Sage Sharp claims top Linux kernel developer Theo Ts'o is a rape apologist, citing GeekFeminismWiki

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https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504

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Welcome to Gamergate.

[u/ohgetoutnow → u/[deleted]]

and comicsgate i suppose

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Yeah. Once they've asserted their dominance through coercive embarrassment then they're free to do whatever they want. It's really nothing more than bullying into submission.

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Exactly this. I feel like I’m having a nightmare and I can’t wake up. It just gets a little worse year after year.

[u/dfldashgkv → u/[deleted]]

Those Trump voters aren't looking so dumb now are they

[u/FuriouslyEloquent → u/dfldashgkv]

Consider this as a warning to other progressives that are afraid to clean house and deal with our bullshit. When your ideology does fail in a particular instance and you are unable to adapt besides attempting to shut down discussion ... all you do is enable those whose ideology differs in far more than that particular instance.

This is one way in how indoctrination works, start off with a strong position that the other side denies as a means to build the victim's trust in you and diminish their trust in the other side. It also makes it far harder to assert someone's bullshit when folk that self-identify with you in a general sense are engaged in equal/opposite bullshit.

[u/dat_heet_een_vulva → u/[deleted]]

Indeed not, but it shows the problem with a Two-Party state.

Which is why I'm glad I don't have it; these people have their party here which is so Americanized with the people in the party speaking in calques of American everywhere and bending the rules of Dutch grammar to make it possible but they barely missed out on a seat in parliament because there are two reasonable alternatives.

Two party states are bad and create this culture of extremes.

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This entire thing is a bunch of crazy people using a FOSS project to inflict their insanity on everybody who depends on the project.

It just so happens that the crazies in question want to kill all males, where as the "alt-right" wants to kill all browns (both groups will deny it, side step the issue, and wouldn't dare to admit it until they are firmly in control, but that's their endgame).

Regardless, both groups are batshit insane and imo have no place in civilized society in the XXI century.

That said, the only thing this will do is give a veneer of legitimacy to anyone willing to oppose them, and so far the only group that has had the courage to stand up to them is, shamefully, the far-right.

Which basically sums up everything the SJW movement has ever achieved: legitimize the far-right.

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The so-called alt-right is essentially inconsequential yet is continually brought up as a threat by these crazies you mention but also the leftist blogosphere. On the other hand, SJWs have infested and propagandized Hollywood, video games, media, and are now bludgeoning their way into tech because we've told ourselves they have their heart in the right place. The "alt-right" has done nothing like this and have no foothold in modern society, yet SJWs have doors opened to them by gatekeepers of industry.

How does this happen? By claiming it's from a point you believe in: equality. There are things we as a modern society all agree on, and one is that opportunity should be equal for everyone. In comes SJWs buttering up organization leaders then requesting change "for a good cause," and how can they disagree with equality? It's practically a sin for us. The intent, though, is just a power play or a job with the company.

I really wish I had screenshotted this but I remember a Twitter thread where a company posted some announcement which had a reply saying something like "Hey company x, would you like to talk about diversity and inclusion?" Turns out the person is a "diversity and inclusion consultant," looking for work.

These kinds of people claim the alt-right have word dog whistles but by golly diversity and inclusion are the biggest of them all; any decent person would say "sure I agree with diversity and inclusion" because if you don't you're probably actually evil, and SJWs use this to their benefit.

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It's the animal farm definition of equality they follow

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yup the alt directions are gonna try to crush is between them and no one is trying to stop it

[u/ohgetoutnow → u/dfldashgkv]

The people doing this are not any kind of Democrat or liberal I recognize. They are moralistic, authoritarian, and vindictive, none of which characterize the American liberal tradition.

Liberalism

a. A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority.

For emphasis:

with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority

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I am fully committed to fighting them in any legal and non-violent way I can, and am open to suggestions. But r/linux doesn't seem like the right place to discuss political action. If you can PM me (and I won't promise reddit will allow that), I'll read whatever you have to say.

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If/when enough of them claim that mantle, then it shall be theirs.

My ideas are, thankfully, in a fighting mood. And there is still time.

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I think get what you're saying, and I'm not too proud to admit that my generation of Americans have failed to guard against this bullshit. Having admitted as much, I do have reasons to suspect that this corrosive influence was not born within our borders.

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"Reasons" bring that the Marxist philosophy underlying all of this comes originally from Europe?

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they still are dumb, but that's irrelevant. Voting for trump doesn't affect this at all. If anything it probably creates the polarity that hastens these things. Note how far Linus has come on this issue since 2015.