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, @06:06PM
Funny how that applies to Trump but not Saunders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:15PM
What's your point? Nobody is making the bernie or bust people stay in the party. If you disagree so strongly with the core party beliefs then you should absolutely leave for a party that you do agree with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @07:24PM
You seem to be conveniently forgetting the whole conspiracy by the DNC to sabotage the Saunders campaign.
Truly the will of the rank and file there.
And how many times have we seen the very public prostrations of Bernie supporters holding there noses and voting for Hillary just. one. more. time (*cough*Nader*cough*).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @08:53PM
> You seem to be conveniently forgetting the whole conspiracy by the DNC to sabotage the Saunders campaign.
You mean a couple of excitable people in the DNC talking smack about sanders?
Yeah, yuuuuge conspiracy. Totally hijacked the entire process.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @12:17PM
Wasn't one of those "couple of excitable people" the person in charge of the party?
It doesn't take a large number of people to make a conspiracy, it only requires two.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:03PM
No it wasn't. As the person in charge she should have slapped it down though.
That was a failure of leadership and is why she got the boot.