Sometimes I binge watch YouTube videos, a guilty pleasure that generally leaves me feeling incredibly intelligent and well adjusted. This is especially apparent when I watch the videos about SJW's, the BLM movement and the exponentially cringe-worthy third wave feminist movement.
There are a lot of folks from both sides of each issue who are in the streets protesting, yelling and basically making asses of themselves. I will say however, that the ones who come off as more credible and well spoken tend to be the alt-right types. They aren't kidding when they accuse the "others" of regurgitating fake news like mother birds regurgitate worms into the open mouths of their young.
Of course, if I'm going to be honest, the alt-right often times come off like stalkers taking advantage of ignorance and regurgitating their statistics in much the same way. Here's the thing about your "facts," and I am talking to both sides right now, your information is produced by people who have an agenda. I don't care if it's the "gold standard" of research, or if you've endured the heinous act of rape, which for some odd reason seems to be a qualifier for the third Reich, oops, I mean third wave femi-nazis. At the end of the day, you're all full of shit. (*I get grief for using the term "femi-nazi" but they too wanted to obliterate the enemy, watch the way 3rd wave feminists behave and their behavior is the same, it's just that simple.)
The more eloquently spoken representatives of both sides are the ones you see delivering speeches on college campuses or on panels. They are there at the request of someone and they are paid to be there. I dig what a lot of them have to say, whether they are idiots or not, they are always funny and sometimes even insightful.
Here's my problem with them though, none of them can relate to the people, the regular people. Not the "99%," I still don't completely buy that tripe, just the real, regular people. Generally, the people on these panels are middle to upper middle class, whether they are black, white or one of the Alphabet people. It's abundantly clear to me that while they either claim varied other groups are entitled or claim that privilege doesn't exist, they swim in it. Discrimination is more about class than anything else and it has been for a long, long time.
I can already hear the alt-right types saying that anyone can get a college education and that poor folks are poor because they can't manage money properly and make bad choices. They are right, in some cases, but they are also all wrong in that assumption of others. Not all poor people are the same, not all poor people are poor for the same reasons. In the real world there are often circumstances that have nothing to do with choices and some folks define "poor" in an entirely different way than others do.
Most of the people who make these assumptions define "hard times" differently than people who have actually been through them. They may recall struggling in college, eating ramen in their dorm room. They may recall a brief period during their youth when the family was struggling financially and they had to take a cut in their allowance or wait until they were 17 instead of 16 for their mom and dad to buy them a car. They don't get that some folks, regardless of being educated and good with money, never had the same opportunities they had.
There are a lot of folks from both sides of each issue who are in the streets protesting, yelling and basically making asses of themselves. I will say however, that the ones who come off as more credible and well spoken tend to be the alt-right types. They aren't kidding when they accuse the "others" of regurgitating fake news like mother birds regurgitate worms into the open mouths of their young.
Of course, if I'm going to be honest, the alt-right often times come off like stalkers taking advantage of ignorance and regurgitating their statistics in much the same way. Here's the thing about your "facts," and I am talking to both sides right now, your information is produced by people who have an agenda. I don't care if it's the "gold standard" of research, or if you've endured the heinous act of rape, which for some odd reason seems to be a qualifier for the third Reich, oops, I mean third wave femi-nazis. At the end of the day, you're all full of shit. (*I get grief for using the term "femi-nazi" but they too wanted to obliterate the enemy, watch the way 3rd wave feminists behave and their behavior is the same, it's just that simple.)
The more eloquently spoken representatives of both sides are the ones you see delivering speeches on college campuses or on panels. They are there at the request of someone and they are paid to be there. I dig what a lot of them have to say, whether they are idiots or not, they are always funny and sometimes even insightful.
Here's my problem with them though, none of them can relate to the people, the regular people. Not the "99%," I still don't completely buy that tripe, just the real, regular people. Generally, the people on these panels are middle to upper middle class, whether they are black, white or one of the Alphabet people. It's abundantly clear to me that while they either claim varied other groups are entitled or claim that privilege doesn't exist, they swim in it. Discrimination is more about class than anything else and it has been for a long, long time.
I can already hear the alt-right types saying that anyone can get a college education and that poor folks are poor because they can't manage money properly and make bad choices. They are right, in some cases, but they are also all wrong in that assumption of others. Not all poor people are the same, not all poor people are poor for the same reasons. In the real world there are often circumstances that have nothing to do with choices and some folks define "poor" in an entirely different way than others do.
Most of the people who make these assumptions define "hard times" differently than people who have actually been through them. They may recall struggling in college, eating ramen in their dorm room. They may recall a brief period during their youth when the family was struggling financially and they had to take a cut in their allowance or wait until they were 17 instead of 16 for their mom and dad to buy them a car. They don't get that some folks, regardless of being educated and good with money, never had the same opportunities they had.
Here's the thing, people who have actually struggled, not just for a brief time but for decades, don't have a voice in their world. The people who do have a voice are just entitled so-and-so's talking to other entitled so-and-so's about how entitlement is a myth while all of them pretend they are speaking for everyone when none of them are.
I saw an upper middle class woman going on about internet bullying saying that it "makes women feel bad about themselves." In fact, they all say that in some context or another, that one group "makes" another group feel a certain way. I'm just going to go ahead and call bullshit on that. They all pretend to be so politically enlightened but at the end of the day they're all kids on a playground assigning blame.
The bottom line is that no one should be able to "make" another person feel anything. How you feel is your own choice. Allowing other folks to dictate how you feel is a weakness and limits your experience. Is it the fact that it removes accountability that makes it so appealing to the masses?
I saw an upper middle class woman going on about internet bullying saying that it "makes women feel bad about themselves." In fact, they all say that in some context or another, that one group "makes" another group feel a certain way. I'm just going to go ahead and call bullshit on that. They all pretend to be so politically enlightened but at the end of the day they're all kids on a playground assigning blame.
The bottom line is that no one should be able to "make" another person feel anything. How you feel is your own choice. Allowing other folks to dictate how you feel is a weakness and limits your experience. Is it the fact that it removes accountability that makes it so appealing to the masses?
All the while most of them don't even realize that they are the problem. For example, third wave feminists or people who live on their own little Fantasy Island where they're always right about everything and none of the variables exist. Even the regular folks who are powerless to do anything other than parrot what their favorite internet characters have to say are only serving to perpetuate separation by representing and thereby replicating division.
None of the talking heads seem to realize they only speak for a small percentage of people and none of the regular people realize they're only as good as their next cut and paste. It doesn't matter what their cause is, what it is they're arguing about or re-posting that day, they still have tunnel vision and for them, it must be a lovely tunnel. I hope it is anyway, because they're all stuck in it like a snake's ass in a wagon rut.
None of the talking heads seem to realize they only speak for a small percentage of people and none of the regular people realize they're only as good as their next cut and paste. It doesn't matter what their cause is, what it is they're arguing about or re-posting that day, they still have tunnel vision and for them, it must be a lovely tunnel. I hope it is anyway, because they're all stuck in it like a snake's ass in a wagon rut.