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As an Indian, I'd say this kind of "SJW" rhetoric serves no purpose other than causing a reactionary change -- of more normal people favoring extreme right wing
by higerordermap 6y ago
As an Indian, I'd say this kind of "SJW" rhetoric serves no purpose other than causing a reactionary change -- of more normal people favoring extreme right wing instead, and leaving a bad impression about the total social justice thing.
- javajosh 6y agoThe other alternative is to be independent. No tribe. Or you can be in a tribe, but as a critic and reformer. (Well, some tribes allow you to criticize them. Not the modern GOP.)
- Clewza313 6y agoNot an option anymore: you're either with us or against us. This article is actually an excellent example of this in action: by any objective standard SSC was a pretty liberal blog, but the NYT cherrypicked 4 quotes from 1700+ articles where he dared to deviate from dogma and used them to paint him a Nazi.
- zarkov99 6y agoHow about joining the American tribe? Wouldn't that be something?
- adolph 6y agoDo you think the NYT tribe allows criticism or non-orthodoxy to exist? They encourage certain “criticism” exist to be sure, but only so far as it reënforces their prestige, to be reflexively believed and turned to as authoritative.
- dandare 6y agoA recent example: > The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763382