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The narrative you describe in your post is largely fabricated to rally, enrage and indoctrinate individuals. It's disheartening how deeply the "us vs. them" mi

The narrative you describe in your post is largely fabricated to rally, enrage and indoctrinate individuals. It's disheartening how deeply the "us vs. them" mindset dominates our politics. You used the term "they" or "them" seven times in your short post. Seven. Who are they? A few trolls on twitter does not equal a meaningful movement. Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe nutjobs is absurd and not conducive to meaningful discourse. Having a slang term for "them" (SJW) implies that it's a such a common issue that people face daily, when in reality it's a strawman argument largely fabricated by organizations interested in keeping you squabbling vs examining their policies. You go on to say "attempted act of censorship by an ex-Twitter employee is a fairly tame example of their tactics" "Their Tactics" as if this incident was part of a master plan orchestrated by a shadowy far-left extremist org. This is pizza-gate levels of delusion.

Turing_Machine 9y ago
"Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe nutjobs is absurd" 1) Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men. 2) The President of the United States then sent his teen daughter to do an internship with this "fringe nutjob". Sorry, this crazy, hateful bigot is not "fringe", she's squarely in the mainstream of the modern Democratic Party. They need to fix that if they're planning to ever win a national election again.
- andybak 9y ago
  > Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men Had to Google that. Is there more than the 30 second animation? Because as a straight white male, I didn't feel particularly victimised by it.
  - Turing_Machine 9y ago
    It doesn't matter whether you, personally, feel "victimised" by it. Most participants in Internet lynch mobs don't actually feel personally threatened by whatever it is they're screaming about. If she had done that to any other identifiable group, she would have been hounded from the public sphere. Instead, she gets rewarded with some personal time with the President's daughter. Do you think Trump, or Bush II, or Bush I, or Reagan, or Nixon... would have sent their child off to intern with someone who called for the extinction of, say, black people? Nope. And no, that's not the bottom of her lunacy, not by many, many levels.

Turing_Machine 9y ago

"Categorizing half of the American populace based on the views/actions of fringe nutjobs is absurd" 1) Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men. 2) The President of the United States then sent his teen daughter to do an internship with this "fringe nutjob". Sorry, this crazy, hateful bigot is not "fringe", she's squarely in the mainstream of the modern Democratic Party. They need to fix that if they're planning to ever win a national election again.

andybak 9y ago
> Lena Dunham has called for the extinction of white men Had to Google that. Is there more than the 30 second animation? Because as a straight white male, I didn't feel particularly victimised by it.
- Turing_Machine 9y ago
  It doesn't matter whether you, personally, feel "victimised" by it. Most participants in Internet lynch mobs don't actually feel personally threatened by whatever it is they're screaming about. If she had done that to any other identifiable group, she would have been hounded from the public sphere. Instead, she gets rewarded with some personal time with the President's daughter. Do you think Trump, or Bush II, or Bush I, or Reagan, or Nixon... would have sent their child off to intern with someone who called for the extinction of, say, black people? Nope. And no, that's not the bottom of her lunacy, not by many, many levels.