Owen Jones

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If he uses this as a launching point to do disability politics I might do a monroe and start tearing radiators off walls.

I have never, ever liked him. I grew up where the term 'chav' was first used and we used it specifically for young women/girls who dressed and acted in a certain way (claaaaaahn, sorry, clown necklaces, massive hoop earrings, prison white trainers etc). After he swanned into critical acclaim for the book I had to put up with people using the made up 'chavette' because he and the media after his book made it synomous with just someone off of a council estate. He could've done something interesting with what did working class actually mean (it was certainly being used by middle class people to mean they needed to work for a living, or that they worked hard when they felt insulted by being called middle class) and how disenfranchised people are but instead we got st Owen of the povs to speak on their behalf. Has he ever not looked smug?
 
Yel said:
His journalism is terrible. Always going on "that is a fact" or "this is the truth" for complicated intertwined topics where there's no black or white but thousands of different shades of grey.
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Admittedly I hardly ever read the twit, but isn't he more of a columnist than a journalist? I can't imagine someone like him doing the hard (thankless) yards actual journalists do. In a world where it's image over content Owen has a big problem because his image is awful and his content is bilge.
 
If he was mentioning he was vomiting/retching after trying to eat or drink as well as the substantial pain I'd wonder if he had a nutcracker oesophageal spasm. I occasionally get them and the worst one landed me in hospital for 48 hours on Boxing Day when I was 6 months pregnant and more dehydrated than Tutankhamen.

If that is what he had then my sympathy is with all the people in UCLH.
 
It's the constant bristling self righteousness of his content that does my head in. 'Don't look away' followed by video or photos of people suffering unimaginably being shared with the conceit that it does anything to effect change. Actually Owen, not wanting to view something akin to a snuff movie doesn't make me a lesser being than you, no matter how loudly you pretend it does.
 
I had a little blimp at the doctor husbands account and this is his last retweet:LOL: bet the fella cant have his morning turd without Owen bursting in with a lecture on the western hegemony of bog roll or something.
 

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Foxvint said:
It's the constant bristling self righteousness of his content that does my head in. 'Don't look away' followed by video or photos of people suffering unimaginably being shared with the conceit that it does anything to effect change.
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It's not like he actually cares about these causes, he posts the stuff that will get the likes and help him make more money.

Often I think he's being a useful idiot for Russia or china and helping repeat their propaganda to destabilize the west.
 
VeniVidiVicki said:
Owen has got muddled up between X and Substack and forgot that everyone could see him liking racist tropes

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He‘s trying to style it out by pretending he didn’t read the whole post
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You are a man full of straightforward antisemitic bile Owen.
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I would respect Owen more if he actually came out and said he hated Jews than trying to hide it behind his often pseudo intellectual mumbo jumbo.
 
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