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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, @06:01PM
How'd that work out for your ancestors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:18PM
What, you mean being able to speak their mind freely? Worked out fine until recently when the libtard fuckwads decided free speech was only for them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:17AM
Look at buzzard pretending the trail of tears didn't happen.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:24AM
My ancestors were warriors. They may have died but at least they didn't whine about it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @04:08AM
> My ancestors were warriors. They may have died but at least they didn't whine about it.
True or not, its a non-sequitor.
They are dead because speech convinced the us government that killing them - men, women, children - for their land was perfectly OK.
Haven't you ever wondered why free speech is so important? What's the point?
So what if a bunch of people talk to each other or not. What difference does it make?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:41PM
No, I have never wondered why free speech is important. It's been self-evident ever since I can remember.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @04:50AM
Did you just say that the people who were force marched off their land and themselves chose to call that forced march "The Trail of Tears and Death" did not whine about it?
They didn't name it "The Happy Fun Trail" did they? I'm pretty sure those weren't tears of joy, they literally named it for the act of crying.
Just how deep is your denial buzzard?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:35PM
Walk a thousand miles, you're entitled to bitch that your feet hurt a time or two. What you're not entitled to do is bitch that an ancestor you never met and no living family member remembers had a hard time of it. That's called being an entitled, whiny, little bitch.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.