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No mention of how common this is. Anyone know?

trod1234 1y ago
Fairly common from what I hear, its gone completely Orwellian or Maoist, depending on your perspective. Bad people pretending to be good doing bad things to torture people based on the bad people's false accusations and coercive evil behavior. I can't imagine a world where any rational person believes that depriving people of their professions/jobs through false accusation and targeted Zersetzung-style gangstalking (i.e. criminal harassment) is a good thing. Cancel culture has always been based in identity politics, which are the anti-thesis of American principles, anyone with half a brain knows where that came from historically. The moment you can't communicate for fear of reprisals as a result of someone else twisting your words out of context is the moment society begins its slow march to complete collapse and eventual annihilation/extinction. Its a small but objective indicator. By the time the slow-witted realize this, its often too late to pull back from the maelstrom, and the loudspeaker/algorithm/technology gives them privileged position to drive the boat straight into the center, and keep doing this drowning out the sane voices that want to survive and have a future. When there is no ability to communicate, there can be no basis for non-violent conflict resolution, no shared context, and its been known for quite awhile that isolation drives people insane. A spiraled loop of madness. People are often quite blind when it comes to how communication specifically impacts their psychological state, and thus are powerless to alter or control their heading. The science inflicted on them to induce towards automata is beyond their ken or ability to react. Sad state of affairs overall.
elmerfud 1y ago
This isn't something that used to need to be said. The really sad fact is that they even had to remind people that you shouldn't victim blame.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago
  Did it? Is Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh too beneath mainstream? How about Fox News pundits after Paul Pelosi was attacked? I don't think this is new.
  - lawlessone 1y ago
    Sounds like it's the American equivalent of the British knighting people.
- mdhb 1y ago
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  - SpicyUme 1y ago
    Interesting to look back at yesterday's comments here and in other online spaces. People like jumping to the conclusions they've prepared for themselves.
    - zahlman 1y ago
      The comment you're replying to is not from yesterday, and it's factually incorrect.
  - zahlman 1y ago
    > a straight white 22 year old RWNJ I had to look up this acronym. Apparently it stands for "right-wing nut job". I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion.
    - zahlman 1y ago
      As an update: GP was flagged and killed, and there is now compelling evidence that the shooter was indeed not a "RWNJ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539
- TabithaES 1y ago
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Fairly common from what I hear, its gone completely Orwellian or Maoist, depending on your perspective. Bad people pretending to be good doing bad things to torture people based on the bad people's false accusations and coercive evil behavior. I can't imagine a world where any rational person believes that depriving people of their professions/jobs through false accusation and targeted Zersetzung-style gangstalking (i.e. criminal harassment) is a good thing. Cancel culture has always been based in identity politics, which are the anti-thesis of American principles, anyone with half a brain knows where that came from historically. The moment you can't communicate for fear of reprisals as a result of someone else twisting your words out of context is the moment society begins its slow march to complete collapse and eventual annihilation/extinction. Its a small but objective indicator. By the time the slow-witted realize this, its often too late to pull back from the maelstrom, and the loudspeaker/algorithm/technology gives them privileged position to drive the boat straight into the center, and keep doing this drowning out the sane voices that want to survive and have a future. When there is no ability to communicate, there can be no basis for non-violent conflict resolution, no shared context, and its been known for quite awhile that isolation drives people insane. A spiraled loop of madness. People are often quite blind when it comes to how communication specifically impacts their psychological state, and thus are powerless to alter or control their heading. The science inflicted on them to induce towards automata is beyond their ken or ability to react. Sad state of affairs overall.

elmerfud 1y ago

This isn't something that used to need to be said. The really sad fact is that they even had to remind people that you shouldn't victim blame.

cosmicgadget 1y ago
Did it? Is Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh too beneath mainstream? How about Fox News pundits after Paul Pelosi was attacked? I don't think this is new.
- lawlessone 1y ago
  Sounds like it's the American equivalent of the British knighting people.
mdhb 1y ago
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- SpicyUme 1y ago
  Interesting to look back at yesterday's comments here and in other online spaces. People like jumping to the conclusions they've prepared for themselves.
  - zahlman 1y ago
    The comment you're replying to is not from yesterday, and it's factually incorrect.
- zahlman 1y ago
  > a straight white 22 year old RWNJ I had to look up this acronym. Apparently it stands for "right-wing nut job". I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion.
  - zahlman 1y ago
    As an update: GP was flagged and killed, and there is now compelling evidence that the shooter was indeed not a "RWNJ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539
TabithaES 1y ago
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