No, I'm not going to tell you that the movement isn't racist. It is. Oh god, it is.
Truly, though, this article is one of the quickest ways to ensure nobody takes a word that you say seriously. In case you wanted to be taken seriously.
Edit: If you've never seen the video that screenshot of the boy with Trump was taken from, it's a chilling insight into the influence of celebrity on (at least some of) today's youth. And maybe memes, that kid is young enough to have probably gotten it from Pepe. Earregardless, the kids' behavior at their White House visit is allowed to devolve into a very strange screaming event, it gives some commentary on the teachers and parents that were present.
Edit2: Can you hijack a handsign tho? Maybe they're actually trying.
I'm kinda stirring the pot, here, sorry, but I do think I've gotta draw a line in the sand with some of the accusations that seem to be gaining traction. I'm claiming that there is a shitty method to my shitposting. Guess the burden of proof lies on me. Edit: and also, obviously, nobody on the 'ski is saying anything like what's in the article, but my Yahoo avatar is just too embarrassing to enter into the deep discussions taking place in their comments sections. Sometimes, I come here to make sure that I'm not crazy. No lie.
Rare Pepe #0921, comments section, thehill.com | 2017, Trump's First 100 Days Rally 18-29-38-12-13"
Here, an alt-text style pixel art approach was invoked, very popular at the time, as it managed to catch the eyes of many scrolling idly by. The artist had chosen this week to debut what may first appear as an especially sad Pepe. This was but another ruse, undoubtedly. The author noted in several lines of comments tacked onto the end of their MD5 hashes that the "...apparent sadness is but an expression of overwhelming awe and appreciation for just how great we've been made, again. Spending more time with this Pepe will reveal powerful things to you about yourself. CAUTION: This type of content could spark an alt-YOU movement; so have your fun with it, especially if you're the Pisces of the bunch (and you'll know why!).
It is an old 4Chan joke. To explain it would take about an hour, but the central core is that a significant portion of 4Chan users have some form of autism. It's been weaponized to attack Shia LeBeof, to attack Scientology, to find ISIS camps. It has also been used to mess with people and ruin innocent (well kinda innocent) people. "Peak Autism" is a self-effacing joke at the expense of the person speaking. The term is usually used in reference to someone with no social awareness who does not get a joke or obvious sarcasm. Example? What do you call a group of Autistic adults sitting around a table? Engineers.
It didn't start on 4chan. Self-diagnosing as autistic was a nerd fad for a while after Brahm Cohen, the guy who wrote bittorrent, started talking about his autism. Autism jokes were a reaction to everyone deciding they were autistic, and mostly at the expensive of people who weren't really autistic. 4chan kept them going long after the fad died because endlessly repeating things that were a little bit funny in 2004 is what it does.
Well, that's just retarded. (that was a joke; don't fling daggers my way) Shit's fucked when you get to call stupidity "autism" and get away with it. It's not Alexandria's disease: it's a real human condition that most people misunderstand rather harshly.It is an old 4Chan joke.
This is the modus operandi of 4chan: a safe space for people to converse under an alternate set of social mores. Fans of 4chan argue that this is a vital function in an overly restrictive, alienating environment; detractors of 4chan argue that this function normalizes inappropriate behavior outside of 4chan. hint: the detractors are correctShit's fucked when you get to call stupidity "autism" and get away with it.
Do you know what "food for thought" means? It means "here is a thought-provoking idea that may cause you to reflect upon its mysteries." "mongoloid" meant "downs syndrome" for a hundred years. For a hundred years before that it meant "asian." "idiot" used to mean "disabled" too so I ask you - why does any of this matter? Here's your food for thought: Autism didn't hit clinical acceptance until 1980 so by the time people were being called "autistic" (correctly) the term "mongoloid" had been taboo for over 20 years. And somewhere in there, you're making a point to defend 4chan? I think? Because they're somehow innovatively offensive with their slurs so leave Britney alone or some shit? I grew up surrounded by Indian land, passing Bureau of Indian Affairs trucks, during the rise of Indian casinos and when I moved from New Mexico to Washington people got all hot'n'bothered that I used the term "Indian" instead of "Native American" because up here? They're Native Americans, not Indians. So what did I do? I started referring to Native Americans. Except when I'm in Canada, where they're First Nations. It's rare that the whole world is wrong except you, and it's rare that you can't make things a little better for everybody by trying on their terminology. 4chan? They're actively trying to turn harmless words into offensive ones - kinda like how PePe is now a nazi. And I wouldn't be jumping down your throat other than the fact that apparently, you approve of the process.
Approve doesn't enter into it. Language changes and evolves over time. This is usually an inoffensive process. Clinical jargon regarding mental illness of various kinds gets hijacked and used for slurs. Any word can be offensive, if said with offensive intent. We should aspire to be harder to offend. More capable of seeing that the intent is just to cause offense for offense sake and not take it. In this example, someone on an anonymous imageboard said 'This thing that was previously inoffensive is now racist and offensive' and the meme propagated. If people don't respond to it, it dies.
I don't wanna jump into this mudpit but "we should aspire to be harder to offend" sounds like the rallying cry of a group of people who've enjoyed the benefit of generally not having a bunch of bad shit dumped on them. I don't particularly think we should try to be more offended, but not responding to shitty behavior is its own sort of poison. We're beyond an age (if ever there was one) where you can just ignore it 'till it goes away. Think it's more constructive to aspire to be as decent a people as we can. That involves not cheerleading intentionally offensive rhetoric (no matter how facetious) AND calling people out when they do so
[citation needed] So that those who excel at offensiveness must struggle harder? Right. If I don't tell my neighbor kid to stop throwing rocks at my windows, eventually he'll get bored, right? It is the function of society to police its own boundaries, not to assume that no one will be affected if the worst among us are allowed to run rampant. Freedom of speech is allowing the bottom-dwellers of 4chan to call each other whatever names they want. It's also allowing everyone else to tell them that it's decidedly not okay. It's not okay.This is usually an inoffensive process.
We should aspire to be harder to offend.
If people don't respond to it, it dies.
Yes. Whose glass was broken because some people started throwing up 'OK' ? If someone is directly harmed. If violent action is taken, that's one matter. If a group of shitty middle schoolers suddenly decided that a given phrase or common part of speech actually means 'dicks' that does not mean that word changes meaning, unless everyone else acknowledges it and changes the way they behave because of it. Call them idiots and move on.So that those who excel at offensiveness must struggle harder?
If I don't tell my neighbor kid to stop throwing rocks at my windows, eventually he'll get bored, right?
A skilled rhetorician is one who can answer and defeat the argument of the opponent. A dishonest rhetorician is one who deflects, demurs, and ignores the arguments he can't win. Your argument was that 4chan should be allowed to use offensive language because in a perfect world, no one would be offended by language. By your own assertion, those who excel at offensiveness must struggle harder, rather than those who are offended appreciating the moral right to be offended. Yet when asked for examples of how the process of linguistic change is usually painless, you are silent as fuck. You're right of course. The United NiXXer College Fund is a well known niXXer charity, the KXke Defamation League keeps the Ashkenazi from prejudicial violence and one of my buddies in Los Angeles has a string of very successful gXXk restaurants because we live in a perfect world where language has no power. I love this style of rhetoric, too. "I'm sorry, I'm too stupid to understand your argument therefore everyone else is, too." It's like anti-logos. And the dumb thing is, you don't even see the counterargument fucking coming. it's like "Hi, there. I'm gonna set up a Godwin's Law trap where the fucking name of the counterargument is out there in plain view. Care to step in it?" "sure! Because I'm so blinded by my need to defend the rights of anyone to offend everyone that I'm not even going to consider historical precedent!" "Great. Have some Nazis. Thank you, drive through." And I'm truly sorry to have to bat you around like a fucking mouse, but jesus fucking christ, language can be offensive otherwise what would be the point? You are taking the logical position that those parts of linguistics we disagree with we should ignore as if it wasn't a statement of deep ignorance and you should feel bad.Whose glass was broken because some people started throwing up 'OK' ?
It's effectively replaced the word "retarded", which is not exactly progress, if more people are autistic and the rates are increasing. Hard to tell, since an increased awareness biases towards more diagnoses, which of course means I'M DONE HERE BECAUSE PEOPLE + SCIENCE IS = 2 "NO" 4 ME
"Old Kinderhook" --> "White Power" Makes perfect sense to me.
Dawg, I just found this, NOW I get it, so I'll delete my post: Psyche! edit:
That's why when anti-science (or anti-history, here) is presented as a strictly conservative or alt-right thing, I have to raise my hand... which will now be making this symbol (ok, it won't. ok). I guess every community should police itself, ideally. Gets hard, when it gets this campy.
Or anti-GMO for the wrong reasons. We need to get at that one from an intellectual-property-rights-might-hold-the-key-to-surviving-global-warming (legal) perspective. There are plenty more, of course.
The cosine (edit: sine) of 666 is the negative of half the golden ratio. It's just like WOW, the brain forms associations, or something! That was the subject of this yahoo.com article as well, to a large degree. I checked out a bit of occult shit when I was your age, there was no one to tell me not to. Maybe one person did. So I'll tell you, Devac, don't waste your time. Spirituality is fine, but a lot of the occult crowd is looking to sell it to you. #unsolicited #advice #hashtagging #wrong By the way, an old schizophrenic acquaintance popped up on a very intellectual friend's facebook the other day to spout Flat-Eartherism. One girl dropped by to say "wow, I've never seen one in the wild before" and got a few too many likes. Kinda rough to watch. In his, um, philosophical arguments, he did link this one, which is something that I've been doing backwards with my research, explaining fluid motions like people in a trajectory through society space, and now I have a name for it (ish). So there's usually something good, you just gotta wait for it. And usually only lurk.
If there were a mathematical lift, it would be called "The Devac"
Devac drives a metaphorical meta-forklift into mathematical crime. Hey, this is way more fun than technical writing :(.
Oh, my bad, I meant the sine of 666. Didn't bother to think about it at all, despite that, yeah, the cosine would obviously be positive. Hubski'ing in between code executing is a sin against humanity. You touched on one thing, though, which is that once we're past a full 360 degrees, who cares anymore? I would argue, for starters, going past one revolution on the unit circle to make an argument certainly requires some type of physical or mathematical justification, not just "satan, bro". There will always be questions that physics can't answer, but you don't have to ask them. I'll ask occasionally, but not religiously. We have once again devolved into physics. :(
I JUST read this. I think the hubski notifications system might have failed me, but whatever. Here we are, over two years later, and I'd bet that you're probably going to develop your first wrinkles wherever your face forms trenches when you grimmace. I don't think I can understate how much I respect that, given your circumstances. My childhood was a fantasy of metaphorical lollipops, Jesus, suburbia, Boy Scouts, and extreme familial stability. I'm made from a much less resilient mold, I daresay. Before 750 days ago, I knew you weren't some "kid". Ageism is real, but I won't tolerate it on my watch. Genuinely sorry to say, but you're nowhere near done in dealing with it, especially in regards to your chosen career path. If anything, I think it's generally going to get worse within the next couple/few years before you can point to the publishing record and say "don't fuck with me". You'll get there sooner than you think, so don't sweat it too much. Actually, I hope I'm wrong about this and you've already transcended that milestone, but the perception of your current age would be an uphill battle for even a modern day Einstein. Not that you're not interning as a patent clerk this summer ;). And, surprise, there is literally nothing that I can confidently tell you regarding any search for meaning, under any formulation of anything. Ever. I'm right there with you, professionally trapped in the mathematically rigorous approach, since religion proved to be a dead horse for me over a decade ago, and I have essentially no confidence that either have provided spiritual solutions that believers didn't delude themselves into believing when it was personally convenient. Life ultimately does seem to be simply how or what we interpret or make of it. The parameter space is STUPIDLY big. But to me, there's clearly no karma, no universal justice, no obvious underlying order. Still, that doesn't mean that it's terribly difficult to have fun at no one else's expense, get payed, and progress as a person all at the same time. We all have bad days, or weeks, or months. No big deal. I'm sincerely happy that you're still outputting both CO2 and trouble wherever you want to. Keep doing that. There are so many people on this planet that I wish I could say the same for.
The problem is that I think I 'transcended' it for all the wrong reasons. Firstly, I'm a legacy after my father, who taught about half of the people now slowly transitioning into senior staff. Secondly, though somewhat related to the above, for one reason or another, people often think I'm a lot smarter than I really am, so investing their time in me can be easily rationalised. Thirdly, a point related to both previous ones, I never had the feeling of some insurmountable gap between myself and the authority of professors, teachers, whatever. Of course they are better at this shit, most of them had their doctorates for longer than I'm alive ffs! So I asked without restraint, talked with them, got them to recommend me books they consider valuable but not necessarily course-worthy etc etc etc. And whilst many thought I'm being a brown-noser, I knew that the best way to get a senior researcher to talk was to approach them and say "so I read your papers on X, but can't wrap my head around X' in the thing you cited…" or "sorry to bother you, but I got this idea/intuition/hunch after the last lecture/presentation/paper, but can't find anything definitive on it" and they literally wouldn't shut up about it, since it's clear they do it out of passion 99% of the time. Probably helps that I rarely ask questions when I'm not interested in something myself, so it tends to go swimmingly. Right now I'm trying to sever all remaining ties to my university in order to see how I'll fare without at least the first point, which is why I'm aiming for PhD studies almost literally anywhere else. Though, age-related jabs seemed to stop being that much of a thing after I started retaliating indiscriminately. After verbally destroying one dumbass, I finally got what I wanted this whole time: people not talking shit within my earshot. Plus, to quote Freeman's Mind internet series (watch it if you hadn't, it's a riot), being fit in an academic field means you can easily beat up most of your competition. :P I honestly had no time to ponder matters of religion or other things. I guess you put it best with "Still, that doesn't mean that it's terribly difficult to have fun at no one else's expense, get payed, and progress as a person all at the same time. We all have bad days, or weeks, or months. No big deal." It felt oddly nice to revisit this post, though. Not enough to say that notifications were a part of The Plan, but sometimes it's something one needs and doesn't know. EDIT: Also, here's a joke for you: e ^ pi ≈ 3 ^ 3 = 27I hope I'm wrong about this and you've already transcended that milestone