.

TheHarpySings · 23/11/2018 23:21

Huh I didn’t know that about Shaun King. How come he hasn’t been dragged the way Rachel Dolzeal has?

Turfisasod · 23/11/2018 23:24

Huh I didn’t know that about Shaun King. How come he hasn’t been dragged the way Rachel Dolzeal has?
I'd like to say it's because he's a bloke but in reality I think it's because he's influential. Right wing sites have memes upon memes about him; left wing sites not a word. He was at one point accused of misappropriation of BLM funds but I think that was resolved.

Danaquestionseverything · 23/11/2018 23:46

Yes what Turfisasod said. I'm always confused when I see OJ referred to as that. Did you really have to ask Harpy? (whispers because penis) 😏

AspieAndProud · 23/11/2018 23:49

I think the jury is still out on Sean King because there’s some question about who is father is.

He did claim to have been racially abused as a teenager and that he reported it to the police but the police say they have no record of a racial incident and that puts his honesty in doubt.

It does raise the philosophical question of what constitutes being black. If you don’t look black, you don’t know for certain you are black, and nobody around you has a clue that you are black, how much of the ‘lived experience’ of being black are you having? If I suddenly discover my father isn’t my biological father after all, and that my real father was black, does that overwrite my decades of living as a white person? Am I suddenly an oppressed minority? Do I get an apology for mistakenly checking my privilege?

The Dolzeal case is pretty cut and dry though, her parents themselves having called her out.

AspieAndProud · 23/11/2018 23:52

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