#woolwhich

[susi-the-fuzzyhead]

I finish my first day in London with good friends, an amazing Harry-Potter-like apartment and my lovely magenta socks! 🤓 #woolwhich #royalarsenal #london #holiday #holidaytime

[oracleofmefi]

Terrorist acts of this sort are a practically Dadaist crime

The more they occur, the more obvious it becomes that terrorist acts of this sort are a practically Dadaist crime. They occur for little more reason than that somebody impulsively decided it was a good idea – any deeper reason for their happening is simultaneously so ultrageneric and ultraspecific that there's little reason to believe in it at all. Yet the media-glutted part of the world collapses inward on that moment, interviewing witnesses, interviewing survivors, asking again and again and again and again and again and again what's the point, even after we know there's none, even after we have a full account of mental illness and poorly-checked aggression and privilege of whichever stripe you prefer, white privilege, masculine privilege, religious privilege, none of which matter more than the fact that these crimes are first and foremost crimes against the information age itself. They are committed because we watch and we watch because they are committed.

posted to Metafilter by Rory Marinich at 9:51 on May 23, 2013

[oracleofmefi]

An endless and comforting whitish ocean of testosterone

I'm swimming in an endless and comforting whitish ocean of testosterone, gentle as a lamb.

posted to Metafilter by Ice Cream Socialist at 4:12 on May 23, 2013

[oracleofmefi]

A return to a more sensible taxonomy of violence

I think the more interesting question is has the contemporary use of term "terrorist attack" finally devalued it to the point of meaninglessness, allowing a return to a more sensible taxonomy of violence.

posted to Metafilter by klarck at 1:51 on May 23, 2013

[mccurlehpants]

That soldiers death was not  an excuse to deface and damage Mosques. Regardless of what your opinions are on religion, don't act on them and turn them into something dangerous.

[aspasiathebloody]

ARGH ANGER FILLS MY SOUL. I hate where our country is going right now, when something bad happens all the racist ,nationalist pricks come out of the woodwork . All of my adult family members are going on about how we should force 'them' to all learn English and only speak English and there should be a Muslim church of England. A terrible thing happened , a soldier was brutally murdered on the streets of London by two extremists . But we need to pull ourselves together. This is an isolated event, these two men do not speak or act for the rest of the Muslim community and Muslims in the UK do not deserve to be treated any differently to any other religion! Stop creating more victims in this crime.

[rogueish]

What the race fable tells us, then, is that we belong to an indomitably superior culture that is radiantly attractive to others, part of whose superiority lies in its generosity, its openness, and its ability to incorporate those of lesser cultural breeds - whether through an overly relaxed immigration policy, or through an excessively benign policy of military intervention.  It tells us that there are some who, given this priceless opportunity, decline to accept it; they revert to type, repudiate it, and spit in our faces.  With few resources, but endless guile, they seek to persuade others of their status also to repudiate the gift, and kill us instead.  And in doing so, they come to resemble their kin in the non-West, while 'we' resemble ourselves only more perfectly as 'we' stoically respond to the challenge.  This is 'terrorism'.

[mccurlehpants]

Its fucking ridiculous that people are more concerned about getting Muslims out of 'our country' than paying respects to the soldier who died today.