How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Iranian Bomb

So it turns out the 'western Left' is totally cool with the idea of Iran having a nuclear arsenal, the possession of which actual weapons (as opposed to current theoretical capability) would likely as Lumish rightly points out lead to a new arms-race in the region.  And that the Obama administration is actively working to enable an Iranian 'Jihadi Bomb'.  Who knew ?  And why ?  Because of 'white liberal guilt'.  Sorry about that whole Colonialism thing y'all.  Lollipop make it better ?  No ?  Well how about some thermonuclear weapons ?  Here, have some of ours why don't you -- how about these Trident missiles -- Britain doesn't need them anymore according to the SNP.  There, all better now ?  But don't go doing anything naughty with those warheads now, promise !  Fascinating read from the artist formerly known as Karmafish.

The Arquettegate Intersectionality

So, Patricia Arquette made some comments backstage at the Oscars, à propos of her call for pay-equality for women, that were perhaps not best calculated, and apparently people took it badly, and argued about it on Twitter, as people will.  Whatever, don't care, move on.  Having read a transcript of Arquette's comments, and not following Twitter, I naively assumed that the cause of offence was the implication that somehow the fights for equality for racial minorities and the 'gay community' were already and fully won, and that now it was the time to focus on women.  But, no.

Being fool enough to listen to a certain podcast (rhymes with rib lime), I am reliably informed that the problem was 'Intersectionality'.  Okay, let's take a look-see on the old wiki, and ah, fuck me.  Scroll, scroll, scroll...'a Marxist-feminist critical theory'...ugh.  I'm remembering now why I never liked liberals when I was younger.  Yeah, I get it, the experience of a black lesbian is different from that of say a black man or a white woman, and people can be oppressed along multiple axes of identity.  Yeah, no shit.