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> the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes. This person is referring to the #gamergate
by ttt0 6y ago
> the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes.
This person is referring to the #gamergate controversy from like 6-7 years ago, I understand that much.
But how does a progressive, left-leaning person go from that to being offended by a satire about capitalism? I have no clue. It's like becoming a caricature of yourself.
- gotostatement 6y agoit literally made me enraged to see someone twist feminist ideas to make an asinine point defending the status quo. I'm not sure what the answer to your question is, but I think it's something like - the person may only be left-leaning insofar as it affects their own rights, being a person from marginalized groups, but is not left-leaning to the point of opposing other forms of exploitation even when they are part of their own paycheck
- smabie 6y agoMaybe you should uhhh.. calm down?
- root_axis 6y agoThis is a pretty patronizing comment.
- smabie 6y agoYeah you're right I'm sorry it was flippant and inappropriate.
- prepend 6y agoMaybe they shouldn’t. This is such an annoying comment. GP wasn’t uncalm. By saying such a flippant statement, it seems to me that you’re denegrating GP and saying that his ideas aren’t worth talking about. As if being calm is some ideal to always maintain anyway.
- freshhawk 6y agoThey don't. They didn't like being the butt of the joke and so they spun up some bullshit in the voice they felt had the best chance of working. You can tell because leftists aren't offended by vanilla leftism.
- square_usual 6y agoSlighlty OT for this forum, but the "left" isn't monolithic either. Especially on twitter, there's a lot of left-leaning people who despise the "dirtbag left" that user refers to.
- gher-shyu3i 6y agoIt's been a while since their ideology has become a collection of mutually incompatible senseless ideas. As you say, a caricature.
- kergonath 6y agoYou write “their” as if one specific ideology was a problem. Watch “conservatives” tie themselves into knots to support a most certainly un-conservative demagogue. It’s just as bad as “leftists” who have forgotten about freedom. Radicalisation is a problem, and it is generalised.