sure this kind of threads are always funny as fuck. it's just that at some point it starts to get embarrassing.
Never change Dr. Schultz.
Global warming is my identity also
It's not a hard concept to understand, but 9/10 when people say this, what they mean is they're all for education and healthcare reform, maybe gun control, but scoff at "Identify Politics," which is a huge red flag to a lot of people that they aren't really an ally, then. I'm not saying that's you, specifically, but it's what most folks who have the same rhetoric say.
For me, I was all in on the left. Never talked about identity politics or anything. I just kept being told I was the problem because I was white. That’s literally it. I’m white so I’m the problem. Any attempts to argue that I was labeled everything you could imagine. Then people would say that not only am I more privileged than they are because of the color of my skin, but that skin color was the most important factor in determining privilege. That is demonstrably false. Again, when I argued that, I was dismissed and called everything you could imagine.
Cool, I'll believe that when any history shows that solely being 'the voice of reason' has ever done anything to stop racial/sexual violence or bigotry. Look at who's the president!
I think this is the most frustrating part. As I said above, no history has shown that regressive views shouted loudly and in public have ever been the first step in bringing those views back around. There is no more limp-dicked institution in the world of Academia than "debate." When you look at the speakers most often protested, it's usually because they either willingly associate with people who construe the talking points or symbols of the openly hateful alt-right, or their own views are insanely odious (misogyny, eugenics, racism, classism, lgbt bigotry, etc.)
Lol.
All I’m saying is that shouting the opposition down and/or not allowing them to speak is clearly not the answer. You will never get through to them that way, it creates even more division. And also, when has censorship ever been a good solution?
Who wants or cares to "get through" to these people? The guys ginning up controversy by crying censorship are in it for the green. The "Say horrible things and cry censorship" racket pays like crazy, these aren't honest actors looking for a good faith debate. It's exactly because they're bad faith actors that so many people are against them just whipping up fervor; there's nothing to be gained unless you are super into it, which is bad!
You do realize that guys like Milo were threatening to out illegal immigrants and Ben Shapiro is just blatantly spouting false facts about trans folks, right? Or that Jordan Peterson thinks trans activists are no different than homicidal communists? If these guys just had bad takes it would be one thing, but they were and are inciting hateful bullshit based on nothing. That goes beyond "I don't like this," frankly.
Well, considering the amount of reported anti semitic and anti-Latinx based hate crimes are up, perhaps it's time we look at all those guys getting a ton of attention to talk about Soros-funded "Globalist" conspiracies and anti-immigrant fervor as being a reason why that's happening. Everyone says we have to stop being so divisive, but the only people getting killed are Leftist protesters, PoC, and people of Jewish faith, pretty much exclusively by crazy white people with guns. At what point do we, as fellow human-beings, stand up and tell these people to go fuck themselves?
Considering you're on Twitter making fun of trigger warnings, no, I actually don't think we'd agree on much. I would never want this thread to be closed, it's always fun to see Dr. Schultz waltz in and be an idiot.
That’s because trigger warnings don’t actually help, at all. I honestly thought that fad faded once people realized that. Hence why I was surprised they were still a prevalent topic (it came up in response to one of Philip deFranco’s videos, who you probably also hate, idk). I researched it awhile back but can’t remember everything specifically that I researched, so I’ll have to take a look back at it. But I know not only first hand that they do not work, the evidence doesn’t back up them working either.
Obama = NeoCon Warmonger (Genocide in Libya, Syria, etc)
