The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

The rest of your post is a typical regressive left mixture of emotional nonsense and character attacks, so I will refrain from gratifying it with a response.

Well he is the expert on them.

[Capetan Mihali]

Especially funny considering I asked you to give me some kind of definition of the (emotional nonsense and character attack in which you called me) a "prototypical kind and sensitive person," but are now apparently taking the high road and pretending like your ridiculous personal insult never took place.

Everything I posted I found from interviews with and write-ups on him. I don't see anything in my post criticizing anything but his public persona. His self-publicized "nonwhite bedroom policy" is relevant in demonstrating the disconnect between his public persona as a champion of the white racialists, while he himself excludes whites from his own personal/sexual life.  "Daddy" Trump being the exception.

While you seem to have the time to repost his every word, I know you're a busy man and simply don't have enough hours in the day to defend such a loathsome, sad creature as Milo Yiannopoulous.

But what do I know?  I've been declared a member of the "regressive left," whatever that means (I thought "progressives" were the enemy just a short while ago, but I guess things change quickly in the social mediasphere you move in), without an inkling of my politics other than that I "QQ" over the Palestinians -- no emotional nonsense or character attack in that charge, none at all

Your deep-seated attachment to "Milo" (since you're on a first-name basis) makes more and more sense to me, though remaining blissfully ignorant of this clown might've served me better.

[Martinus]

Acknowledging facts - whether about oneself or others - is not hateful.

What's true in that explanation is very subjective. It also points to a person who is dissatisfied with themselves just like it would be if I were to sit around chatting about how if it had been possible to change my race, I would have done so.

But it's not like Milo goes around telling people that. He just was asked about his opinion. If anything he seems like he is everything but self-hating.

[Martinus]

The only reason I refer to him as "Milo" btw is because I can't be arsed to learn how to spell his stupid last name. Besides it's an odd attack to make given that half of the board constantly talks about "Bernie" and "Hillary".

[lustindarkness]

All this time and I thought SJW was a dyslexic WSJ (Wall Street Journal).

[Martinus]

Mono, the SJW phenomenon is difficult to understand in abstract but if you want to get a better inclination of how it looks in practice, look at the Facebook follies thread, when I posted a list of 10 "commandments" for white people to talk/act about race.

A person who came up with those would normally fit a definition of a SJW.

For me the defining elements of a SJW are:

- a cause that, in theory, is worthy and valuable (e.g. ending racism, or homophobia, or sexism)
- taken to a ridiculous extreme
- with zealous vehemence and demonisation of an opponent
- by a person who is, usually, a "clicktivist" and/or someone with too much time on their hands

[Tamas]

- a cause that, in theory, is worthy and valuable (e.g. ending racism, or homophobia, or sexism)
- taken to a ridiculous extreme
- with zealous vehemence and demonisation of an opponent
- by a person who is, usually, a "clicktivist" and/or someone with too much time on their hands

[Savonarola]

I had a three week assignment in the field (only Michigan this time.)  While it was a productive trip; it was long days, far away from my wife, in difficult conditions and with frequently frustrating work.  So I got back Saturday and we had our team meeting this morning.  Our director went through the company slide deck.  I learned that it is now our responsibility to implement trustparency between functional groups.

I want to go back to the field.   

[DGuller]

And people wonder why workplace shootings happen. 

[garbon]

Alanis Morissette has already stopped writing her advice column. That was a fairly short stint.

[Jacob]

I had a three week assignment in the field (only Michigan this time.)  While it was a productive trip; it was long days, far away from my wife, in difficult conditions and with frequently frustrating work.  So I got back Saturday and we had our team meeting this morning.  Our director went through the company slide deck.  I learned that it is now our responsibility to implement trustparency between functional groups.

I want to go back to the field.   

Trustparency?

So... that's being a parent who sets up a trust fund, right?

[Jacob]

So Martinus?

No.

Fits the definition you set out, but okay

[Valmy]

Alanis Morissette has already stopped writing her advice column. That was a fairly short stint.

Isn't it ironic?

[Jacob]

[The Minsky Moment]

A SJW is someone who presumably takes action.

A SJW is someone who is outraged about perceived oppression.

If so that's not how I've seen it used.
Where I've seen it used is in the context of people expressing indefensible opinions like women shouldn't have been allowed the vote, or X race is genetically inferior (bell curve) or "Mexicans are rapists."  And rather than defend the substance of such views, which they can't, they attack the *style* of the people who attack them.  It is a rhetorical mode that seeks to elevate obnoxious assholery into a kind of cool.