Prof Ian Pace

Pianist, Professor of Music, Culture and Society, @citysociology. Views here my own. Co-convenor @cityuniafaf, Secretary @lucaf_london

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

@jacklaffey So are you calling gas chambers a ‘myth’?

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

I read the accounts of Jewish children being mocked with talk of gas chambers by other children.

I want people to imagine the outrage if black children were mocked by others with talk of lynching and slavery. This is every bit as offensive.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

I gave a talk to a group of Jewish teenagers last year and when I asked if any had experienced antisemitism at school, almost every single one put their hand up. Most went to non-Jewish schools and the stories they told me were horrific, from assaults to racist bullying.

Those trying to undermine the Bell report have clearly never spoken to Jewish children and actually I’m glad they’re nowhere near them.

[Paul Benjamin @apxmindset]

To add some context for those commenting that banging a “hot chick” like this would be every 14 year olds dream.

You are right. Controversial truth is that many teens who have raging hormones and sexual interests are going to consent and enjoy sex with the interested adult. Especially if she (or he for the girls) is attractive That’s guy or girl. We aren’t talking about an assault by force in these situations.

But that is exactly how “grooming” works. The adult in the situation is using things like sex, validation, gifts, and so on that are pleasurable and inviting to the victim to get the victim into a relationship where they have power over them. And some adult predators are aggressively trying to make this happen, while most are more opportunistic and susceptible of becoming a predator if the situation presents itself.

The problem isn’t so much the short term pleasure. The problem is in the consequences afterwards. I have run into this many times over the years where I am talking to an adult (man or woman) who had a sexual relationship with an older adult as a pre-teen or teen. In almost every case the teen “wanted it” and often times in the case of the girls had a crush on the older person and had somewhat tried to seduce the adult into it.

The consequences of these relationships are almost always bad, and sometimes catastrophically bad for the teen. We know it’s that way for the girls, but no one ever talks about how it can be horrific for the guys too.

The guys often have mental and emotional difficulties and struggle in healthy relationships as adults because of how the grooming affected their development and sexual and emotional responses. And a significant number of these boy teens end up taking their own lives, or turning to addiction.

So saying “man I wish I had a hot lady try to bang me when I was a kid” is missing the other side. I remember when I was a teen and I would have loved to have been in a high intensity sexual relationship with any attractive woman, especially some fully developed hot 20 something chick. It actually almost happened to me. But I am glad it didn’t. And you should be glad too.

And you should probably stop considering kids who went through this as “lucky,” because that framing is how people end up sounding like they need their devices checked.

[The Jewish Chronicle @JewishChron]

Green activist who backed Zionism is racism motion ‘mourned Khamenei’s integrity and decency’

https://t.co/NxxyAYMw7u

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Quite

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

Please do come to this event on Thursday, 29 October, at 19:00 at Conway Hall. A mixture of comedy, music, drama and spoken word celebrating Jewish culture. I will be playing Stefan Wolpe’s Palästina-Notenbuch and also accompanying wonderful soprano Ilona Domnich in some songs of Rachmaninoff (who did much to support Jewish musicians). And please RT!

https://t.co/8J6bMlusYh

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

The way the left has reacted to a government report into antisemitism in schools is frighteningly deranged.
They flat out refuse to see Jews as victims.
Even five-year-old kids being targeted for their religion does not engage their sympathy.
My friend @HFreemanauthor, having written about how her daughter was bullied out of school, was targeted by antisemites for 24hrs.
Have we become so dehumanised in their eyes? Have they stopped seeing us as people? Have not enough Jews been targeted?

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

Let me help.

When you realize you’ve been a bully social justice warrior and thrown the people who nurtured and loved you under the bus you do two things.

1/ You finally treat them with “dignity” and “respect” as she says by acknowledging that they are actually human beings who loved you and are deserving of a conversation.

2/ In order to do so you say sorry and take accountability for the way in which you did dispose of them.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

This is fascinating in which Emma Watson, who went out of her way to traduce @jk_rowling, completely rows back her complicity in extremism and acknowledges that some things can be nuanced.

[Tom @tomgooner84]

@DeeperDish @drianpace Nope.

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

This is an example of what I mean.

[. @JustHere23njoy]

Jews aren't oppressed like black people. They are oppressors

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

@nicolelampert Yes. Shocking now to think there was a time that people thought he and Laurie Penny were the voice of the future.

[Katherine Stiles @_K_Stiles]

Dislike of teaching is an odd trait if your job is lecturer

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

Many of the comments in reply to this indicate the nature of the issue.

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

I read the accounts of Jewish children being mocked with talk of gas chambers by other children.

I want people to imagine the outrage if black children were mocked by others with talk of lynching and slavery. This is every bit as offensive.

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

Fascinating post featuring Caroline’s latest research, on Basque features in Ravel’s music, including in the Piano Concerto in G and Le Gibet.

[Caroline Potter 🇪🇺 @carolinefrmus]

New on Substack: Maurice #Ravel, Basque composer https://t.co/jtyepmOxt3

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

@thundertick They were related in the Bell report, at least according to one of the reports on it.

Report reveals vast scale of antisemitism in English schools https://t.co/hwhEKRreP7

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

@RivieraFrancois No, I think what happened with Jason Arday was primarily about the fact that he was placed in a position for which he was not at all suited, and bigger up by Cambridge, including lots of fanciful information relating to his supposed biography.

[Mark Collard @profmarkcollard]

What on earth are the senior admin of @LancasterUni doing? Criticising universities’ marketing efforts would clearly be covered by academic freedom even if Dr. Ryder were, say, a lecturer in microbiology or nuclear physics. That he’s a lecturer in MARKETING makes the academic freedom case so obvious that even a primary school kid could understand it.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

What on earth is going on at the New Statesman.
First the Sally Rooney bollocks. And now they are calling Owen Jones ‘a man of enormous courage, integrity and truthfulness’. WHAT??