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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @04:24PM
I really hate to ask this. Yet it has to be done.
Define 'moral values' and how their change from how they are currently viewed will destroy western civilisation?
Example, pre early to mid 20th century at the latest, It was still common for multiple generations of a family to live in a single household. Grandparents, parents, kids, and grand kids. This was considered moral, the bedrock of civilization. Then the nuclear family came about here in the united states. Ushered in by promises from the government to ww2 vets of a cheap house and tract of land. It was promoted that kids should be kicked out at 18 to find their own way and the elderly should be hidden. Then it took over in other western nations because it was viewed as part of the reason of the great economic success that happened to the country post ww2 till now.
I am certain there were people who claimed then what you are claiming now, deviation from the moral conscious. Or what 'your' group considers it as, is viewed as a threat to the very bedrock of civilization and must be fought.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @08:36PM
No problem. Cultural Marxism must be considered immoral (as Kant's immorality of morality) as it is an attempt to undermine majority social mores and empower unhealthy minorities over the typically more balanced views held by the majority. I myself would have been considered a social liberal until recently, however I am also a white, "cis-gendered" (wtf) male which now means I can be attacked by "victims" who I have never oppressed or harmed in any way. This is plain intolerance. It is the exact opposite of what safe-space seeking, permanently offended, virtue signalling snowflakes claim to be doing. Playing the victim and projecting your behaviour onto others is the defining characteristic of sociopathy. Such behaviour has now been normalised.
What moral defence is there for those covering up rape committed by muslim migrants in Europe? Our so called progressives are openly making exceptions for an oppressive and regressive religious ideology that is entirely at odds with centuries of western social progress. The same whatever-wave feminists who harp on about "rape culture" would rather turn a blind eye than risk being accused of racism. The absolute intellectual and moral failure of Western society is upon us!