How do you feel about Owen Jones, a writer for The Guardian

[EddyZacianLand]

Just from what I have seen on twitter, I know not the source to know how people feel about a thing, many people, even people on the left, have very varying opinions about Owen, so I wanted to see how others feel about him.

In general I agree with him and his viewpoints, especially on LGBTQIA+ folk, so I think he is really good, but how about you guys?

 

[Theswweet]

this is a very weird thread, OP

 

[purseowner]

There are people on the left who like Owen's journalism.

And then there are the centre-right of Labour and TERFs, who do not.

Is this thread in good faith?

 

[Mekanos]

I don't know much about him but it's usually the melts who don't like his stuff so he must be doing something right.

 

[DarkStream]

This is not going to end well.

 

[ultracal31]

Are you Owen Jones?

 

[platypotamus]

I have never heard of him, but from the OP I am assuming he's an Op Ed writer or Pundit of some sort, so I think the same thing I think of him as I think of anyone else who does that for a living: I don't think of them at all or care what they think and don't understand why anyone else does

 

[kradical]

He's despised by the very worst people in Britain (TERFs, Conservatives, homophobes, the Labour right, etc.).
Who are the people on the left who have strongly negative opinions of him you are referring to?

 

[RetroRunner]

I'll never give The Guardian a click so I have no opinion

 

[Nerokis]

I like the stuff of his I've seen. Don't know too much about him, though.

 

[Ravensmash]

I quite like him.

He gets a lot of criticism on Twitter, but the bulk of it (from all angles) is made in bad faith from what I've observed.

He's also quite willing to engage with those criticisms (usually by rubbishing them), which is more than can be said for a lot of other journalists on there.

 

[Daysean]

Didn't know who he was so i twitter searched the name, and literally the people who are ANTI him are the "PC Anti Woke, Flag in Bio, LOTS of Bad Faith, you get where im going with this right?" so yeah

 

[Onebadlion]

He's despised by the very worst people in Britain (TERFs, Conservatives, homophobes, the Labour right, etc.).
Who are the people on the left who have strongly negative opinions of him you are referring to?

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I don't have much time for him, but I don't despise him. He's a vocal supporter of LGBTQI+ causes, which is to his credit, but he also often tweets without getting his facts straight and ends up looking like a tit.

 

[rustymonk]

I've followed and respected him since he wrote his first book, the demonisation of the working class. I think he's a very genuine person who cares and tries, and that's a lot more than can be said for 99% of political journalists in the UK. And I respect that he's very engaged in trying to reach people and communicate a left perspective. Two thumbs up from me.

 

[trashbandit]

How are you gonna make a thread about some rando writer and not provide any context whatsoever? Why not link to some writing you think is pertinent?

 

[kradical]

I don't have much time for him, but I don't despise him. He's a vocal supporter of LGBTQI+ causes, which is to his credit, but he also often tweets without getting his facts straight and ends up looking like a tit.

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Do you have some examples of these factually inaccurate tweets that made him look like a tit?

 

[entremet]

No articles, quotes, media of his at all. What kinda OP is this? Why make me do work?

 

[shnurgleton]

I don't know who this Owen guy is but man, I could really go for a crunch wrap supreme right now

 

[Praetorpwj]

He's an uncompromising progressive and accordingly a divisive figure in the Labour Party movement.

 

[Achire]

Massive Brexiteer and Corbynista. Also gay and the victim of at least one hate crime. People are complicated.

 

[Sasliquid]

He liked one of my tweets once

 

[Deleted member 47700]

He makes TERFs' blood boil on a daily basis, what's not to like

 

[Daysean]

I found this after a few seconds of researching Owen Jones (which i said in my post a few posts above)
I've also seen discussion of this topic in various threads lately
I'm pretty sure LGBT Era might have more to say

 

[Sputnik Sweetheart]

Chavs was a good read and I think in retrospect played a decent part in getting younger me more involved in critically thinking about how the media presents people.

 

[kradical]

Massive Brexiteer and Corbynista.

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He was an extremely vocal campaigner for Remain actually

 

[Karateka]

Never heard of him but I'm not British.
Also couldn't give you the name of a media/news personality so probably not your target audience.

 

[Temascos]

From what I read of his stuff he's good at what he does. I don't keep up on any of the twitter stuff so I don't know if he's any different there.

 

[Ravensmash]

Massive Brexiteer and Corbynista. Also gay and the victim of at least one hate crime. People are complicated.

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eh, I don't recall him being a Brexiteer

I think he's been critical of the EU as a bloc before, as some on the left are, but thought that remaining was the better option

 

[jelly]

He seems fine, I think he can grate because he goes a mile a minute, actually cares about things that others want to ignore, everything would be fine if you didn't talk about it and the broader media seems to dislike him because he calls them out on being Tory backing tax dodgers. Maybe gets carried away with the purity of the left and doesn't see the forest for the trees sometimes, he does seem very passionate so gets carried away.

 

[purseowner]

Massive Brexiteer and Corbynista. Also gay and the victim of at least one hate crime. People are complicated.

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Nope.

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[kradical]

mAsSIvE bReXitEeR

 

[b-dubs]

How about we not have hate threads for random reporters?