Dick Strawkins wrote:Steersman wrote:Za-zen wrote:Steersman wrote:
I think she has a point – there have been more than a few dickhead statements made here, that “fat fucking cunt†probably being a credible example (my own expression of that being in response to a direct provocation, i.e., “assholeâ€). And I expect that there are more than a few who pass through here who are only looking for ammunition and aren’t too particular whether what they pick up carries any weight or not.
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See where i bolded above. Replace with fat cunt.
And just for you staffy duck, outrage crumbs, you need them, and so you are given them. Keep on feeding.
"They drop Doxxs on people, but they won't let us write fat cunt on our blogs" Acuntalypse Now
Hardly outraged. If you think that the PR of the Pit is helped by making gratuitous insults without justification or context then go big, fill your boots. But don’t be surprised if others think that kind of a dickhead move ….
With respect Steersman old chum, but I don't think "justification" comes into the picture at all.
Your own insult thrown at Svan will be portrayed exactly the same way that any trolls out of the blue expletive is portrayed.
In other words, you are dealing with people who are fishing for things to be offended by. They are not thinking of justification of others remarks.
At the moment they are calling Skep tickle the most vile insults and yet any retaliation will be seen as undeserved.
At least that's how they will react.
I am under the impression that Svan is, as she has said herself, acting as their personal thug in this argument. I think she knows she's acting like a petty highschool bully - but she thinks the ends justify the means, even if the means involve a lot of viciousness towards undeserving victims. It's all for a good cause - making sure that the correct group, the 'good people', herself and the Minnesota mafia, remain in power.
The strategy they are using is often referred to as "gaming the ref", apparently taken from sports where, if you bitch about the ref's calls enough, the ref will start calling it your way. Of course, should the ref do that, the gaming doesn't stop, rather, the threshold for bitching gets adjusted downward and maybe the ref, sufficiently rattled, will start making egregiously bad calls in your favor.
Conservatives in the United States have been quite successful in this tactic, complaining about the (so-called) "liberal media" enough to push the line of where moderation lies decidedly to the right. Of course, even when the media self-censors, or just abdicate their responsibility completely and presents " X said this and Y said that" stenography without any facts or analysis entering into it, the GOP will just find even more minutiae to complain about because to them the only responsible journalism consists of shilling for them.
As we see with Svan complaining that my referring to her and hers as "carpet-bagger" constitutes harassment, or especially with Skep Tickle's use of indefinite articles parsed to find offense, the point isn't offensive speech, or even silencing people. Silence is not sufficient. Neutrality is suspect. The only thing that will satisfy them is complete submission and validation of their position regardless of how crazy, hypocritical or even nasty it is. It's not a matter of acquiescing to their arguments, what they are, but accepting their authority, without question, to dictate reality.
Without the window dressing, what Svan and company does is basically little more than nagging. She wants you to take out her garbage not only without being told, but without any conscious thought or volition. In fact, you can see the worst of dysfunctional feminism and SJW identity politics as just ideological cover for being a bunch of dissatisfied, entitled whiny bitches.
If that's the case, and it is, the last thing you want to do is let them start shifting the line by giving in to their demands, regardless of how initially reasonable they may seem.
You have to look to their end game. I mean, go ahead, give into them, even just a little bit, see where that gets you.