Great Battle, Wrong Field

o1181 · 2013-07-26T00:12:34+00:00

https://alastairadversaria.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/of-triggering-and-the-triggered-part-4/

Offence-taking is a tried and tested tactic by which certain movements can dismiss critics without need for engagement, and bend society to their wishes. It is enabled by society’s lack of nerve, and by a persistence and willingness to take advantage of society’s weakness on the part of those employing it. Over the last few decades it has been used extensively by the feminist and gay rights movements. While many of the positions held by these movements may be perfectly justified, they have advanced in many quarters by silencing opponents and inoculating themselves against criticism, characterizing opponents or critics and their positions as hateful or insensitive and petitioning powerful allies to close down their voices.

On account of offence-taking and outrage-making tactics, such movements have rendered society incredibly pliable to their wishes. Given the social value of appearing enlightened and sensitized to the concerns of such groups, other parties can fall over themselves to take offence on their behalf, or to pander to their professed concerns. Those opposing certain of the claims of such movements will not infrequently find themselves marginalized within respectable society, suffering great damage to their reputation, being sidelined within the academy, or removed from public office. Offence-taking and outrage-making parties do not have to win any arguments, just to claim that other parties are being ‘intolerant’, ‘prejudiced’, ‘misogynist’, ‘homophobic’, etc. Little evidence is required to support such claims. Where opposing views are still voiced, they are exposed to an extreme double standard, having to meet standards of argument and evidence considerably greater than other positions. In such a manner, public discourse becomes a closed shop.

saint2e · 2013-07-26T02:58:12+00:00

I like how the woman in the comments defends the twitter troll. She's basically making herself a rape-threat-apologist.

whiskeyjack1 · 2013-07-26T00:51:24+00:00

was this woman on drugs? first she comes with this "rape is bad, mmmkay" shit when rape isn't even the topic (false rape accusations are a crime in itself and don't have anything to do with actual rape, if a rape accusation is false, no rape happened and there is no need to talk about that) and then she proceeds to threaten the two guys with rape and later accuses one of them of being a rapist. total fucking blackout, no sane person can write stuff like that without feeling ashamed.

Title	Great Battle, Wrong Field
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Date	July 25, 2013 11:58 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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