I used to be fairly hard left, but after seeing the massive discrepancies between mainstream reporting about some of these supposedly “alt-right” personalities and what the subjects of their articles actually say and do, I’ve started to wonder what other things we’re being told that are complete horseshit, or at least are being run through a left-leaning political filter. It seems like anything to the right of socialism is being cast as alt-right in an attempt to lump it all together.
I’m not a Trump supporter by any means, but holy hell have liberals lost their minds since he was elected.
Well this explains the SJW crack the other day I guess.
Beyond that you seem to be making a sweeping generalization about left-leaning political filters?
I’ve been exposed to a ton of radical nonsense in the tech industry lately. Saw a guy on Twitter get absolutely roasted by a fairly prominent feminist in the tech industry because his new book title had the word “craftsman” in it. This guy wasn’t a native English speaker and was absolutely beaming about his accomplishment of having published a programming book, and this woman with 40k followers ripped him to shreds and demanded everyone boycott the book because it didn’t say “craftsperson”.
This is the dude’s livelihood and she’s going to hit him that hard over a single word? Why not use it as an opportunity to have a dialog about it and maybe get him to change it for subsequent print runs (or patch the electronic versions)?
I always have time for a discussion about diversity and how some words can be exclusionary, but I don’t have time for hitting regular people in their bank account over something so petty. It’s out of control.