Just to explain this for non-British folks here. This is not quite as bad as it seems, it is however a government foul-up.
Here in Britain, the government wants to stop terrorism. Unfortunately, it is no better at that than it is at anything else. So it made this organisation called Prevent which is intended to stop vulnerable youths and adults from being turned to terrorism. Unfortunately, it is not very good according to an official review published by the BBC.
Basically, they asked schools and hospitals and councils and so forth to keep an eye out for children and vulnerable adults being radicalised into terrifying terrorists. They offer short and not very nuanced courses. The reality is that well-meaning or power-tripping local authorities very rarely find real terrorists but do refer a lot of children to this.
The majority of referrals are of children under 15. This can sometimes be for very little reason - little Timmy drew a gun so he's a white supremacist. Ironically, it often leads to frankly racist referrals of Muslims or Conservatives for citing mainstream views.
It is worth reading the PreventWatch website.
I've watched it. It is moderately entertaining but all the characters are horrible and evil. The bare posterior is totally gratuitous.
Morally, it is awful. The main character is literally an evil witch. She may even be proven to have made a deal with a literal demon. The exact opposite of a good role model for young people or indeed, anyone.
Of course, some would say that's basically Disney's idea of an ideal role model.
The original movie was overrated. It was watching a vulnerable guy get beat up and beat down until it reached a single point which was the only point.
Whilst being interviewed by a cruel TV host who only brought him on the show to mock him, Arthur tells a joke: “What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner, with a society that abandons him and treats him like shit?” Arthur rhetorically asks. Then he answers as he shoots the cruel TV host who was holding him up for amusement. The Joker yells, “You get what you deserve!”
Of course, Arthur's self awareness itself to ask the question and answer it breaks immersion to me. It is the author speaking to us. The director might as well have walked on set with a sign. It is a valid point though. The movie paints us a picture of a vulnerable disabled white male - one of the least celebrated and protected groups in our society.
The left hated the movie because it challenged their discourse of privilege. For example Rolling Stone talked of concerns that the, "that Joker casts disaffected young white men in an overly sympathetic, verging on celebratory, light". Should we not treat vulnerable victims of abuse with sympathy?
It's difficult to see how it could have been followed though, without re-writing Fleck to be enormously less inadequate. The director had always said it was not set up for a sequel.
So, what you actually mean is u/AbleistSL, you are salty because I opposed Kiwi Farms, with some success. Quite a few people have gotten fired, banned and ruined when they are associating with Kiwi Farms. Here's a video interview of Joshua Conner Moon the owner of Kiwi Farms admitting to hosting (textual) child rape stories. And by child I mean rugrat.
And, as far as I am aware, I have not been rejected by the dissident right. It's Josh who was the only person ever to be banned from Hatreon. The dissident right rejects Kiwi Farms, for obvious reasons.
CC u/when_we_win_remember and u/m0r1arty
They might just not have read it. I used the word 'misogyny' so they might have mistakenly thought it was woke. The thing is, u/m0r1arty, what I was pointing out in my article is that believing transwomen are men is now protected. The Helicopter Meme is now protected speech in UK law and puberty blockers have been banned, whilst childhood transition is now being heavily scrutinised and restricted. Winning in short.
I've created this post about the recent Godot Game Engine controversy because I wanted to spread two things the other posts have not.
Firstly, those who support free speech are winning. In the UK, thanks to a recent link in my article, believing the transwomen are men is now a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010. You can be sued for oppressing someone for holding that belief. The Helicopter Meme is now a protected class of belief and therefore speech.
Secondly, it may be inferred that some of this is caused by the influence of the Godot Game Engine's corporate sponsors, so I've made a handy list.
Saul Alinsky's famous left-wing book, Rules for Radicals, is literally dedicated to Lucifer, amongst others, on the Acknowledgements / Dedications page.
Context: So the Godot Game Engine is middleware. It provides basic functions for game developers. It is open source and MIT licensed. On 27 September, the community manager used the Godot X account to publish this tweet (archive).
Developers responded in moderate terms asking for the project to fix bugs and not take political stances. Community managers went wild, blocking anyone who disagreed on X, Discord and even in some cases on Github, citing vague Code of Conduct violations.
The founder @reduzio has been tagged into the drama and has gone private. @Grummz has some good content on it too. I might write an article later.
Even Snopes has debunked this Newsweek headline. When the, "fact checkers" are backing a Republican point of view, it's over for the left: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/
The irony of this. In my post above, I called the Kiwi Farms, a uniquely awful terrorism and stalking site, run by a paedophile maniac. What do I mean by that?
It's about deranged perverts memory holing their tweets where they said they wanted to rape women.
Says Joshua Moon the man who literally is known for his threats to dismember and anally rape Clara Lovett (Stocking) on the Bockland forum. It's a child's game a lot like lego. Joshua Conner Moon would probably have trouble playing Checkers or something without making it about mutilation and murder-rape.
Says Joshua Moon the man who hosted a board called /phile/ best known for fanfic about Josh abducting pre-teens and murdering them by cutting holes in them and raping the holes.
No decent human being could defend Josh or Kiwi Farms. Damnatio memoriae! And nothing of value was lost.