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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on July 15, 2018, 09:49:13 PM
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I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me
https://quillette.com/2018/07/14/i-was-the-mob-until-the-mob-came-for-me/
I drive food delivery for an online app to make rent and support myself and my young family. This is my new life. I once had a well paid job in what might be described as the social justice industry. Then I upset the wrong person, and within a short window of time, I was considered too toxic for my employer’s taste. I was publicly shamed, mobbed, and reduced to a symbol of male privilege. I was cast out of my career and my professional community. Writing anything under my own byline now would invite a renewal of this mobbing—which is why, with my editor’s permission, I am writing this under a pseudonym. He knows who I am.
In my previous life, I was a self-righteous social justice crusader. I would use my mid-sized Twitter and Facebook platforms to signal my wokeness on topics such as LGBT rights, rape culture, and racial injustice. Many of the opinions I held then are still opinions that I hold today. But I now realize that my social-media hyperactivity was, in reality, doing more harm than good.
An interesting article written by former SJW.
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There seems to be a problem with the posted link. But here's the article (https://quillette.com/2018/07/14/i-was-the-mob-until-the-mob-came-for-me/).
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Then one day, suddenly, I was accused of some of the very transgressions I’d called out in others. I was guilty, of course: There’s no such thing as due process in this world. And once judgment has been rendered against you, the mob starts combing through your past, looking for similar transgressions that might have been missed at the time. I was now told that I’d been creating a toxic environment for years at my workplace; that I’d been making the space around me unsafe through microaggressions and macroaggressions alike.
Social justice is a surveillance culture, a snitch culture. The constant vigilance on the part of my colleagues and friends did me in. That’s why I’m delivering sushi and pizza. Not that I’m complaining. It’s honest work, and it’s led me to rediscover how to interact with people in the real world. I am a kinder and more respectful person now that I’m not regularly on social media attacking people for not being “kind” and “respectful.”
I mobbed and shamed people for incidents that became front page news. But when they were vindicated or exonerated by some real-world investigation, it was treated as a footnote by my online community. If someone survives a social justice callout, it simply means that the mob has moved on to someone new. No one ever apologizes for a false accusation, and everyone has a selective memory regarding what they’ve done.
The author was what he now condemns, and freely admits he was wrong. He's been mugged, but at this point he's still a Lib/Prog. He hasn't seen that much of the foundation of his views are as much lies as the micro-false-accusations he once fostered.
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Interesting article. If he stays on that path I believe he'll wake one day to find that much of the rest of his life has been lived in the same dream he describes.
KC
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Bless his heart. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I'm kind of tired of hearing about being woke.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.