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I remember a long time ago in middle school, I read a book called Red Scarf Girl. It is a memoir by a girl during the Cultural Revolution in China. As a middle

I remember a long time ago in middle school, I read a book called Red Scarf Girl. It is a memoir by a girl during the Cultural Revolution in China. As a middle schooler, I didn’t think too much about the book other than what strange rules such a bizarre society had for how you could interact and what you could say. But the book increasingly keeps coming to my mind lately. During the Cultural Revolution, there were accusations that people were “landlords” or related to landlords. Even rumors of having something to do with the bourgeoisie was enough to elicit swift punishment from the other members of society. If you weren’t vocal about being on the “right side of history”, then you must be adamantly against it and were addressed as such, either by peers or the government. A lot of accusations turned into witch hunts against people, even if the charges were flimsy. Anyway, I’ve often observed this same sort of behavior in extremist progressive circles, but it sure appears to be spilling into the mainstream a lot more everyday.

m0zg 6y ago
I think we're not in any danger of a true socialist revolution here seeing that the Chopistani warlord Raz himself is literally an Airbnb landlord who drives a Tesla with a trunk full of AR-15s. The moment anyone comes to him for the actual money (from each according to his ability, after all, and he's certainly able) they'll get punched in the teeth or shot. Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/change, never the "activists" themselves. It's always this amorphous "we". Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity". Not a single white actor has foregone a role. And so on and so forth all the way down the list. You know how many black people worked in the building I worked in while at Google? Zero. You know how many I interviewed in nearly a decade there? One. He was rejected (not by me though, the guy did very well in my interview). Talk is cheap. Want something done about it? Be the change you want to see in the world. I come from a country where there was a socialist revolution. The entire contingent of the current "movement" would meet a quick and brutal end after a real revolution, because the moment you don't like something a real revolutionary likes, you become a counter-revolutionary, and those are dealt with quickly, with a bullet to the back of the head. Or, as was the case in the Soviet Union, with tens of millions of bullets to tens of millions of heads.
- throwaway6274 6y ago
  > Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity" Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...
  - m0zg 6y ago
    Not a real executive IIRC. He resigned from the BoD. And he's the only prominent person to do something concrete and direct like that. The rest are putting out PR releases and posting black squares to Instagram.
    - throwaway6274 6y ago
      I don’t disagree with you by the way. I find virtue signaling to be rather useless (if not outright harmful to helping causes).

m0zg 6y ago

I think we're not in any danger of a true socialist revolution here seeing that the Chopistani warlord Raz himself is literally an Airbnb landlord who drives a Tesla with a trunk full of AR-15s. The moment anyone comes to him for the actual money (from each according to his ability, after all, and he's certainly able) they'll get punched in the teeth or shot. Note how it's always someone else that needs to pay/atone/change, never the "activists" themselves. It's always this amorphous "we". Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity". Not a single white actor has foregone a role. And so on and so forth all the way down the list. You know how many black people worked in the building I worked in while at Google? Zero. You know how many I interviewed in nearly a decade there? One. He was rejected (not by me though, the guy did very well in my interview). Talk is cheap. Want something done about it? Be the change you want to see in the world. I come from a country where there was a socialist revolution. The entire contingent of the current "movement" would meet a quick and brutal end after a real revolution, because the moment you don't like something a real revolutionary likes, you become a counter-revolutionary, and those are dealt with quickly, with a bullet to the back of the head. Or, as was the case in the Soviet Union, with tens of millions of bullets to tens of millions of heads.

throwaway6274 6y ago
> Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity" Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit/in...
- m0zg 6y ago
  Not a real executive IIRC. He resigned from the BoD. And he's the only prominent person to do something concrete and direct like that. The rest are putting out PR releases and posting black squares to Instagram.
  - throwaway6274 6y ago
    I don’t disagree with you by the way. I find virtue signaling to be rather useless (if not outright harmful to helping causes).