Topic: MeToo and Woke killed themselves with their Leninist silliness.
Anonymous A started this discussion 1 month ago#131,308
Both started with reasonable aims - ending harassment and “systemic racism.” Then they became star chambers and cults for imagined and made up wrongdoings and for taking down tenured white male professors who resisted their brand of Newspeak.
It was interesting to see how people who claimed they were victimized or marginalized were bullies. And the number of wealthy whites who flocked to their ranks while denouncing others for white privilege.
Why cultish? They did the whole open therapy thing that’s usually done in private for self-abasement, they used a specialized and ever-changing vocabulary, value was in maintaining orthodoxy, and they offered a Manichean worldview. The money component we saw with BLM leaders buying mansions or hawking shitty books.
> Obviously a racist would be pro rape, that’s not surprising at all.
No. MeToo started out taking down monsters then it was every groupie who wanted attention or women who had bad dates like the one who took down that Indian comedian who was canceled.
It went from a movement with principles to a shakedown racket. Check out the Shitty Media Men lawsuit where women anonymously libeled people due to the “believe her” (without evidence) mantra.
Likewise, social justice and anti-racism are necessary. Performative faux activism and yard sign people made it all about themselves. BLM had a window in 2020 where it could have demanded police review boards or adoption of a multi-point plan. And didn’t. No vision.
Ebolalalala replied with this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,405,325
@previous (D)
Between random drama on twitter between people I’ve never heard of and pushing Nazi propaganda from bots in 3rd world countries pretending to be white people in the west, I prefer it the old way. It’s the lesser of two evils.
Ebolalalala double-posted this 1 month ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,405,326
Really, I don’t care about any of these social movements. I hate mob mentality. You’re saying that one social movement was proved correct because the mob went from one way to another way. The truth is that everything you see online is filtered. There’s nothing democratic about social media.
> Really, I don’t care about any of these social movements. I hate mob mentality. You’re saying that one social movement was proved correct because the mob went from one way to another way. The truth is that everything you see online is filtered. There’s nothing democratic about social media.
I like this comment. It’s an algorithm-run mob, it doesn’t necessarily reflect popular sentiment, and it favors extreme viewpoints and controversy.
Ebolalalala joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,405,338
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Honestly, I wish America could just go back to the way it was in 2012 when the two most controversial subjects were why nobody ever does anything about school shootings and Obamacare.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 21 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,405,345
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My only question is what the end goal is, since it seems pretty obvious that’s going to be achieved successfully given the complete lack of resistance.