RE: More Race Hysteria from SJW's
October 9, 2017 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2017 at 10:12 am by henryp.)
The way social media works, there's a multitude of people waiting to pounce on any story. But if you wait long enough for all the details, you won't get the likes/retweets/views/shares/kudos/whatever. The system is designed to react as quickly as possible assuming the worst you can imagine.
I don't know much about Neo, but calling him a racist, accurate or not, doesn't change the fact that the way things are set up does a huge disservice to fighting racism.
If you pull this kind of bullshit enough, people are just going to roll their eyes and tell you to fuck off. Particularly people who would probably be sympathetic to legit stories of racism, but whose personal identity doesn't revolve around posting about social justice on the internet.
I remember in 2000, when Palin was picked as the VP. And the Dems said some pretty sexist shit, McCain's team called them on it, and they got a bump. But then Obama said "lipstick on a pig" which clearly meant nothing, but they tried to add that to the pile of legitimate complaints anyway. And I remember thinking, "That's the end of that." And it was. The right was flipping out, but the middle all easily identified it as bullshit, and all the momentum was gone.
The moral, to me, is if you are in the right. If your cause in the correct one. You don't need to be hyperbolic/exaggerate/lie/etc...
It certainly is what cost Republicans the primaries, and Hillary the presidency. People just can't resist spouting bullshit.
I don't know much about Neo, but calling him a racist, accurate or not, doesn't change the fact that the way things are set up does a huge disservice to fighting racism.
If you pull this kind of bullshit enough, people are just going to roll their eyes and tell you to fuck off. Particularly people who would probably be sympathetic to legit stories of racism, but whose personal identity doesn't revolve around posting about social justice on the internet.
I remember in 2000, when Palin was picked as the VP. And the Dems said some pretty sexist shit, McCain's team called them on it, and they got a bump. But then Obama said "lipstick on a pig" which clearly meant nothing, but they tried to add that to the pile of legitimate complaints anyway. And I remember thinking, "That's the end of that." And it was. The right was flipping out, but the middle all easily identified it as bullshit, and all the momentum was gone.
The moral, to me, is if you are in the right. If your cause in the correct one. You don't need to be hyperbolic/exaggerate/lie/etc...
It certainly is what cost Republicans the primaries, and Hillary the presidency. People just can't resist spouting bullshit.
