________ ________ ________
2017-08-24 / \/ \/ / \
/ __/ /_ _/
I had a big ol' rant rattling around / _/ / /
about free speech and how no one has the \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
right to take away or limit others' right to / \/ \/ / \
it for what they perceive is wrongthink or / _/ /_ _/
thought crimes or whatever but fuck it, who /- / _/ /
cares. I do find it funny though that people \________/\________/\___/____/
will rally for net neutrality but at the
same time celebrate companies willingly eschewing it for some embarrassing
brownie points.
You can't have it both ways, dudes.
It really feels like there's been a sickening level of entitlement on
display lately, particularly around free speech. So many people are behaving
like they're righteous and without fault but covering their ears and
screeching as soon as anyone has an even slightly differing opinion and it's
really starting to get ridiculous. When you see people hounding TOR to censor
"white supremacists", completely uninterested in all the actual, legitimate
illegal and horrible shit that goes on (or is rumored to go on) within those
walls it's like... what the fuck? People like this are not proponents of real
change and they're not even trying to pretend anymore, they're proudly cause-
of-the-week slactivists who don't even actually know what they're fighting for
or why.
Hell, they weren't even asking for TOR to censor white supremacists, they
were asking them to censor The Daily Stormer specifically because that's what
the TV and social media clowns were howling about so it's literally the only
thing they know. It's like a parrot yelling "Polly wants a cracker," it's not
saying it wants a cracker, it's not saying anything, it's just repeating
sounds it's heard.
I remember last year we had an episode locally where the perpetually
outraged went hard on a restaurant for having a giant mural of a rapper and
some other Americana in their restaurant. They laid into the head chef with
all kinds of abuse, calling him racist and accusing him of appropriating black
culture and demanding he change the restaurant to meet their demands and on
and on.
Except it wasn't the head chef, it was the head chef of a completely
unrelated restaurant on the other side of town. No one bothered to check
because no one bothered to take half a second to think about what they were
doing or why, they just heard the social justice vigilante dog whistle on
Facebook and Twitter and came running.
It'd be funny if it wasn't so common. You just have to roll up to any
protest or rally in this city, look at the mess of unrelated signs and listen
to the confusing grab-bag of "woke" chants to know that the people there
aren't there for a cause. They have no conviction or cause, they're just there
to protest for the sake of protesting.
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