I like and agree with the author's message. I would appreciate if we as a society accepted the notion:
"...we have the ability to decide not to be offended."
My next question is, how do we address the blasphemous things people say in our everyday political discussion? How does society correctly stifle the pundits that shout the xenophobic soundbites?
What do we change so that speech that offends for the sole purpose of offending falls on deaf ears?
I have some problems with the author's argument. The supposed SJW types (I'm one of them) aren't calling for bans on books. The only people that come close to that are outright Stalinists. I'm talking folks like Jason Unruhe (Maoist Rebel News). The rest of the supposed SJWs are just people pointing out tired old tropes (examples: The magic negro or the tragic transgender person) and maybe it's time to retire them for some more realistic depictions of minorities. Criticizing your favorite book isn't even close to a university book ban. I just wish people would stop conflating the two, it's wrong to do so.
though the topics are books brought up here, SJWs are hell bent on changing street sign names, town names, destroy statues. Dig up graves, ban speakers from visiting, sit ins to get people fired, hunger strikes by millionaires. It's a cult of misplaced aggression directed towards a world that has always been difficult to live in, but is exploitable by the empathetic nature of our species. But believe me that exploit is being patched. Wolf has been cried too many times.
SJWs THINK they are making change. Reality is they break down morale, cause self-harm and accomplish zero for society. Sadly the press either eats it up, or is too stupid to understand what they are actually watching. But finally the press is back tracking by publishing these articles, which is how it will try to justify any sort of legitimacy.
And these movements attract the biggest whining losers and usurpers. Perpetual victims and that sort of weakness also makes the movements vulnerable to communist agents. You know the ones that show up from out of town with megaphones ready to take the group to whatever direction they want, chanting slogans against the protective and armed services, blaming the state of everything on racism or patriarchy. Taking any kind of personal responsibility away from people.
It's a sinking ship, why you'd want to be identified with typical modern SJW movements is beyond me. It's the kind of era where people head up ridiculous departments like "diversity and inclusion" which spawns fake credentials. Any kind of scholarship in sociology these days is found laughable. They are infecting communication departments now. Whereas communication degrees used to be you learned about audio engineering and operating telcom and media equipment, now you get one for watching documentaries and writing papers about protest movements. We've also just seen the skeptic community be infected by these losers.
The irony is the institutions in the united states are set up in favor of minorities. And that can't be argued against. Which means yes there's institutional racism but it's against the so-called majority, not minorities. The kind of thing where if you have a private company over 50 employees you start getting visits by the government and threats over not having hired certain races. You can expect fines and worse because institutionally you are not allowed to hire who you want.
Any SJW worth a salt should be picking up their signs and heading to places where there's real oppression. The institutions that have given into this mob mentality lose their credibility by the day especially with their larger donor base. They are an embarrassment to society.
Nothing personal but your entire post reads like a conspiracy theory. How about you break down your thesis into simpler, smaller, and coherent bites?
As I'm bi, trans, and a mutualist I still don't see there being some massive underground of evil liberal (or conservative) subversives trying to kill off anyone. Even when I look at people like Ben Carson or Ted Cruz for the nonsense they spew I don't see a larger movement or moral panic going on towards LGBT people in the same respect. All I see is an over connected society seeing phantoms of old threats that are very much unlikely to reemerge in the present day or even the near future. Unpopular opinions, crappy games and other media, and the like are secure for the time being. No one of actual economic or political note are going out of their way to upset the apple cart of American society.
The problem is not with someone criticizing a trope.
The problem is: what happens when the trope is criticized, and the response is "thanks for your input but it's not changing." That's when the mobs and hashtags and internet shaming campaigns come out. That's when news media takes it upon itself to carry out boycott campaigns. That's when employers are contacted and people get fired or are forced to make groveling public apologies.
If you see hostile reactions to mere criticism, it's because nowadays criticism is often a prequel to aggression.
"That's when the mobs and hashtags and internet shaming campaigns come out."
Let me stop you right there. Hashtags on Twitter or some other social media aren't harassment. I wish everyone would stop with comparing the two. Avoiding bans, blocks by users, and doxing are harassment. #IhateFallOut4AndTomHowardSmellsLikeOldSocks is not harassment. It's jeering. Deal with it.
"That's when news media takes it upon itself to carry out boycott campaigns."
Last time I checked boycotts are 100% legal unless we're talking about competing companies creating them. Then that's not just harassment, that's violating the basic principle of market structure.
"That's when employers are contacted and people get fired or are forced to make groveling public apologies."
How does boycotting and hashtagging become harassment? I really hate it when people conflate things here. Care to explain yourself? Because I see far too much dishonest language in your approach to this subject.
Also, what the heck does this have to do with trigger warnings in college courses and censorship? I don't see any connection. I see people trying to dodge dog whistles here (i.e. cultural marxism, cryptofascism, and the like).
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 29.8 ms ] thread"...we have the ability to decide not to be offended."
My next question is, how do we address the blasphemous things people say in our everyday political discussion? How does society correctly stifle the pundits that shout the xenophobic soundbites?
What do we change so that speech that offends for the sole purpose of offending falls on deaf ears?
Either that, or just get over the fact that people will say things you don't like, think is blasphemous (to whatever your God is), annoys you, etc.
Somewhere along the line people stopped teaching: sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
SJWs THINK they are making change. Reality is they break down morale, cause self-harm and accomplish zero for society. Sadly the press either eats it up, or is too stupid to understand what they are actually watching. But finally the press is back tracking by publishing these articles, which is how it will try to justify any sort of legitimacy.
And these movements attract the biggest whining losers and usurpers. Perpetual victims and that sort of weakness also makes the movements vulnerable to communist agents. You know the ones that show up from out of town with megaphones ready to take the group to whatever direction they want, chanting slogans against the protective and armed services, blaming the state of everything on racism or patriarchy. Taking any kind of personal responsibility away from people.
It's a sinking ship, why you'd want to be identified with typical modern SJW movements is beyond me. It's the kind of era where people head up ridiculous departments like "diversity and inclusion" which spawns fake credentials. Any kind of scholarship in sociology these days is found laughable. They are infecting communication departments now. Whereas communication degrees used to be you learned about audio engineering and operating telcom and media equipment, now you get one for watching documentaries and writing papers about protest movements. We've also just seen the skeptic community be infected by these losers.
The irony is the institutions in the united states are set up in favor of minorities. And that can't be argued against. Which means yes there's institutional racism but it's against the so-called majority, not minorities. The kind of thing where if you have a private company over 50 employees you start getting visits by the government and threats over not having hired certain races. You can expect fines and worse because institutionally you are not allowed to hire who you want.
Any SJW worth a salt should be picking up their signs and heading to places where there's real oppression. The institutions that have given into this mob mentality lose their credibility by the day especially with their larger donor base. They are an embarrassment to society.
As I'm bi, trans, and a mutualist I still don't see there being some massive underground of evil liberal (or conservative) subversives trying to kill off anyone. Even when I look at people like Ben Carson or Ted Cruz for the nonsense they spew I don't see a larger movement or moral panic going on towards LGBT people in the same respect. All I see is an over connected society seeing phantoms of old threats that are very much unlikely to reemerge in the present day or even the near future. Unpopular opinions, crappy games and other media, and the like are secure for the time being. No one of actual economic or political note are going out of their way to upset the apple cart of American society.
The problem is: what happens when the trope is criticized, and the response is "thanks for your input but it's not changing." That's when the mobs and hashtags and internet shaming campaigns come out. That's when news media takes it upon itself to carry out boycott campaigns. That's when employers are contacted and people get fired or are forced to make groveling public apologies.
If you see hostile reactions to mere criticism, it's because nowadays criticism is often a prequel to aggression.
Let me stop you right there. Hashtags on Twitter or some other social media aren't harassment. I wish everyone would stop with comparing the two. Avoiding bans, blocks by users, and doxing are harassment. #IhateFallOut4AndTomHowardSmellsLikeOldSocks is not harassment. It's jeering. Deal with it.
"That's when news media takes it upon itself to carry out boycott campaigns."
Last time I checked boycotts are 100% legal unless we're talking about competing companies creating them. Then that's not just harassment, that's violating the basic principle of market structure.
"That's when employers are contacted and people get fired or are forced to make groveling public apologies."
How does boycotting and hashtagging become harassment? I really hate it when people conflate things here. Care to explain yourself? Because I see far too much dishonest language in your approach to this subject.
Also, what the heck does this have to do with trigger warnings in college courses and censorship? I don't see any connection. I see people trying to dodge dog whistles here (i.e. cultural marxism, cryptofascism, and the like).