Jack Monroe #93 I can’t believe she’s no butter

[Captainmouse]

Sorry I always say this but I can’t keep up but am I the only one thinking she secretly loving what’s going on because she feels as though she has some kind of purpose?? She has something to tweet about. If the government had agreed the free school means then she would have duck all to bore us with

As if she’s got twitter diarrhoea, she is addicted

 

[Spanner]

Or she could try volunteering in a food bank!!

Hahahahaha. Yeah, good one

 

[PoorPatrol]

Or she could try volunteering in a food bank!!

Excuse me, she let people buy her book to give to foodbanks. She’s TIRED, mate.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Her book is going to be even more irrelevant after all the good work by MR, councils, businesses and all the other kind individuals. Like the tories she wants to profit from other people's misery and poverty.

It's funny though because I can see her wanking working furiously away at her book thinking to herself 'oh my god this is more relevant than EVER!!!!'

 

[MrsOnion]

Exactly. The socialist arguments about charity are philosophical, not practical responses to need. (I had this very fight with my vaguely communist dad as a teen!) But charity is also just basic human goodness isn't it? There was a lovely thing on Radio 4 recently about those Sikh kitchens where they just feed anyone who shows up. It's not plugging a gap left by government, it's done as part of their faith, and with joy.

It also just highlights how superficial Jack's ~politics~ are. I don't know if she's ever claimed to be a socialist (much less an anarcho socialist lol) but we really shouldn't (IMO obvs) be waiting for the state / government to do anything for the common good, because we'll be waiting a long time, and acting for the benefit of the community shouldn't ever be seen as a top-down matter.

 

[Blurp]

I know there are much more important things to discuss today, but doesn‘t this totally contrast her “military around the edges” comments?
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It depends. I still remember failing Commodore's Rounds once for failing to dust my lightbulb, and I grew up with a father with a white glove inspection mentality left over from work.

However, I do have severe problems with organisation and fall to pieces when any structure is taken away. Give me the structure and I'll cope admirably. So I have only a small locker to fit my kit in and have to lay out my clothes for inspection to a required size? Fine. A small room for everything and everything to be away? Fine. Give me a house or flat and no structure? Unorganised chaos. However, having spent a small fortune on drawer organisers, my kitchen and bedroom drawers have been ruthlessly Marie Kondoed and are still neat and tidy months later. The rest? That's another story.

 

[ChickenPorridge]

The 'manifesto for change' book feat. yes, you guessed it, Jack's harrowing tale of being skint for a year during her stint of disowning her parents like an overgrown, angsty, runaway teen. I cannot wait to see it

 

[Veronicaaa]

Exactly. The socialist arguments about charity are philosophical, not practical responses to need. (I had this very fight with my vaguely communist dad as a teen!) But charity is also just basic human goodness isn't it? There was a lovely thing on Radio 4 recently about those Sikh kitchens where they just feed anyone who shows up. It's not plugging a gap left by government, it's done as part of their faith, and with joy.

I think socialism can (and should) be practical as well as philosophical. And I think that charity can be completely self-serving. But yeah I know what you mean about just ~practicing~ it rather than going on about it! Public 'philanthropy' is famously a good way of laundering not only cash but also reputations.

 

[Scarletfever]

I wish someone had pointed out yesterday what a hypocrite she is to accept charidee in the form of tip jar donations and patreon dolla (sorry but the patreons get duck all in return - we all know it) but castigate someone else for suggesting it in relation to feeding hungry children.

 

[hydeist]

I wish someone had pointed out yesterday what a hypocrite she is to accept charidee in the form of tip jar donations and patreon dolla (sorry but the patreons get duck all in return - we all know it) but castigate someone else for suggesting it in relation to feeding hungry children.

She expects other people to give her money as charity yet refuses to apply for government benefits even though she's supposedly on the bones of her arse. But the rest of us

 

[Tabitha D]

I think Krishnan was one of the first to highlight what Rashford has been trying to do this week (to show how much people actually care about this and to say it's not going to be forgotten or cast to one side because of the vote) and yes he probably was a bit sloppy in his phrasing but it's clear he was trying to help with Rashford's campaign, not detract from it. Jack, on the other hand, gave everyone a free rein to say 'yeah why SHOULD we be doing this, that's not OUR job' which is infinitely more damaging to both the ideological message and to the actual practical benefits that have come from it.

She also seemed to take KGM’s tweet oddly personally, as if it was a direct accusation to Jack that she was not doing anything / enough. It was a very odd take.

 

[kachoochoo]

It's funny though because I can see her wanking working furiously away at her book thinking to herself 'oh my god this is more relevant than EVER!!!!'

 

[Veronicaaa]

I can't get over her actually posting that she couldn't sleep last night because she'd re-read the scathing essay she wrote. *That's* what affected her? Her own purple prose fiction? And she would admit it out loud? How she was so affected by her own words? I mean COME ON.

 

[ChickenPorridge]

She also seemed to take KGM’s tweet oddly personally, as if it was a direct accusation to Jack that she was not doing anything / enough. It was a very odd take.

There were a few of the "I don't do nothing!" variety tweets from her yesterday, interestingly

 

[MrsOnion]

I think socialism can (and should) be practical as well as philosophical. And I think that charity can be completely self-serving. But yeah I know what you mean about just ~practicing~ it rather than going on about it! Public 'philanthropy' is famously a good way of laundering not only cash but also reputations.

Oh it should definitely be practical as well - i just meant the thing of sitting on your arse going "well there won't BE any poverty after the revolution" whilst doing nothing is the refuge of the morally lazy. I don't mean to suggest human goodness should replace state responsibility either. Just that it shouldn't be implied that ALL giving would ideally stop! Because it's a social good as well as a responsibility.

 

[For the truth]

I wish someone had pointed out yesterday what a hypocrite she is to accept charidee in the form of tip jar donations and patreon dolla (sorry but the patreons get duck all in return - we all know it) but castigate someone else for suggesting it in relation to feeding hungry children.

We could just say thank you Jack, for everything you have done. The baton from this intolerable dirge has been passed on and you can take some time out knowing the strife is in new hands. You can even get a job! we’re so happy you are FREE,

 

[Lanie]

They could also argue that she's asking people to pay for her website upkeep but we shouldnt have too. Children's having full stomachs it 1000000000000000000000 times more important than her website upkeep.

 

[Veronicaaa]

She also seemed to take KGM’s tweet oddly personally, as if it was a direct accusation to Jack that she was not doing anything / enough. It was a very odd take.

Oh yeah - "I don't do nothing". THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU JACK!!

 

[Tabitha D]

It also just highlights how superficial Jack's ~politics~ are. I don't know if she's ever claimed to be a socialist (much less an anarcho socialist lol) but we really shouldn't (IMO obvs) be waiting for the state / government to do anything for the common good, because we'll be waiting a long time, and acting for the benefit of the community shouldn't ever be seen as a top-down matter.

Her politics also seem remarkably inconsistent. She said she was Labour, then Green, then she was going to stand as an MP for (I think) the NHS Party, before pulling out. But also quite a lot of her thinking seems to be (low c) conservative. God knows where she stood on Brexit, but we know she didn’t vote in the Referendum. It’s all a bit of an incoherent jumble.

 

[Montrachet]

I can't get over her actually posting that she couldn't sleep last night because she'd re-read the scathing essay she wrote. *That's* what affected her? Her own purple prose fiction? And she would admit it out loud? How she was so affected by her own words? I mean COME ON.