If Mort Divine ruled the world

[CiG]

It's 1641 all over again.

Didn't get that one.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/27/18638992/diet-weight-loss-exercise-disability-obesity

this seems to be written as an excuse for liposuction

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Didn't get that one.

the answer to your confusion is prolly somewhere on this page
1641 - Wikipedia

 

[CiG]

Dak and his vague references.

 

[Dak]

Cogito Ergo Sum

 

[CiG]

Cogito Ergo Sum

"Tautological faggot." - Kierkegaard

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

je pense, donc je suis

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@HamburgerBoy

In States That Won’t Legalize Weed, Veterans Are Changing Minds - VICE

 

[Einherjar86]

"What we found startling was that white privilege lessons didn't increase liberals' sympathy for poor Black people," writes Erin Cooley, one of the study's authors and an assistant professor of psychology at Colgate University, in an explanatory post for Vice. "Instead, these lessons decreased liberals' sympathy for poor white people, which led them to blame white people more for their own poverty. They seemed to think that if a person is poor despite all the privileges of being white, there must really be something wrong with them."

In other words, learning about white privilege did not make conservatives more empathetic, and it made some liberals less empathetic, overall.

This would mean that the sort of social justice training programs offered by numerous universities could be having an undesirable effect, give that most students who enroll in these classes are liberals. To take just one example, the University of Colorado at Denver offers a class called "Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice," in which students are required to look "beyond feel-good momentary White racial awareness" and realize that "whites are complicit." In researching my book, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, I found numerous similar examples of academic exercises that blurred the line between anti-racism and anti-whiteness, and between scholarship and activism. It would hardly be surprising if these classes, rather than changing liberal students' feelings toward disadvantaged black people, merely galvanized them against whites.

https://reason.com/2019/05/29/white...HBsyYxppCFFn1VXDIxR2cSDPTgJsSohKFgJwumWbIB4qc

 

[CiG]

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

apparently the police still think that civilians are idiots

Police: Teen killed herself with gunshot through her mouth while hands cuffed behind back | WCIV

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[CiG]

Trump isn't the punishment, his whiny detractors are.

 

[Dak]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532708614562886

Solipsism officially hits peer review status.

This is an autoethnography about the role of nail salons in relation to my own evolving feminist and femme consciousness. Through a story of desire, grief, isolation, and recuperation, I explore the ways that the development of my sexual and gender identities relies on women’s intimacy within and across lines of commodification, race, class, and sexuality. In so doing, I attempt to reconcile my desire for high femme signifiers with working-class, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist solidarity, to articulate what I term a FemmeNist consciousness.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

what I term a FemmeNist consciousness

jfc kill it with fire

EDIT: "A FemmeNist ManiPedifesto" aaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Just did my daily 'trump' Google just to see what the MSM is complaining about, and saw this:

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden on Saturday accused President Donald Trump's administration of endangering the LGBTQ community by failing to defend LGBTQ individuals' rights and safety.

In a speech to the Human Rights Campaign on the first day of Pride Month, Biden described the difficulties still faced by many transgender people, including lack of access to health care and social services, as well as transphobic violence that he said was enabled by the Trump administration.

"We've already had five, just this year, five black transgender women killed violently in 2019 -- that's outrageous. It must, it must, it must end," Biden said as the supportive crowd broke into applause.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/01/politics/biden-lgbtq-comments-hrc-speech/

(not worth clicking the link, just including the source for posterity)

Biden almost drops a redpill here. I don't check all the time, but I know that a couple years ago, whenever I was first made aware of the whole transgender violence fiction, I thought it was interesting that something like 19 out of 20 transgender people murdered were black transgender women. I imagine that this year will follow previous years. Surely all these black transgender women are being murdered in rural Republican hick towns. All Trump's fault.

 

[CiG]

There definitely isn't a culture of intolerance in the black community of LGBTQ+ people goy, nothing to see here.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I love Tariq. I wonder when Twitter finally shuts him down for making the narrative too difficult.

 

[CiG]

 

[The Ozzman]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-extremist-videos.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

YouTube announced plans on Wednesday to remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies in an attempt to clean up extremism and hate speech on its popular service.

The new policy will ban “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion,” the company said in a blog post. The prohibition will also cover videos denying that violent incidents, like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, took place.

YouTube did not name any specific channels or videos that would be banned.

“It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence,” the blog post said.

The decision by YouTube, which is owned by Google, is the latest action by a Silicon Valley company to stem the spread of hate speech and disinformation on its site. A month ago, Facebook evicted seven of its most controversial users, including Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars. Twitter barred Mr. Jones last year.

President Trump and others argue that the giant tech platforms censor right-wing opinions, and the new policies put in place by the companies have inflamed those debates.

The tension was evident on Tuesday, when YouTube said a prominent right-wing creator who used racial language and homophobic slurs to harass a journalist in videos on YouTube did not violate its policies. The decision set off a firestorm online, including accusations that YouTube was giving a free pass to some of its popular creators.

In the videos, that creator, Steven Crowder, a conservative commentator with nearly four million YouTube subscribers, repeatedly insulted Carlos Maza, a journalist from Vox. Mr. Crowder used slurs about Mr. Maza’s Cuban-American ethnicity and sexual orientation. Mr. Crowder said his comments were harmless, and YouTube determined that they did not break its rules.

“Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don’t violate our policies, they’ll remain on our site,” YouTube said in a statement about its decision on Mr. Crowder.

The back-to-back decisions illustrated a central theme that has defined the moderation struggles of social media companies: Making rules is often easier than enforcing them.

“This is an important and long-overdue change,” Becca Lewis, a research affiliate at the nonprofit organization Data & Society, said about the new policy. “However, YouTube has often executed its community guidelines unevenly, so it remains to be seen how effective these updates will be.”

YouTube’s scale — more than 500 hours of new videos are uploaded every minute — has made it difficult for the company to track rule violations. And the company’s historically lax approach to moderating extreme videos has led to a drumbeat of scandals, including accusations that the site has promoted disturbing videos to children and allowed extremist groups to organize on its platform. YouTube’s automated advertising system has paired offensive videos with ads from major corporations, prompting several advertisers to abandon the site.

The kind of content that will be prohibited under YouTube’s new hate speech policies includes videos that claim Jews secretly control the world, that say women are intellectually inferior to men and therefore should be denied certain rights, or that suggest that the white race is superior to another race, a YouTube spokesman said.

Channels that post some hateful content, but that do not violate YouTube’s rules with the majority of their videos, may receive strikes under YouTube’s three-strike enforcement system, but would not be immediately banned.

The company also said channels that “repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies” but don’t violate them outright would be removed from YouTube’s advertising program, which allows channel owners to share in the advertising revenue their videos generate.

In addition to tightening its hate speech rules, YouTube announced that it would tweak its recommendation algorithm, the automated software that shows users videos based on their interests and past viewing habits. This algorithm is responsible for more than 70 percent of overall time spent on YouTube, and has been a major engine for the platform’s growth. But it has also drawn accusations of leading users down rabbit holes filled with extreme and divisive content, in an attempt to keep them watching and drive up the site’s use numbers.

“If the hate and intolerance and supremacy is a match, then YouTube is lighter fluid,” said Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights nonprofit Color of Change. “YouTube and other platforms have been quite slow to address the structure they’ve created to incentivize hate.”

Twitter is studying whether the removal of content is effective in stemming the tide of radicalization online. A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on the study.

When Twitter barred Mr. Jones, he responded with a series of videos denouncing the platform’s decision and drumming up donations from his supporters.

YouTube’s ban of white supremacists could prompt a similar cycle of outrage and grievance, said Joan Donovan, the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard. The ban, she said, “presents an opportunity for content creators to get a wave of media attention, so we may see some particularly disingenuous uploads.”

“I wonder to what degree will the removed content be amplified on different platforms, and get a second life?” Ms. Donovan added.

NYT linking to Vice now as a credible source? lmao