Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[Old Blighty]

The professor I mentioned earlier in the thread gave a pop quiz on the movie Crash last class (which I missed). She still has not informed us how the movie figures into what is basically speech class.

 

[Lorento]

"American soldiers kill millions of people in the Middle East every day."

Even in George Bush's wildest wet dreams, that's just not possible.

 

[Positron]

The professor I mentioned earlier in the thread gave a pop quiz on the movie Crash last class (which I missed). She still has not informed us how the movie figures into what is basically speech class.

Will the winner of the quiz have more privilege, or less?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

The professor I mentioned earlier in the thread gave a pop quiz on the movie Crash last class (which I missed). She still has not informed us how the movie figures into what is basically speech class.

I wonder what the questions were like.

"Do you believe that all the people who say this movie is one of the worst Oscar winners of all time are misogynistic cishet shitlords who can't understand what a beautiful piece of genius this is?"

 

[Old Blighty]

I wonder what the questions were like.

"Do you believe that all the people who say this movie is one of the worst Oscar winners of all time are misogynistic cishet shitlords who can't understand what a beautiful piece of genius this is?"

Considering how batshit she is, that might be pretty close. I might have to take it on Monday, so we'll see.

She randomly put it on for fifteen minutes once. I spent most of that giggling.

 

[Meowthkip]

Considering how batshit she is, that might be pretty close. I might have to take it on Monday, so we'll see.

She randomly put it on for fifteen minutes once. I spent most of that giggling.

You should replace the DVD with a copy of David Cronenberg's Crash.

 

[Koby_Fish]

Late to the party as per usual, but I spotted an interesting convo on FB between two friends, one hardline SJW (lesbian-flavored genderqueer BlackLivesMatter communist) and one simply liberal. No quotes or screenshots to avoid powerlevel, but I'll sum up:

A: LOL! This guy was crying about how someone was being racist against him. You can't be racist against whites, duh.
B: I respect your opinion and agree with you as far as the west goes, but I was in Japan for a year and some pretty racist shit went down there sometimes.
A: Racism = power + privilege. Whites still have power and privilege, even in Japan.
B: But they're a minority there ...
A: Still colonizers. Also, the atom bomb and ruthless oppression of Japanese culture. You can be prejudiced against whites, but you can't be racist against them.
B: I respect your opinion and am really trying to show my bona fides by reiterating all your stuff about power and privilege, but white people don't really have any special privilege or power there.
A: Still colonizers. Still white. Still atom bomb. QED.

B spent a lot of time larding her comments with reassurances about how yes, in the west, whites were in power and racism didn't apply to them, buuuut maybe ... Still, colonialism (and capitalism, can't forget that) mean that whites are forever in a position of undeserved influence everywhere. A seemed to think that Japan cowers before the hideous gaijin menace.

Frankly, it sounded kind of ... well ... condescending to me. Like other races and cultures are such delicate flowers that they don't have the strength to withstand our rampaging Gaijinzilla.

The logical fallacy "special pleading" would like a word with A...

 

[StallChaser]

I find it especially hilarious that "you can't be racist against white people" is itself a statement that's racist against white people.

 

[Lorento]

I find it especially hilarious that "you can't be racist against white people" is itself a statement that's racist against white people.

But you see, even in countries with white minorities where they were persecuted (See Zimbabwe) it wasn't racism according to tumblr. In fact, by their logic it was 'Justice' because ZANU finally got rid of those oppressive white shitlords! And then proceeded to set up his own.

 

[WeebyAutist]

Spoiler: I'm studying at a fairly intensely liberal school. A few favorite classmates:

• Met a girl at a party a little while back. She seemed like a cool enough person to talk to, until she brought up the sexualities present in her Regular Show headcanon. Also, she went to dinner with the school president in cosplay.
• Land-whale 'Genderfluid' who manages to steer every conversation she takes part in to focus on how her special variety of trans is extra oppressed, because trans people argue that it's offensive to the movement as a whole. Bonus point: She also loves looking for people to lecture about cultural appropriation. Extra ironic because she is a massive weeaboo.
• Guy who is insistent that identifying as a gender is inherently sexist. Has a huge gore fetish, and talks about it constantly, to anyone who will listen. Additionally, he talks in memes. Constantly.
• On a bit more of a personal note, there's a girl who told me to drink rat poison when I disagreed about all men being rapists
  
• We have a trans club, a POC club, and a trans POC club

I sometimes find myself wondering if some of these people have what it takes to be lolcows.

 

[Positron]

• We have a trans club, a POC club, and a trans POC club

The in-fightings must be quite a sight.

 

[fire_fly]

I have a story to share. I'm not sure if it counts because the girl in question didn't really say or do anything particularly Tumblr-esque during this incident, but she had neon orange hair, wore hipster glasses and mall-goth clothes, and was one of the most disgustingly rude, entitled people I've run into in a long time. She was like Tumblr personified, all that was missing was her spewing nonsense about her being stargender and demisexual or whatever.

Spoiler: Minor Powerleveling

I work in a professionals-only beauty supply, meaning you have to either have a cosmetology license or be a student to shop there. We create accounts so that the salons and hairdressers that shop with us have a way to 1) prove that they have a right to shop with us and 2) have the option to contact our corporate office and get records of their spending for the year when tax time rolls around. A while back, this girl, who was a student at the nearby beauty school, though I'd never seen her before, came in for some haircolor. When she got to the counter, I asked her for her card, since we give out cards to scan that link to customers' accounts, and she huffed, rolled her eyes, and said that she'd never been asked for her card, like, EVER. Which is a total lie, we ask everyone, and if they don't have one, we check their driver's license. Eventually I got her account pulled up (another reason for the cards is, our search system SUCKS), and while I was ringing up her stuff, she and her friend were chatting about how they'd "just have to drive to the other one from now on" since I... enforce the rules..? Do my job? I'm not sure. Once I'd given her the total, I had to wait a good 15-20 seconds while she decided to pay attention to me instead of her obnoxiously-decorated iPhone (lots of sparkly kawaii bullshit, clashed terribly with her mall-goth ensemble and shitty DIY bag she was carrying). She just puts off this terrible aura of "I'm better than EVERYONE" whenever she's around; you can't so much as greet her without her rolling her eyes at you. I can't stand her, I hope she never sets foot in our store again when she finally graduates.

I've thought about this incident a lot. I dye my hair crazy colors and wear funky makeup and hipster glasses and have always been very open about my geekdom. I grew up flying my freak flag with pride. But because of Tumblrinas and SJWs, I have to work really hard to convince people that, believe it or not, I'm relatively down-to-Earth and normal and I won't scream at them about imagined slights and privilege.

 

[Positron]

Sounds like a garden-variety spoiled twat whose daddy paid for her school fees. Can you imagine such attitude when it comes to serving clients?

 

[TheLateGreatBate]

Someone working across the room from me today was working on a PowerPoint presentation with the slide titles "Cultural Appropriation: Reclaim the Bindi" and "Slutwalk". It was probably mandatory work for a short course, but even so, I didn't approach her just in case.

 

[Adamska]

I've thought about this incident a lot. I dye my hair crazy colors and wear funky makeup and hipster glasses and have always been very open about my geekdom. I grew up flying my freak flag with pride. But because of Tumblrinas and SJWs, I have to work really hard to convince people that, believe it or not, I'm relatively down-to-Earth and normal and I won't scream at them about imagined slights and privilege.

But anyways, like I said; I don't really see a lot of SJWs in real life, or even online that often. The closest to real life was a Wiccan I knew who essentially fucked herself over by dying her hair when she had to do observations in a school; it was considered against dresscode and she wasn't that happy. Real passionate Green partier, but a pretty nice chick outside of her passions, which were pretty intense.

 

[Old Blighty]

A girl in my communications class busted out the crazy. We had to pitch ideas for speeches and hers was a cry to lessen the importance of testing. She said that the testing is bad partially because the education system favors the whites. They apparently have more money and more supportive home lives. Apparently brown people can't have money or good parents.

Luckily even our teacher was like '.....' and told her that while she had the right to say what she wanted, she needed unbiased facts and people could say she was wrong. And a lot of people pointed out other ways testing is bad. The teacher suggested she look into other non race factors.

Non SJW related but one said said his speech was to try and persuade us to do our own research because the government lies. His two examples were that there was totally more to JFK's shooting and that the twin towers were a planned demolition because of the beams. His main argument was jet fuel can't melt steel beams and he was totally serious.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

A girl in my communications class busted out the crazy. We had to pitch ideas for speeches and hers was a cry to lessen the importance of testing. She said that the testing is bad partially because the education system favors the whites. They apparently have more money and more supportive home lives. Apparently brown people can't have money or good parents.
Luckily even our teacher was like '.....' and told her that while she had the right to say what she wanted, she needed unbiased facts and people could say she was wrong. And a lot of people pointed out other ways testing is bad. The teacher suggested she look into other non race factors.

Non SJW related but one said said his speech was to try and persuade us to do our own research because the government lies. His two examples were that there was totally more to JFK's shooting and that the twin towers were a planned demolition because of the beams. His main argument was jet fuel can't melt steel beams and he was totally serious.

What is communications class?
I have always heard of it but I never understood it as anything more than a GPA booster

 

[neverendingmidi]

What is communications class?
I have always heard of it but I never understood it as anything more than a GPA booster

It sounds like a class I had back in high school that was just called Speech. You were given a type of speech, had to write one and give it in class. Things like if you were accepting an award, if you were doing a political speech, a persuasive speech, etc. It was a class that was required to graduate, and holy fuck was it pointless.

Not to mention my teacher was a twit who decorated her classroom with elementary school decorations and spoke to us like we were little adorable kindergarteners. I don't think she wanted to deal with high schoolers.

 

[Old Blighty]

What is communications class?
I have always heard of it but I never understood it as anything more than a GPA booster

Like someone else said, it's basically speech class. It's listed as a speech class but not actually called that. I haven't learned anything on communicating but I have learned Ludacris is not a good actor.

It's a foundation class where I go.

 

[lolwut]

I don't think she wanted to deal with high schoolers.

Can you blame her?