Quaro
5041
Milo has tweeted imgurs album using me personally as an example of a ‘vile insane sjw’ and I straight up have no idea about anything to do with Anne Rice. People are actually building an outrage machine over negative Amazon user reviews? Or literally a single review? For an Anne Rice book of which there must be tons of crap reviews?
Anne Rice is a fan of stop goodreads bullies, a site set up to stop shenanigans on goodreads. SGR wrote an article on a “bullying” review by Randi of a book she hadnt read, which Randi and co dont like because its about womens experiences, but written by a man*.
This article, and they didnt know who Randi was when they wrote it, was RT’d by Anne Rice. Randi attached Anne, and then sic’d her followers on her (“its such a pity, Anne Rice used to be my favourite author :(((” alongside some proper verbal abuse) who then sic’d her followers on Randi’s followers.
and GG noticed, because hundreds of them watch Randi’s every move, and piled in and were like "did you know that? … " and Breitbart got in touch with Anne as I bet she didnt know who they are so thats why Milo is up to his tricks.
and where ever they appear so do the others and continuing what now is just a long running online soap opera.
and of course, Milo and the e-celebs are only joining in to keep their e-celeb value up.
*co-authored by him, but they are pretending not to notice the co-author is a woman.
I Leigh trying to pull off an “ugly Charlize with hair” in that avatar? It may be a cool look in the post-apocalypse, but here? Not so much.
Attacking Anne Rice because she doesn’t want people posting reviews of books they haven’t read? These clowns are Theon Greyjoy-lost.
Well, they don’t have penises for the most part, so your analogy is quite correct.
Pod
5046
playingwithknives, I can’t imagine how much time you spend keeping up with this insane “gg” vs “anti-gg” vs SJW vs anti-SJW drivel, or what it does to your sanity to sift through it all.
Teiman
5047
Alex is a unironical fakegeek truebully.
“I have more virtual friends than you”
“Do you even lift?”
“Thats a opinion coming from a lowpostcount guy”
She have a enormeous e-peen.
I follow media, journos, bloggers focused on free speech and identity politics. (from spiked, guardian, reason, spectator etc) The main community I follow is a bunch of skep/atheist/ex-Muslims who are activists or political bloggers (Atheism+ opponents), a number of academic/career feminists (2nd wave - natal/birth only feminists) and a handful still interested in GG (literally 2 from NYS and 1 who is involved in GG and copblock/filmthepolice) and some GG e-celebs, Brianna, Cathy Young, CH Sommers, Allum Bokhari and Milo.
You can pick up pretty much all whats happening from this selection, most of it comes in via the atheist/skep and radfem crowd to be honest.
edit: removed a slur.
How about the New Wavers and the goths?
That was a lot of words and acronyms.
Teiman
5051
You are playing with knives now.
I use to follow a skep mail list. But they routinely posted there all the things magicians did. Like people reading Butts with their hands, or another university having a aromatherapy or whatever. I was tired reading about dump people doing dump shit.
I just can’t visualize the gigantic pile of poo you describe and having to dig trough it, daily.
You probably have a lot of fun links. And are not sharing any of them.
Oh I have plenty of fun links.
If “America the land of opportunity” is a saying now deemed unacceptable due to it being a microaggression* does that mean the American Dream is dead?
*yeah yeah, in a small corner of West Coast academia
That’s a really horrible article, it only takes a few paragraphs to see how desperately the author is trying to twist things towards the controversial and the outrageous.
The article may be picking and choosing what to reveal from the training, but the “microaggression” of the “myth of meritocracy” is just plain stupid.
Timex
5055
The notion of microagression is kind of idiotic to begin with.
A college ran an exhibition about microaggressions, with exhibits giving examples of microaggressions, but this exhibition was taken down, as the microaggression exhibits were causing microaggressions, so now whilst you aren’t allowed to microaggress against anyone, you aren’t allowed to know what microaggressions are either.
Rumours they were going to replace it with an exhibition on Kafka are unfounded.
Timex
5057
I assumed you were joking, but then decided to look it up, and apparently that actually happened.
Hm, it was actually the Asian American Student’s Association that put up the signs, and then asian students complained.
I think the biggest problem there was context: it wasn’t in a gallery or anything, so people didn’t have a setting that encouraged them to see it as commentary, and took it at, I guess, face value? I can’t imagine I would have been offended, but I generally don’t take things on random signs personally.
Seems like a pretty poorly thought out endeavor by the student group.
It’s a valid enough concept, but the name is just horrible.
The United States is demonstrably not a meritocracy. There’s plenty of evidencethat people coming from disadvantaged circumstances do not do as well as equally talented people coming from better circumstances. Perpetuating the “myth of meritocracy” is often a tactic used by those slyly espousing racism or sexism or some form of discrimination.
Asking people nicely not to perpetuate the myth is a good idea, though I’m a bit puzzled as to what is objectionable about some of those specific phrases.
