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Just what people want with their sportsball; a hefty dose of what they're trying to escape from in the first place.
It's like they're TRYING to destroy themselves at this point.
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Just what people want with their sportsball; a hefty dose of what they're trying to escape from in the first place.
What are you on, crack? Both were written by the same author, George Orwell. Who yes, was a supporter of Democratic Socialism, but who was a critic of totalitarianism, which is one of the key tenets of hard line CommunismReminds me how Animal Farm and 1984 were both written by socialists and how the writer of Animal Farm had to go into hiding for a brief while because of it.
Stalin allegedly tried to get him assassinated (like what he did to Trotsky). The communists came down much harder on people who they saw as socialist traitors than outside critics.What are you on, crack? Both were written by the same author, George Orwell. Who yes, was a supporter of Democratic Socialism, but who was a critic of totalitarianism, which is one of the key tenets of hard line Communism
I had no idea of that! And it sort of makes sense I guess, what you say about them hating those who they saw as traitors,more than outsiders from the off. hell hath no fury like an extremist who sees someone vom up the Kool-Aid, right?Stalin allegedly tried to get him assassinated (like what he did to Trotsky). The communists came down much harder on people who they saw as socialist traitors than outside critics.
Tucker had a real existential moment somewhere along the line. Not sure what did it. He has said he was probably an alcoholic and then stopped drinking, so that's a pretty big indicator of something big.In defense of Liebowitz, Tucker still has access to professional aestheticians before he goes on camera.
That said, Tucker Carlsons story arc has been fascinating. He was the bow tie wearing "heel" in CNNs crossfire, and got roasted by Liebowitz, When Fox News hired him on I assume they thought they were getting another elite "conservative" blowhard who knew what the game was. But there was a glitch in the matrix here, and it cannot be said enough. The glitch was Jordan Peterson. Tucker has clearly become a "petersonian", to the point where he even brought the man onto his show on numerous occasions.
But what really gives it away is how he uses words. He is clearly saying what he thinks is true and damn the torpedoes. Whether or not he is correct is immaterial. He speaks what he thinks is true, and that level of genuine power comes across. To the point that Fox cannot safely get rid of him no matter how many corporations defund his platform.
It's a long journey for the man who would say what got him access to the current version of political pundit shows #9546. But it says something important. Peterson himself might be a meme, but the ethic behind what he was trying to get across was not a joke. What you say has existential meaning. Your words shape reality itself, and if you lie, you distort yourself and reality. Worse, your lies introduce chaos, and when combined with everyone else's willing lies destabilize the world and allow for evil to prosper.
Seeing what has happened over the past few months has made me realize Peterson was right. And its why tucker has become more popular than ever. It's sad how so many people are willing to lie to themselves and others over what is going on. The results of that show too.
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Scott Alexander is a cuckservative who runs a gay blog. He apparently had some spicy takes on social media, nothing outrageous, but he's intelligent and the SJWs didn't like being made to look like fools so went after him.
Usual death threats, doxing his followers, SWAT calls etc etc.
Being a boomer he agreed to an interview with the NYT with the usual assurances that he'd get to put his side of the story, and they just wanted to write about the online community he'd built blah blah.
Anyway the NYT have now decided they're going to dox him. No not just run their usual hit piece but outright reveal his identity even though they know what will happen to him if they do. The poor fuck has now had to nuke his blog and is worried about losing his job and having crazy bugmen go after him IRL.
Cancel culture has infected all levels of the culture, even the elite journalists are doing it and it's evolved into outright harassment. They want to see their enemies physically harmed or dead. Don't ever, ever talk to the media.
David Roberts ends by noting that he doesn’t really know what to do here, and I agree. I don’t know what to do here either.
But one simple heuristic: if everything you’ve tried so far has failed, maybe you should try something different. Right now, the neutral gatekeeper institutions have tried being biased against conservatives. They’ve tried showing anti-conservative bias. They’ve tried ramping up the conservativism-related bias level. They’ve tried taking articles, and biasing them against conservative positions. I appreciate their commitment to multiple diverse strategies, but I can’t help but wonder whether there’s a possibility they’ve missed.
Look. I read Twitter. I know the sorts of complaints people have about this blog. I’m some kind of crypto-conservative, I’m a traitor to liberalism, I’m too quick to sell out under the guise of “compromise”. And I understand the sentiment. I write a lot about how we shouldn’t get our enemies fired lest they try to fire us, how we shouldn’t get our enemies’ campus speakers disinvited lest they try to disinvite ours, how we shouldn’t use deceit and hyperbole to push our policies lest our enemies try to push theirs the same way. And people very reasonably ask – hey, I notice my side kind of controls all of this stuff, the situation is actually asymmetrical, they have no way of retaliating, maybe we should just grind our enemies beneath our boots this one time.
And then when it turns out that the enemies can just leave and start their own institutions, with horrendous results for everybody, the cry goes up “Wait, that’s unfair! Nobody ever said you could do that! Come back so we can grind you beneath our boots some more!”
Conservatives aren’t stuck in here with us. We’re stuck in here with them. And so far it’s not going so well. I’m not sure if any of this can be reversed. But I think maybe we should consider to what degree we are in a hole, and if so, to what degree we want to stop digging.
Everyone is a little bit racist. We know this because there is a song called “Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist” and it is very cute. Also because most people score poorly on implicit association tests, because a lot of white people will get anxious if they see a black man on a deserted street late at night, and because if you prime people with traditionally white versus traditionally black names they will answer questions differently in psychology experiments. It is no shame to be racist as long as you admit that you are racist and you try your best to resist your racism. Everyone knows this.
Donald Sterling is racist. We know this because he made a racist comment in the privacy of his own home. As a result, he was fined $2.5 million, banned for life from an industry he’s been in for thirty-five years, banned from ever going to basketball games, forced to sell his property against his will, publicly condemned by everyone from the President of the United States on down, denounced in every media outlet from the national news to the Podunk Herald-Tribune, and got people all over the Internet gloating about how pleased they are that he will die soon. We know he deserved this, because people who argue he didn’t deserve this were also fired from their jobs. He deserved it because he was racist. Everyone knows this.
So.
Everybody is racist.
And racist people deserve to lose everything they have and be hated by everyone.
This seems like it might present a problem. Unless of course you plan to be the person who gets to decide which racists lose everything and get hated by everyone, and which racists are okay for now as long as they never cross you in any way.
I probably still sound paranoid. So let me point out something I think the standard theory fails to explain, but my theory explains pretty well.
Why can’t social justice terms apply to oppressed groups?
Like, even bringing this up freaks people out. There is no way to get a quicker reaction from someone in social justice than to apply a social justice term like “privilege” or “racist” to a group that isn’t straight/white/male. And this is surprising.
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Yet if anyone mentions it in real life, they are likely to have earned themselves a link to an Explanatory Article. Maybe 18 Reasons Why The Concept Of Female Privilege Is Insane. Or An Open Letter To The Sexists Who Think Female Privilege Is A Thing. Or The Idea Of Female Privilege – It Isn’t Just Wrong, It’s Dangerous. Or the one on how there is no female privilege, just benevolent sexism. Or That Thing You Call Female Privilege Is Actually Just Whiny Male Syndrome. Or Female Privilege Is Victim Blaming, which helpfully points out that people who talk about female privilege “should die in a fire” and begins “we need to talk, and no, not just about the fact that you wear fedoras and have a neck beard.”
It almost seems like you have touched a nerve. But why should there be a nerve here?
As further confirmation that we are on to something surprising, note also the phenomenon of different social justice groups debating, with desperation in their eyes, which ones do or don’t have privilege over one another.
If you are the sort of person who likes throwing rocks at hornet nests, ask anyone in social justice whether trans men (or trans women) have male privilege. You end up in places like STFU TRANSMISOGYNIST TRANS FOLKS or Cis Privilege Is Just A Tenet Of Male Privilege or On Trans People And The Male Privilege Accusation or the womyn-born-womyn movement or Against The Cisgender Privilege List or How Misogyny Hurts Trans Men: We Do Sometimes Have Male Privilege But There Are More Important Things To Talk About Here.
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We find the same unexpected pattern with racism. We all know everyone is racist, because racism just means you have unconscious biases and expectations. Everyone is a little bit racist.
People of color seem to be part of “everyone”, and they seem likely to have the same sort of in-group identification as all other humans. But they are not racist. We know this because of articles that say things like “When white people complain about reverse racism, they are complaining about losing their PRIVILEGE” and admit that “the dictionary is wrong” on this matter. Or those saying whites calling people of color racist “comes from a lack of understanding of the term, through ignorance or willful ignorance and hatred”. Or those saying that “when white people complain about experiencing reverse racism, what they’re really complaining about is losing out on or being denied their already existing privileges.” Why Are Comments About White People Not Racist, Can Black People Be Racist Toward White People? (spoiler: no), Why You Can’t Be Racist To White People, et cetera et cetera.
All of these sources make the same argument: racism means structural oppression. If some black person beats up some white person just because she’s white, that might be unfortunate, it might even be “racially motivated”, but because they’re not acting within a social structure of oppression, it’s not racist. As one of the bloggers above puts it:
I can’t argue with this. No, literally, I can’t argue with this. There’s no disputing the definitions of words. If you say that “racism” is a rare species of nocturnal bird native to New Guinea which feeds upon morning dew and the dreams of young children, then all I can do is point out that the dictionary and common usage both disagree with you. And the sources I cited above have already admitted that “the dictionary is wrong” and “no one uses the word racism correctly”.Inevitably, here comes a white person either claiming that they have a similar experience because they grew up in an all black neighborhood and got chased on the way home from school a few times and OMG THAT IS SO RACIST and it is the exact same thing, or some other such bullshittery, and they expect that ignorance to be suffered in silence and with respect. If you are that kid who got chased after school, that’s horrible, and I feel bad for you…But dudes, that shit is not racism.
If racism school dot tumblr dot com and the rest of the social justice community are right, “racism” and “privilege” and all the others are innocent and totally non-insulting words that simply point out some things that many people are doing and should try to avoid.
If I am right, “racism” and “privilege” and all the others are exactly what everyone loudly insists they are not – weapons – and weapons all the more powerful for the fact that you are not allowed to describe them as such or try to defend against them. The social justice movement is the mad scientist sitting at the control panel ready to direct them at whomever she chooses. Get hit, and you are marked as a terrible person who has no right to have an opinion and who deserves the same utter ruin and universal scorn as Donald Sterling. Appease the mad scientist by doing everything she wants, and you will be passed over in favor of the poor shmuck to your right and live to see another day. Because the power of the social justice movement derives from their control over these weapons, their highest priority should be to protect them, refine them, and most of all prevent them from falling into enemy hands.
If racism school dot tumblr dot com is right, people’s response to words like “racism” and “privilege” should be accepting them as a useful part of communication that can if needed also be done with other words. No one need worry too much about their definitions except insofar as it is unclear what someone meant to say. No one need worry about whether the words are used to describe them personally, except insofar as their use reveals states of the world which are independent of the words used.
If I am right, then people’s response to these words should be a frantic game of hot potato where they attack like a cornered animal against anyone who tries to use the words on them, desperately try to throw them at somebody else instead, and dispute the definitions like their lives depend on it.
And I know that social justice people like to mock straight white men for behaving in exactly that way, but man, we’re just following your lead here.
Suppose the government puts a certain drug in the water supply, saying it makes people kinder and more aware of other people’s problems and has no detrimental effects whatsoever. A couple of conspiracy nuts say it makes your fingers fall off one by one, but the government says that’s ridiculous, it’s just about being more sensitive to other people’s problems which of course no one can object to. However, government employees are all observed drinking bottled water exclusively, and if anyone suggests that government employees might also want to take the completely innocuous drug and become kinder, they freak out and call you a terrorist and a shitlord and say they hope you die. If by chance you manage to slip a little bit of tap water into a government employee’s drink, and he finds out about it, he runs around shrieking like a banshee and occasionally yelling “AAAAAAH! MY FINGERS! MY PRECIOUS FINGERS!”
At some point you might start to wonder whether the government was being entirely honest with you.
This is the current state of my relationship with social justice.
Actually I can't find a source for it, although I remember being taught it on two separate occasions, in high school and again in college. Possibly just a popular myth.I had no idea of that! And it sort of makes sense I guess, what you say about them hating those who they saw as traitors,more than outsiders from the off. hell hath no fury like an extremist who sees someone vom up the Kool-Aid, right?
It's the usual globohomo playbook. When they were pushing gay marriage they did exactly the same. Dog pile anyone on social media who spoke out against it (this is VERY effective with white women who would rather cut of their own tits than be excluded from a group). Have the Jew controlled multinationals push the agenda with the threat hanging over their employees and contractors that if they didn't get with the program they'd be fired. And of course the usual celeb pandering.
Anybody got the link to Kyle's doxx? Thread has blown up so much I can't find it.
rip. come on kiwis we arent supposed to harass people.Looks like it's been deleted from the thread because people were calling it.
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Bullshit. We're not supposed to IRL lolcows. Kyle is not a lolcow. Simple as that.rip. come on kiwis we arent supposed to harass people.
understandable have a great dayBullshit. We're not supposed to IRL lolcows. Kyle is not a lolcow. Simple as that.
they need to walk off and let shit devolve until these lunatics realize what they did and literally beg on their hands and knees to have cops backIt’s not even noon and there’s a shooting in Minneapolis near a school, daycare center, and...the SSI building. These cops sound so tired.
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>shootingIt’s not even noon and there’s a shooting in Minneapolis near a school, daycare center, and...the SSI building. These cops sound so tired.
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It’s not even noon and there’s a shooting in Minneapolis near a school, daycare center, and...the SSI building. These cops sound so tired.
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