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November 13, 2015
Memo To: Zoe, Sarky, The UN Broadband Commission For Digital Development Working Group On Broadband And Gender
Posted by franc under censorship, culture, disinformation, GamerGate, gender feminism, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, internet, media, misandry, moral panic, nihilism, propaganda, pseudo-humanism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, social justice warriors, stupidity, thanks for the donations, totalitarianism | Tags: anita sarkeesian, cyberviolence, gibberish peddlers, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, United Nations, zoe quinn |1 Comment
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Anita Sarkeesian thinks gender and racial segregation is a good idea
CYBERVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS : A WORLD-WIDE WAKE-UP CALL : A REPORT BY THE UN BROADBAND COMMISSION FOR DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP ON BROADBAND AND GENDER [PDF – so full of bullshit the UN pulled it from circulation]
August 28, 2014
Online Harassment: Reporting Threats Is Only Half The Job
Posted by franc under conspiracists, cults, disinformation, gender feminism, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, misandry, moral panic, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, social sites, Uncategorized, yellow journalism | Tags: anita sarkeesian, attention whores, gaming, making shit up, quinnspiracy, Rebecca Watson, skepchick |[19] Comments
Yes, if the “threats” are credible, people do go to jail
A British woman has been told to expect a jail sentence after being convicted of the misogynist trolling of a feminist campaigner, adding new fuel to the debate over freedom of speech on social networks.
In the case that prompted Twitter to introduce a ‘report abuse’ button, 23-year-old Isabella Sorley and 25-year-old John Nimmo both pleaded guilty to sending menacing messages via a public electronic communications network. Sorley, who has numerous previous convictions for being drunk and disorderly, has been told she faces jail, while Nimmo is likely to receive a non-custodial sentence.
The pair had, separately, targeted Caroline Criado-Perez, who last year successfully campaigned for novelist Jane Austen to appear on English banknotes. Sorley tweeted: “I’ve only just got out of prison and would happily do more time to see you berried!!” and ‘Rape?! I’d do a lot worse things than rape you!!” — [Forbes.com] (more…)
August 8, 2014
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Auto-Objectification
Posted by franc under cults, disinformation, gender feminism, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, internet, misandry, moral panic, nihilism, propaganda, social sites, stupidity | Tags: fembots, hashtag activists, I'd boink that, identity studies, Jezebel, leering, monkey-see-monkey-do, objectification, ogling, PETA, pudgy pink things, slacktivism, Tumblr, Twitter, vegans, wank fodder |[7] Comments
More useful than an entire identity studies department
The kind of activism undertaken when you “do something” about a problem by tweeting or posting links to Facebook, without any intent of ever actually doing something. Nothing more than a nonsense feelgood gesture so that one can say they “did something about” whatever trendycause they’re pretending to care about. Usually only lasts a week or two before the cause is completely forgotten (i.e. it stops being cool to forward / retweet on the subject).
EXAMPLE: “I forwarded a video about some unspeakable atrocities in a country I didn’t know existed until I watched the video. My hashtag activism is going to accomplish something!” – [UrbanDictionary]
When my partner Richard and I joined the Kings of Code Hack Battle at the Next Web Europe Conference in Amsterdam last week, we knew that we wanted to make an app that would stand in stark contrast to the infamously misogynist “Tit staring app” from TechCrunch Disrupt last year. It’s about time that we change the “dude” culture of programming into a progressive group that builds apps for social change […] (more…)
November 30, 2013
One Of These Men…
Posted by franc under cults, great idiots of the world, pseudo-science, pseudo-skepticism, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: Larry Flynt, PZ Myers |[4] Comments
September 28, 2013
What Utter Toxic Bollocks
Posted by franc under cranks, cults, disinformation, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, new new atheism, nonsense, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: alex gabriel, charlatans, freethought, freethoughtblogs, toilet slaves |[16] Comments
FTB’s Godlessness In Theory – or “why you are all stupid”
Keep falling for that old, tired assumption that freefromthoughtblogs can no longer surprise me with its stupidity. This is so thoroughly gob-smacking that my bruised and battered mind refused to apprehend it fully on a first pass, probably as a self-preservation auto-response. It really makes the Prune look like a rocket scientist. I am at an absolute loss as to how a mind could become so degenerate and so immune to well documented reality. This is how a relatively new loser on the FfTB block defines Freethought, en route to earning brownie points by engaging in groupthink pissing on the latest witch of the week, Pat Condell –
‘Freethought’ has always been a left tradition – by Alex Gabriel
Objections to Freethought‘s place in our masthead are among the laziest, glibbest soundbites our critics have, but more than that display a failure to grasp even the term’s most basic history. Freethought is not ‘free thought’ or uninhibited inquiry – to think so boasts the same green literalism as thinking a Friends’ Meeting House is a shared beach hut or that Scotch pancakes contain Scotch – though even if it were, it’s silly and inane to assume one’s critics are automatons or say loose collective viewpoints mean dictatorship. Freethought is a specified tradition, European in the main, whose constituents have by and large been countercultural, radical and leftist, everything Condell and cohorts viscerally despise.
Were it posted anywhere other than FfTB, I would at first assume it was a well crafted Poe designed as flame bait. Depressingly, the cretin appears sincere.
“Freethought is not ‘free thought’ or uninhibited inquiry”
Just read that back to yourselves a few times. Savour its exquisite barnyard aroma.
It beggars belief. I have to wonder precisely what kind of education process is responsible for churning out such a brain dead parrot. Or more importantly, who is responsible for embedding this kind of rote learned tape loop in his mind. Freethoughtblogs has more in common with Pol Pot than The Enlightenement. I have vivisected precisely why FfTB is the antithesis of Freethought previously, and no more needs to be said –
Ask PZ Myers: How Is It That You Can Claim To Be A Freethinker?
It is a credit to freeze peach that imbeciles like this exist and have blogs. Dining tables, as Barney Frank would put it. But it is a two edged sword. While dingbats like Alex Gabriel provide an endless source of mirth for the few actual Freethinkers that remain, consider the poor kids out there that are making their first lunges to free themselves from religions and cults. The likelihood is that they will do so online, and there is a high probability they will stumble on FfTB. And thus have their minds poisoned by a fresh brew of snake oil that the likes of Gabriel peddle…
This is where the real damage gets done. Do your duty. Save the kids from these charlatans. If you don’t, no one else will.
August 29, 2013
Every Now And Then My Bladder Fails Me…
Posted by franc under art, great idiots of the world, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: crazy cunt lady, freethoughtblogs, ophelia benson, prunes |[9] Comments
August 15, 2013
Booze And Conferences
Posted by franc under cults, great idiots of the world, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism | Tags: alcohol, booze, freeloaders, getting shitfaced LOL, Korsakoff's syndrome, professional victims, rape inflation, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, wet brain |[14] Comments
August 14, 2013
Minutes From The House Un-Atheist Activities Committee
Posted by franc under cults, gender, great idiots of the world, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: alcohol, baboons, booze, defamation, freethoughtblogs, Jen mccreight, jenny mccarthy, Lawrence Krauss, lawyers, libel, lynch mobs, Michael Shermer, professional victims, PZ Myers, rape accusations, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, slander, Stephanie Zvan |[18] Comments
The harassment must cease, the shameless harassers must be named.
Anonymous asked: “to the people asking for evidence on these accusations: missing the point. Believe survivors.”
“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” — Douglas Adams
I admit I have been very lax in my baboonology for the bulk of this year. This is a combination of mostly having better things to do coupled with what I guess can be called cognitive RSI – the gibberish at freefromthoughtblogs and skepchick, for me, is a cumulative toxin and repeat exposure does not allow for immunisation, but rather the nausea has steadily increased to the point that it is now actually painful to see. Nevertheless, I have maintained a reasonable level of awareness of their relentless psychodramatics and 唱板板 via private channels and various news feeds.
It was the latter that pointed me to a link containing the first quote above, which leapt out from the surrounding sea of yet another pernicious, well poisoning, muckraking, pro-baboon tumblr page. The statement in itself maligns no one directly – its real repugnance lies in what it expects of the reader. It is perhaps the most succinct précis I have seen to date that represents what, ultimately, is freefromthoughtblogs’ and skepchick’s true mission statement –
“scrutinise and question everything; ‘everything’ of course, does not include us. Us you believe, always and without evidence, for we are faith based organisations. Every time you doubt anything we say, no matter how preposterous, we drown a kitten”. (more…)
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