I mentioned that it's about power. The power to control what you can say. The power to force you to speak something that isn't the truth, or be run out of the community, expelled. Bluntly, the power to keep your sanity [https://mishaburnett.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/my-preferred-pronouns/]. > The language that I use is a reflection of my thoughts. I do not permit myself to indulge delusions–my own or another’s–in my speech. Thus, my prefered pronouns. I use “he” to refer to male persons and…
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OK. In parts 1 [https://thelastredoubt.com/why-the-sjw-stuff-matters-an-intro-and-comicsgate/] and 1.5 [https://thelastredoubt.com/false-middles/] I covered an article on why the marketing signaling doesn't matter, and specifically took the article to task for how it looked at a marketing/attention-seeking only filter to both of their actions. Incidentally, this overview is well worth your time. As I noted, at least in the case of the comicsgate imprint, it wasn't about trademarks or copyright…
Before I tackle part 2 of my thoughts on why this social justice signaling matters - likely after the weekend - I note our scribe is congratulating himself [https://scifiscribe.com/2018/09/06/if-both-sides-are-mad-youre-doing-something-right/] by declaring that "If Both Sides Are Mad, You’re Doing Something Right." Yeah. Cringey use of memes aside - read the post and he's trying to act as if he's staking out a position of "truth" and that neither other side has it. OK. If I open fire on anot…
A comment on my battletech review over at discord a while back asked why I made a fuss at all about the SJW stuff in it? If it made someone happier to see odd genders included, or a "diverse" command staff (that was hispanic, oriental, etc., no white men, or even whites), what does it hurt? Similarly, over the latest Comicsgate kerfluffle, a regular blogger over at Superversive wrote On Nike and Vox Day And Why You Shouldn’t Care About Either [https://scifiscribe.com/2018/09/04/on-nike-and-vox-…
Over at the Unz Report, Steve Sailer presents a nice bit on an excercise in SJW-correct moral relativism [http://www.unz.com/isteve/whom-to-leave-behind/] which backfired: > Whom to Leave Behind? Instructions: The twelve persons listed below have been selected as passengers on a space ship for a flight to another planet because tomorrow the planet Earth is doomed for destruction. Due to changes in space limitations, it has now been determined that only eight persons may go. … Your task is to…