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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 21 2016, @05:16PM
Understatement of the year. When you feel the need to call for censorship because your feels are hurt that someone had a difference of opinion, you need a massively thicker skin.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Monday August 22 2016, @01:05AM
No, the calls for censorship are few and far between, and I would bet dollars to donuts that most actual censorship pleas come from organizations with a serious agenda. People have called for censorship since time immemorial, though it is often the type of censorship that ends with flowers...
The more important point I brought up is that Milo is a self-serving narcissist who over values his worth to society. He's up there with "it's just a prank bro" ethan dumberry.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @01:15AM
Well, yeah. I mean that's pretty blatantly obvious to anyone who's ever listened to him. Doesn't make him either wrong or less entertaining though.
You must be using another internet than I do. And another site besides SN for that matter.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Monday August 22 2016, @02:40AM
Hmm, no trolling is not entertaining unless you are also a troll who enjoys other people's torment.
As for calls to censorship, haven't seen too many around here, though there are plenty of requests asking people yo knock off certain behaviors. A request / shout down != censorship. Happens on both "sides". So weird how we humans are so dualistic...
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:58PM
There aren't too many, no, but they do occur regularly. "I'm being harassed, do something about it", "Start banning trolls", and "Start banning <some group that pissed me off>" occur every month or two and we're again forced to say "get fucked" except more politely and in a more professional phrasing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.