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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, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:24PM
Sarkessian ever finish up those six videos she accepted tons of kickstarter money for or is she still at three like she was a year after taking the money?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @07:59AM
Why yes, she actually made way, way more than six videos and the series is still on-going. The latest was posted last month. She has more than delivered on the Kickstarter promise, and in fact has turned it into a viable charity.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:31PM
Interesting. Last I saw she had plans to release little bitty videos under an entirely different kickstarter and no word on finishing out the original, paid for series.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @03:19PM
She finished the original Kickstarter offering about a year ago, this is just "season 2" bonus material now. She, or rather now the charity she set up, did another Kickstarter for some different videos that are in production now. Since the charity has a number of employees, and Anita isn't the only one doing videos for it, and this new series seems to have a lot of guest speakers, and she is doing it full time now, it doesn't seem like a stretch.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @06:48PM
Interesting. Six full videos not just little five minute vids? Cause she was seriously dragging ass and it was starting to look about as truthful as the time she said she was run out of her house by death threats, which she filmed while inside her house.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday August 22 2016, @10:43PM
Yep, all full videos delivered, shorter ones (5-15 minutes) still on-going. Also, the allegations about the video turned out to be false, just the usual reddit crap.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @10:48PM
Going to need a link to that because I saw quite a thorough examination that proved pretty conclusively that she never left her home.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:27AM
If you provide a link to this examination I can refuse it. I can't prove a negative, and most people don't bother to careful document being threatened out of their home just in case random people on Reddit question it.
These claims are usually easy to dismantle because they rarely do a very good job of faking the evidence. Tweets frequently exceed the 140 character limit, they forget to remove Photoshop metadata tags from the images etc.
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