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"Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent." This makes me scared for the facts in the rest of the article. [C

"Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent." This makes me scared for the facts in the rest of the article. [Correction, as nkurtz points out, the above quote is not actually the authors opinion.]

wingless 11y ago
Who needs facts when you can just write liberal propaganda? It's $CURRENT_YEAR after all.
- nkurz 11y ago
  What about the article strikes you as liberal? Your tone makes it sound like you are dismissing it because of this, but I doubt you'd find many self-described liberals who would be as gentle on Redpillers (or friendly toward Jian Ghomeshi) as the author. And why is the $CURRENT_YEAR meme popping up everywhere recently?
  - rjeli 11y ago
    Re: "current year" - right wing netizens are frustrated with the recently popular John Oliver and his repeated insistence that it's 2016 and his opponent's views are therefore ridiculous.
nkurz 11y ago
That's a quote from the article, but it's not intended as a fact. In the context of the full quote, he's offering a caricatured viewpoint that he does not agree with, and then going on to show that the world is not so simple: Reading The Red Pill, then, offers two possible answers to the question “how shitty are men really?” The first situates The Red Pill as another toxic technoculture on a spectrum of digital misogyny: on Twitter, any woman who says anything even moderately controversial will receive torrents of direct physical threats as a matter of course. Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent. Gamers on Xbox Live will be sexually harassed, inevitably. The answer to the question of how shitty men are, from this perspective, is “really pretty shitty”. But an entirely different approach emerges with a slight shift in emphasis: how shitty are men really? That is, how does these men’s behaviour online translate into non-digital life ? The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we not?
- danielvf 11y ago
  I stand corrected.

wingless 11y ago

Who needs facts when you can just write liberal propaganda? It's $CURRENT_YEAR after all.

nkurz 11y ago
What about the article strikes you as liberal? Your tone makes it sound like you are dismissing it because of this, but I doubt you'd find many self-described liberals who would be as gentle on Redpillers (or friendly toward Jian Ghomeshi) as the author. And why is the $CURRENT_YEAR meme popping up everywhere recently?
- rjeli 11y ago
  Re: "current year" - right wing netizens are frustrated with the recently popular John Oliver and his repeated insistence that it's 2016 and his opponent's views are therefore ridiculous.

nkurz 11y ago

That's a quote from the article, but it's not intended as a fact. In the context of the full quote, he's offering a caricatured viewpoint that he does not agree with, and then going on to show that the world is not so simple: Reading The Red Pill, then, offers two possible answers to the question “how shitty are men really?” The first situates The Red Pill as another toxic technoculture on a spectrum of digital misogyny: on Twitter, any woman who says anything even moderately controversial will receive torrents of direct physical threats as a matter of course. Sites such as 4chan exist mainly to post thousands of revenge porn images without consent. Gamers on Xbox Live will be sexually harassed, inevitably. The answer to the question of how shitty men are, from this perspective, is “really pretty shitty”. But an entirely different approach emerges with a slight shift in emphasis: how shitty are men really? That is, how does these men’s behaviour online translate into non-digital life ? The Red Pill poses one of the absolute conundrums of our time: are we our real selves on the internet, or are we not?

danielvf 11y ago
I stand corrected.