Left-wing men are the 'actual worst' sexists, says Labour MP Jess Phillips

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Jess Phillips, the Labour MP, has claimed left-wing men are the “actual worst” sexists. 

The MP for Birmingham Yardley was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival when she said many on the left don’t think of women “on the same level”. 

She also hit out at claims that Jeremy Corbyn was helping to lead the battle for women’s equality in Britain. 

The backbencher said a leading left-wing journalist from The Guardian, who she refused to name, “lectured” her saying that ex-deputy leader Harriet Harman was “not that great for women” but Mr Corbyn had always “voted in the right way".

“So yeah, Jeremy Corbyn better for women than Harriet Harman, obviously,” she sarcastically said, The Times reported.

“I remember him in all those meetings, there with his banners for [equality].”

When asked if the “out and out sexists of the right” were worse than the “well-meaning” of the left she claimed: “They [the left-wing men] are the worst, the actual worst.

“Men said they supported better female representation but, when it came to losing their own jobs, they would say, ‘Oh, you mean me? But I am so clever. I’ve got so much to offer the world’.

“They are literally the worst.”

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/left-wing-men-jess-phillips-actual-worst-sexist-labour-mp-socialists-a7893001.html

Edited August 15, 2017 by Boiler

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This is quite true. The left have been placated way too much with their tantrums. It exactly mirrors placating a fit throwing child,  and how doing so only causes worse ones the next time around. I think it's clear a drastically different approach toward them is necessary. 

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And you guys complain about generalizations. 

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4 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

And you guys complain about generalizations. 

Jess is a girl.

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4 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Jess is a girl.

Triggered. 

[spookyturtle 9,466]

6 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Jess is a girl.

Which has nothing to do with my comment. 

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37 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

And you guys complain about generalizations. 

Especially the generalization that everyone on the Right is a closet nazi, or racist, or whatever.  I think the point of the article is that there is hypocrisy on all sides which is very true.

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Especially the generalization that everyone on the Right is a closet nazi, or racist, or whatever.  I think the point of the article is that there is hypocrisy on all sides which is very true.

Everyone that doesn't agree with the left on certain issues are closet Nazis. Identity politics on the cusp of backfiring big time. 

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13 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Everyone that doesn't agree with the left on certain issues are closet Nazis. Identity politics on the cusp of backfiring big time. 

I love this clip that outlines identity politics and racism from the Left.  

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Especially the generalization that everyone on the Right is a closet nazi, or racist, or whatever.  I think the point of the article is that there is hypocrisy on all sides which is very true.

But all the generalizations about the left are true. But that doesn't bother anyone on the right. Go figure.

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13 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I love this clip that outlines identity politics and racism from the Left.  

 

 

Its complicated, seems there is good racism and bad racism?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

More generalizations by those who decry generalizations. 

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1 hour ago, spookyturtle said:

But all the generalizations about the left are true. But that doesn't bother anyone on the right. Go figure.

None of them are true.  Like I said, hipocricy on all sides.

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1 hour ago, spookyturtle said:

More generalizations by those who decry generalizations. 

Would make a good thread title.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Ah Jess the cabbage. Corbin likely turned down her overtures, so she vents to right wing newspapers.

With the exception of George Osbourne all right-wing males are terrible in bed, people are saying...

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