RE: More Race Hysteria from SJW's
October 10, 2017 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2017 at 3:54 pm by bennyboy.)
(responding to OP and first couple pages)
When certain ideas become so entrenched that they are dogma, then there's always danger. It seems to me that the SJW culture is not well-meaning: it's yet another example of assholes using popular ideas to piggyback themselves into a position of un-earned power over others. Some douches have realized that if you go around accusing everyone of racism, or cultural appropriation, or "micro-aggressions," then they have to stand there and take it, no matter how obviously against the truth your claims might be.
I've seen plenty of this in these forums. In particular, there's the idea that once someone has been branded an undesirable (a racist, a theist, whatever), the torches must come out.
This is very much the language of social exclusion, and has literally nothing to do with the OP. So why is it here, and why did it get so many kudos? The fact is that this community has decided that Neo is an undesirable, and that anything he posts or wants to discuss is irrelevant and must instantly be brought down.
My problem with this is that if you take out words "bigot" or "racist" from many of these sentences and replace them with "witch," "nigger," "faggot" or "heretic," it should instantly be obvious that the group is using language not to express or encourage liberty, but to establish which ideas are to be taken as dogma, and which as heresy. That's why the OP news stories are important-- they show how easily race ideas may be dogmatized and used by douche-bags to make obvious truths unspoken evils.
I find it deeply ironic that members of a mostly atheistic community go to such great degrees to define sin, and to police its application. It is sad and hypocritical that you (collectively) don't realize you are calling Neo a heretic, and showing up with torches rather than rational arguments. You've largely become that which you claim to hate.
When certain ideas become so entrenched that they are dogma, then there's always danger. It seems to me that the SJW culture is not well-meaning: it's yet another example of assholes using popular ideas to piggyback themselves into a position of un-earned power over others. Some douches have realized that if you go around accusing everyone of racism, or cultural appropriation, or "micro-aggressions," then they have to stand there and take it, no matter how obviously against the truth your claims might be.
I've seen plenty of this in these forums. In particular, there's the idea that once someone has been branded an undesirable (a racist, a theist, whatever), the torches must come out.
(October 8, 2017 at 2:14 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Well, what's important, is that you found a way to excuse your own bigotry by reference to someone else's stupidity. Talk about extending the shelf life of rancid human behavior.
This is very much the language of social exclusion, and has literally nothing to do with the OP. So why is it here, and why did it get so many kudos? The fact is that this community has decided that Neo is an undesirable, and that anything he posts or wants to discuss is irrelevant and must instantly be brought down.
My problem with this is that if you take out words "bigot" or "racist" from many of these sentences and replace them with "witch," "nigger," "faggot" or "heretic," it should instantly be obvious that the group is using language not to express or encourage liberty, but to establish which ideas are to be taken as dogma, and which as heresy. That's why the OP news stories are important-- they show how easily race ideas may be dogmatized and used by douche-bags to make obvious truths unspoken evils.
I find it deeply ironic that members of a mostly atheistic community go to such great degrees to define sin, and to police its application. It is sad and hypocritical that you (collectively) don't realize you are calling Neo a heretic, and showing up with torches rather than rational arguments. You've largely become that which you claim to hate.
