Someone on the BoingBoing subreddit in one of the threads about the ridiculous moderation at BoingBoing’s BBS said they got a lifetime ban for calling another poster crazy (after the other poster suggested they should be raped).
I mean…when we have purity ponies like this running some of the more powerful/prominent corners of the 'net, it’s like the left doesn’t want to ever win any elections. Granted, BoingBoing has probably fallen very far in its reach in recent years, but still. It’s not like this insular circle jerk/circular firing squad mentality has disappeared. If anything, this type of leftist seems to be some of the most vocal and some of the very first types someone is likely to run across on the 'net (would not be surprised if commercial sites don’t push this kind of content intentionally and contrast it with red-pill stuff from the brosphere at the same time).
Some on the left are only left to enjoy the sense of smug superiority. Not that there aren’t idealists or folks with niche passions like that, but they are out there. Just as surely as there are minorities (or at least folks cosplaying as minorities) who attack allies as not being good enough to drive a wedge between minorities and their allies.
I would not be surprised if some number of online “leftists” are just cosplaying their entire persona, and some of them are paid actors.
I mean, if you go into some corners like BoingBoing’s BBS before it was shut down, you might get the impression that the only leftists worthy of being platformed and heard from were ticking multiple Oppression Olympics checkboxes. Anyone that differed with this set on even minor points were to be silenced, possibly banned, and then ridiculed. You know, for things like not “checking their privilege”.
People used to joke about things like Communist “struggle sessions” and how absurdist they sounded. These struggle sessions are only online right now, and I think a lot of it is artifice of trolls/bots/paid actors and/or people blowing themselves up into something more important than they really are - the power of moderation really went to their heads, probably. But if a casual Democratic voter runs across that? Or the normies/low-info? They are going to think that all the crazy stuff Rush and Faux and Bullshit Mountain has been saying about the left is right…
Someone on the BoingBoing subreddit in one of the threads about the ridiculous moderation at BoingBoing’s BBS said they got a lifetime ban for calling another poster crazy (after the other poster suggested they should be raped).
I mean…when we have purity ponies like this running some of the more powerful/prominent corners of the 'net, it’s like the left doesn’t want to ever win any elections. Granted, BoingBoing has probably fallen very far in its reach in recent years, but still. It’s not like this insular circle jerk/circular firing squad mentality has disappeared. If anything, this type of leftist seems to be some of the most vocal and some of the very first types someone is likely to run across on the 'net (would not be surprised if commercial sites don’t push this kind of content intentionally and contrast it with red-pill stuff from the brosphere at the same time).
Some on the left are only left to enjoy the sense of smug superiority. Not that there aren’t idealists or folks with niche passions like that, but they are out there. Just as surely as there are minorities (or at least folks cosplaying as minorities) who attack allies as not being good enough to drive a wedge between minorities and their allies.
I would not be surprised if some number of online “leftists” are just cosplaying their entire persona, and some of them are paid actors.
I mean, if you go into some corners like BoingBoing’s BBS before it was shut down, you might get the impression that the only leftists worthy of being platformed and heard from were ticking multiple Oppression Olympics checkboxes. Anyone that differed with this set on even minor points were to be silenced, possibly banned, and then ridiculed. You know, for things like not “checking their privilege”.
People used to joke about things like Communist “struggle sessions” and how absurdist they sounded. These struggle sessions are only online right now, and I think a lot of it is artifice of trolls/bots/paid actors and/or people blowing themselves up into something more important than they really are - the power of moderation really went to their heads, probably. But if a casual Democratic voter runs across that? Or the normies/low-info? They are going to think that all the crazy stuff Rush and Faux and Bullshit Mountain has been saying about the left is right…