theory of the offensive Comments http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com Sat, 18 May 2013 08:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: theoryoftheoffensive http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/03/03/save-the-upfield-line/#comment-223 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:40:50 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/03/03/save-the-upfield-line/#comment-223 Someone just got to this post by googling "moslims young girls hijab fuck out door". I wonder if they were happy with the results. Someone just got to this post by googling “moslims young girls hijab fuck out door”. I wonder if they were happy with the results.

]]> by: James http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2010/03/26/sushi-das-does-that-small-thing-necessary-to-set-off-the-xenophobic-racism-of-the-australian-population/#comment-212 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:10:44 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2010/03/26/sushi-das-does-that-small-thing-necessary-to-set-off-the-xenophobic-racism-of-the-australian-population/#comment-212 Tried to check them out. The Age seems to have been embarassed by whatever their content was and shut them down. Pity. Tried to check them out. The Age seems to have been embarassed by whatever their content was and shut them down. Pity.

]]> by: theoryoftheoffensive http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/05/25/interface/#comment-177 Tue, 31 May 2011 10:37:16 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/05/25/interface/#comment-177 Hey there Envirotard, thanks. How goes the art? Hey there Envirotard, thanks. How goes the art?

]]> by: Envirotard http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/05/25/interface/#comment-176 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:45:11 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/05/25/interface/#comment-176 Haven't stopped by Theory of the Offensive for ages, so it's great to see these new posts. I really like the Mutiny piece, but this latest one is really really brilliant. What can I say - it's definitive.... On a general note... having had a nasty "Sorry Day" train experience on the Heidleberg line yesterday in Melbourne, I'm much buoyed by your words on both rightwing commuters and neo-liberals. Best Wishes. Haven’t stopped by Theory of the Offensive for ages, so it’s great to see these new posts. I really like the Mutiny piece, but this latest one is really really brilliant. What can I say - it’s definitive…. On a general note… having had a nasty “Sorry Day” train experience on the Heidleberg line yesterday in Melbourne, I’m much buoyed by your words on both rightwing commuters and neo-liberals. Best Wishes.

]]> by: theoryoftheoffensive http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/03/03/save-the-upfield-line/#comment-170 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:08:42 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/03/03/save-the-upfield-line/#comment-170 In some ways I think we've been too fancy in our commentary on this stuff. I mean, we could have just said that people in Australia conducted a de facto and often violent campaign against the presence of particular non-white non-citizens, and the federal government responded by getting rid of the foreigners i.e. the campaign worked. In some ways I think we’ve been too fancy in our commentary on this stuff. I mean, we could have just said that people in Australia conducted a de facto and often violent campaign against the presence of particular non-white non-citizens, and the federal government responded by getting rid of the foreigners i.e. the campaign worked.

]]> by: Liz http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/03/03/save-the-upfield-line/#comment-169 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:01:34 +0100 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/03/03/save-the-upfield-line/#comment-169 Reminds me of a recent train journey out to Belgrave. Group of white kids, boys and girls, boy talking about his recent interactions with cops. When asked why the cops were after him, one of the boys answered "remember when I bashed that cabbie?", and they all smiled and remembered fondly. Now of course, since the mass expulsion of Indian students, cabbie is no longer necessarily code for Indian guy, but I think the odds are still pretty good. My housemates are right - white people are scary. Reminds me of a recent train journey out to Belgrave. Group of white kids, boys and girls, boy talking about his recent interactions with cops. When asked why the cops were after him, one of the boys answered “remember when I bashed that cabbie?”, and they all smiled and remembered fondly. Now of course, since the mass expulsion of Indian students, cabbie is no longer necessarily code for Indian guy, but I think the odds are still pretty good.
My housemates are right - white people are scary.

]]> by: theoryoftheoffensive http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/02/03/economic-nationalism-and-australian-trade-unionism/#comment-165 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:19:37 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/02/03/economic-nationalism-and-australian-trade-unionism/#comment-165 And why not? I have seen no substantial responses to the content of the WSWS piece about the Swift dispute, to their discussion of the conditions which were lost and the new hierarchies and divisions created within the workforce (from this point on everyone hired being on significantly worse conditions, and such). As to the Workers Solidarity Network (WSN), the National Union of Workers (NUW) had told them to stay away from the picket for weeks, and they had obeyed, leaving the workers pretty isolated for about five weeks. But after this situation changed, certain WSN people felt it necessary both to <i>lie</i> to these 'workers in struggle' about why the WSN had not been around, and to instruct other WSN members to do the same. Protecting the NUW from the opinions of the workers, protecting the workers from the truth about the actions of the NUW, protecting their relationship with union officials or just covering for them in principle... Obviously there are people in the WSN who have a problem with these kinds of actions, but the proposal to have a meeting to talk about the dispute - about what actually happened, and the role of NUW and of the WSN - was apparently argued against and voted down at the last meeting. And I don't think there was any kind of <i>substantial</i> discussion, and certainly not any resolution made, about eg. the practice of lying to workers about the actions of trade unions. Instead we just get petty crap about who it was that tried to kick the WSWS people off the picket line. And why not?

I have seen no substantial responses to the content of the WSWS piece about the Swift dispute, to their discussion of the conditions which were lost and the new hierarchies and divisions created within the workforce (from this point on everyone hired being on significantly worse conditions, and such).

As to the Workers Solidarity Network (WSN), the National Union of Workers (NUW) had told them to stay away from the picket for weeks, and they had obeyed, leaving the workers pretty isolated for about five weeks. But after this situation changed, certain WSN people felt it necessary both to lie to these ‘workers in struggle’ about why the WSN had not been around, and to instruct other WSN members to do the same. Protecting the NUW from the opinions of the workers, protecting the workers from the truth about the actions of the NUW, protecting their relationship with union officials or just covering for them in principle…

Obviously there are people in the WSN who have a problem with these kinds of actions, but the proposal to have a meeting to talk about the dispute - about what actually happened, and the role of NUW and of the WSN - was apparently argued against and voted down at the last meeting.

And I don’t think there was any kind of substantial discussion, and certainly not any resolution made, about eg. the practice of lying to workers about the actions of trade unions.

Instead we just get petty crap about who it was that tried to kick the WSWS people off the picket line.

]]> by: liz http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/02/03/economic-nationalism-and-australian-trade-unionism/#comment-164 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:25:02 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2011/02/03/economic-nationalism-and-australian-trade-unionism/#comment-164 Hey look I'm commenting on your blog! I'm sorry if you thought it might be someone more exciting.... Here is the WSWS latest on the WSN on Swift http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/swif-f10.shtml I felt like it should go here Hey look I’m commenting on your blog! I’m sorry if you thought it might be someone more exciting….
Here is the WSWS latest on the WSN on Swift
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/swif-f10.shtml

I felt like it should go here

]]> by: theoryoftheoffensive http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2010/01/09/notes-on-the-social-brothel-part-one/#comment-133 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:39:18 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2010/01/09/notes-on-the-social-brothel-part-one/#comment-133 Recent reports, and apparently the recent state government report, seems to suggest that some international students are being brokered into brothels by the same people who broker other people. I suppose that this might be true, though, since it is legal for such students to work here, it would seem largely unnecessary for them to submit to such arrangements. In other words, I guess that recent bit of popular pseudo-explanation for problems in the international education economies - that issues stem from a lack of good info for students, and thus can be fixed by a well-directed, nicely-laid-out leaflet - might actually be true in this instance. Universities could hand them out: don't be exploited and controlled by an agent taking a big cut of your income - you can do better working for a brothel directly or even for yourself etcetera. All the universities and other 'education providers' would have to do is be a bit more willing to acknowledge that the viability of chunks of their profit is founded upon income derived from sex-work. Recent reports, and apparently the recent state government report, seems to suggest that some international students are being brokered into brothels by the same people who broker other people. I suppose that this might be true, though, since it is legal for such students to work here, it would seem largely unnecessary for them to submit to such arrangements. In other words, I guess that recent bit of popular pseudo-explanation for problems in the international education economies - that issues stem from a lack of good info for students, and thus can be fixed by a well-directed, nicely-laid-out leaflet - might actually be true in this instance. Universities could hand them out: don’t be exploited and controlled by an agent taking a big cut of your income - you can do better working for a brothel directly or even for yourself etcetera.

All the universities and other ‘education providers’ would have to do is be a bit more willing to acknowledge that the viability of chunks of their profit is founded upon income derived from sex-work.

]]> by: barry http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2010/01/09/notes-on-the-social-brothel-part-one/#comment-132 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:19:04 +0000 http://theoryoftheoffensive.blogsome.com/2010/01/09/notes-on-the-social-brothel-part-one/#comment-132 thought provoking. thank you. thought provoking. thank you.

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