I am diving into the other side of the political spectrum

It's actually like a challenging zen metaloving exercise.

I am currently watching the part where "gamergate are just those misogynists incels" and I get triggered, pause the demo and react. Then I stop and say to myself "Just watch and listen. Stop reacting for a while". Then a picture of Anita Sarkessian pops out at a TED talk, I want to punch the screen. Then I say "listen,. she is actually cute with those earings and lipstick". It's a weird experience, very metalove zenny. God, I can't wait to continue through this masochism, I almost start to like it.

Ok fuck those people,. I try to go to another video and it makes me angrier. Then I leave it for later and maybe I search something on the internet and I get into some other devs attacked by SJWs.

ALWAYS,. there is some article which is like "This Guy has made super-problematic sexist/racist remarks"
When I click on the twitter or whatever links, I am expecting something horrible or a bad joke. And it's so innocuous I ALWAYS FACEPALM

Someone was writing things about Uncle Bob for example, a famous developer (but more into software craftmanship, agile methods and things I don't think much about). A whole article of how problematic his behavior is.
So I click on a link.
Some SJW said the term "Craftmanship" is sexist. His reply wasn't excessive.
Then someone complained because he said "C (the language) is for real men!". He replied maybe semi joking "We guy's didn't let women into the field"..
Now that doesn't mean (Bragging: We guys didn't let women, haha). It's even pro-feminist. I actually even don't believe that. He is pretty pro-feminist by his post.
He is so positive, so pro-woman, two innocuous things he said was criticized, and it's even pointed as he is some kind of sexist. And he even apologizes.
AND THAT IS THE HORRIBLE PERCEIVED MISOGYNY OF THE SPACE

And now I read the developer of Factorio, because he retweeted or endorsed Uncle Bob (as Uncle Bob tweeted something positive about his game Factorio), someone was like "How dare you, this guy is a racist and a bigot!"
Now, the Factorio dev didn't apologized, he simply said "Take that cancel culture mentality and shove it up your ass!"
At this point, I agree..

They come and, even if semi-politely (but insiduously) at first, claim "C is for real men" being sexist, "male-female connector" is sexist, humankind should be peoplekind, and if you even semi-politely be "wait, that's ridiculous!" this is horrible sexism for them! And if there is some drama, they try to cancel you and claim that you are a horrible misogynist and bigot. Now, the normies who read that, they might not look further and say "I guess he is, I don't touch that with a two meter pole!".
Also, actually his answer to the "craftmanship" was semi-polite let's say and was "Complaining about “craftsman” as a word is petty and ignorant of the English language."
And the first guys replied with these very common nowadays exclamation words "YIKES" "OOF" "TOXIC"
THAT? THAT IS TOXIC?
One guy says "You lack of empathy!" WTF????

The amount of disgust they show, compared to what actually was said, mindblowing!!!
Uncle Bob writes a sensible post of the type "The police are not the problem. The police were never the problem. Defunding the police is a terrible policy that will put hundreds, if not thousands, of lives at risk." (and ok, people will disagree, but at least it was sensibly put, it's not some horrible far right thing) and people say "There! Rightwing!!! Problematic to the community, let's cancel!!!"

And worst of all, the mere mention of "Cancel Culture" is a Dog-Whistle to them and a Conspiracy Theory. They then try to cancel you for promoting that cancel culture is real. I can't make up that shit!!!


p.s. Sorry,. just trying to hold my breath while watching some breadtube, made me much angrier later when I see just another example out of thousands of the absurdity. I question myself, why did I take this challenge? Can I go on? Maybe skip Innuedo Studios for now, take a break, do some meditation and then the next day try some Contrapoints? It seems to be unable to even watch knowing the realities and the skewing of realities here. Not that I ever believed I'll understand that side, but the insanity (and supported attacks by mainstream blue check marks, not random nobodies (as the people who did send rapethreats from Gamergate, but I can't find any of them,. they are not the front face of it),. that's the difference of the two bubbles, the woke bubble has some nasty ugly stuff that even comes very frequently from mainstream faces, the opposing bubble has nasty stuff but fewer and many of them comes from less known accounts that could even be anyone for all I know)

Reminds me of this:

My advice is that if you are ever going to write something political on the internet, do it anonymously or pseudonymously. Speaking your mind on the internet will likely bring you harm, no matter what position you take. Because there are literally psychotic people reading it.

It's easy. Just remove "man" from everything. That's the end game.

Funny that in the spanish language they have been going for years to convert "masculine"-ending words(spanish has gender) to feminine, but NEVER the other way round.

I guess should we change "mother nature" to "father nature"? Oh no, this is gonna steal something from women! Maybe "parent nature"?

Seriously, when I see people criticizing words in the english language, then the propose an "innocent" sounding but we care about gender and stereotypes or something, the cause is good. But it's really an insidious game with language. I am not willing to play.

There we go! If I'm not hard left then I must be hard right, is that it?

In spanish, a lot of the words are neutral and end in "o": this annoys certain groups because it's also the masculine suffix. So they insist on changing them to "a". But never the other way round.
Female bomberos are bomberas, but male policia are still policia for example.
Even something like Presidente, which doesn't even have the offending "o" has to be changed to Presidenta if it's a woman. Again there is no Presidento.

Oh boy. I don't speak Spanish, but was it I think where the other craze came from, LatinX? It was Latino, Latina,. but now the LatinX is some kind of twisted attempt to make it gender neutral. Of course, a lot of latin people don't like this, they find it ridiculous.

It's worth learning how to do it, just so you can sit in a restaurant within earshot of some authoritarian pricks and loudly insinuate that their mothers are sexually intimate with the contents of the local dog pound. It drives the English fucking insane - they don't speak the lingo but their antennae are *just* well enough developed to know that they are the subject of the conversation, that they are being fucked with . . . yet they can't prove a damn thing.

There is nothing quite so infuriating for the colonialist on holiday than Darth Sambo.

And now all that those guidelines for surfing the web about not sharing all your personal information has been thrown out for instead urging you to share literally everything you can about yourself. No privacy at all.

Power over language is power over people. No wonder language engineering was one of the core aspects of dystopian regime in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (the novel).

The idea that leftists are some kind of hippies that only want you to stop using offensive words and don't actually won't to do you harm - which is what 40oz seeks to promote - is untenable. They are not communicating "you should stop using that" - they are communicating "people must stop endorsing you, you must have no power over others". Even Richard Stallman, who is left as fuck and a Sanders fan, was targeted because of perceived misogyny, and don't think that case is resolved since he is now back at FSF. His reinstatement lead to a heavy debate within, for example, Debian's community, which was ultimately concluded in compromise that no public statement will be issued: www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 .

So you see this is not just Doomworld's drama spilling over to Doomer Boards - this happens in other, much bigger communities as well, such as the free software community. And leftists sometimes get targetted by leftists too, so if you think you can avoid being targetted by changing your vocabulary ever so slightly - forget it! Being an independent thinker, having disposition towards fairness and using reason as a guide to what you say or do are all incompatible with the brand of leftism that emerged in present times.