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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 aristarchus on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:48PM
Linuxrocks! WooHoo! But linuxrocks123? No, your reason is not reasonable! You are missing out on a fine opportunity to open your mind to other points of view, just like the AIQs want you to do! Please don't put me in your kill-file! I have no idea how I could deal with you not reading my posts! I will be bereft, inconsolable, plunged into a black abyss of being ignored by linuxrocks123! How you you do this to a fellow Soylentil?
'sniff. . .
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Monday August 22 2016, @02:27AM
You are missing out on a fine opportunity to open your mind to other points of view, just like the AIQs want you to do!
That's sort of the point of telling you. I usually don't tell people, but you got added mostly because of your closed-mindedness, so the irony was too good to resist.
And, he says "SJW" a lot, which is a perfectly reasonable reason not to listen to someone.
See it now?
Also, the kill file is actually just a -2 penalty, so I'll still see your posts until I up my threshold to 1 because the crap from ACs and killfiled blowhards gets too severe. If you post anything worthwhile before then, I'll probably take you off.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday August 22 2016, @05:30AM
Also, the kill file is actually just a -2 penalty, so I'll still see your posts until I up my threshold to 1 because the crap from ACs and killfiled blowhards gets too severe. If you post anything worthwhile before then, I'll probably take you off.
Oh Merciful linuxrocks123, please have mercy upon my posts that disagree with you! As previously stated, I do not know how I could possibly live with the possibility that you were not reading my posts. But now I see that you still will? Oh, thank Ganesh! And Sedna! And you might take me off of your list? The list that only affects what you see?
Oh, please, oh great and merciful linuxrocks123, he who holds the list of kill in his very hands, if you could forgive my transgressions, and allow me once again to grace your view of SoylentNews, that would, well, actually, it would not make any difference to me at all! In fact, I may just put you on my kill list! And I might browse at +1! So there, you insignificant worm! Grovel before me, or I will insult you a seconde Tyme. (He's already got a Grail, it's verry nice! )
Oh, that large growth of your ego, I would get that looked after. Else apply to Brietburt News, seems they could use a fresh supply of wackos.