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Bogus Racism Charge Melts Down Elite Progressive Listserv

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The "elite", regressive left is eating their own as it spirals down the drain of culturally self-enforced "purity" norms? Color me thoroughly unsurprised.

It’s really weird because purity and shaming tactics used to be the domain of the far right (hundreds of years ago). It’s now switched to the far left. I’m a big believer in horseshoe theory. Born in a different household or time period, these personalities would be strong advocates for the other side.

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I remember a long time ago in middle school, I read a book called Red Scarf Girl. It is a memoir by a girl during the Cultural Revolution in China. As a middle schooler, I didn’t think too much about the book other than what strange rules such a bizarre society had for how you could interact and what you could say. But the book increasingly keeps coming to my mind lately. During the Cultural Revolution, there were ac…

I think we're not in any danger of a true socialist revolution here seeing that the Chopistani warlord Raz himself is literally an Airbnb landlord who drives a Tesla with a trunk full of AR-15s. The moment anyone comes to him for the actual money (from each according to his ability, after all, and he's certainly able) they'll get punched in the teeth or shot. Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/…

> Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity"

Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...

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Does this need to be here? Do we need the equivalent of /r/SubredditDrama on HN?

It's ok if you don't find it interesting, but don't assume everyone else thinks like you.

What's described in the article is a social phenomenon, worthy of study and reflection. The plethora of consequences that come from it, are already destroying the highest aspects of human thinking.

Left unchecked, and we will return to the dark ages. We are already seeing witch hunts and modern book burning.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're not in any danger of a true socialist revolution here seeing that the Chopistani warlord Raz himself is literally an Airbnb landlord who drives a Tesla with a trunk full of AR-15s. The moment anyone comes to him for the actual money (from each according to his ability, after all, and he's certainly able) they'll get punched in the teeth or shot. Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/…

> Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity" Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...

Not a real executive IIRC. He resigned from the BoD. And he's the only prominent person to do something concrete and direct like that. The rest are putting out PR releases and posting black squares to Instagram.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity" Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...

Not a real executive IIRC. He resigned from the BoD. And he's the only prominent person to do something concrete and direct like that. The rest are putting out PR releases and posting black squares to Instagram.

I don’t disagree with you by the way. I find virtue signaling to be rather useless (if not outright harmful to helping causes).

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Does this need to be here? Do we need the equivalent of /r/SubredditDrama on HN?

> Does this need to be here? Do we need the equivalent of /r/SubredditDrama on HN?

So according to left-leaning “progressive” people, discussing grave misdeeds done in the name of progressivism is “drama” and should be discouraged.

Do I understand you correctly?

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