http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-being-offended-doesnt-matter-anymore/
So yeah it's an article on the stupidity of Internet call out culture by J.F Sargeant.
... Excuse me i think my heart just stopped from the shock.
J F Sargent wrote:And maybe this is my failing, because I'm pretty dumb sometimes, but I always thought that cultural criticism of popular art was about making it more inclusive, not driving the stuff we don't like out. When we complain about too many white male action heroes, for example, it's because we want more female and minority action heroes, not because we want to break Channing Tatum's kneecaps or something. We want every little kid to have a movie hero they can look up to that looks like them, because that shit is awesome and everyone deserves it.
Being offended is clickbait now. It's good marketing. It sells. So of course people are going to try and manufacture it, because that's what capitalism is. Clickbait sites are going to give every offensive thought any random person has as much exposure as possible for the same reason filmmakers keep cramming love triangles into movies and comedians keep telling edgy, offensive jokes: because we all want attention, and we all want to feel important, and because fuck it, it's a slow news day. And these slipping standards are dangerous, because...
When every comedian, and every movie, and every video game treats women as sex-prizes to be earned by strong, assertive men, then it contributes to a culture that doesn't value women as human beings. [...] Then you have to call out the one comedian, because he or she is part of something far bigger and more evil than themselves.
Askias wrote:[i]Note: the following post contains positive statements about both social justice Warriors and their detractors. If you can't handle that, skip.
NotCIAAgent wrote:Askias wrote:[i]Note: the following post contains positive statements about both social justice Warriors and their detractors. If you can't handle that, skip.
Thanks for warning!
What a nice guy, this Askias!
Askias wrote:I would never throw you in such a pit without warning! I was there at the battle of ''Ways modern men are trained to hate women'', when general Wong rallied up his screaming horde of extreme feminists!
Askias wrote:The point where I figured he'd be breaking some new ground and say something intelligent was #1, when he brought up that individual slights do form a culture-wide attitude. I agree with that sentiment strongly and it is the point where I'm most in line with the usually so comically misnamed Social Justice Movement. A priviliged (in the loosest possible terms) person making offensive statements about a less priviliged group is different than the other way around, even if the statements are equal. The point is not that they're bad because people start crying over it (as equal statements would logically have equal power to do so), but because one makes up (or re-inforces) a large social problem while the other does not. The situation of a less priviliged (I know people hate the term, but I don't have a good equivalent) person saying something that is offensive and insulting is considered less important because it only hurts people's feelings.
It is an undeniable fact that social attitudes hurt or benefit people of all groups, creeds and colors, but not all people equally (this is usually where the SJM drops the ball: applying statistics of the general populance to individuals). It's a fact that Whites and males (to use groups I'm part of) have an edge in most areas of society, even if especially in the latter case there are examples of the opposite (another point where the SJM frequently drops the ball). What I do notice is that people who dismiss people claiming something is ''offensive'' frequently also dismiss the link between a societal trend and actions that conform to that trend. Yeah, SJW cry wolf a lot, frequently for ridiculous reasons. But even if we assume a positive scenario and assume the expressions are merely that, and don't contribute to people's perceptions at all, it still reflects what they consider acceptable. Any conversation on the deeper problem would have no choice but to adress those expressions. It's not that people's feelings get hurt, but that the attitutes expressed do real harm to people in the real world.
Marcuse wrote:
This is iron. The article is like this is.
AdricDePsycho wrote:I have a poor view of SJWs after the whole Steven Universe-My Little Pony fiasco (look up what happened, it was fucking stupid).
NotCIAAgent wrote:I don't get it, there's enough actual racism and oppression in this planet to keep their movement alive for DECADES, why do they have to come up with new ways to be outraged and new forms of oppression (cultural oppression! media oppresion! micro-agressions!) to fight against?
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