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| langwadt:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 01, 2020, 11:03:00 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2020, 10:30:13 am ---And the funny thing is they they will turn on each other without a moment's hesitation. You can be the most outspoken and strident modern SJW with all the right talking points for years.. --- End quote --- This is baked in. The "correct" thing changes week by week, the internet remembers forever, and forgiveness, tolerance, and nuance are not permitted. Every single person's history is going to be out of line with the right-think-de-jour at some point, and the only think separating them from cancellation is whether someone is scanning their history on that day. Eventually they'll have some fancy system, with a cute name like "Orwell", to do the scanning automatically. --- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2020, 10:30:13 am ---But dare to have one nuanced opinion that "they" don't like, and you are forced to grovel and appologise under threat of "cancellation". --- End quote --- That's not right. Any hint of apology will sink you completely, as its an admission. The few people who survive are the ones bold enough to say grow up. --- End quote --- https://youtu.be/JuvGRnetAv0 |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: SerieZ on July 01, 2020, 11:17:44 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2020, 10:45:58 am --- --- Quote from: SerieZ on July 01, 2020, 10:34:34 am ---Decent people need to open their mouth and tell the loonies to fuck off or else you will go the way of the Pirate Party in Germany. Ignoring the Issue wont make it go away. --- End quote --- Unfortunately decent and rational people with any sort of power or reach risk being "cancelled" if they do that. So it's easier to either capitulate or say nothing. --- End quote --- At which point being a Snitch/Informer became popular? Unless someone is a truly horrific person I do not believe many people think this "cancel culture" or outrage Mob is cool, justified or reasonable. --- End quote --- Look at how teenagers manage to form cliques which are mainly defined by who they exclude. Now transpose that to adult society, and remove personal interaction, and remove personal responsibility. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---Typical example is electric cars. Petrol heads poo poo them as being low performance --- End quote --- As a keen driver I poo poo electric cars, but for lack of distance and not poor performance. And Teslas for being fugly. Sometimes the stereotypes assigned to people are the wrong ones, but if one isn't of their mindset it might never be realised. [edit: damned apostrophe sneaked in] |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 01, 2020, 11:03:00 am ---That's not right. Any hint of apology will sink you completely, as its an admission. The few people who survive are the ones bold enough to say grow up. --- End quote --- And that's my response to this whole master/slave thing. Grow up. |
| pardo-bsso:
--- Quote from: james_s on July 01, 2020, 04:45:38 am --- --- Quote from: pardo-bsso on June 30, 2020, 10:45:19 pm ---During my first years of university I worked part-time as a taxi dancer (among other related nightly jobs). I grew a very thick skin but which kind of stuff can I claim as offensive to my very own little subculture? --- End quote --- What's a taxi dancer? Is that an autocorrect of "driver"? --- End quote --- Fortunately not. In a nutshell you go to ballrooms and people pay so that you dance with them all the night, laugh at their jokes and show them around other places that a tourist might enjoy. But sadly, we also had many very well instructed taxi drivers too. |
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