Post: #1

This article from takimag lists a few of the more frustrating tactics used by the online hivemind in place of critical thinking or actual discussion.

10 New Rules for Radicals

Some choice quotes:

"“Racist,” “Homophobic,” and “Sexist” are tossed into the headline with no qualification whatsoever, and in an era where people rarely make it past the first couple sentences, that’s what sticks."

"The more beta the male, the more they love using boxing terms. It reminds me of the way women in the fashion industry are always using Ebonics ironically with lines such as, “I swear if she doesn’t get me those samples by five, I’m going to bust a cap in her ass.”

"We live in a culture of fear where a very small number of shrill infants with no idea what they’re talking about are silencing the voices of the majority"

Post: #2

Gavin McInnes is right on spoy. I did not know about him before the HuffPost Masculinity "incident" but I like his writing more and more.

Post: #3

This is great stuff. It is everything that's wrong with feminists/cultural marxists/post-modernists, but if we use it against them it is powerful:

Quote:This is classic Alinsky as referenced in Rules for Radicals #12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”

It is also what Roosh and the others have been doing lately. Naming and shaming specific individuals (instead of feminism-the-ideology) to ruin their careers. Or at least to instill fear in them, to let them know they are not able to hide in the herd anymore and that they will face personal consequences.

It's pathetic such strategies are needed, but they are. The great classical thinkers would have harsh debates, on the subject. Afterwards they could grab a friendly beer together. Nowadays, these deranged 'thinkers' make everything personal and demonize The Other. Well, let's return the favor.

Post: #4

I logged in just to say thank you.