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posted by martyb on Sunday August 21 2016, @12:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the oxford-comma-—-use-it! dept.

In a rather well-timed yet coincidental counterpoint to Why we're Losing the Internet to the Culture of Hate, Milo Yiannopoulos over at Breitbart brings us this:

A warped currency today governs popular culture. Instead of creativity, talent and boldness, those who succeed are often those who can best demonstrate outrage, grievance and victimhood.

Even conservatives are buying into it. Witness, in the days since Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon was announced as Donald Trump's campaign manager, how establishment stooges have bought into the worst smear-tactics of the left. As with the left, nothing is evaluated on its quality, or whether it's factually accurate, thought-provoking or even amusing: only whether it can be deemed sexist, racist or homophobic.

Campuses are where the illness takes its most severe form. Students running for safe spaces at the slightest hint of a challenge to their coddled worldview. Faculties and administrations desperately trying to sabotage visits from conservative speakers (often me!) to avoid the inevitable complaints from tearful lefty students.

In this maelstrom of grievance, there is one group boldly swimming against the tide: trolls.

Trolling has become a byword for everything the left disagrees with, particularly if it's boisterous, mischievous and provocative. Even straightforward political disagreement, not intended to provoke, is sometimes described as "trolling" by leftists who can't tell the difference between someone who doesn't believe as they do and an "abuser" or "harasser."

Yeah, you knew I wouldn't let that kinda SJW nonsense slide without comment.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @02:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @02:14PM (#391025)

    It's all about presentation. For example if Milo responds to opinions with responses using terms like "false" and "wrong", he may not realize he's offending people because that's how he normally talks. Some people are just offensive and refuse to change their behavior and Milo seems like he may be one of those people.

    It seems nearly certain that he's not unaware; that he's doing it deliberately in a cynical ploy to rally eyeballs and build his brand. After many warnings and "time-outs" he was finally perma-banned from twitter. His response? Celebration. And to say, “I thought I had another six months, but this was always going to happen.” [medium.com]