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7 years ago
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OK, folks. This one's been building for the better part of 3 - 4 years' time. Never reached a peak until recently. Here's the deal.
I respect everyone's rights and options to be as they are, I well and truly do. I've never ever said anything bad or actually disparaging about any religion, race, creed, belief set, group, etc. This, however, has never stopped me from making jokes and such about them. I just do, because as I was raised, there was such a thing as being too sensitive.
That time, I have slowly but surely, has long since come to an end. Now, it's not enough to be offended or bothered for ones' self, but now it must be that YOU are offended for everyone else, too, at slights they may or may not take offense to, so you can all be offended together, in this strange show of odd solidarity. It's become insufficient for it simply to be known that you support someone, now it must be hung on the sleeve for all to see and all the gods above forbid that you don't SHOW it in a timely manner.
This tendency, ranging in subject matter from soup to nuts, has made it so it is considered (and I apologize for this term, yes I do, but the connotations are EXACTLY right) "bad groupthink" to not have these responses. It's reached the point where the idea of a "safe place" means no-one can REALLY speak, all humor must be vetted by committee or is wrong, and speaking ones' mind, even worded as politely as possible has become an open and active threat to those around.
Over the last five years or so I've felt like, with more and more people, I need to walk on eggshells. I need to watch every word, look it over for hidden (and especially unintended) meanings, that they must be delivered with near-surgical precision, and the topics to be avoided grows wider and wider and wider with each passing day. I fear sending my friends into uncontrollable, unreasoning funks, I fear sending others into places so dark they can't pull themselves up out of them even with help, all for what, to me, is a completely innocent comment or statement.
It's become not enough for those around me to know I hold no hate or prejudice in my heart, and it's become insufficient to show it. I have reached the point where, simply, I feel it is unsafe, for me and for others, to deal with my rather antiquated sense of humor, because there's nothing I can do to convince folk it's NOT meant offensively.
I cannot and will not force others to feel unsafe, and I myself don't want to have to feel like I'm living in a place where the thought police are right around the corner to punish me for wrongthink.
I'm done. Plain and simple, I'm done. It's beyond my patience and creativity to deal with it.
Be well, folks. Be well. Ciao.
I respect everyone's rights and options to be as they are, I well and truly do. I've never ever said anything bad or actually disparaging about any religion, race, creed, belief set, group, etc. This, however, has never stopped me from making jokes and such about them. I just do, because as I was raised, there was such a thing as being too sensitive.
That time, I have slowly but surely, has long since come to an end. Now, it's not enough to be offended or bothered for ones' self, but now it must be that YOU are offended for everyone else, too, at slights they may or may not take offense to, so you can all be offended together, in this strange show of odd solidarity. It's become insufficient for it simply to be known that you support someone, now it must be hung on the sleeve for all to see and all the gods above forbid that you don't SHOW it in a timely manner.
This tendency, ranging in subject matter from soup to nuts, has made it so it is considered (and I apologize for this term, yes I do, but the connotations are EXACTLY right) "bad groupthink" to not have these responses. It's reached the point where the idea of a "safe place" means no-one can REALLY speak, all humor must be vetted by committee or is wrong, and speaking ones' mind, even worded as politely as possible has become an open and active threat to those around.
Over the last five years or so I've felt like, with more and more people, I need to walk on eggshells. I need to watch every word, look it over for hidden (and especially unintended) meanings, that they must be delivered with near-surgical precision, and the topics to be avoided grows wider and wider and wider with each passing day. I fear sending my friends into uncontrollable, unreasoning funks, I fear sending others into places so dark they can't pull themselves up out of them even with help, all for what, to me, is a completely innocent comment or statement.
It's become not enough for those around me to know I hold no hate or prejudice in my heart, and it's become insufficient to show it. I have reached the point where, simply, I feel it is unsafe, for me and for others, to deal with my rather antiquated sense of humor, because there's nothing I can do to convince folk it's NOT meant offensively.
I cannot and will not force others to feel unsafe, and I myself don't want to have to feel like I'm living in a place where the thought police are right around the corner to punish me for wrongthink.
I'm done. Plain and simple, I'm done. It's beyond my patience and creativity to deal with it.
Be well, folks. Be well. Ciao.
I can't easily just let them go, and don't at the same time want to deal with the consequences, which, more and more as time goes on, have lasting real-world repercussions.
It's only going to get worse from here on out.
The whole safe space thing is absurd. People are getting so coddled that they can't deal with anything anymore. I think maybe in part, it's a method used to silence any criticism over their own bad behavior, in some cases.
People just need to grow up and deal with it. The world is not perfect, and people don't have to be as fragile as they think they are.
This whole thing reminds me of the Mouse Utopia Experiment. People have so little worries and challenges in their lives, that the whole civilization collapses. They stop having babies; they stop interacting with each other; and eventually they all died out.
I tell you this, Mika, I don't need no damn safe space. I never had one, and in the current state of things, I wouldn't be allowed one, even if I wanted.
The ideas, indeed the very concept of contextualization has been thrown out the window. Not just a little, but with rockets to give it flight (and warheads to detonate it at a safe distance). Everything gets torn away from concept, reduced to dangerous keywords, and thus, regardless of the context, must be reviled because it contains word X.
It's not possible to fight that, it's not possible to help folks out of near-suicidal funks, and it's impossible to add logic into it because by asking for it to be analyzed it threatens the community solidarity involved.
I have no creative, intelligent solution, and thus, it's smarter for me to disengage and retreat, whilst I have my sanity and my ability to still reason.
I'll be around, dear heart, just far far less active, and equally far less interactive.
It is sad, however, seeing your friends give in and submit to this terrible belief system.
While none of mine have flagellated themselves, they have, however, been the ones flogging me.
They've unfriended, and blocked me on the spot; no discussion, beyond the "have a nice life" phrase.
I don't know how to solve the problem, outside of completely eradicating all of the propaganda, and indoctrination in schools, and online.
We need something else on our minds; yet I dare not suggest the severity it would take to get over it.
I doubt mass electro-shock therapy is an option.
The only other option I can think of is to keep reassuring your friends, and remind them that they don't have to be that way, and that they're not horrible people.
It's the indoctrination and propaganda that are poisoning their minds.They were swayed once; I have to have hope that they can be swayed back.
However, I can't remember if it was Hungary, Poland, or Austria, or some place around there in the EU that still has their sanity, but one of them is doing away with a huge chunk of the humanities fields in colleges. That's the breeding ground for these Marxists ideologies to fester. It's the best way to stop the indoctrinization of kids into it. In other countries, I suggest suggesting trade schools and after-educations in STEM fields instead of the current colleges.
Mike Rowe WORKS does sponsorship programs too to help with such things :)
Yes, the PC culture of the 90's rose it's uncomfortable head back from the deep waters we shoved it into til the bubbles stopped. It's dangerous, but it's already falling apart, even if it's getting worse before it's getting better.
Unfortunately there's no real way to overpower it as the people that believe in the Authoritarian doctrines to substantiate these motives are typically also the ones aligned in the media to actively censor people; Jack Darcy of Twitter, Zuckerberg of Facebook, the majority of university activists. Screeching about love and compassion as they swing bike locks and throw Molotov cocktails in the guise of care for the oppressed.
Judging by your stance on these things, I would suggest checking out The Asian Capitalists, Sargon of Akkad, Black Pigeon Speaks, Jordan B Peterson, David Rubin.. all pretty good speakers (or at least having the right people on to talk about it honestly) pod casters. :)
I just advise to always stick being you, don't let them get you down, try not to let Tribalism get into the way of your moral convictions, and preach individual sovereignty over collectivist witch-hunting. Liberty will prevail :)