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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: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 21 2016, @04:55PM
You think it requires special consideration to get a story up that disagrees with a previous story? What site are you reading because it's certainly not SN.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:06PM
You realize the previous story was a hate-submit, the goal being exactly the same as your submission of this story.
There was no disagreement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @07:50PM
Yeah, show me where Ethanol-fueled commented once through the entire affair. Or Runaway. Or TMB.
But boy did it get intellectually bankrupt to circle the wagons and sucking each others dicks to defend against the supposed trolls here not making a showing at all.
It's only trolling when the other side does it.
Got it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @08:58PM
> Yeah, show me where Ethanol-fueled commented once through the entire affair. Or Runaway. Or TMB.
What does that even matter? Ethan submitted the story with passive-aggressive commentary.
Maybe they just weren't online when it went live. Lots of stories don't get comments by any of them.
The lack or presence of them in the comments means nothing.