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p.s. don’t go to the comments section. It’s always a cesspit of smug lefty smartassery.

A fascinating read. I guess that I am Red Team and reactionary. I have little time and patience for Social Justice Warriors, and used to engage them whenever I encountered them and their shallow and poorly thought-through enthusiasms. However, I must concede that I have been driven off Reddit and Kinja by them. One wearies of the fight eventually, and surrenders into silence. How can you battle intellectually with attackers who dismiss your comments as “derp, derp, a derp”? There is nothing to discuss with such people, and they are legion. Eventually, one lapses into silence, and avoids further battles, leaving them holding the field unopposed no matter how ignorant their points and perhaps especially so.

I am comfortably retired now, and have no children. The United States will not lapse into defacto Socialistic Totaliarianism before my death nor will (however unlikely) the oceans boil from the dreaded climate change. How much discomfort am I willing to bear for my beliefs? Still I must admit that during my working career, I learned the hard way that just nodding and going along served me poorly. I always ultimately did better by standing up and fighting the stupid bastards, no matter the short term cost.

So, I have no desire to mount my weary charger, and take the field any more, but am afraid of the consequences of abstaining from the fight.

We’ve talked about this a lot lately, Some Veg. We have a neighbor who turns up at social functions and is a boilerplate lefty. She has become more and more strident lately — it’s tempting to think she believes ‘her side’ is at risk at the moment. Everyone else just clams up when she gets going. Honestly, there is no point arguing; nothing good happens. It’s just unpleasant for everyone.

But they are so smugly sure they’re right. They are as certain of salvation as any Victorian maiden auntie, and as unshy about promoting their point of view. No, worse — they think they are doing the whole world a service by shouting down wrongthink.

I know more than one person like this. I’m getting very tired of it.

Ditto what Some Veg said, sans the comfortable retirement and no children part. I don’t have the energy to tilt with idiots any more, I just do not. Too many idiots, not enough blood pressure drugs.

Stoaty, I have people in my life like that too, and they have the same effect on social situations as you describe. Of late, however, right-minded friends have shut them down before they even get started by preempting their tirades with pithy comments, leaving them with nothing to say that hasn’t already been found ridiculous. They can only sit there glowering impotently.

It can be vastly entertaining. 😉

What this all comes down to is that Anonymous and the gamer community was not conspicuously and reliably leftist enough and this is the lefty activist effort to take it over. They recognize a lot of power and cultural influence out of their control and the left can’t let that abide.

I dunno, my reaction to that statue is more along the lines of “THEY’RE HEEEEEEERE!!”

Too many SF movies, probably.

I am utterly sick & tired of the ‘Guardian’ columnists declaring that ‘women find being online intimidating’.

What sort of woman is intimidated by griefers, FFS?

Hey, nice arrows.

Do they come in gray?