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Ashe Schow on the dishonesties of “social justice” warriors:
A group allegedly dedicated to stopping online harassment and abuse used the same tactics it claimed to abhor to harass those it disagreed with politically. Crash Override Network, founded by Zoe Quinn… used tactics such as doxing (by which a person’s private contact information is published online in order to intimidate them) to harass people… For example, the group discussed trying to contact the superior officer of a Purple Heart recipient who had expressed support of Gamergate to try to silence him. The group also discussed contacting Google in an attempt to get an employee, Justine Tunney, fired after she also voiced support for Gamergate… Members of CON, including Quinn, have spoken out against online bullying before the United Nations, and have also worked with Google and Twitter allegedly to stop online harassment, all while engaging in the very same harassment.
The predictably sordid details can be found here.
And – this is a good one – Brandon Morse and Lauren Southern on when “social justice” scolding is caught on camera, in all its glory:
A social justice warrior named Annaliese Nielsen got into a Lyft car, spotted a Hawaiian bobblehead doll on the dashboard, and began to berate and threaten the driver unless he took the bobblehead doll down. According to her, it was offensive to Hawaiian people, and thus this man was in clear violation of her made-up social justice laws.
Comedy of a sort ensues, followed by threats, projection and abuse, and – outrageously – the polite driver’s sacking. This in turn is followed by his vindication and reinstatement, and then, for dear sweet Annaliese, a kind of payback. If, on watching the video, the word bitch comes to mind, I won’t be at all surprised.
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Some music that might appeal to the crowd here, from an amusing youtuber called Chris Ray Gun.
First, we have “Come Be PC”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=213&v=dmeSGwVBoao
And “Ain’t No Rest for the Triggered”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYd5cRlROE
And finally, and least subtly, “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Hypocrites (the Gawker song)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qku-sPjrCag
Champ, report to a re-education camp immediately!
Sorry if this was mentioned already, but Nielson owns a porn site, GodsGirls. According to wiki, “GodsGirls has been the subject of lawsuits by competitor alt-porn website SuicideGirls, mainly due to modeling contract altercations.”. There is also a Canadian singer who says she appeared nude for the site while still a minor. How rude!
Have the rest of you seen the Hugh Mungus video? It’s a real SJW meltdown.
https://youtu.be/1Ac08-TxqIM
Interesting aside: a psychiatrist friend mused that he sees very few instances of cutting any more since tattoos and ear spacers became common. He claims they serve the same purpose.
If true, and I’ve no reason to think that it isn’t, that is absolutely fascinating.
A quick Google produces https://borderlinepersonalitybliss.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/self-harm-replaced-with-body-modifications-tattoos-and-piercings-my-experience/
Why does she assume that a doll wearing a grass skirt is representing a Hawaiian?
She’s guilty of stereotyping.
Have the rest of you seen the Hugh Mungus video? It’s a real SJW meltdown.
The righteous sistah in question is one Zarna Joshi. Listen and learn, people of pallor. She has you all worked out.
She is a complete and utter cunt, and a finer example of blowback you won’t see this year.
However, this story has a happy ending for one reason only – she recorded the exchange and that video became available to the public. The driver was sacked on nothing but her say so. Effectively he had to prove his innocence.
And this is the society our Betters are creating – open season for crazy fanatics to denounce individuals unfortunate enough to not be in a protected group, and those individuals are guilty until proven innocent, de facto and increasingly de jure.
Don’t think people like this will go away; they are multiplying.
And this is the society our Betters are creating.
They’re amusing only up to the point when they have power over you.
PiperPaul, Heather,
Sorry, I don’t know what came over me…
How much time in the re-education camp?
How much time in the re-education camp?
Well, as stated elsewhere, it’s actually just about to open . . . . but once you go in, apparently we can’t quite guarantee what condition you’ll be in, if you can get out.
The continent of Hawaii, LOL.
Once they have power over you it may be too late. This problem has been festering and growing for at least 20 years now. If people had taken more seriously the undermining of our society by these control freaks years ago a great number of today’s problems wouldn’t exist.
Once they have power over you it may be too late.
It’s often the case that by the time these things are recognised, widely, as stupefying and corrosive, much of the damage has already been done. It’s hard to see how the Clown Quarter of academia can be salvaged, for instance. And once the dysfunction has a hold and, as it were, metastasises, options to push back may be limited or in their own way less than ideal. You may end up having to consider remedies that are themselves somewhat dissonant with your own professed ideals. An obvious example being the arguments on how to deal with the consequences of allowing in large numbers of unassimilable migrants, whose values are antithetical to the host society.
You may end up having to consider remedies that are themselves somewhat dissonant with your own professed ideals.
Bingo. And thus another reason to nip such problems in the bud before you are forced to resort to extreme measures that, as you say, are dissonant with your ideals.
This is off topic to this specific problem with our SJW and the Lyft driver, however there is a pattern here that I feel fits a certain non-political aspect. This may seem way off the topic but as I am currently contemplating a job offer that inevitably, in the US anyway, ties into our health care/insurance mess, I have been thinking about this subject and…well…A good part of our health care mess in the US was an apparently, at the time anyway, benign decision 40-50 years ago or so, to get employers to provide health care. These two things should have nothing to do with each other. We should not have our options so limited. It is typical of the kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmares that stem from people trying initially to “help” the little guy that ultimately end in mass confusion and excess regulations that cannot possibly be followed in the real world, thus resulting in chaos.
My feeling here, the tie in, is that the only way that I see we ever get out of this is to institute an anti-free market law that forbids employers from offering health care. Of course the market itself may be painfully moving in that direction, though my fear is it being too painful it forces the government further in the direction that it has already taken with Obamacare.
Anyway, hope that was coherent…kinda…to your point about dissonance with one’s professed ideals.
And thus another reason to nip such problems in the bud before you are forced to resort to extreme measures that, as you say, are dissonant with your ideals.
Well, some bad decisions may ultimately leave you painted into a corner with no good options, only marginally less horrible ones. Which is why one should be wary of the left’s negligent unrealism.
A good part of our health care mess in the US was an apparently, at the time anyway, benign decision 40-50 years ago or so, to get employers to provide health care.
There really was never any conscious decision, benign or otherwise, for employers to provide health insurance to their employees. The ubiquity of employer-provided health insurance was (and is) an unintended consequence of the tax code, since the employer-paid portion of the health insurance premium is not counted as taxable income.
I think it also had to do with World War II wage controls that failed to include benefits like employer-provided health insurance.
Either way, the idea that the US has anything resembling a free market in health care is ridiculous.