What's on your mind?
01-13-2015, 09:15 AM
The Hebdo thing makes me so frustrated because it picks away at the scabs I have about the way internet social justice works. Fuck you so much Tumblr, fuck you for destroying several friendships and turning them all into militant activists. Now I'm totally for equal rights and social justice and all, but SJWs are not. They only care about their own egos, sitting back and seeing all the metadata count up and think they're doing the world a favour by spreading misery.
As for this current event, my main Twitter comes off as this indirect shouting match between people I follow and it makes me super uncomfortable. One side is unsympatheticly calling the cartoons racist, the other is asking people consider the context. This is the right thing to do. As the following links show, they state that the cultural context is important.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/11...howing-you
http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-contex...are-queens
"[France lacks] the overwhelmingly moralizing, missionary tone that suffocates [US] political debate just when it starts to get interesting." This is what I keep thinking when it comes to the unsympathetic haughtiness of internet justice. Especially when it's so US-centric. It's about ignoring the context and taking information at face-value, taking the snapshot that you see and treating it as the entirety. It's about appearing above your so-called opponents than actually making your opponents your allies. I use the word "ally" with caution here. Essentially, SJWs use the word ally to absolve their guilt. If they say things like "kill all cishet men", they use the label of ally to feel less guilty about also wishing death about their friends.
I'm not going to call it racist, or even on the same level as the threats given by racist types or mysognists that will put you in physical danger, but it sure as hell isn't going to encourage people outside the circlejerk of SJWs to join them.
I have a little part of my brain strawmanning, comparing me to GG/misogynists/etc for hiding away to voice alternative opinion. (Something I noted on an alternate Twitter account.) It sure says something about the current nature of internet safe spaces, where I feel like I have to hide away from my friends. I feel like I'm back at school. I started using the internet heavily because I didn't have to worry about physical limits or the other issues I had at school, and now I'm being made to self-censor or fear the mob to peer-pressure me into silence.
I am so, so tired of it.
https://twitter.com/DalaiLamaPosts/statu...0417294336
As for this current event, my main Twitter comes off as this indirect shouting match between people I follow and it makes me super uncomfortable. One side is unsympatheticly calling the cartoons racist, the other is asking people consider the context. This is the right thing to do. As the following links show, they state that the cultural context is important.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/11...howing-you
http://www.quora.com/What-was-the-contex...are-queens
"[France lacks] the overwhelmingly moralizing, missionary tone that suffocates [US] political debate just when it starts to get interesting." This is what I keep thinking when it comes to the unsympathetic haughtiness of internet justice. Especially when it's so US-centric. It's about ignoring the context and taking information at face-value, taking the snapshot that you see and treating it as the entirety. It's about appearing above your so-called opponents than actually making your opponents your allies. I use the word "ally" with caution here. Essentially, SJWs use the word ally to absolve their guilt. If they say things like "kill all cishet men", they use the label of ally to feel less guilty about also wishing death about their friends.
I'm not going to call it racist, or even on the same level as the threats given by racist types or mysognists that will put you in physical danger, but it sure as hell isn't going to encourage people outside the circlejerk of SJWs to join them.
I have a little part of my brain strawmanning, comparing me to GG/misogynists/etc for hiding away to voice alternative opinion. (Something I noted on an alternate Twitter account.) It sure says something about the current nature of internet safe spaces, where I feel like I have to hide away from my friends. I feel like I'm back at school. I started using the internet heavily because I didn't have to worry about physical limits or the other issues I had at school, and now I'm being made to self-censor or fear the mob to peer-pressure me into silence.
I am so, so tired of it.
https://twitter.com/DalaiLamaPosts/statu...0417294336