Toxoplasmosis of Rage :: Analysis of the activism of lies

[simplemoss]

That article is one of the worst written peices I've ever read. Re-iterating points mid fucking paragraph circular reasoning. Little or know actual conclusion the godamn thing appears too just end mid article

I'd like too respond too that garbled bit of writing since it took so much effort on my part to even understand what the fuck the writer was talking about.

but I can't cause I can only guess as too what his point was?

Something to do cat poop and tumblr.com I guess??

I wamna make points about yellow journalism or about understanding social media dialogue is just words when 90+% of communication has nothing too do with what words your using

But I have problems critiquing an article that seems too make no clear fucking point at all?

I can say PETA relies on donations and it's nowhere near their fucking job to pay for poor peoples water bills but if they'd like too pay for their bills as long as their vegetarians I see no problem

But I have a feeling this garbled excuse for an article wasn't even hinting at that point.

Maybe their point was something about forming rape charities idk

[Whateverist]

I think the point is that the status quo promotes focussing on differences while ignoring common ground. This leads to a climate of failing to listen for the best points being made by those you disagree with and going ad hominem over tangental issues which rub one the wrong way. This promotes us-vs-them behaviors.

I found it helpful to focus on the quote cited from the article rather than the article itself. I also looked at the responses from tumblir.

Most interesting is to consider areas where we are drawn to this sort of response ourselves. I can pretty easily get drawn into the morass over politics. But I also try hard to understand the mind of a conservative. I'm sure their motivations cannot be what they appear to me to be. But it is hard for me to empathize with and so respect where they are coming from.

[Tonus]

I think it's more about mob mentality on a societal or cultural scale, and how it can lead us into a tunnel-vision view of things. The way we understand rape is changing these days, and I think we are past the day when a majority of rapes went unreported or unpunished because a woman was afraid of being dragged through the wringer or because "it isn't rape if" justifications would be thrown at them. The story in Rolling Stone does women a huge disservice by giving some fuel to those who claim that women will cry "rape" just to hurt others. And it seems as if the writer already had her story and simply needed a corroborating account, so when "Jackie" stepped forward, the writer did not properly vet her story, nor did the magazine's editors demand that she do the necessary follow-up work.

In one of the books I read recently (may have been Gladwell's Blink) there is a test that checks how we link the feeling of threat to skin color. As the researchers had expected, whites were much more likely to feel threatened by blacks than by other whites. But as they did not expect, blacks reacted similarly. Which indicates that racial prejudice is much more subtle and much more pervasive than we might think. It's not a stretch to imagine that many of our worst prejudices and ideas are disseminated the same way and pervade the thoughts of even the most progressive person, because we aren't even aware that we're being exposed to it and programmed by it. On the more positive side, the more that society makes a conscious effort to push a more enlightened idea, the more and more that it will 'infect' us in the same way.

The Rolling Stones' UVa story has a more far-reaching effect than it might seem at first glance, in that it might undo some of the progress we have made in re-framing the way we think about rape.