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CONFESSIONS OF A LIBTARD SNOWFLAKE CUCK - by Mr Biffo

2/11/2017

105 Comments

 
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I am part of the PC libtard snowflake cuck brigade, apparently.

Prior to yesterday, I probably wouldn't have agreed with that assertion - indeed, when my other half heard that I'd been called a snowflake she laughed incredulously - but I've been told it so many times over the last 24 hours that I'm starting to think they're right.

Incidentally, I'm also a c@nt (censored here so you don't get blocked at work), a melt and a "salad".

So, first of all... I wrote a review of Super Mario Odyssey in which I suggested that Mario and Bowser's endless pursuit of Peach might be a little bit out of step with the times. Yes - SPOILERS - there is a twist where Peach rejects their advances, but that doesn't change Mario's motivation, or Peach's depiction up to that point, or the fact she didn't manage to break free of Bowser's clutches and go on her own adventure.

I mean, Nintendo is often compared to Disney, but when you look at the huge strides Disney has taken in recent years with its depiction of "princesses" you'll realise that there's still a fundamental difference between the two companies. 

Anyway. Because I expressed my feelings in a review, it all kicked off in the comments. Somebody on Twitter had a pop at me, outraged that I had dared to try and pass off a video game review in order to promote my "political agenda".

And then... you might've noticed that I became the focus of ire from a lot of angry men on Twitter for an entirely different reason...
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TWEETSTORM
So, here's what happened.

I woke up bleary-eyed yesterday and read a story about Jonathan Ross's annual Halloween party - an event where a lot of famous people get to dress up and hang out with other famous people and revel in a safe space where it's okay to be fabulous. It has become such a big event that the police even have to be brought in to maintain safety.

I dunno why, but it always irks me. Whatever the reality, that party always makes me a bit sad, because it looks like famous people can only hang out with other famous people, and then I think about the "ordinary" people in their lives, and then that pisses me off, because I feel they're looking down their noses at the rest of us, and are probably only in attendance to feel good about being famous and successful and fabulous enough to go to Jonathan Ross's party.

It's that whole "famous people being seen as better than the rest of us" thing which always seems to get my back up.

To be fair, I realise that says a lot more about me than them. 

Anyway, David Walliams was at this year's party. You may remember him as the star of Little Britain and the voice of Pudsey the Dog. He chose to go along dressed as Kim Jong-un, complete with funny haircut and prosthetics to give him "slitty" eyes.

You know: like a comedy character from Little Britain, a show about which Walliams' former comedy partner Matt Lucas said recently: "I wouldn’t make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I’d do now.

He also suggested it was “lazy for white people to get a laugh just by playing black characters."

With this in mind, I was slightly taken aback by Walliams' choice of fancy dress. It felt like something out of the 70s - specifically a Doctor Who adventure called The Talons of Weng-Chiang - and I knew pretty much immediately that it was going to kick off a load of outrage in the media and online. Which it did.

Consequently, I tweeted the following: "That David Walliams costume. I mean, even if HE didn't think it's racist how out of touch must he be not to know that others would?!"

The important thing to bear in mind here is that I didn't state at any point what I thought about the costume - just what I thought others might feel about it.

For the record - though it's irrelevant to this article - I thought it was potentially a bit insensitive, but to say I personally was offended would be a massive overstatement. I just thought it was a dodgy thing to dress up as - not Kim Jong-un (who, of course, is as ripe a target as any dictator) - but a Korean person, particularly if you've got a public profile, particularly with a large youth fanbase.

Which Walliams, thanks to his children's books, does.

I mean, if he was aware that it might upset people... why do that? What about the kids who've been teased in playgrounds by peers pulling their eyes back to make them "slitty" and going "Splecial flied lice"?

Anyway. The tweet was more or less ignored most of yesterday morning. And then Twitter Moments picked it up. And then The Evening Standard ran a story about Walliams' costume on their website, and plucked out my tweet as an example of the outrage.

Cue fun and games.
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STOP BREEDING
"How self involved are you that you fail to realise the probability that he did know some (like you) would be 'offended' and didn't care?"

"But who gives af.. I certainly don't.. and real people in the real world don't, only you online, media-controlled snowflakes do #thinkaboutit #snowflakes #allthesame"

"What so it was all ok when it was Little Britain, we all laughed and now it’s racist? Is racism a new thing only come along few years ago??"

"You're a good example of why white people should stop breeding."

"So its racist to dress up as someone of another race? You precious snowflake."

"Nothing wrong with it. What’s wrong with dressing up as a character from another race? Fucking crap PC brigade"

"So you think he should dress according to YOUR tastes?"

​"If a Koran dressed up as Hitler would that be racist?"

"1. You like cock. 2. You're pasty as fak. 3. You're no match of chinks. 4. You like cock. 5. You like cock."

​"It’s a costume worn by a comedian that YOU made political and social commentary you weirdo. Get a fucking life. Fight actual racism"

"It's not racist. He's not discriminating against anyone based on race. He's taking the piss out of a psycho dictator you moronic cabbage."


And so on and on and on. My favourite was one Twitter user who suggested that my tweet would somehow end my career, because employers don't like "virtue signalling". Aside from the fact I work in an industry full of libtard snowflake cucks, I remain at a loss as to how not being racist would damage anyone's career prospects - unless you were applying for a job with UKIP or the Klu Klux Klan.

There was a lot more. Sadly, I can't share it all with you, as we don't have all day, and the guy who repeatedly called me a c@nt has bravely deleted his tweets after I mentioned that I'd reported him to Twitter. Not because I was offended or hurt, but because I thought it was funny.

Still, looking at all that above, what's really weird is that I've not had this much abuse directed my way on Twitter since Pudsey The Dog The Movie - the last time I "collaborated" with David Walliams...
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THE GIF THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
In the end, I stopped replying properly to these people, and just started responding with gifs of animals pooing, primarily because it was quicker than toying with them in other ways.

Over the course of the day, a number of things became clear. Firstly, the shocking levels of grammar and punctuation on display. That's no reason to criticise somebody, admittedly (though I did) - but it's rather low-hanging fruit, and if it's evidence of a lack of education, intelligence, or whatever, then... well... that's even less reason to take the piss (though I did).

Secondly, none of them seemed to notice that I never expressed any outrage personally.

Thirdly, I was asked the same things over and over: why is it racist? Is it racist if a Korean person dresses up as Obama, or Trump, or Hitler, or, er, "Dracula"?

Lastly, they were all really, really, really angry. They wanted to hurt me - they didn't even get close to that, though I could see how it might bother someone - and the conclusion of that is that they were lashing out at the world.

For all I played with them, and enjoyed winding them up - to the degree that I didn't get any of the work done that I was meant to be doing yesterday - it really made me wonder what the hell has happened to cause so many people to overreact like that, to project onto a tweet, that didn't express any personal opinion, so much foam-flecked ire.

I mean, certainly, I can place a degree of blame at the feet of The Evening Standard. The media, even the most balanced sections of it, add weight to and amplify pretty much any outrage. My tweet had certainly been coloured by that. 

WIDER ISSUE
But there's something wider going on here - the same sort of outrage that has been exploited by people like Trump, or the pro-Brexit lobby.

It's not enough to just dismiss the people who tweeted at me as dicks; there's a fear, a terror, underlying it, and fear can be stoked into anger. I dunno whether it's a fear of losing sight of the world they thought they lived in, or wanting to return to what they perceive as a more familiar, comfortable, time and place. Maybe things were changing too quickly. Maybe they just really, really hate the lives they have now. Maybe they've got a weak sense of identity, and they feel it's being eroded. I dunno.

The grief I got on Twitter only bothered me in that I get concerned by how much anger there is out there. It's hard to take it personally when it's pretty clear that it's not about me. I'm just the empty chair they're raging at. I'm seen - to them - as part of a wider problem. 

I agree that people are too quick to get offended these days, too quick to want to be a victim, and so it ends up watering down the stories of those who are the real victims, and stoking the fury of others. But I'm no sociologist, so I dunno.

​I just know that if we don't figure out what's going on, if we don't address the underlying issues - if we just dismiss these people as ill-educated, angry, white, dickhead racists, and allow ourselves to become victims of the rage - then all the poo gifs in the world aren't going to make a difference. 

Which, ironically, is exactly the sort of thing a libtard, snowflake, cuck would say.
105 Comments
Captain Peacock
2/11/2017 09:39:46 am

Walliams was just having a laugh, like they do on Top Gear!

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The Hamster link
2/11/2017 09:52:49 am

He he he he, yellowface Jeremy!

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The Other Bloke
2/11/2017 07:15:39 pm

I’m just going to look like a vaguely disapproving and long-suffering foil, but not think too hard about how complicit I am.

Remember World War 2 and 1970s toys?

Libby Tardcuck link
2/11/2017 09:50:54 am

Thing is, you dealt with the comments (on twitter) brilliantly, as horrible as it must have been on the receiving end of such meaningless twaddle. I do wonder where the angry men, and yes, they are 99.9% men, live? OK, Kent, that's easy that one... But what they do during the day and how they generally interact with other people in a meaningful way. Probably quite ordinarily, which is actually the scary bit.

Slightly sidetracking to one side (although I'll bring this together about 2 things you've mentioned, promise!) I think Matt Lucas, who frankly doesn't seem very funny at the moment, is right that some of the characters were anachronistic even of their time. It's tricky not to throw the baby out with the bathwater though - I have a few male and female gay friends and they thought the 'David' sketches were hilarious, mainly because they all accept that no-one is beyond parody and it wasn't 'being queer' that was the joke, in any way. BUt maybe blacking up, and the way the whole thing escalated especially beyond Series 2, was a bit meh.

But one thing that Lucas did say in his interview, jarred me a little bit. The duo also made a hilarious, outstanding series called 'Rock Profile', which I believe has never been repeated and sadly the DVD version is bobbins due to having to remove all the musical content for rights reasons. Each episode parodied a certain act, from the Prodigy to Bucks Fixx to Take That. Oh, them... He stated that he would not do that again for fears of upsetting Gary Barlow... Because he'd met him since the days of obscurity and signing for his dinner on UK Play channel (Lucas's) and had felt the need to apologise every time. What? Come on, Take That are not beyond sending up, nor are the Beatles, no-one is. Which feeds back into your comments about celebrities feeling the need to socialise together, and how this can affect the spark that might have brought their talent to a wider audience.

Don't go changin' Biff's :)

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Alastair
2/11/2017 10:14:24 am

I'd forgotten about Rock Profile, looks like a lot of it is up on YouTube.

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Gary Barlow
2/11/2017 10:47:39 am

Its a disc-race don't be watching it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYN3SamCMM

Spiney O’Sullivan
2/11/2017 11:13:41 am

On a similar note, I remember reading an article by Charlie Brooker where he discussed how it was awkward to do Screen Burn now that people he’s gone after ended up meeting him at industry events. He was also starting to feel bad about the sheer vitriol he’d throw at TV people in general.

I understand the latter a bit, as it’s clear his older works weren’t those of a happy man, and I understand that he mellowed after becoming successful and happy with his life, but it was a shame to lose his voice in that field.

He could be hyperbolic, maybe overly so sometimes, but like games, the world of media needs making fun of sometimes to prevent it getting too self-important when it’s busy pretending that faux-reality shows are actual meaningful content (my TV license feels like sometimes feels like I’m burning money), all the while protecting the worst “celebrities” because the organisations are apparently seen as more important than victims (which as we’re now seeing in Hollywood, seems to be an absolute epidemic in media).

Also, while he might have been (often hilariously) cruel, as this Walliams thing proves, sometimes celebrities need a bit of a reminder that they’re not above society’s general agreements about decency just because they voiced a talking dog in a movie or whatever and are now hanging out in walled gardens with other people like them.

I understand that he’s got bigger things to focus his satirical gaze on (politics and society in general), but media is still something that needs a spotlight on it now and then.

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Mr Biffo
2/11/2017 11:21:11 am

Agreed, Spiney. I think what we're seeing post-Weinstein, post-Savile et al is just how much protection being "famous" gets you. I mean, we're all guilty of creating that environment - putting celebrities and notable figures on pedestals and rewarding them with huge amounts of money and adoration and all that is responsible for it. I think that's why I struggle with that world - it feels like a closed club, and it's only now that we're seeing the full extent of what can go on behind its doors. I've been to a few celeb-laden parties in my time, and I utterly, utterly hate them. I went to one where I learned there was a special room set aside for guests to take cocaine - complete with a guard on the door - and that was the point at which I realised that it wasn't my world. It just felt like a lot of self-congratulation, with a really nasty darkness at the heart of it.

Libby Cucktard
2/11/2017 11:59:59 am

That's very true regards Charlie Brooker, someone for whom whilst the wooden 'joy' carving besides the clock on 2018-wipe is still ironic, it doesn't quite hold the same meaning it once did...

So I was just scrolling through Twitter as you do when trying to avoid building a bookcase (into a new wall, not a nice easy IKEA type...) and noticed two of my usually sensible follows had re-tweeted this, from someone I probably wouldn't ever follow or take any interest in...

https://twitter.com/StaceySolomon/status/925725326117916672

So far, so normal; person with a very low following and 'Gooner' in the biog tweets mild distain for a celeb. Celeb reacts - and to be fair, the reaction doesn't cause me any issues - but as expected with a full retweet, not copied pictures here to make wading in harder - the unpleasant reactionary gets more than they bargained for from celebs fans, and original tweeter starts being even more unpleasant in return. No deleted account here...

Reading through, I really do wonder from my limited training (weeks not years) if the original poster probably has some sort of mental health issue (whilst remaining true to the fact that unpleasant speech and unwise decisions do not a MH diagnosis or lack of capacity make).

The celeb knows - or should know - this was the likely reaction - they hold the power here with thousands vs. tens of followers. So do they have an informal 'duty of care' based on that balance of power not to do this kind of re-tweeting?

Spiney O’Sullivan
2/11/2017 02:00:27 pm

Libby Cucktard, you make an interesting point. I’m also not a psychologist, but while many of the angry tweeters out there there are just kind of dicks, I have no doubt that a lot of them are people who at the very least have quite serious problems like depression (which can make people lash out) and feel isolated since they’re not really in a bracket that people on “the good side” seem to care about. Eventually they get mad, and surround themselves with people who do seem to share their views, experiences, and concerns, and then end up active parts of the “anti-identity politics” scene (which is sort of a form of identity politics). Of course, that sort of demographic is just waiting to be absorbed by the soft-right-wing, then maybe the harder one.

It’s sort of the same as how Trump got the American rust belt, and how Farage charmed parts of Britain he normally wouldn’t have got close enough to to spit on previously. Cries for help become yells of frustration and then howls of anger if they get (or feel) ignored for too long.

Unfortunately a lot of people are probably too far gone down the “anti-identity politics” identity politics rabbit hole to come back from it, but there’s still a real need for something positive to address where these issues start for some people rather than massive online flame wars.

Waynan The Barbarian
2/11/2017 09:51:17 am

I'm not touching this one with a 50 ft pole. I'm out.

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DEAN
2/11/2017 09:56:16 am

A 'cuck'?

Bloody hell, is that what they call people now?! It's hard to see how that's appropriate. It's just trying to be nasty, right?

But yeah, it's very macho and everything... but is it really?
Calling people names and getting all hot and bothered about a different opinion to your own strikes me as being juvenile at best. I'm all for enjoying a dialogue but not when it descends into that. The game's up!

But I see your point absolutely - why are they like that - what drives them to be so upset about it all. I believe that they're feeling shamed and are just lashing out and, I'm no expert either but perhaps this is one of the inevitable steps to endure on the way to enlightenment. They're like a wounded and terrified cat at the vet and they don't understand what's going on and how it's in their best interest.

It's brilliant how they go from zero to ten in the blink of an eye and straw man their way through any given argument to an end sum that sees them wearing plastic shoes and performing fellatio - there's a genius to it!

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combat_honey
2/11/2017 10:47:48 am

"A 'cuck'?

Bloody hell, is that what they call people now?! It's hard to see how that's appropriate. It's just trying to be nasty, right?"

The 'logic' goes that if you don't fear/hate non-white people sufficiently then you're basically inviting or 'allowing' them to sleep with white women, or more specifically, your wife or partner.

I realise that sounds insane, but that's literally what these people think. And they seem totally oblivious to the fact that the word reveals infinitely more about their neuroses and feelings of inadequacy (not to mention their bigotry) than they reveal about the person they're using it to describe.

As words go, it's top of the list of words that helpfully let you know that the person saying them isn't worth engaging with whatsoever, just ahead of 'SJW/social justice warrior', 'libtard' and 'snowflake'.

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DEAN
2/11/2017 11:15:43 am

Thanks for that - Protect your women from the invaders!
And I guess that all the assaults in Germany added a lot of fuel to that fire.

I'm half-Italian and my father grew up in the 30s/40s in Scotland. He told me that he encountered a lot of bigotry back then and yet now being a bit Italian carries no stigma whatsoever; I've certainly never encountered any.

I went to Japan a few years ago and that was an interesting experience - we did get stared at a little bit and even had groups of girls want pictures with us and in particular my son. I wasn't offended or anything but it was interesting to have been seen as a curiosity.

I even got chatted up! Been some years since that's happened and I'd have been enormously flattered if I didn't harbour the suspicion that this Japanese lass didn't just want to piss off her dad!

Confusion
2/11/2017 12:31:59 pm

'Cuck' can mean that amongst some far right circles certainly it's a fear of many such groups - but not quite the meaning as I understand it.

Cuck as many far-right study experts see it is short for 'Cuckservative'; and a term used (and misused certainly, perhaps more) to describe those who have left the far right or alt-right to become the 'alt-light' (another derogatory term) who are not so bothered about racial as cultural 'dilution'. The cuckservative parts basically refers to those groups clamouring to gain mainstream acceptance by cosying up to more moderate, mainstream and acceptable right and centre right views and political outfits.

Biscuits
2/11/2017 01:44:11 pm

'Cuck' speaks perfectly to the insecure

Stoo
2/11/2017 09:57:29 am

Some folks can be quick to be offended. But also, these days there's a lot of offense at people being offended. "how dare you react badly to that racist joke " etc. Followed by lots of snarling ranting about PC and snowflakes.

People act like having a bit of sensitivity is some sort of awful burden.

I'm not sure how they've gotten that way. I try not to assume people are bigots or villains. Is it just fear of change?

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Biscuits the character
2/11/2017 09:59:43 am

The lack of self-awareness it what makes me think it's OK to refer to internet fight dullards as stupid - they seem to not realize that they are ALSO super quick to be offended, then throw their toys out of the pram in the most vocal manner they can muster - angrily 'tweeting'. These are emotionally compromised men driven by said emotions. It's wearying that they continually deny this, opening their minds to all sorts of wacky bullshit in order to maintain their flimsy pretense of 'masculinity'.

Not that masculinity is inherently bad, or doesn't exist : there's definitely big, tough, masculine guys out there, some of them even racist. It's just Twitter warriors are about as far removed from that as possible. It's like those beta rodents at the march in America recently advocating nazi supermen...you are not in the club, guys. The fellows you are rallying for are laughing at you while you do their dogsbody work.

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Jareth Smith
2/11/2017 10:56:56 am

The hypocrisy is staggering. Right wingers are the ultimate snowflakes - the Daily Mail spends all its time complaining like crazy and in its comment sections there's an angry horde of right wingers spouting endless nonsense, all of which can be summarised as one of the following: "back in my day..." or "what's the world coming to?".

Back in my day, it were reet better to be able to be blatantly homophobic and sexist and racist. What's the world coming to?! Bloody loony lefties. All this compassion is just too confusing.

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Gordon Cuck
2/11/2017 11:58:15 am

Exactly this. I came here to make the point that these are the people who moan about people on Twitter looking for reasons to be offended, yet are infinitely worse in that same regard.

Jim Leighton (Future World Darts Champion) x
2/11/2017 10:19:01 am

I've only see the term 'cuck' used on porn sites...... that my friend visits....... ahem

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DEAN
2/11/2017 10:30:22 am

Which sites - asking for a friend...

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Bsicyuist
2/11/2017 11:16:00 am

pointybrasncigarettes.com or mywifesabounder.net...my friend says...

Chairman Mao
2/11/2017 10:43:05 am

You ain't keeping up with the lingo.

According to the latest theories from the whack jobs in social science depts at ex polys, racism and sexism is prejudice plus power.

The Princess ruler with no democratic mandate naturally has power and East Asians earn even more on average than white people do.

You cannot be racist or sexist to unelected Princesses or East Asians. Or white men.

Punching up is perfectly acceptable.

I'm working class and you are middle class so I'm allowed to call you a beta cuck.

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combat_honey
2/11/2017 10:52:52 am

This is one of the stupidest attempts at 'gotcha' logic I've ever seen.

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Mr Biffo
2/11/2017 11:01:19 am

You can call me what you like, I don't really care, though FYI I'm from a working class background. My grandads were, respectively, a chimney sweep and a postman, for pity's sake, and my family are as rough as a badger's arse.

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silly spotter
2/11/2017 11:25:24 am

I think he's being silly?

Panda
2/11/2017 10:51:56 am

People reacting to "PC-brigade" observations and complaints is nothing new but, at least online, there's a self-victimising, manufactured ideology of persecution that's becoming pandemic. I think you're spot on to say that the big political events of the last two years are reflections of groups who think their own circumstances should come close to inviting comparison with social groups who have suffered real persecution and inequality, material or otherwise. You'd think after decades or centuries of imbalance, most white/first world/male/straight people would deem it a meager redress at most to accept a bit of speaking out against the threat of regression. As far as these people are concerned, even that's unacceptable because maybe regression isn't a bad thing. Maybe we can go back to sunny afternoon tea on the lawn, enjoying the sound of leather on willow. Y'know, like we never used to, as you've written yourself.

The one thing that's actually most worrying though is what we see when these people become empowered. When society empowers women, gay people, black people, what happens to a white straight guy like me? I notice the odd change to the sort of thing that's broadcast on TV or radio and a few more complaints about celebrities saying things that I wouldn't be shocked to hear in a pub anyway. When anti-snowflakers whose apparently desperate plights (as far as they're concerned) become empowered and have their values reinforced? Well, look at what we've seen in the wake of Brexit and Trump. And gamergate.

I get it, people are suffering from a massive economic downturn and all they seem to see is a society that's so preoccupied with groups that they're not in and there's a hunger to fight back. But to have so little empathy that they think they're the only ones suffering, to the extent that they need to attack others because nobody seems to be looking out for THEM. Maybe if they're feeling the sting and that's their view of the world, their desperate plights - if they even come close to that description - aren't as out-with their control as they'd want others to think. At the very least, it's guaranteed their circumstances have largely eff-all to do with what they're acting out against.

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LOL
2/11/2017 10:59:51 am

"When society empowers women, gay people, black people, what happens to a white straight guy like me?"

Christ on a cracker, this shiitehouse argument again, right out of the angry whinger playbook, absolutely zero ability to realise the latent 'power' you do have, and have had, whilst all the while 'white straight guys' were too busy (literally) building empires.

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silly spotter
2/11/2017 11:26:21 am

I think he's being silly? The rest of his post is not supportive of such thought processes

Panda
2/11/2017 11:58:03 am

Yeah, I think you misinterpreted before you strongly reacted. The whole essence of the post is to try and rationalise where that anger is coming from. It's not my anger. I'm happy with where my life is and don't feel the need to strike out at other equal or worse off groups that I'd blame for any of my misfortunes.

Panda
2/11/2017 11:59:52 am

And besides, the rhetoric question you posted was directly answered when I follow it up with how little the group I find myself in is actually affected. But maybe you didn't read that far.

LOL
2/11/2017 12:34:39 pm

Your clumsy and confused writing is not my problem.

Badger's Conscience
2/11/2017 12:42:12 pm

True that isn't your problem, but your interpretation and response to it. Is.

Thought why I felt the need to point that out to someone called LOL, is my own failing.

Panda
2/11/2017 01:42:20 pm

Nobody else seems to have had a problem with it, so it seems it is yours.

See, this is the problem with social media. When even people on the same side of the argument can't have something resembling a classy conversation, you've got no chance when it comes to people who disagree with you.

silly spotter
2/11/2017 01:56:33 pm

This thread is an example as to why you should ALWAYS wear your silly spotter hat and badge, and be extra vigilant when keeping an eye open for silly billys on the internet.

It's not always easy - some people really do say the things silly billys say in jest ('Poe's Law')...but bear in mind the best way to deal with an infantilized insecure fellow is to treat him as a silly billy anyway - hatred will merely fuel him, wry dismissal will force him to reflect and adapt

a c adler
2/11/2017 02:08:37 pm

Oh god, unbelievable. You just completely misunderstood Panda's completely sane post, took from it what you wanted, and responded completely inappropriately. And then when you get called out, you attack again. In future, please read what is actually written before you reply.

LOL
2/11/2017 02:54:45 pm

"there's a self-victimising, manufactured ideology of persecution that's becoming pandemic."

If that opening statement is not hysterical reactionary nonsense enough, I don't know what is. The rest of it comes across as clumsily written 'hey guys, maybe the far right / racists / mysognists DO have a point, sometimes, come on, give them a chance for a fair debate, after all you hear worse down the pub, yeah guys' hand wringing nonsense.

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Spiney O’Sullivan
2/11/2017 03:13:35 pm

Isn’t that paragraph referring to the self-victimisation of the “anti-PC brigade”?

Panda
2/11/2017 05:14:19 pm

Correct. Every post LOL has made reinforces his inability to extract meaning from text. I’ve double checked and there’s nothing there that anyone else seems to have a problem understanding so that can be my only conclusion.

Spiney O'Sullivan
2/11/2017 05:22:13 pm

The only thing that might have helped is putting the "what happens to... like me?" line in quotation marks, or something like that. I think it's clear enough from context, overall, but given that LOL is clearly very passionate about the issue, you can see how they might not have given it too hard a look before posting.

Panda
2/11/2017 06:07:56 pm

It’s not the misinterpetation: I thought my response to that was pretty civil. I dont have time for people doubting down on their ass-holery when they’ve realised they messed up.

Rockabilly Girls
7/11/2017 07:03:46 pm

I think the meaning of the comment may have eluded you and might, perhaps, warrant a reread and a less absolutist and (dare I say it) reactionary stance on your part. Just a suggestion.

Jareth Smith
2/11/2017 10:52:34 am

I've spent the last six years or so challenging right wingers on sites like the Telegraph, Daily Mail etc. The large majority of right wingers online are casually unpleasant, belligerent, are only happy when they're complaining, disturbingly vacuous, or outright thick. Deindividuation, as it's known. The anonymity of the online world, plus the ability to congregate with other blockheads to spout lunacy, and they've convinced themselves they're correct.

The juvenile behaviour ("libtards" etc. - great way to immediately destroy your argument by being childish), intemperate attitude, and specious reasoning is really rather alarming. There is a consistency, at least, in their approach to everything: libtards are destroying society, along with immigration, and climate change is a hoax. Because. Right wingers don't need evidence, they just need attitude and wild rambling to convince themselves they're RIGHT!

Then you have the far right sites like Return of Kings, where it becomes apparent just how dangerous right wing anachronisms are. In addition to this, there's right wing propaganda being spread online, such as the holocaust being a hoax, and that the Nazis were left wing (one woman explained to many they were liberal as they had a couple of progressive policies such as animal welfare etc.). We're at a key point in history and right wingers are now a physical danger to the planet and the future of humanity, which is why it's so essential to challenge their stupidity at every possibility.

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a c adler
2/11/2017 02:09:49 pm

THIS !

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Joseph S
3/11/2017 02:20:27 pm

Having read Mein Kampf, there is absolutely no doubt that the National Socialists were Left wing. Hitlers Economic and Political views were distinctly leftist.

Try getting your info from the source with a tiny bit of research and not from corrupt unethical hacks at the Guardian.

Furthermore just a reminder that Marxists killed over 100 million people. Far more than the Nazi's.

There is no mainstream political party in the UK that tolerates Nazi's as its members. A member of the Tory party being found to be a Nazi would be banished in an instant.

Yet the Labour party openly have senior members who are proud to be Marxists and in the case of Diane Abbott openly justified the greatest mass murder in human history on mainstream TV.

You are dangerously ill informed.

Also don't you dare claim that these Left Wing authoritarians are "Liberal". They don't know the meaning of the word.

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PeskyFletch
3/11/2017 04:40:48 pm

Yes, superbeast, because your dad was a miner so you are more authentically liberal and educated than anyone else (although your views are actually quite conservative and i have never seen you once respond to any valid counter argument made against you). Also , logic and rationality are inherently right, unless they don't agree with you and then it is fake news blah blah blah

G Ranthon
5/11/2017 11:29:31 am

Because if you're not a Nazi and you're left-wing, you must surely be a Marxist.

Mr. Bee
2/11/2017 11:27:45 am

I don't like David Williams.

I just don't think that dressing up as a North Korean Dictator is racist.

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dennett316
2/11/2017 12:12:08 pm

You can dress up as a Korean dictator without "yellowing up" and giving yourself exaggerated slitty eyes. Kim Jong-Un has a pretty distinctive look without that.
"Blacking up", or in this case "yellowing up", is often done in order to mock the race being portrayed...or broadly stereotype them. His being a dictator is a little different, I get that, but emphasising racial characteristics isn't really needed in order to poke fun at the guy.
The example given by one of the commenters Biffo mentioned - what if a Korean dressed as Hitler - is pretty perfect really. They could dress up as Hitler easily without the need to "white up", all they'd need is the Nazi uniform and the HItler moustache, with maybe a wig. Done. Easy. Walliams could've done Kim Jung-Un without the racial element, very easily.

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Badger's Wang
2/11/2017 12:27:53 pm

If the intention is dressing up and mimicking, I don't see the issue, it's the same as dressing as dracula and doing white face paint and little beads of bloody drool down the lips, it's an accent.

I can appreciate, people being sensitive to it (not the insensitivity that was shown to Biffo) but the general outrage needs to simmer down too, there's a difference between calling something insensitive and outright racist after all.

Mr Biffo
2/11/2017 12:38:09 pm

The whole point of "whiting-up" as Dracular is because he's an undead vampire, not a white person.

Badger's Incisor
2/11/2017 12:44:09 pm

True, but that doesn't change the facts, if you're emulating something you tend to go the whole hog, I acknowledge that can be insensitive, but we're talking about Halloween dress up.

Insensitivity=/=Racism

Stoo
2/11/2017 03:05:29 pm

Not sure there's such a clear divide. There's more to racism than active hatred. Insensitivity, ignorance, lack of caring enough, can all be factors too.

JoSpanner
8/11/2017 07:02:09 pm

I'm sorry, Badger, but you can't be racist towards vampires.

Super Bad Advice
2/11/2017 03:16:43 pm

It's context, innit. Dressing up as a dictator - probably OK, though maybe not Hitler at a Bar Mitzvah etc.

White comedian dressing up as an Asian man, with all the history of black/yelllowface and the whole 'Aren't foreigners inherently funny because of how they look and sound? Hee hee!" is iffy - you'd think they'd know better.

White comedian dressing up as an Asian man with history of black.yellowface etc. at Halloween, when people traditionally DRESS AS MONSTERS? That's where it gets dodgy. Yes, he dressed as a dictator, but the line is clearly there - foreign man = monster. He could have had the monster part without the foreign part.

For the record I don't think Walliams is racist. I do think he's occasionally insensitive and/or enjoys getting a reaction though.

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Mr. Bee
2/11/2017 03:49:47 pm

Nah. You jumped the shark on this one.

PeskyFletch
3/11/2017 04:44:14 pm

Err, doesn't jumping the shark mean when a story starts including stupid , in-universe unrealistic things because they have run out of ideas? I mean, maybe i'm being thick but i don't really see how it is relevant?

Peter Kwan link
2/11/2017 11:50:07 am

I'm not offended by Paul Rose or David Walliams but the Evening Standard and its followers have a lot to answer for.

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Harry Steele
2/11/2017 11:53:51 am

Last night I chanced upon a video review of one of my favourite comics: Saga, by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples. His review of issue 48 started with him getting unspeakably angry about the cover, which depicted one of the protagonists sitting on a zebra that had rainbow stripes instead of black and white.

It just made him so angry that the zebras were 'probably gay' (his words) and every time they appeared on a panel he would again voice how much it pissed him off.

And you know what? The zebra's sexuality is never addressed, and also who cares if they were gay anyway?

I bring this all up because it's becoming increasingly clear that the internet has given everyone an equal voice but not all voices deserve to be heard. I think I may have read a similar sentiment on Digi itself, but for the longest time I have felt that the internet has been a bit of a poisoned chalice: it has of course allowed better communication between groups like the LGBTQ community but at the same time it has allowed any weirdo with anti-social sentiments to find others with the same view and thereby legitimising them.

The whole thing feels really insidious

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Badger's Crutch
2/11/2017 01:00:06 pm

Yes, like most things we touch, we've found a way to ruin freedom of information. Amazing when you thinking about, just don't on it too much or depression sets in.

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Wet Ham
2/11/2017 11:56:54 am

That Aldgate Pup, who thought he was upsetting me by comparing me to women and homsexuals, was a treat wasn't he?

What I find most depressing about these men (and they are 99% men) is that they say things like "Oh, you lifty, lebtard, snowy, cuck-cakes, are ALL the same!" as they spout exactly the same language, links, references as each other - all of which aren't even their own thoughts, but crap they've read elsewhere by people who probably don't actually believe it themselves, but get paid to disseminate it.

To be so angry and yet refuse to engage with why, seems proper odd.

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Agreed
2/11/2017 12:21:17 pm

It's one of the few things that allow you to spot them a mile off (other than usually having a UK flag in the name, 'brexit warrior' or some similar sh1te in the bio, the language, the same, consistent, playground language. Useful in a way, as soon as an otherwise normal person starts using those words, you know what you're dealing with - rarely do they come out of nowhere though, usually a 'Proud Brit who wants out of the EUSSR' somewhere in the description.

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Gordon Cuck
2/11/2017 12:03:13 pm

I wasn’t offended by it, and I consider myself lucky to be in that position. I believe the kids call it “white privilege”. If you weren’t offended, chances are that you’re basking in its warming glow, too.

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Matt W
2/11/2017 12:07:08 pm

I think a bit of a step back and some perspective maybe a good idea. If you start a Mario review and end up at Weinstein by the end of the opening section, I'd suggest you may have gone a little off the boil there!

As for Walliams, I'm a little surprised that you seem a bit more concerned about it maybe being a racist outfit than the fact he is dressed as a despicable mass murderer. I mean, if there is any outrage there, surely the first thing you think of is that he is dressed as one of the biggest despots on the planet!

I love your stuff Biffo and always read Digi, or your blog or Chatroom Freak (which some people could consider had a transphobic cover) as a bit of escapism. I can't escape news or current affairs anywhere these days and even you have succumbed to talking about it. People get offended ridiculously easily these days, I dread to think what people would make of the real Turner the worm, Dirty Dens constables or the like if they decided to go for you one day.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have an opinion Biffo, I don't think I necessarily disagree with you, but we all know this is the Internet and the dregs of society will go for virtually any opinion. My advice is to steer well clear of politics or social politics, which is generally what I tend to do across all social media. That old saying about never discuss religion or politics in company generally seems to hold true!

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Mr Biffo
2/11/2017 12:15:55 pm

Well, fair enough... but if I'm being true to who I am I can only write the way I want to write. At least on here. Certainly, this site isn't advertiser-funded, I've got no bosses - beyond the donors - and so it's a place for me to do whatever the hell I want.

I don't mind stirring the hornet's nest, because - for the most part - I know what I believe, and I'm big, ugly and sturdy enough that I can stand firm in the midst of a hurricane. It doesn't bother me if it riles people, I'm being true to myself by writing about it, so why would I want to take a step back from it?

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Mr Biffo
2/11/2017 12:18:07 pm

Plus... to be honest, the Mario review... well, I do try to come at the reviews from a sincere place, and go a bit deeper into myself (matron) than other reviewers might, because I don't just want to regurgitate the same points. And yeah, I do think the portrayal of Peach is anachronistic and regressive - though I'm not personally "offended" by it - so why would I avoid writing about it?

Profound
2/11/2017 12:24:54 pm

This. Is why I could never be a 'celebrity'. The constant calling for you to be what the consumer wants you to be, and the hurt surprise when you tell them you will always just be 'you'.

Harry Steele
2/11/2017 12:40:15 pm

Yeah blimey this is *your* blog so get to write whatever you want, surely!

a c adler
2/11/2017 02:14:31 pm

Bit late to say, maybe, but with the world as it is right now, I also felt it was incredibly out of date at the start of the game when Peach gets kidnapped again. I was playing it with my 7 year old daughter, she noticed it, I noticed it, my wife who doesn't "like" video games noticed it. I was therefore delighted when I saw you call out Nintendo for it. Come on, people, if you're not a loony, you can't fail to be moved by the horrific sexist s**t that's been coming out recently. If we want to move forward as a society, we have to take things like this more seriously. So bravo to you, Mr B, for calling it out.

mikeyc
2/11/2017 12:16:36 pm

did you not read the 15 post series Biffo did about how much he hates Kim Jong-un? it was the precursor to the "I hate the repressive North Korean regime" web series

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Badger's Arse
2/11/2017 12:24:07 pm

I 'm in agreement with a lot of this, but I think the problem mostly falls on the semantics of the rhetoric used by both sides, being white and impoverished is a bitter pill to swallow when people are constantly making grand sweeping generalisations about how lucky you are.

Likewise being from a group that's faced prejudice and sees old habits returning must be a slap in the face.

It's all much of a muchness, and it all smacks of wanting to stand on the biggest soap box because social media hyperbolises and mutates every opinion, people stand on their soap box and shout into the wind, then get more resolute and offended when the wind answers.

We lack empathy now more than ever, especially politically, someone disagrees with you, they're a beta cuck whatever, or a racist, misogynist patriarch. The amount of introspection is so abysmal I can't think of anything more ironic than trying to show you're fighting for justice whilst being an absolute bellend to everyone that disagrees.

...and I can't help blame Social media and peoples expectations of being able to live in an echo chamber for much of it. The loudest fannies get the most attention and the spiral widens. We all need a slap.

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Harry Steele
2/11/2017 12:53:56 pm

Good points there, however uncomfortable they may be to hear.

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colincidence link
2/11/2017 07:34:58 pm

https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person-shesaid/

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Patl
2/11/2017 12:27:06 pm

Growing up, if people wanted to make fun of me, they make slanty eye signs and it always upset me cause it was something I couldn’t change. I hated being chinese and always wished to be a white person. Peopl could called me anything else and I’ll be fine. When it was about slanty eyes, I got upset.

Dressing as a dictator is fine. To do it by making slanty eyes is bringing the level down. The man is not famous for his eyes. His haircut, dressed sense should have been enough.

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Mr Biffo
2/11/2017 12:36:53 pm

Yeah. I mean... I can kind of relate. As a kid I was bullied a lot because of my appearance - I had glasses, a stupid bumfluff moustache, I was lanky and awkward - and those scars are still there. They're not as prominent as they once were, and I'm secure enough these days that if people call me fat or whatever (as somebody did yesterday) that it mostly washes off me, but I'm not everyone. For other people it can still be raw and hurt a lot more. And that's why, yeah, I'm not just going to roll my eyes if David Walliams wears slanty-eye prosthetics.

As you say... nothing wrong with him dressing as a dictator. And that was the entire point yesterday that seemed to be utterly missed - deliberately or not - by the anti-PC brigade.

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Badger's Conscience
2/11/2017 12:47:08 pm

As someone that's done whilst I was young, my apologies.

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Comedian
2/11/2017 01:03:58 pm

People are often saying that PC is killing comedy. Lazy argument. To quote a great writer;

"You can tell jokes about whatever you like, only (a) make sure you don't unwittingly punch down and (b) make sure they're fucking funny.".

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Paul Morris
2/11/2017 01:12:46 pm

Is that, you are a c@nt as in constable Mr B? If so i've never met you but you don't come across as one, i say fk um

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colincidence link
2/11/2017 03:14:31 pm

That explains all the PC stuff

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Starbuck
2/11/2017 09:24:17 pm

He did get Dirty Den to say it in EastEnders after all!

Chris Wyatt
2/11/2017 01:19:11 pm

I can't read this anti-racist filth any longer. I'm out.

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Roy (Stuart N Hardy fan)
2/11/2017 01:57:47 pm

I don't do social media like twitter of facebook but good on you, Mr B.
Stick it to 'em!
As an aside, I can't stand Walliams or his little mate.
Not funny.

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a c adler
2/11/2017 02:19:31 pm

My 2 pennies - I was reading an article on a website yesterday about an airline that's weighing passengers so that they can be distributed across the plane evenly. It was interesting and uncontroversial. Yet the comments were absolutely nuts. Loads of people raving about fat people, how they should pay more, the PC brigade etc etc, foaming at the mouth nonsense. The irony was that people had clearly not read the article at all, just seen a bit of a headline, assumed it was about something else and immediately rocked up to spew their bile. I guess people of a certain ilk just spend time looking for triggers and then pounce when they find them (or don't). The hysteria, the anger, the fury. It's nuts :(

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xen
2/11/2017 02:51:20 pm

The culture/trend of extreme political correctness has given rise to its opposite. Just as those on the PC side of things are often guilty of over-reaction and unfair judgement, so are those on the anti-PC side.

I am extremely tired of all of them. I watched many anti-PC youtube videos in the earlier days of this trend, mostly because I had grown to detest the absurdity of what had come to pass as political correctness. There was a certain catharsis in knowing others felt the same way, that I wasn't the only one to disagree with the madness. But after a while I began to realise that, for a lot of these cultural commentators and their fans, being "anti-PC" had become just as much of an identity as those who were PC/SJWs etc. Many of them spend most of their time searching for examples of "PC madness" and ranting about it. Now it's all descended into the inevitable bollocks of tribalism, where opinions are formed based upon one's cultural identification rather than facts.

Political correctness has become extremely unpopular among the majority of people because the main proponents of it went too far, and Trump is just one of the results.

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Social Justice Waynekerr
2/11/2017 03:10:46 pm

Don't agree. It's like saying you didn't mind when the NF were big enough to have their own youth magazine that in itself was big enough to have ABC figures published for it (yes, read that again, the youth section *alone*, was big enough to have a dedicated, glossy magazine printed by a mainstream company and have audited distribution figures) but now there are people able to stand up and openly say 'hang on, these guy's really are racist scum' in a way they couldn't before (e.g. the internet) it is somehow a problem that has forced people to consider the alt-right and far right as desirable.

Far right populism has emerged on the scene partly due to the wilful destruction of proper employment through greed of the ruling classes, leading to less tax being paid, leading to the destruction of proper education over the last 20 years, to the extent that people are unequipped to realise that emotion-tugging memes on Facebook and the like are designed to generate a reaction by the likes of Russia and/or Nigel Farage (although recent Ecuadorian embassy trips by Nige and now seemingly unfeasably large donations by Aaron Banks rapidly suggest they are one and the same, more than was ever previously thought).

By blaming much needed reform in society for causing the return of the right is just doing their dirty work for them. It pays for those those wish to manipulate to try and keep the majority of the population dumb and angry.

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xen
2/11/2017 05:56:25 pm

I'm sure there's some truth to that, but I think for most who identify with the "alt-right" etc, the psychology is a lot more simple. There are plenty of videos of Trump supporters being asked why they voted for him, and a common answer was "there's too much political correctness". Even Trump himself uses this language.

One of the favorite topics of discussion for people in the alt-right is the mocking of PC ideas and people. The "stars" of that scene such as Milo Yiannopoulos discuss little else other than how much they despise things like feminism, and his fans lap it up. They don't talk very much about economics.

colincidence link
2/11/2017 03:18:59 pm

The culture/trend of extreme treating people with respect has given rise to its opposite. Just as those on the treating people with respect side of things are often guilty of over-reaction and unfair judgement, so are those on the anti-treating people with respect side.

I am extremely tired of all of them. I watched many anti-treating people with respect youtube videos in the earlier days of this trend, mostly because I had grown to detest the absurdity of faceted treating people with respect. There was a certain catharsis in knowing others felt the same way, that I wasn't the only one to disagree with the madness. But after a while I began to realise that, for a lot of these cultural commentators and their fans, being "anti-treating people with respect" had become just as much of an identity as those who were treating people with respect/those who advocate treating people with respect etc. Many of them spend most of their time searching for examples of "treating people with respect madness" and ranting about it. Now it's all descended into the inevitable bollocks of tribalism, where opinions are formed based upon one's cultural identification rather than facts.

Treating people with respect has become extremely unpopular among the majority of people because the main proponents of it went too far, and Trump is just one of the results.

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Nick
2/11/2017 03:56:20 pm

Ooohhhhh! I like that. I like that a lot.

xen
2/11/2017 05:41:05 pm

The fact that you can't see the flaws in the extreme side of the PC ideology just means you're too entrenched in it. There is far more to the current mode of political correctness than simply "treating people with respect." There is a trend towards policing thought and language that has very damaging effects, and it's not going to result in anything good.

colincidence link
2/11/2017 06:07:40 pm

There's Level 1 of treating people with respect, Level 2 of, like, meta-treating-people-with-respect, acknowledging subliminal prejudices, and then the occasional misguided attempt at treating people with respect that causes harm to others. I oppose this third level of course, but most opposition of what's seen as PC measures involves being blind to microaggressions and the way that historic oppression still echoes.

With your bit on "I had grown to detest the absurdity of what had come to pass as political correctness", we probably don't see it much differently. I just interpret the absurd occasions as being quite few, outlier, often hyperbolic statements made by misguided people with no position of significant influence. Opposition to perceived political correctness in online discourse is a pretty obvious red flag that the speaker is from a oppressive perspective, so if you no longer hold those views, my apologies. It's a good way to recontextualise the YouTube anti-PC zeitgeist though.

I think blaming the pursuit of equality for Trump's rise is much better phrased as crediting those who oppose the pursuit of equality, who actually made the votes. Voters who fear gay marriage, state healthcare, trans women in female bathrooms, foreigners, and anyone/thing else that challenges their sense of entitlement and superiority.

It'd be best to discuss this stuff with direct examples and that's getting a bit far from the original post so I'm cool to put the knives down.

xen
2/11/2017 08:57:21 pm

I'll give you an example of the kind of hysteria that tribalistic identification with political correctness can induce.

During the US election campaigns, there was a hashtag on twitter called "#repealthe19th". The idea behind it was that if the 19th amendment to the constitution was removed (that gave women the right to vote), then a Trump/Republican victory was assured. The idea that there were right-wingers rabidly calling for this to happen quickly took hold and it was called out as an example of horrific sexism.

Except the only reason it was trending was because so many people were speaking out AGAINST it, and using the hashtag to do so. Scrolling through thousands of such tweets, you would be hard pressed to find any that genuinely supported the idea.

So... I pointed this fact out on a site that was discussing the issue, and despite never expressing an opinion on the matter one way or the other (I only demonstrated the reason for the trending), I was immediately accused of being a sexist/racist Trump supporting nazi. They saw it as somehow defending sexist attitudes, when in reality it was nothing more than illustrating an error. In their tribalistic thinking, they were happier to believe the misrepresentation than the plain fact, because despite that plain fact not actually harming them in any way, it did nothing to bolster their tribalistic group-think mentality. I argued that believing and disseminating such non-truths actually did more to harm their position than help it, but they were having none of it.

It's this kind of uncritical jumping the gun that leads to the worst extremes of political correctness. It's this kind of mentality that leads to things like universities shutting down freedom of speech, and students protesting against speakers whom they don't even know anything about.

I agree with the fundamentals of political correctness, but I oppose the tribalistic nonsense that has arisen over the last few years in connection with it.

colincidence link
2/11/2017 03:28:20 pm

There's a lot of rhetoric of leaving your political agenda out of things, and it's often based on the assumptions that the status quo is morally correct (conservatism), and that politics are mutually exclusive to recreation/enjoyment/everything 'else' (idiocy).

Kinda everything has political implications, because politics are a macro version of everything in life. Analysing the societal implications of our media input is a responsible thing to do.

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RG
2/11/2017 03:33:46 pm

Well, I've just looked through the Twitter debacle and thought it was hilarious. Well done you!

You weren't facetious (apart from when you literally replied with faeces) and never lowered yourself to pointless bickering. You never ridiculed anybody, you just allowed them to ridicule themselves. So, yeah, brilliant! If only it was possible engineer this kind of thing more often rather than having to wait for it to happen organically...

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colincidence link
2/11/2017 03:36:51 pm

Wait, THAT's what 'facetious' means?

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RG
2/11/2017 03:50:04 pm

Probably not - it's just the way I see it.

Being facetious = being sh1tty.

RG
2/11/2017 03:53:56 pm

The word facetious comes from the French facétie for “joke,” and has come to describe a joke with a little drop of sarcasm. But I still prefer my definition.

colincidence link
2/11/2017 04:01:23 pm

Nice. I always assumed it was from the false friend of 'face' as in wearing a mask.

Nick
2/11/2017 04:43:59 pm

Blimey. It's been a busy couple 'O' days round these parts. In the spirit of probably not helping the situation at all I’m going to stick my oar in.

Point the first: I think you were spot on in the Mario review. It all feels a little bit old now and could have been changed up easily with no effect on the real mechanics of the game. Those people, who went to such great lengths yesterday to say they didn't care, and it shouldn't even have been mentioned, obviously wouldn't have cared lest they are hypocritical, the people who wanted a change would be happier and those who fundamentally misunderstand evolutionary biology would still be as hat stand crazy as ever. Winners all round.

Point the second: The costume thing is weird. I’m not on Twitter or Facebook. In fact, this site and, occasionally, the Miiverse are the only places on the internet I’ve ever laid down any incomprehensible waffling. I had seen the furore on the sidebar thingy, given the replies a bit of a read through and good grief.
For me, and I know this wasn’t the point you were making, it was a racist costume. If you’re changing the colour of your skin and adding prosthetics to get a cheap laugh there’s a fair chance you’re just a big racist. It wasn’t funny when he first did it on Little Britain and it’s not funny now. It doesn’t matter if he is the dictator, that’s not who’s going to be affronted by it. It doesn’t help that he’s a smug self-satisfied git at the best of times, but, there you go.

This was a far more thoughtful and benevolent write up then I would have managed. I think your right that this anger is so often undercut with fear for all the reasons you stated but it gives me little solace. Without getting too Yodary fear and feelings of disenfranchisement can lead to some pretty nasty things and I have no idea where we go from here.

That ended cheery.

P.S. I really enjoy the mix of the personal, videogames, absurdity and political rambling. Keep going.

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Gaijintendo
2/11/2017 09:50:23 pm

I wouldn't bemoan the grammar. If it was any better, it would be harder to spot a Troll Factory hit. They are tremendously effective, as nobody seems to consider that this is a strike, and get sidetracked with talking about the seeming talking point.
This is the modern warfare that the videogames failed to accurately predict. Imagine you cut out those aerial attack plane levels and replaced it with an office and two wide screens - points scored for replies to taunts.

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colincidence link
2/11/2017 11:17:53 pm

Troll of Duty

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Scott C
2/11/2017 10:46:29 pm

Twitter is for twats.

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James Walker link
2/11/2017 11:45:41 pm

Jesus, this is like thegaurdian comments section. Where's all the bum jokes at?

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fatbinary
3/11/2017 12:42:00 pm

You know it’s a fair bet the majority of the trolls were bots right? They look pretty real these days. Do not engage the bots.

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James Walker link
3/11/2017 11:51:43 pm

Classic bum joke! Do not engage the bots!

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