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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]
May 1, 2015
Hitch: On The Origin Of Social Justice Warriors
Posted by franc under cults, gender feminism, identity politics, liberal, moral panic, politics, shrieking hysteria, slacktivism, social justive warriors, socialism | Tags: 60s, Christopher Hitchens |[10] Comments
This is what a cunt looks like
If your daily digest of raw information consists primarily of the illiterati blog industry – because, y’know, you’re a rebel and you know everything else is a construct of Western patriarchal hegemony, weaving lies and illusions to prop up their shaky, unjust and corrupt machinery of oppression (aka the status quo) – then no doubt you will know Christopher Hitchens was an establishment loving, warmongering fascist1.
OTOH, those that can tie their own shoelaces may beg to disagree and point out that Hitchens possessed an intellect that was in a constant state of flux2 voraciously absorbing new information and updating the old on the fly and that to brand him with any fixed ideology or belief system (not to be confused with disbelief system) was quite simply not possible. And the more attentive will also point out that there was a time when Hitch was similarly painted as a card-carrying Trotskyite activist / pamphleteer / smash-the-state revolutionary.
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…)
June 18, 2014
Live Frog Sushi And Credulous Middle-Class White Folk
Posted by franc under asia, cranks, cults, hyperreality, internet, moral panic, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, slacktivism, social sites, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: change.org, Charlie Sheen, guinea pig, Ikizukuri, live sushi, morons, vegans, viral videos |[16] Comments
Guinea Pig 8 – Barfing Vegans
SJWs being pranked? That never happens…
There is a viral video splattered everywhere you look at the moment showing what is alleged to be live frog sushi. I won’t repost it – it is vile and if you want to see it, you can find it yourself in 5 seconds on google.
Some be-birkenstocked nitwit somewhere found it (or more likely, was pointed to it by some gleeful troll), and from there a ‘net wide viral shitstorm and outraged barfing party has, of course, ensued. Countless web pages, Tweets, Tumblrs and ‘tardbook posts have spontaneously erupted, all having zero corroborating evidence or citation and tending to only be full of links to vegan propaganda… And, of course, there is the obligatory change.org petition. Because, y’know, that changes things and stuff. Just sign it and you can sit back smugly satisfied that you have worked for your cause and begin fishing for the next bit of bait to be outraged about. (more…)
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…)
May 15, 2013
Fucking Andrea Dworkin (1994)
Posted by franc under censorship, cranks, cults, culture, gender, history, internet, media, misandry, moral panic, nonsense, politics, propaganda, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Andrea Dworkin, Catharine Mackinnon, Christina Hoff Sommers, date rape, fear, gender feminism, Jeffrey Dahmer, Katie Roiphe, loathing, Lorena Bobbitt, Porn Wars |[14] Comments
There are no good pics… [image from Sydney Morning Herald]
The time was 1994 and, downunder at least, it was when the last great wave of gender feminist lunacy was peaking before sanity once more prevailed and it disappeared back up its own asshole to hibernate for a decade or so.
Reclaim the Night rallies were still drawing enough numbers to embolden some to splash porn stores with red paint and the great fear-n-loathing du jour was date rape…
The mood of the time, and the surreal deformation of conventional reality that accompanied it, was captured quite creepily in this passage from Christina Hoff Sommers in Who Stole Feminism? – (more…)
March 22, 2013
Donglegate
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, information technology, internet, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, populism, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, social sites, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: adria richards, I'mBlackFemaleAndEntitled, lynch mobs, McCarthyism, PyCon, Rebecca Watson, SendGrid, skepchick |[15] Comments
Adria, could you please explain what the t-shirt means?
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Not a lot I can say about this that hasn’t been said elsewhere, and frankly, it’s not my horse race anyway. Yet another example of gender fem-bot Jacobinism rearing it’s ugly head – the godless and the gamers are far from the only ones under siege. I’ll leave the concise summary to ArsTechnica –
“Donglegate” is classic overreaction—and everyone pays
Adria Richard’s (her site looks like it’s currently being DDoS’ed) version –
Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences
I would have let this idiocy slide and left it to the propeller heads but for one item in the commentary on Richard’s piece – (more…)
February 14, 2013
The Thought Terminating Cliche
Posted by franc under cranks, cults, disinformation, fascism, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, nonsense, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: 1984, atheismplus, brainwashing, charlatans, dogma, frauds, freethoughtblogs, gender feminism, Maoism, orwell, personality cults, skepchick, Stalinism, Stasi, thought control |[8] Comments
Cesspit of lies link
I’m going to pull an Ophelia Benson and just do a block text dump, add a line or two and pretend I’m a huge intellectual.
Loading the Language
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliche. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis. In thought reform, for instance, the phrase “bourgeois mentality” is used to encompass and critically dismiss ordinarily troublesome concerns like the quest for individual expression, the exploration of alternative ideas, and the search for perspective and balance in political judgments. And in addition to their function as interpretive shortcuts, these cliches become what Richard Weaver has called “ultimate terms”: either “god terms,” representative of ultimate good; or “devil terms,” representative of ultimate evil. In thought reform, “progress,” “progressive,” “liberation,” “proletarian standpoints” and “the dialectic of history” fall into the former category; “capitalist,” “imperialist,” “exploiting classes,” and “bourgeois” (mentality, liberalism, morality, superstition, greed) of course fall into the latter. Totalist language, then, is repetitiously centered on all-encompassing jargon, prematurely abstract, highly categorical, relentlessly judging, and to anyone but its most devoted advocate, deadly dull: in Lionel Trilling’s phrase, “the language of nonthought.” (more…)
grey lining 