Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging

[Alec Benson Leary]

Proclaiming your desire to punch nazis is such a meaningless, meaningless phrase.

I just realized why it strikes a familiar bell in my mind: it reminds me of people at parties who will start ice-breaking conversations by saying "who here thinks they have the best method to survive a zombie apocalypse" or "hey guys, can I confess... I really love bacon."

It's saying something that is totally uninteresting, carries no unsafe weight or risk of new thought because it's predicated on a fantasy that you've never once thought would actually happen to you... but you feel secure knowing that everyone around you who is following the appropriate social contract - everyone who's a good person - will play along with you, respect you for bringing it up and show that respect by only agreeing with you. That you will receive empty praise for broaching a "controversial" subject even though you all understand it's being said specifically because it doesn't matter and the speaker expects no resistance. You can talk tough game about punching nazis, but you won't talk the same about punching republicans because you actually realize that republicans commonly exist around you and if you say that in public too loud then unlike nazis, one will actually appear and challenge your assertion.

It's... is it even virtue signaling? Or is it just signaling? It's like little kids who make you say the secret passphrase before they let you into their no-girlz-allowd fortress. What good for society are they accomplishing behind the walls of that fortress? NOTHING BECAUSE IT'S JUST LITTLE KIDS PLAYING MAKE-BELIEVE WHILE THE GROWN-UPS ARE OUT WORKING JOBS AND FIGHTING REAL FIGHTS.

 

[TowinKarz]

They're too lazy to go out and cultivate real enemies... they prefer to stay at home and blame it all on "alt righters" and "nazis" on the internet.

On way to Taco Bell, one lone one may yell at a guy in a MAGA hat to fuck off, (who couldn't hear him anyway since the car windows were rolled up) and posts to FB how he totally "smashed fascism" today, the other 99,999 "like" it and consider themselves heroes.

This is why the 20 year old demo NEVER matters in politics.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Is this what happens when you OD on Autism?

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

When did bigotry/racism become defined as "prejudice plus power"? That was not the fucking definition until a few years ago. In fact, I'm pretty sure it still isn't in any dictionary I can find. Wiktionary says:

1. The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.
2. The belief that one race or ethnic group is superior or inferior to another race or group of races.
3. Prejudice or discrimination based upon race or ethnicity.  [quotations ▼]
   Malcolm X and Martin Luther King both spoke out against racism.
4. (sociology) A hierarchical system that benefits one race at the expense of all others.

See there, it's just being an asshole to someone else because you're judging their race as being inherently bad. Nothing about existing power structures or institutional biases.

So maybe someone's brought it up before, but does anyone have any concrete idea of just who started spreading this manipulative doublespeak? Did it originate in a particular Salon article from 2011 or something?

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Mark Ruffalo wants MSNBC to stop hiring white conservatives.

He's a fantastic actor, but an absolute shithead IRL.

...so conservatives of other races are alright?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Lesbian with a husband.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

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Lesbian with a husband.

Did you just assume the husband's gender?

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Mark Ruffalo wants MSNBC to stop hiring white conservatives.

He's a fantastic actor, but an absolute shithead IRL.

Maybe if liberals are so pissed about a showman with no political experience becoming president, they shouldn't be so willing to encourage a national culture where a showman with no political experience is listened to because today he happens to say something they like.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

When did bigotry/racism become defined as "prejudice plus power"? That was not the fucking definition until a few years ago. In fact, I'm pretty sure it still isn't in any dictionary I can find. Wiktionary says:


See there, it's just being an asshole to someone else because you're judging their race as being inherently bad. Nothing about existing power structures or institutional biases.

So maybe someone's brought it up before, but does anyone have any concrete idea of just who started spreading this manipulative doublespeak? Did it originate in a particular Salon article from 2011 or something?

This crappy rhetoric goes way back, but I'm no sure who popularized it.

Prejudice plus power is a stipulative definition of racism often used by anti-racist educators, including the American pastor Joseph Barndt.[1] The definition was first proposed by Patricia Bidol, who, in a 1970 book, defined it as "prejudice plus institutional power."[2] According to this definition, two elements are required in order for racism to exist: racial prejudice, and social power to codify and enforce this prejudice into an entire society.

The first time I heard this nonsense was from a Huffpo pundit on CNN, back when Trayvon's shooting was hot news.

 

[Tlazolli]

This crappy rhetoric goes way back, but I'm no sure who popularized it.


The first time I heard this nonsense was from a Huffpo pundit on CNN, back when Trayvon's shooting was hot news.

So Trayvon Martin ruined society as whole when he decided to attack the fat and short Hispanic patrol.
What turn of events.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

TFW you're triggered by pony Autists.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

This crappy rhetoric goes way back, but I'm no sure who popularized it.


The first time I heard this nonsense was from a Huffpo pundit on CNN, back when Trayvon's shooting was hot news.

So it goes back a bit further then. Interesting.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

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TFW you're triggered by pony Autists.

Now, I can get behind the whole "hating Bronies" thing, but if it's because they're bigoted males and not because of just about everything else bad about them - well, you've kind of lost me.

 

[soryu]

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Lesbian with a husband.

I bet $20 they think they're in an open marriage despite neither of them have ever dated anyone else.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

I bet $20 they think they're in an open marriage despite neither of them have ever dated anyone else.

Right on the money!

 

[Caesare]

When Bill was governor of Arkansas they use prison labor at the governor's mansion (although it's been long standing tradition) and since prisoners don't make a "living wage" it's somehow slavery.

I guarantee that those prisoners working at the governor's mansion in Arkansas were tripping over themselves to get that sweet gig. Think about it for a minute, you get to do some yard work outside and away from the grounds of the penitentiary. You'll get some sunlight and fresh air instead of rotting away in a stinking, crowded prison dormitory, surrounded by 100 other killers, robbers, rapists, and dopefiends stinking, sweating, shitting, and pissing in the same large room that you eat every meal and spend 99% of your time.

What a non issue to bring up about her.

 

[Lensherr]

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"You say I can't punch a communist until they've committed violence. I say identifying as a communist is an act of violence."

"You say I can't punch a Muslim until they've committed violence. I say identifying as a Muslim is an act of violence."

I've seen actual honest-to-god stormfront members that were less vitriolic and hateful than this.

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These people are trying to brand anyone who falls right of center a Nazi, think words and thoughts are equivalent to actions, and think merely having prejudices is just as bad as acting on them, and they have the FUCKING GALL to call others "post-modernist". Fucking dumbass post-modernism is the FUCKING REASON THAT YOU'RE RHETORIC IS CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE!

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

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Lesbian with a husband.

A lot of bi people like to call themselves gay/lesbian while calling actual l/g people "monosexuals" (yep!) and tell them they are either privileged for being attracted to the same sex or act like arrogant assholes because they don't "exclude" anyone (hearts not parts!11!).

 

[DeadwastePrime]

...so conservatives of other races are alright?

pfft, everyone knows that poc conservatives dont exist. they're like santa claus or the tooth fairy: not real

 

[AnOminous]

So maybe someone's brought it up before, but does anyone have any concrete idea of just who started spreading this manipulative doublespeak? Did it originate in a particular Salon article from 2011 or something?

I'm pretty sure it started in academic circles, possibly Critical Theory or some bullshit like that. The general concept--that racism supported by social institutions is more damaging and pervasive than that of a relatively less powerful minority against the social majority--has some factual basis to it. For instance, if I'm black and don't get hired for jobs, get turned down for a rental apartment, can't get a loan, etc., this is a lot more damaging than, for instance, if I'm white and walk by some old black guy who mutters "cracker" under his breath or something.

It doesn't, or shouldn't at least, mean that both types of racism aren't reprehensible. It's just that one is more likely to cause actual harm.

Both things are still racism, though. Claiming they aren't by redefining the words is just a lie, propaganda, to excuse the liars telling the lie for their own racism.

When Bill was governor of Arkansas they use prison labor at the governor's mansion (although it's been long standing tradition) and since prisoners don't make a "living wage" it's somehow slavery.

A lot of people don't remember the emphasized language in the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibited slavery:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.