Episode 169: The Pinkest Peacock
Episode 169: The Pinkest Peacock
A queer cafe in Glasgow implodes.
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie tells Jesse about the rise and fall of the Pink Peacock, Glasgow’s attempt at an anarchist cafe. Plus, a new game: What’s Dumbest, featuring a Columbia adjunct, Grindr, Conor McGregor, and human Ukraine flag slash novelist Liz Gilbert.
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Brendon Marrotta’s response to Episode 168
PressureMovement.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu describes asking intactivists to disavow Clopper and myself. When he does get his way, he turns to journalists to "have pressure come from the outside." (last line of clip) This shows a behavior of publishing hit pieces on the movement to get them to do what he want.
NeverSaid.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu concludes from a single "offhand comment" that I do not recall ever saying, that I am a "white nationalist." He also acknowledges that I have never said anything white nationalist outside his false claim. This also confirms the pattern I discuss in my response audio that Eliyahu deliberately makes his claims unfalsifiable.
TopEschelon.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu confirms that he had secret meetings with the "top echelon" of the intactivist movement in which he slandered me and wanted them to attack me and my film on his behalf.
TolerantofRacism.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu claims that the American intactivist movement is "tolerant of racism" because they would not disavow and publicly attack me based on a single false claim by him. He then suggests that he met with European activists who were more receptive. I have had at least one European activist confirm that they did not support my film due to his campaign.
TheirOnlineForums.mp3 - In this clip, Eliyahu claims I "was a member of the alt right," had an account on "their online forums," and suggests that liking online meme culture is evidence of white nationalism. I'd love to know exactly which online forums he is making a factual claim I have an account on.
J Weekly: Glasgow’s queer Yiddish anarchist cafe aims to spark a Jewish revolution in Scotland
The National: Pink Peacock staff burn Harry Potter book in Glasgow street
Episode 169: The Pinkest Peacock
The cafe's whole diversity thing is comical: Scotland, as of 2018, is 96.3% white. I love the fact you have these woke folk setting up a cafe in another country and then proceeding act as if Scotland is a settler colony and the ethnically Scottish somehow problematic -as in ,Scotland has to abide by US style-DEI stuff despite having a completely different history and disparate ethnic make-up to the United States. I actually finding kind of obnoxious they think they have the right to do that in my country.
Three thoughts:
1. They should specialize in niche lefty coffeeshop drama, it's serious rich and unploughed terrain.
2. Both of them really letting their coastal-Millennial-media-classism show with Katie's remark of "everyone is broke at 28." I'm sure this marks me as a flyover rube but I know plenty of people who owned a home and had a couple of kids at that age.
3. The more I hear Jesse's takes on Judaism and his Jewish background, the more I want him to stop. Girl, we get it, you don't know anything and you don't care much to learn.