The Culture War Thread

[HaughtyFrank]

Just recalling that I wrote a whole essay in 2021 about how these incidents are the modern-day equivalent of living in a Grimm's fairy tale full of wildly oversensitive magical creatures who are just waiting for the opportunity to ruin your lifehttps://t.co/aDdpwrJlhX https://t.co/QfUagmgGdH pic.twitter.com/bityvTA6qP

— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) May 19, 2023

https://twitter.com/katrosenfield/status/1659569432442675204

 

Apparently the woman and her husband were also doxxed

[Uncle]

Personally, I probably wouldn’t get into a fight with some pregnant nurse over a share bike, film the encounter, and share it knowing people online will work towards ruining her life. Easier to douse it with radioactive isotope and make it off limits for us both.

man I wish I knew some pregnant nurses

[Nintex]

Personally, I probably wouldn’t get into a fight with some pregnant nurse over a share bike, film the encounter, and share it knowing people online will work towards ruining her life. Easier to douse it with radioactive isotope and make it off limits for us both.

man I wish I knew some pregnant nurses

She lost her job so she'll be on OnlyFans soon

[Nintex]

'I've left cycling � losing to a trans rider hurts on a million different levels'

Exclusive interview with Hannah Arensman, the US champion cyclist who walked away from her sport aged 24, despairing at the unfairness of competing against biological males https://t.co/fk9bK3w18G

— Oliver Brown (@oliverbrown_tel) May 19, 2023

https://twitter.com/oliverbrown_tel/status/1659494742567141376

TERF

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[HaughtyFrank]

pic.twitter.com/JPm1ATSG9o

— Delusional Takes (@DelusionPosting) May 18, 2023

https://twitter.com/DelusionPosting/status/1659333114844397570

[HaughtyFrank]

Welcome to the community notes culture war

Y�all rate the community note on this not helpful. Just because some countries are trying to eliminate gender affirming care does not make the science unsettled or unclear.

Here are 29 medical organization statements supporting care.https://t.co/w8iLIF0iB9 https://t.co/5kyxOaMAn7

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) May 20, 2023

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1659953699240701955

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Good morning!
A reminder that there is no such thing as "settled science", because knowledge is a continuum and can (and should) always be capable of being reassessed based on new evidence, new observations, and new understandings.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Galen himself supports the settled science that blood letting is one of the most effective ways to rebalance the humours

[benjipwns]

Good morning!
A reminder that there is no such thing as "settled science", because knowledge is a continuum and can (and should) always be capable of being reassessed based on new evidence, new observations, and new understandings.

Yeah, no, how it works is if an industry organization declares something, it is not debatable. Like eugenics.

Galen himself supports the settled science that blood letting is one of the most effective ways to rebalance the humours

Now you're getting it. Please make sure you don't breathe in any miasma from foul air and catch a disease.

[benjipwns]

Uber has placed its longtime head of diversity, equity and inclusion on leave after workers complained that an employee event she moderated, titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” was insensitive to people of color.

Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s chief executive, and Nikki Krishnamurthy, the chief people officer, last week asked Bo Young Lee, the head of diversity, “to step back and take a leave of absence while we determine next steps,” according to an email on Thursday from Ms. Krishnamurthy to some employees that was viewed by The New York Times.

“We have heard that many of you are in pain and upset by yesterday’s Moving Forward session,” the email said. “While it was meant to be a dialogue, it’s obvious that those who attended did not feel heard.”

Employees’ concerns centered on a pair of events, one last month and another last Wednesday, that were billed as “diving into the spectrum of the American white woman’s experience” and hearing from white women who work at Uber, with a focus on “the ‘Karen’ persona.” They were intended to be an “open and honest conversation about race,” according to the invitation.

But workers instead felt that they were being lectured on the difficulties experienced by white women and why “Karen” was a derogatory term and that Ms. Lee was dismissive of their concerns, according to messages sent on Slack, a workplace messaging tool, that were viewed by The Times.

The first of the two Don’t Call Me Karen events, in April, was part of a series called Moving Forward — discussions about race and the experiences of underrepresented groups that sprung up in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Several weeks after that first event, a Black woman asked during an Uber all-hands meeting how the company would prevent “tone-deaf, offensive and triggering conversations” from becoming a part of its diversity initiatives.

Ms. Lee fielded the question, arguing that the Moving Forward series was aimed at having tough conversations and not intended to be comfortable.

“Sometimes being pushed out of your own strategic ignorance is the right thing to do,” she said, according to notes taken by an employee who attended the event. The comment prompted more employee outrage and complaints to executives, according to the Slack messages and the employee.

The second of the two events, run by Ms. Lee, was intended to be a dialogue where workers discussed what they had heard in the earlier meeting.

But in Slack groups for Black and Hispanic employees at Uber, workers fumed that instead of a chance to provide feedback or have a dialogue, they were instead being lectured about their response to the initial Don’t Call Me Karen event.

“I felt like I was being scolded for the entirety of that meeting,” one employee wrote.

Another employee took issue with the premise that the term Karen shouldn’t be used.

“I think when people are called Karens it’s implied that this is someone that has little empathy to others or is bothered by minorities others that don’t look like them. Like why can’t bad behavior not be called out?” she wrote.

Employees greeted the news that Ms. Lee was stepping away as a sign that Uber’s leadership was taking their complaints seriously.

One employee wrote that the company’s executives “have heard us, they know we are hurting, and they want to understand what all happened too.”

[Potato]

Live by the sword...

[benjipwns]

It gets better. pic.twitter.com/t5e0H6KE4t

— Rob (@RobFrancis82) May 21, 2023

https://twitter.com/RobFrancis82/status/1660341037951340544

Inevitable pic.twitter.com/BS3UyYE49A

— @Albino Boo (@albino_boo) May 21, 2023

https://twitter.com/albino_boo/status/1660346695710920708

[HaughtyFrank]

Dude seems to make a case that racism isn't so bad in the UK if you can get away with all of that

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

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Dude seems to make a case that racism isn't so bad in the UK if you can get away with all of that

bu-bu-but something something meghan markle

[HaughtyFrank]

Apparently problematizing a racialized gender slur is now problematic for DEI professionals.
https://t.co/O2JDf2fTcF

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) May 22, 2023

https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1660636041806598145

The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.

[Nintex]

what the flying fuck, plenty of not-so-white Karens around   

[Cauliflower Of Love]

thats because white people slyly slid the term off to denigrate POCs.

[benjipwns]

Conclusion from reviewing the comments: There is a big problem, namely that what is seen below doesn't seem abnormal to people. https://t.co/iBIsRDio09

— Crime In NYC (@CrimeInNYC) May 22, 2023

https://twitter.com/CrimeInNYC/status/1660486330340573192

[benjipwns]

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https://twitter.com/wiseposter/status/1660736891753320476

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he doesn't do it himself, that's why there are so many tiers of angels. they're an actuarial firm

— trash gordon (@trash_bourbon) May 22, 2023

https://twitter.com/trash_gorgon/status/1660753659280457730

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[Nintex]

Indiana Jones has been murdered in broad daylight

[benjipwns]

[D3RANG3D]

#HOTPHOBES

[Nintex]

UPDATE:

Hunter College professor Shellyne Rodriguez is armed and dangerous!

This psychotic woman held a machete to a New York Post reporter's neck when he questioned her about a viral clip of her attacking pro-life students over the weekend. https://t.co/6hEQXKMDam pic.twitter.com/VnsDNabsPt

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 23, 2023

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1661088168756809730

What resetera member is this

[HaughtyFrank]

Indiana Jones has been murdered in broad daylight

From the BBC review

(The movie) has the air of a film passing the torch (or whip) to the next generation. But it does all this in an even gloomier fashion than The Force Awakens did. I'm not sure how many fans want to see Indiana Jones as a broken, helpless old man who cowers in the corner while his patronising goddaughter takes the lead, but that's what we're given, and it's as bleak as it sounds.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230519-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-review-gloomy-and-depressing-final-act

I really don't get it. What is the point of these legacy sequels that then just put down the character that everyone who bought a ticket wanted to see in action again? No surprise that it will piss people off. It's also been done to death, the subversion that your old hero isn't a hero anymore isn't a subversion anymore.

I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but I'm convinced that part of why Top Gun Maverick was so successful was that it didn't do any of that. Tom Cruise is still the best pilot in the navy and he didn't have to learn any bitter lessons about how he was actually super problematic in Top Gun 1 or something like that. Is that challenging cinema? No. But the worn out trope of putting the old hero down to prop up the new one isn't either, so might as well give people what they actually want to see

[Polident Hive]

There are many characters in the world of literature who dream of joining the #UAarmy - the side of good.@jk_rowling

AI by @caton.lab pic.twitter.com/Reblg8gOZ4

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 23, 2023

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1661037540076290048

[BIONIC]

They should be annexed just based on that shit

[HaughtyFrank]

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https://twitter.com/spuuky/status/1661177599534456832

People are just confused at this point

[Nintex]

JUST IN - Black Lives Matter risks going bankrupt after an $8.5 million deficit last year, financial disclosures indicate � Newsweek

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 24, 2023

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1661371815174848512

[team filler]

the dems were done with them after biden got elected 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

What resetera member is this

No one can know for sure, but I bet they main Lucio

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just kidding, woman in video has a job

[close]

[HaughtyFrank]

What resetera member is this

No one can know for sure, but I bet they main Lucio

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just kidding, woman in video has a job

[close]

US professor fired after machete threat to New York Post reporter
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65692232

Not anymore. 

(though I can understand that reporters showing up at your apartment might be a bit upsetting. Not machete upsetting though)

Ms Rodriguez has been approached for comment.

NO YOU'RE IN DANGER

[D3RANG3D]

What resetera member is this

No one can know for sure, but I bet they main Lucio

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just kidding, woman in video has a job

[close]

US professor fired after machete threat to New York Post reporter
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65692232

Not anymore. 

(though I can understand that reporters showing up at your apartment might be a bit upsetting. Not machete upsetting though)

Ms Rodriguez has been approached for comment.

NO YOU'RE IN DANGER

[HaughtyFrank]

Lol what the fuck
what is this grouping https://t.co/IRd2Qn5PNN

— Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/heathercampbell/status/1661550251923374081

[BIONIC]

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https://twitter.com/spuuky/status/1661177599534456832

People are just confused at this point

Seems Twitch quietly deleted this

[HaughtyFrank]

? BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS THROW PAINT OVER CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW GARDEN.

?? What good is a garden if you can�t grow food? Millions are starving in the Global South whilst our government ignores the climate crisis, choosing to licence 100 new oil and gas projects. pic.twitter.com/lJfO1ZiOCE

— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1661662486741778434

Why would you throw shit on plants...

[BIONIC]

The old lady casually hosing them

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Old helping her turn on the spigot first.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist.�.�.�.�I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door �.�.�.�I will never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist arguments.�.�.�."https://t.co/hfBzG3AALu

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1661752086248460289

But let’s say when the high school sophomore clicks Tabroom she sees that her judge is Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, whose paradigm reads, “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.”

In the past few years, however, judges with paradigms tainted by politics and ideology are becoming common. Debate judge Shubham Gupta’s paradigm reads, “If you are discussing immigrants in a round and describe the person as ‘illegal,’ I will immediately stop the round, give you the loss with low speaks”—low speaker points—“give you a stern lecture, and then talk to your coach. . . . I will not have you making the debate space unsafe.”

Debate Judge Kriti Sharma concurs: under her list of “Things That Will Cause You To Automatically Lose,” number three is “Referring to immigrants as ‘illegal.’ ”

Should a high school student automatically lose and be publicly humiliated for using a term that’s not only ubiquitous in media and politics, but accurate?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

? BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS THROW PAINT OVER CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW GARDEN.

?? What good is a garden if you can�t grow food? Millions are starving in the Global South whilst our government ignores the climate crisis, choosing to licence 100 new oil and gas projects. pic.twitter.com/lJfO1ZiOCE

— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1661662486741778434

Why would you throw shit on plants...

the one on the right either missed where her mark was supposed to be, or didn't agree with throwing shit on plants, because shes just stood there throwing paint up in the air onto herself

[Nintex]

"Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist.�.�.�.�I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door �.�.�.�I will never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist arguments.�.�.�."https://t.co/hfBzG3AALu

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1661752086248460289

But let’s say when the high school sophomore clicks Tabroom she sees that her judge is Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, whose paradigm reads, “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.”

In the past few years, however, judges with paradigms tainted by politics and ideology are becoming common. Debate judge Shubham Gupta’s paradigm reads, “If you are discussing immigrants in a round and describe the person as ‘illegal,’ I will immediately stop the round, give you the loss with low speaks”—low speaker points—“give you a stern lecture, and then talk to your coach. . . . I will not have you making the debate space unsafe.”

Debate Judge Kriti Sharma concurs: under her list of “Things That Will Cause You To Automatically Lose,” number three is “Referring to immigrants as ‘illegal.’ ”

Should a high school student automatically lose and be publicly humiliated for using a term that’s not only ubiquitous in media and politics, but accurate?

Excuse me miss, can we call them rapists, drug dealers and bad hombres instead?

[benjipwns]

twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1661662486741778434

Why would you throw shit on plants...

Millions are starving in the Global South whilst our government ignores the climate crisis, choosing to licence 100 new oil and gas projects.

                   Non-sequitur?
 

[Potato]

? BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS THROW PAINT OVER CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW GARDEN.

?? What good is a garden if you can�t grow food? Millions are starving in the Global South whilst our government ignores the climate crisis, choosing to licence 100 new oil and gas projects. pic.twitter.com/lJfO1ZiOCE

— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1661662486741778434

Why would you throw shit on plants...

A variation of these fuckwits were protesting at the oil and gas conference I went to recently. They didn't see the irony of turning up with a gas-powered BBQ to cook their lunch.

They're not very bright people.

[benjipwns]

[HaughtyFrank]

*wants to correct the spelling of white supremacist*

*remembers that correcting spelling is white supremacy*

 

[Nintex]

sexual harassment has evolved

10 years ago it was anonymous troll #7494720 telling you to "tits or gtfo"

now it's Jeff he/him politely asking if you're interested in ever doing OnlyFans

— shoe (@shoe0nhead) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1661784566003118091

[Potato]

Sex work is real work bigot

[D3RANG3D]

i went to dozens of lesbian parties and events while they were still a thing.

what happened:

drinking beer
taking shots
dancing
k-y jelly wrestling
drama
toplessness and nudity
playing cards/pool
hooking up

what never happened:

all ages drag shows
people asking "what are�

— Heidi (@HeidiBriones) May 24, 2023

https://twitter.com/HeidiBriones/status/1661475062858371075

[benjipwns]

Dancing, drama and playing cards.

[BIONIC]

Dancing, drama and playing cards.

Buncha goddamn harlots.

[Polident Hive]

sexual harassment has evolved

10 years ago it was anonymous troll #7494720 telling you to "tits or gtfo"

now it's Jeff he/him politely asking if you're interested in ever doing OnlyFans

— shoe (@shoe0nhead) May 25, 2023

https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1661784566003118091

The rise of only fans is kind of insidious. Accessibly parasocial for all groups and not just guys who fly out to Vegas. So even homely broads can have an audience by making that group feel noticed. Or work the other way, by growing a base elsewhere, and transitioning to a pricier illicit tier. What that tweet is saying. If you’re a lady doing YouTube videos on Kirby lore, inevitably a horde of men and boys will offer money to see racey photos. Loops back to the concern over AI smut. Fundamentally it lacks the parasocial element that I guess is appealing to that audience. And an AI model can’t get be gifted a ticket to Dubai.

[james]

I started reading like "awww" and then it very quickly went off the rails... pic.twitter.com/ZjxBH5Ddq6

— Miles in Transit (@milesintransit1) May 31, 2023

https://twitter.com/milesintransit1/status/1663938608145768452

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https://twitter.com/OJ_Smoke_/status/1664504536231288833

[Nintex]

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https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1664714136696287232

I didn't do it

[Nintex]

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https://twitter.com/OJ_Smoke_/status/1664504536231288833

Marxist Globalists: Haha, after we privatize and secularize your once great civilized nation we'll flood your countries with refugees to destroy your national identity, keep wages low, ship your jobs to China and call you racists for protesting against open borders, homelessness and endless wars. Your history and culture will be erased, you will be cancelled, you will own nothing and you will be happy in lockdown

Conservatives + Refugees: Inshallah brothers! Deus Vult! Let's work together to destroy these godless marxist infidels with the holy blessings of the almighty, the Prophet(peace be upon him), the brave Mujahideen and our Favorite President^TM

Marxist Globalists:

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pic.twitter.com/Lucw9hwRx4

— Xr (@ISNOTD1E) June 2, 2023

https://twitter.com/ISNOTD1E/status/1664537779492257794


with the music 

[Nintex]

she denies its her

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https://twitter.com/bloodharbor1/status/1664481105456816129

[team filler]

it isn't. the girl in the picture got her account suspended

[Nintex]

i will be addressing everything as sincerely as possible when i am able to find the right words for what i need to say.

[team filler]

Great marketing pic.twitter.com/fvjuJeeXhk

— Khalifa Haftar ? (@HardRCafe) June 6, 2023

https://twitter.com/HardRCafe/status/1665884779659800576