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by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/19/2013, 2:45pm PDT |
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Souffle of Pain wrote:
he is wrong
How is he wrong?
Souffle of Pain wrote:
he doesn't really understand anything
What doesn't he understand?
Spell it out for me like I'm nine years old.
Souffle of Pain wrote:
It's important we live in a society where garbage like this comes to the realization that they are powerless, that their snotty social justice platform is pointless and that they can't change anything.
I know you harbor a lot of hate inside you for SJWs. To be honest, I've never understood why people hate SJWs so much. While it's a fact that you can't reason with unreasonable people and SJWs are the very definition of unreasonable, the SJW demographic doesn't exactly scream legitimacy:
1. They're mostly women
2. They're mostly teenagers (if not chronologically, then mentally and emotionally)
3. They're either too stupid to figure out how truly effective activism works, or too lazy to do the necessary work.
To me, that's not criteria for hate. That's criteria for amused contempt.
For example: there was a post on Jezebel about Sarah Silverman talking about how everyone at the James Franco roast cracked on her for her age, and how she realized afterwards that it was only because she's a woman that those jokes landed the way they did. Because Sarah Silverman is a comedian and understands how comedy works, she wasn't saying they shouldn't have made the jokes, or that the jokes weren't funny, or that no one should tell jokes about a woman's age. She was simply talking about a personal observation and how it added clarity in understanding how she interacts with the world around her.
Jezebel, of course, flipped out. There were comments about how she got what she deserved because she told racist jokes, comments calling for the end of all roasts, comments calling for the end of all jokes that hurt people's feelings, comments calling for no more age jokes about women, comments that wanted no more age jokes whatsoever, comments saying that no comedy has been funny since 1969 -- just an endless echo chamber of horrible people guilty of the same rigidity and lack of vision that they decry in others.
But I couldn't get mad at these people. I couldn't hate them. Because they have that human need for community, they'll always seek each other out. And because they're either stupid or lazy (see above), they'll spend all of their time in their echo chambers sucking each other off and raving about the taste. And because of that, they'll never affect anything of consequence.
I think that you're lowering yourself when you hate these people, SoP. You're presuming that they're worthy of the attention required for you to hate them. They're not fire ants. They're not mosquitos. They're idiots on the internet who lack the willpower, the humility, and the disposition to tear themselves away from the keyboard long enough to walk up to someone who has made an actual difference in the world and say "How can I help?"
Souffle of Pain wrote:
Some Indians are fine with the term Redskins. This is enormously "problematic" for SJWs. They don't have any real problems like poverty, alcoholism or disease, so of course the name of a football mascot is the biggest thing in their pathetic lives.
Come on, man. First of all, addressing this doesn't preclude addressing poverty, alcoholism, disease, or unemployment simultaneously. Second of all, one of these issues requires large scale government intervention to the tune of $200-$300 billion dollars, decades of infrastructure building, creation of an entirely new educational system, and easily a century or more of improvement, while the other requires a few major media outlets to do a find and replace in their scripts. Yeah, it's no question which one will have the bigger impact and improve more lives, but you fight battles that are winnable when they're winnable. |
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It feels like we're near the tipping point re: the Redskins name by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/12/2013, 3:04am PDT 
Re: It feels like we're near the tipping point re: the Redskins name by Mysterio 09/12/2013, 3:24am PDT
Where were you when the Cables were shitposting about Trayvon Martin? NT by You nutless assmuncher 09/12/2013, 10:18am PDT
Be the change you want to see in the world, you stupid motherfucker. by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/13/2013, 2:06am PDT
Future HGB Threads by Patton Oswalt 09/14/2013, 11:03am PDT
N.......................................no. NT by A FRIEND 09/14/2013, 1:06pm PDT
Creexul does not actually believe that Martin had it coming. NT by A FRIEND 09/14/2013, 1:05pm PDT
Go fuck yourself NT by Souffle of Pain 09/14/2013, 5:07pm PDT
How's your vagina growing in? And NT by when did you become such a pussy? 09/14/2013, 5:51pm PDT
The vangioplasty is supple, alluring. You would be hard pressed to tell. It is.. by Souffle of Pain 09/14/2013, 9:17pm PDT
Re: Where were you when the Cables were shitposting about Trayvon Martin? by kate leth 09/17/2013, 8:39am PDT
Unfortunately, the defense of the Redskins has nothing to do with the Redskins by Souffle of Pain 09/12/2013, 10:43am PDT
Re: Unfortunately, the defense of the Redskins has nothing to do by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/13/2013, 2:38am PDT
Re: Unfortunately, the defense of the Redskins has nothing to do by Souffle of Pain 09/14/2013, 5:06pm PDT
TODAY ON FOOTBALL TALK: Cowboys! Misogynist or not?! by FUCKING FOOTBALL TALK FUCK YEAH 09/14/2013, 5:53pm PDT
Re: TODAY ON FOOTBALL TALK: Cowboys! Misogynist or not?! by Souffle of Pain 09/14/2013, 9:19pm PDT
You're a faggot by Mysterio 09/15/2013, 2:09pm PDT
Ralph Engelstad was the great troll when it came to this by fabio 09/16/2013, 4:04pm PDT
Legitimate defense? Branding/fan inertia, I guess? by Entropy Stew 09/15/2013, 4:11pm PDT
That was a minor short story long ago by The Happiness Engine 09/16/2013, 3:29pm PDT
A lot of big words about something that doesn't matter. by Gutsby 09/17/2013, 2:00pm PDT
Feel free to fuck off somewhere else with your tricky white horseshit, then NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/18/2013, 2:00pm PDT
Just shows you don't have to be 'Dawes Rolls Creek', but you better not be white NT by Worm 09/18/2013, 4:36pm PDT
You better not be white to call something racist? What are you talking about? by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/18/2013, 10:31pm PDT
I thought your earlier point was undermined by dismissing something as "white" by Worm 09/18/2013, 11:43pm PDT
I thought your earlier point was undermined by dismissing something as "white" by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/19/2013, 1:57pm PDT
So exactly what kind of harm do you believe this is causing? by Gutsby 09/19/2013, 3:38pm PDT
Symbols have meaning, hence "symbols" by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/19/2013, 4:51pm PDT
I am amazed they have transitioned to "Skins" and then "Pigskins" NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/18/2013, 7:11pm PDT
Racism trumps capitalism yet again by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/18/2013, 10:42pm PDT
Re: Racism trumps capitalism yet again by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/18/2013, 11:35pm PDT
Also, I meant "haven't" here, but I assume you parsed that. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/18/2013, 11:36pm PDT
Here is why it should stay Redskins forever by Souffle of Pain 09/19/2013, 9:36am PDT
'Fighting Irish' is pretty offensive! by Worm 09/19/2013, 12:11pm PDT
Re: Here is why it should stay Redskins forever by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/19/2013, 2:45pm PDT
I never really thought about it that way. by Souffle of Pain 09/19/2013, 5:33pm PDT
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