Hypocrisy of The Left - part 2

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I think the extreme left is influencing the greater left through universities where a lot of professors teach Marxist ideologies. https://www.academia.org/self-ident...utnumber-conservatives-as-college-professors/

Two things have worried me recently; the extreme left is ignoring nuance/context in order to label people negatively and the increased justification for violence. (black lives matter riots which eventuted in the killing of 5 police officers, the inauguration day and Berkeley riots)

I'll use the example of Muslims, aggressive and insulting behavior towards them conditions them to be radicalized easier. Now I'd say the same is true of conservatives. In the process of labeling them Nazi's and then causing violence towards them, will radicalize them and solidify racist and bigoted ideas. After all people are mostly influenced by their personally experiences.
Do you think the ultimate aim is violence for its own sake ?
 

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Mate - this is such bullshit - apply Occam's Razor - he is rich and famous for getting reactions. he had to keep stepping over the line. I know what you are going to say about a guardian article but this is actually good journalism: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...se-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech
Article is just another hit piece to try and bury Yiannopoulos even further
What about the others I mentioned
Is Pewdiepie a nazi?
The Wall Street Journal has branded him as one.Costing him millions
The others I posted are being targeted for wrong speak.
 

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This isn't really relating to any specific topic, but is anyone else just burnt out by the last 5 years of politics? Debating right wingers or left wingers, on any issue doesn't matter. Spending time to make careful distinctions in your arguments only for them to be ignored again taken out of context despite your efforts... I just now think we are way too focused on things that humanity should not be so concerned about for another 50 or 100 years. We have actual, real problems that need solving first before we talk about these issues like pronouns and safe spaces and milo whoeverthe****...sorry for rant
 

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Article is just another hit piece to try and bury Yiannopoulos even further
What about the others I mentioned
Is Pewdiepie a nazi?
The Wall Street Journal has branded him as one.Costing him millions
The others I posted are being targeted for wrong speak.
The only one with anything interesting and subtle to say is Blaire White - don't know why she is always lumped in with the other fookwits - they don't deserve their fame. It funny how the RWNJ always rabbit on about the tribalism of the left but the right reflexively defend the indefensible as long as these "controversialists" are pitilessly attacking the right people - ie the poor, coloured people, women, trannies etc etc - WHITE POWER

He's the master of his own demise but that is unacceptable - its got to be a vast left wing conspiracy funded by Soros. As someone amusingly said on twitter MILOs career is so ****** now he will be offered a commentator position on SkyNews
 

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This isn't really relating to any specific topic, but is anyone else just burnt out by the last 5 years of politics? Debating right wingers or left wingers, on any issue doesn't matter. Spending time to make careful distinctions in your arguments only for them to be ignored again taken out of context despite your efforts... I just now think we are way too focused on things that humanity should not be so concerned about for another 50 or 100 years. We have actual, real problems that need solving first before we talk about these issues like pronouns and safe spaces and milo whoeverthe****...sorry for rant
I agree - unfortunately its the confluence of politics, celebrity and the new media. MILO is a classic example - creates a career out of trolling and then gets invited to address CPAC - where are we?
 

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Article is just another hit piece to try and bury Yiannopoulos even further
What about the others I mentioned
Is Pewdiepie a nazi?
The Wall Street Journal has branded him as one.Costing him millions
The others I posted are being targeted for wrong speak.
Lol! In his own words, he believes in nothing!

He has convinced you that he is persecuted. Amazing.
 

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The only one with anything interesting and subtle to say is Blaire White - don't know why she is always lumped in with the other fookwits - they don't deserve their fame. It funny how the RWNJ always rabbit on about the tribalism of the left but the right reflexively defend the indefensible as long as these "controversialists" are pitilessly attacking the right people - ie the poor, coloured people, women, trannies etc etc - WHITE POWER

He's the master of his own demise but that is unacceptable - its got to be a vast left wing conspiracy funded by Soros. As someone amusingly said on twitter MILOs career is so ****** now he will be offered a commentator position on SkyNews
Nice rant
Amazing how the RNC establishment bought Milo down
But the left are happily dog piling on
So you think Pewdiepie is a nazi?
 

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Nice rant
Amazing how the RNC establishment bought Milo down
But the left are happily dog piling on
So you think Pewdiepie is a nazi?
I try not to read these people - one because their shtick is degenerate name calling and to use word you probably use - I don't want to be "triggered" - there is a saying "if you live by the sword you die by the sword"

Can I ask you - who is the "Republican Establishment" and what does a blogger who spends their time vilifying people add to the world

This is what Andew Sullivan a gay, Catholic conservative (he did his PhD on Oakeshott at Oxford - out of MILO's league) has to say about your hero:
"Think of it in some way as reactionary camp. Think Ingraham and Coulter and Yiannopoulos. They are reactionaries in the classic sense: Their performance-art politics are almost entirely a reaction to the suffocating leftism that they had to endure as they rose through the American education system. As a young, lonely conservative in college, I now wince at recalling, I threw a Champagne party to welcome Reagan’s cruise missiles to Britain. Of course I knew better — and could have made a decent argument for deterrence instead of behaving like a brattish dick. But I didn’t. I wanted to annoy and disrupt the smugness around me. If you never mature, this pose can soon become your actual personality — especially when you realize that it can also be extremely lucrative in the conservative-media industrial complex. I think of Ann Coulter, whom I met recently, backstage at Bill Maher’s show. What struck me was her sincerity, searing intelligence, and grasp of the facts. In another universe, she could have become a reasoned defender of a sane conservatism. Instead she ended up writing In Trump We Trust. In exactly the same way, Miller really is a product of Santa Monica and Duke — their living, breathing, raving antibody."

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So you think Pewdiepie is a nazi?
Given the age bracket of kids who watch him, I'd say I will be checking more carefully than usual what my kids are watching on YouTube and check the parental controls are properly set.

Even if he is joking or mocking, it is pretty ordinary. He even admits he was being offensive. Even that is imprecise: offensive to whom?

Some of the things my 12 year old and his mates say to each other to get a rise are quite bad and I pull him up when I hear them, but also I know he doesn't actually believe any of it.

http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right

Kjellberg is using Nazi imagery in this video to mock what he seems to believe are histrionic online reactions to his persona. He often uses Nazi imagery to represent something he views as exaggerated and hyperbolic — usually a reaction to himself — and then claims his use of the imagery is satirical. Of course, this has the side effect of turning Nazism into a cheap joke; by routinely comparing himself, a vlogger followed by millions, to Hitler, he’s normalizing Nazi ideology.

And because his more obviously anti-Semitic jokes are delivered indirectly — by Fiverr freelancers, for example — they are likewise full of plausible deniability. Kjellberg has protested the response to his “Death to Jews” video, for example, claiming in a February 12 Tumblr post that he was trying to show “how crazy the modern world is” by paying the freelancers to do something that seemed, to him, to be completely “absurd.” (The two Indian freelancers he hired later apologized, claiming they didn’t know what the message of their sign meant in English.)

“Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive,” Kjellberg wrote.​
 

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I try not to read these people - one because their shtick is degenerate name calling and to use word you probably use - I don't want to be "triggered" - there is a saying "if you live by the sword you die by the sword"

Can I ask you - who is the "Republican Establishment" and what does a blogger who spends their time vilifying people add to the world

This is what Andew Sullivan a gay, Catholic conservative (he did his PhD on Oakeshott at Oxford - out of MILO's league) has to say about your hero:
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Not a hero
I enjoyed how he would turn arrogant smug holier than thou types into raving lunatics
Very much a lightening rod for the violent intolerant gutless thugs that came to silence him
They couldn't,but a year old interview carefully edited did

As for the others,as the WSJ etc work their way through youtubes top subscribed list,they will find more nazis.
Awesome click bait using a headline about those with 50 million(growing daily) subscribers labeling them nazis
Very lucrative for a failing media outlet that is dwarfed by the likes of Pewdiepie and Jacksepticeye
 

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Given the age bracket of kids who watch him, I'd say I will be checking more carefully than usual what my kids are watching on YouTube and check the parental controls are properly set.

Even if he is joking or mocking, it is pretty ordinary. He even admits he was being offensive. Even that is imprecise: offensive to whom?

Some of the things my 12 year old and his mates say to each other to get a rise are quite bad and I pull him up when I hear them, but also I know he doesn't actually believe any of it.
So you will be banning anyone that is according to Vox is a nazi
 

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Not a hero
I enjoyed how he would turn arrogant smug holier than thou types into raving lunatics
Very much a lightening rod for the violent intolerant gutless thugs that came to silence him
They couldn't,but a year old interview carefully edited did

As for the others,as the WSJ etc work their way through youtubes top subscribed list,they will find more nazis.
Awesome click bait using a headline about those with 50 million(growing daily) subscribers labeling them nazis
Very lucrative for a failing media outlet that is dwarfed by the likes of Pewdiepie and Jacksepticeye
So who do you say is responsible - I don't get it?
 

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I remember the Chasers did a skit where they gave a free car without a right blinker, so the driver had to give way with their right arm.

They are now also on the official Bigfooty nazi list.
So I don't want my primary school child to watch blunt, unsophisticated Nazi jokes. What sane parent wouldn't feel that way?
 
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