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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 Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 25 2016, @06:36PM
Long observation of human nature. Most people, as I keep saying, are not the kind of waddling virus lab you are, and your transparent motivation for assuming they are is so you don't have to examine and change your behavior ("well everyone is this bad, human nature sucks, so leave me alone!").
When faced with something truly horrible, most decent humans simply cannot comprehend it, and refuse to, as if their brain has a conceptual filter. I run into this constantly with the anti-human-trafficking stuff; people simply can't believe such horrible things happen in this country in this day and age, and will do anything they can to disbelieve it, up to and including accusing myself and my friends of being scammers. There seems to be a deeply-rooted need to believe that the world is a fundamentally just place, so deep that people would rather blame the victim or ignore the problem entirely rather than be made uncomfortable or, heaven forbid, do something about it.
You really are an awful person, and yes, that is in comparison to most of humanity. My direct sample may only be a few thousand people, but I also know my history. And, interestingly, your insistence on "don't force my views on anyone" may actually be your subconscious acknowledging this and trying to keep you at least partially cloistered away from most of humanity; it's like some part of you realizes you're miswired and is trying to minimize the damage you do to other people.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 26 2016, @01:03AM
You're projecting again. My thought processes run not remotely like that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 26 2016, @05:05PM
Nope, sorry, I've met enough people who think and act like you to know how they work. You don't even see it; it's mostly subconscious. I've got my flaws, but I sure as hell do not go around thinking everyone is the same as me inside. Heaven forbid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 26 2016, @06:13PM
You've never met me, chuckles. You only think you know about me what I want you to see.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 26 2016, @06:24PM
It's how you say what you want me to see, and more importantly what you DON'T say, that tells me what I need to know. Even your reactions, like this one, are giving a very good outline of yourself to those as can read these things.
You Really Do Not Know The First Rule Of Holes (TM)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 26 2016, @09:17PM
Darlin, everyone else here has read exactly the same things you have and you are alone in deciding I am Hilter as far as I can tell. I wonder why that is?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 27 2016, @03:59AM
Hitler? Good grief, looks like I actually underestimated your narcissism a bit...no, Uzzard, I don't think you're Hitler. I do think you're one of the people who could potentially turn "stochastic terrorist pawn" though.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 27 2016, @02:04PM
Oh, you mean I might take up arms against an oppressive government that tramples our rights daily? You'd be correct. If fighting oppression is your version of evil though, you need to do some serious introspection.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 29 2016, @07:24AM
...see, Uzzard, you did it again. This is exactly what I mean about you doing my work for me. That was some weapons-grade motherfucking nutso right there.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 29 2016, @10:01AM
Yup, anything you don't wanna hear is both crazy and evil. Roger. Twat.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.