What happened between Owen Jones and Sali Hughes over the weekend?

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Apparently something all kicked off on Twitter and OJ incited a huge pile on to Sali?

He’s such an insufferable prick.

Just a thought, totally agree. I work with a couple of gay men who if you in any way take issue with their work wheel out ‘but I’m a gay man’. It’s as though they have some kind of special immunity from real life

Yes, and in this stance they betray their actual male privilege. the privilege they don't realise they have, or have never questioned.

Inverse intersectionality.

OJ telling her off because she's apparently never even tweeted about something. Because of course if it isn't on twitter then it doesn't exist! Reminds me of Ash Sarkar's assertion that Julie Bindel hasn't done anything for women in prison based on a quick twitter search.

Ahh thank you Captain that was glorious. Owen Jones is the most pathetic type of bellend I can conceive of. Sali Hughes is not to be fucked with.

Time for a namechange.

BRB.

I note with approval he was referred to as 'Squealer' in one of the screenshotted tweets.

Oh yeps was our favourite flasher Bradley

Justa thought I especially see their male socialization & entitlement. It’s like walking on egg shells, whenever I have to talk to one about their work I check & doublecheck my language & what I say. I have said I identify as gender fluid non binary (with a straight face) to be met with rage & fury.

I have said I identify as gender fluid non binary (with a straight face) to be met with rage & fury.

Is this because they’re then not the most oppressed?

I LOVED OJ’s ”I’m... not just talking about Rod Liddle here?”

Those ellipses are a masterclass in patronising passive aggression. Also the sort of technique used by younger people who don’t really have the intelligence to argue their point so have to resort to shock and outrage instead. A bit like “Oh wow...” which OJ also used in a later tweet

Exactly Ewe, most oppressed EVAHHHH.

Ive had ‘but you’re a woman’ practically spat at me. I sad ‘exactly, my biological sex is a woman but I identify as gender fluid, non binary’.

if I could be bothered to give OJ shit it would be partly because he is left wing

Yes, but Owen only identifies as left wing, radical and socialist.

In reality, he's your common-or-garden middle class liberal who likes to fetishise the working class while actually following a Victorian impulse to "improve the poor".

he's your common-or-garden middle class liberal who likes to fetishise the working class while actually following a Victorian impulse to "improve the poor".

Sometimes I get actual chills at how well you elucidate the reality behind the posturing, Lang.

Nice bit of sexism from the LOJ 'right side of history' supporters too in the comments.

he's your common-or-garden middle class liberal who likes to fetishise the working class while actually following a Victorian impulse to "improve the poor".

yes

Sometimes I get actual chills at how well you elucidate the reality behind the posturing, Lang.

and also yes!

Ha ha ha. It must be so satisfying to tell little owen to fuck off. Really the whole of the UK needs to do that in unison.

That would be magnificent.

I nipped to that other thread and harvested the photo of little owen drinking champagne with our favourite flasher. It's a sight to behold. Bet they had a lot of fun.

Cheers 😂😂😂😂

Sometimes I get actual chills at how well you elucidate the reality behind the posturing, Lang.

I wish!

But he is. He's that aggravating little prick with the posh progressive parents everyone hated at school.

I've said this here before, but Sanctimonious Morph likes to portray himself as a working class hero because he comes from Sheffield. In reality, he is from one of the wealthiest parts of the city, and his mother was a university lecturer, so not exactly of good steel working stock. But, apparently, some miners did visit his house once, so there's that ...

He's doing a very good job of burning his boats. One of his posts accused the entire British press of being racist, so I doubt he has many friends outside the Guardian. And guess what? He doesn't have many friends inside the Guardian either, judging from Twitter, so in career terms that doesn't give him a lot of places to go. Maybe the BBC.

Time for this again I think...

He’s such a melt.

He reminds me of Student Grant from Viz

He reminds me of Student Grant from Viz

Or an acquaintance of Rik from the Young Ones who was so annoying even Rik couldn't bear him.

That cracked me up @SaskiaRembrandt

Oh how I loathe him! Reminds me of the "anarchists" and "leftists" I went to college with who were endlessly politically engaged because they had all the time in the world, bankrolled by their rich parents. The actual working class students were busy with part time term time and fulltime summer jobs, so the Rik types never got to know them, or anyone like them.