Yuuuup.
Originally shared by Brandon Blackmoor
What the whole “sexism/harassment in gaming/conventions/comic shops” looks like to me…
Someone, we’ll call them Chris, says, “We need to do something about these precipices with no railings. People keep falling — or getting pushed — over the edge, and other folks are just standing around while it happens. If you see someone on the edge of a precipice, don’t just stand there: give them a hand. And maybe put some railings around these things.”
Then a handful of people show up wearing “RailingHate” t-shirts, shouting, “This is anti-precipice liberal hate speech! Precipices are not a problem!” And they start pushing people into the chasm.
Chris is horrified, and a little confused. “Seriously? You just pushed someone over that precipice!”
But RailingHate crowd shouts, “That’s a lie! They dated a guy whose cousin worked across the street from a company that makes signs for a railing company! It’s a huge conspiracy!” And they push a couple more people over the precipice.
Chris says, “What are you doing?? Are you insane? Why are you doing that? Stop! Please stop!”
Meanwhile, the RailingHate crowd is grabbing people and tossing them into the precipice, while shouting, “There is no need for railings! No one is falling into these precipices — they just want attention! It’s all about ethics in building design!”
It’s the most weird, demented, surreal thing I have ever seen in real life.
It’s about ethics in railing placement.
The degree to which the Railinghate folks are defending the pushers while screaming truisms like “not everyone using stairs are pushers”, or hauling out the age of the pushers as if those things excuse the shoving is mind blowing. Shove-appologists?
I’d say the internet’s treatment of vulnerable groups is pretty consistent with democratic-capitalism’s treatment of the same groups.
Not convinced either democracy or capitalism have anything to do with it – vide Russia’s stance on gay marriage. It’s just a sick tail of the bell (end?) curve of humanity.
While I have nothing against this post in general, is there a reason you shared it to this community?
Accidental, actually – this community is my default for posting because G+’s UI is constantly baffling and I don’t know how I set it that way or how to change it.