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The new Harry Potter game is a perfect example. They went around screaming the game and JK Rowling were causing 'real world harm to trans people' which of course was BS. But the people trying to boycott the game couldn't leave it at that. They bullied and doxxed streamers just for enjoying a game without gender politics. Because of perceived slights they resorted to becoming actual bullies. We have come full circle.
I mean JK herself literally is, the game definitely isn't. If you've stayed out of this dumpster fire enough to actually not know you're probably better off. JK is a 70's-era radical feminist who's always been a little transphobic (that was the era, everyone was) but in this decade got sucked into the feminist-lesbian-to-TERF pipeline and dug her heels in when people started calling her out for it. Ever increasing le…
That aside, I find it interesting that you're honing in on JK Rowling. If speech really does cause violence, then lots of speech is causing violence, including speech with which you agree. It seems notable, then, that you're going after speech with which you disagree. Makes me think the whole "speech causes violence" argument is a ploy to attack speech you dislike.
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I would be curious what kind of person feels like they're on the receiving end of hate from "woke" people. Such a thing is practically the anthesis of what it even means to be part of that group. I'm in no way saying this means they're good people or that their legislative direction is good public policy but the only time hippie liberals push back at all is when someone tries to hurt one of their own. Liberals for th…
>I would be curious what kind of person feels like they're on the receiving end of hate from "woke" people. An arbitrary example I saw yesterday: An elderly white man was leaving a parking lot with one-way traffic flow. A young white woman was standing in the road talking with a friend. He pulled few feet away from them, waited, then politely asked them to move when they didn't. One woman started accosting him about…
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I would be curious what kind of person feels like they're on the receiving end of hate from "woke" people. Such a thing is practically the anthesis of what it even means to be part of that group. I'm in no way saying this means they're good people or that their legislative direction is good public policy but the only time hippie liberals push back at all is when someone tries to hurt one of their own. Liberals for th…
>I would be curious what kind of person feels like they're on the receiving end of hate from "woke" people. An arbitrary example I saw yesterday: An elderly white man was leaving a parking lot with one-way traffic flow. A young white woman was standing in the road talking with a friend. He pulled few feet away from them, waited, then politely asked them to move when they didn't. One woman started accosting him about…
The term "woke" is supposed to be related to awareness of racial injustice and inequality. Not one group exercising prejudice and bias and against another based on ethnicity. Furthermore, this term has become a label associated with loaded language employed by the conservative right to vilify opposition. It is a reflexive control word and propaganda device to used to focus hatred and resentment from conservatives towards any aspect of culture or ideology contrary to their interests, regardless of it actual relevance to racial injustice. So when you start calling assholes "woke", I am not sure if you are conflating the meaning of it because you are a victim of this propaganda or if you are intentionally using the term to foster resentment against others.
Either way, claiming that people "who are aware of racial injustice" direct hatred, resentment, and prejudice against others because of their race, age or gender is so blatantly contradictory that it is absurd.
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Such trolls depress me because people will conclude 1) they're real and 2) representative. And then I and my people get blamed for their behavior, even though I'd never do anything like that. sigh Anyway, what a cesspool. I'd enjoy reading his blog but I don't need that toxicity in my life.
Amanda Marcotte and Jessica Valenti exist. There are lots of people who take great joy in their hatred on every side of political issues.
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Amanda Marcotte and Jessica Valenti exist. There are lots of people who take great joy in their hatred on every side of political issues.
By "my people" I meant trans women, but I'm sure you'd be able to find instances of bonafide trans women saying abusive or hateful things. Regardless, there are trolls, and the comment bore hallmarks of being a troll. But even still, my point is that I don't post hateful things like that, most of the trans people I know are kind people, and reading dehumanizing comment threads like this is incredibly depressing for m…
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you are saying. You started talking about “my people” in a conversation about “wokeness”, I thought you were self-identifying as “woke”, and I’m probably not the only one who read you in that way. Now you say by “my people” you meant trans women, which leaves me confused about what you were trying to say all along.
You also speak of a “cesspool” and “dehumanizing comment threads” and I’m wondering what you are actually calling those things and why you are calling them that. Again, I suspect you may have the wrong impression, but I’m not entirely sure what you mean, so maybe my suspicion is based on misunderstanding you.
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Regular people. I've been, long ago, at college, before "woke" was coined I believe. To be honest the vitriol was over the top, I found it funny. Just my experience, not proxy for anyone else's.
What was your experience? Genuinely curious. I've definitely experienced the "economic" prejudice since college was when I found out the hard way that my family was poor. I had a friend who had to deal with insecure butthurt white folks being mad that the kid from China swept them in exams. I was not at his level but we bonded because I was the only girl in class. Dude is legit gonna be one of those mathematicians wh…
At 20 or so, I was more of the latter two than I am now, not at all the last one that I can tell and conscious of my failings at the second one. Product of Chicago in the 70's.
The insult came, if I remember the sequence of events correctly, after I said that in my experience white people can come by racism from daily experience, not just other people spewing it. I was mugged five times from 5th grade through high school, jumped for fun once, had an older girl say "come here little white boy, let me set your hair on fire" holding matches when I was in second grade, and had a crowd of 5 or 6 follow me and a friend home chanting "honky" and running up to almost touch us, I think around 6th or 7th grade. I've never been anonymously attacked by a white person, just a statistic but it's mine. I've also had plenty of black friends over the years.
When I was in college I did a small thesis on race riots in Chicago. To my suprise, most have been whites rioting against blacks, especially moving onto a white block, and they were mostly not reported on in the papers to avoid spreading the word. I gained total sympathy for the shit they went through, and of course their kids would grow up feeling the burn too and trying to maybe even the score. It just creates a cycle that sucks. Gandhi and King were right, though progress hurts while the cycle is getting stopped.
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I would be curious what kind of person feels like they're on the receiving end of hate from "woke" people. Such a thing is practically the anthesis of what it even means to be part of that group. I'm in no way saying this means they're good people or that their legislative direction is good public policy but the only time hippie liberals push back at all is when someone tries to hurt one of their own. Liberals for th…
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Critical theory does not in fact "center discrimination against Black people at the center of the political universe".
That focus carries through to the “pop” version of CRT manifested by folks such as Ibram Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones. In “how to be an anti-racist” Kendi doesn’t grapple with any of the implications of his ideas beyond the hoped-for effect on black people. In the quote from Hannah-Jones, she reduces “nearly everything truly exceptional about America” to slavery.
It also manifests in how ordinary liberals today talk about political theory. For example, despite the obvious advantages of federalism for a multi-ethnic democracy (which is why India has a federal structure) it’s impossible to get ordinary liberals to approach federalism except from the perspective of how it was used to uphold segregation. Similarly, critiques of the Senate invariably mention that it empowers primarily white states as if people’s skin color is the problem.
This is of course not a critique of CRT. It’s an analytical framework designed to analyze and solve the challenges facing the specific group that created it. But when it’s adopted as a generalized political theory, it leads to the antagonism noted above.
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By "my people" I meant trans women, but I'm sure you'd be able to find instances of bonafide trans women saying abusive or hateful things. Regardless, there are trolls, and the comment bore hallmarks of being a troll. But even still, my point is that I don't post hateful things like that, most of the trans people I know are kind people, and reading dehumanizing comment threads like this is incredibly depressing for m…
Maybe I’m misinterpreting you, but your comments give the impression that you think Scott is anti-trans, or when he says “woke” he means trans people. I don’t think that’s true. The term “woke” is used by lots of different people in lots of different ways. Some people view the existence of trans people as a type of “wokeness”, so I can understand how you could have formed the impression that’s (part of) what Scott me…
So to sum up, I have nothing against Scott, I'd greatly enjoy meeting him and reading his blog, I just had a bad time in the comments section today.