I actually think this form of drift among what constitutes the “real” subreddit for a subject is kind of fascinating, in a sad way. It’s literally that one badly-drawn webcomic, “You do not fit in here; we’ll make our own thing; Why are you excluding us” that gets passed around the ‘net a lot. And yet the point the SJW artist was making was “sometimes you don’t belong in a place!” Which is funny ironically because it never works that way.
Its never a guarantee that someone is “noticing things” but it’s worth considering that the fact someone doesn’t explicitly say “I noticed X” is not necessarily proof they didn’t notice X. Hell, in certain circumstances with the social power and influence SJWs have to bring down consequences for things that go against their made-up narratives, we can’t even always take affirmative statements of SJW talking points as a sign that the person really believes them, the person may just be saying what he needs to say to avoid losing his job. It’s a bit cowardly of course, but the combination of SJW beliefs being (1) so blatantly in conflict with reality but (2) backed up by the power to wreck lives overnight, means we might not always be sure exactly what a person believes if they are not a sign-carrying activist or dressed in standard Clown World attire.
That’s the great thing, they don’t have to!
The combination of this post and the other one from today where that American woman claims she feels safe in Japan whereas she doesn’t in America is actually really funny.
I knew I’d get here too late to make this joke lol.
You really nailed it on both points. On point 1, I’ve been told by a black classmate that he can palpably feel the insincerity in Zoom class, where if HE makes a point or says something the SJW wing of the class is all up in the chat window going “YES!” and “great point!” and “100!” whereas if a white guy made the same point the SJW wing of the class does not respond. My friend KNOWS he’s being praised for ideological reasons, but he can dismiss it, and dismiss the praises themselves, because he is a healthy-minded adult whose self-esteem or indeed his very survival is not perpetually in the balance, hinging on that very praise and affirmation.
On point 2, but seriously: sometimes I look on the mirror and think I look alright, and sometimes I see myself on the camera screen at the self-checkout and think, who is that hideous big monster?? Photography artists have done projects where they show how angles, lighting, etc. can have a massive impact on perception of people’s looks. It’s kind of fascinating to think about, and it’s why I never fell for the whole Instagram model culture lol.
I’ll reserve judgment on how anything tastes until I try it, but god damn “Colachup” is terrible. Like, WOW.
I mean, I’d try it. I can sort of see these flavors working out together. Or maybe it’ll be like that new Spicy Sweet Chili Dorito beef jerky, that doesn’t taste anything like the chips at all, but is still pretty damn good in and of itself. Or maybe it’ll be awful, but I’d try it once.
Putting aside the myriad of issues of “feel safe” as opposed to actually being safe (a frequent error of SJWisn), I don’t mind sounding a bit like an SJW myself by asking her to reflect on why she “feels” safe in Japan. What is different, that can only be “felt” as opposed to analyzed, observed, etc.? What could it possibly be, young woman? Are you a bit racist yourself???
“…I wish I was 20 ads away…”
Like the dissenting opinions, it’s just crying before they’ve been hurt. They can’t wait and see whether institutions will magically become “racist” if they are not allowed to use affirmative action, they just assume they will because their worldview builds up from the assumption that everyone is as maximally racist as they can get away with unless reined in by big-daddy government, by relentless social pressure from activists, and so on.
We won’t have a clue how this changes anything, or whether it even does (colleges can probably find ways to consider race “unofficially” through context clues in personal statements, etc) for at least a few years. The entering class of 2024 would be the first admitted under the new standards.
http://ashleighshackelford.com/writing/2021/2/22/whos-killing-us-black-cis-het-men
LOL she is so woke she hates “cis-het” men even if they’re black
His single-mindedness drove off a ton of people who could have listened to his occasional valid points.
When it comes to signal-to-noise ratio, people can only take so much.
Schrödinger’s affirmative action. Of COURSE I was good enough to get in on the merits, but the non-merit system I support is what got me in. Also, my conclusion is not “so let’s go to a straight meritocracy (which I TOTALLY would have gotten in under)” but the continuation of the non-merit system that I got in under but I reiterate, TOTALLY did not need! Except for that I did. Or didn’t. Wait, what was I arguing for again?
Correct. I can be a bit skeptical about “if only they’d do it differently I wouldn’t object” since that’s a very easy thing to lie about, but history suggests it’s accurate here.
As I recall they also named her Charlotte Webb or something similar, specifically for the very easy joke re: spiders that name allows for, and which she made a point of sarcastically deconstructing on the first page of her first issue. Not only is this character just an assembly of woke check-box identifiers, she’s also written by retards who can’t even do deconstruction properly. (There aren’t a lot of really good deconstructions since often they just follow the rules of a genre exactly and then the author declares that he did a deconstruction, but point is you deconstruct something that someone else set up, you don’t build a thing so you can knock it down yourself. At least, you don’t do that if you’re older than 8.)
It’s weird how stuck on high school this latest crop of professional writers is. It’s like that’s when the indoctrination kicked in for them, so they don’t really have any real knowledge beyond that level because it was all just identities and feelings and whatnot. In 10 years the newly minted writers will be writing about middle schoolers and elementary schoolers. Hopefully just because that’s when the indoctrination started for THEM, but probably also for other reasons I don’t like to think about.
But not even, in this case: the majority “couched” its reasoning in a clear statement of the law. “Jargon” to me suggests obfuscation or highly technical language. I can say that the dissent of KBJ did one of those two things though. But not through legal jargon, just through whiny leftist horseshit.
LOLOLOL but unfortunately they probably aren’t the only school saying that. I actually just graduated from (a different) law school, so I don’t get the “to all students” emails anymore but I bet our school sent out an email just like this. I’m certain I remember a “go to therapy y’all!” e-mail after last year’s overturn of Roe/Casey.
We had a man in lipstick give the major speech at our graduation, if that indicates anything. Academia is basically fucked, full stop, as I’m sure many of you have experienced yourselves, though you can still learn the necessary stuff if you self-educate and don’t listen to either your fellow students or the professors other than those profs/students who really show you they’re there to teach/learn rather than to indoctrinate or support the indoctrination.
Edit: And trust me, I do not lightly say “don’t talk to people at a university.” I’m actually really sad that I have to say that. It’s gone beyond mere “debate different ideas” and I think anyone who has been in college in the last ten years can back me up on that.
Won’t give details = no need to even discuss this or care. It’s just a reverse-variation on “the fans are such bigots.”
I’m not opposed to discussions about potential side effects of only putting perfect-10s on TV and in movies, etc., but I’m also certain that lefties have abandoned the field when it comes to “this is what normal women look like.”
Yeah I don’t think they’re wrong, and obviously I don’t say that about leftists lightly. The dumbass isn’t “fixing” Twitter or “restoring” it, he’s just constantly making changes because he can and no underling will push back because he’s made it clear he’ll fire anyone on a whim. He got lucky with Community Notes actually being a useful new feature but he’s mostly just managed to keep himself in the news with all the chaos, which in the end may be all he really even wanted out of this acquisition.
It’ll come out he’s a rapist pedophile and TRAs will still be enraged that we keep saying “he.”
Corporations with offices in Western countries where it’s safe to act a bit gay are all wiping their brows in relief.
I’ve started to develop zero tolerance for that kind of no-context assertion of despair: the standard “the world is on fire rn” or “the hell that is life rn” claims you hear people throw down these days. My reason is that what people tend to mean is “some people disagree with me and won’t let my side just do whatever it wants.” In the absence of a specific grievance that can be judged on its merits, I just dismiss the claim and the speaker out of hand.