Post by Harkovast on Dec 27, 2016 23:46:51 GMT
Okay when I have a go at the excesses of the left, it tends to get, shall we say, a mixed reaction around here.
But, despite this, I've found a video I really think I need to share because it kind of sums 2016 progressives up.
To me, 2016 was the year that social justice lost its way and went off the rails. It became less about equality and raising people up, and more about bullying and pulling people down.
And I found the perfect, single video that sums it all up.
If I took everything wrong with social justice warriors and concentrated it into a single video, this would be it.
It illustrates all the problem so perfectly that it almost feels like parody, but its dead, dead serious.
So to cap off 2016....here is MTV to tell us some new years resolutions for white guys.
Where to begin?
The smug, arrogant tone.
The anti white sentiment.
The anti male sentiment.
The horrible, cringe inducing humour (that black guy should not quit his day job just yet.)
The hypocrisy (a woman tells us to stop mansplaining, while condescendingly explaining it to us like we are stupid.)
The love and worship for Beyonce.
The anger at a black man who won't follow their party line (White people can "have Kanye" because he dared support Trump. True black people fall in lock step and do what liberals tell them.)
Turning on their own supporters for using the wrong terms (woke is wrong now, even though only progressive hipster tossers ever use that term.)
I probably missed some other things it does that are so typical of everything that's wrong with progressives.
They say America was never great for anyone who wasn't both white and male! They are that insane! I mean if you can't think of a single woman or none-white person that has done well for themselves in America...please stay under that rock you live under.
There's the obvious criticism that "change it to any other group and MTV would never dare show this" but for the sake of argument, lets just pretend every point they made it spot on.
I will accept white men are the worst, they are to blame for everything and need to improve. I will even pretend that black guy has comedy timing.
This video is STILL horribly misguided.
Shaming, condescending and mocking never persuades anyone. It amuses the faithful but it wont change any minds.
As Hillary learned to her cost, insulting people wont make them vote for you.
If I was a Trump supporter, or even a super racist KKK type, I would DESPERATELY want everyone to see this.
They couldn't wish for better material.
Racists pushing the line that whites are under attack and oppressed can show this kind of thing and say "Look! It's all true!"
In the same why Al Qeada show prospective recruits videos of america doing bad stuff or attacking muslim countries, racists and alt-righters and even just regular old republicans and Trump fans can hold this up to confirm the left is everything they always said it is.
MTV took down this monstrosity and reposted it, claiming a technical problem. This was a fairly transparent attempt to remove all the dislikes it was getting.
After this failed (shockingly, everyone still hated it) they just deleted it entirely, which is why I am linking you to a mirror of it.
If you want to understand why I'm lost faith in progressive/feminist/SJW causes, this video basically sums it all up.
This is the kind of cancerous bullshit that has infested the left. It's not only nonsense and bullshit, its poison to rally support.
The main response this video has got is "this is why Trump won."
The left needs to find a new way, because doubling down on this nonsense is just going to dig the hole deeper.
I'm poor! I'm liberal! I don't want to live under a permanent right wing majority and that is what this stuff is inadvertently working towards.
This kinda caps 2016. A friend of mine described it as the SJW manifesto for the year.
I really hope 2017 isn't like this.
But, despite this, I've found a video I really think I need to share because it kind of sums 2016 progressives up.
To me, 2016 was the year that social justice lost its way and went off the rails. It became less about equality and raising people up, and more about bullying and pulling people down.
And I found the perfect, single video that sums it all up.
If I took everything wrong with social justice warriors and concentrated it into a single video, this would be it.
It illustrates all the problem so perfectly that it almost feels like parody, but its dead, dead serious.
So to cap off 2016....here is MTV to tell us some new years resolutions for white guys.
Where to begin?
The smug, arrogant tone.
The anti white sentiment.
The anti male sentiment.
The horrible, cringe inducing humour (that black guy should not quit his day job just yet.)
The hypocrisy (a woman tells us to stop mansplaining, while condescendingly explaining it to us like we are stupid.)
The love and worship for Beyonce.
The anger at a black man who won't follow their party line (White people can "have Kanye" because he dared support Trump. True black people fall in lock step and do what liberals tell them.)
Turning on their own supporters for using the wrong terms (woke is wrong now, even though only progressive hipster tossers ever use that term.)
I probably missed some other things it does that are so typical of everything that's wrong with progressives.
They say America was never great for anyone who wasn't both white and male! They are that insane! I mean if you can't think of a single woman or none-white person that has done well for themselves in America...please stay under that rock you live under.
There's the obvious criticism that "change it to any other group and MTV would never dare show this" but for the sake of argument, lets just pretend every point they made it spot on.
I will accept white men are the worst, they are to blame for everything and need to improve. I will even pretend that black guy has comedy timing.
This video is STILL horribly misguided.
Shaming, condescending and mocking never persuades anyone. It amuses the faithful but it wont change any minds.
As Hillary learned to her cost, insulting people wont make them vote for you.
If I was a Trump supporter, or even a super racist KKK type, I would DESPERATELY want everyone to see this.
They couldn't wish for better material.
Racists pushing the line that whites are under attack and oppressed can show this kind of thing and say "Look! It's all true!"
In the same why Al Qeada show prospective recruits videos of america doing bad stuff or attacking muslim countries, racists and alt-righters and even just regular old republicans and Trump fans can hold this up to confirm the left is everything they always said it is.
MTV took down this monstrosity and reposted it, claiming a technical problem. This was a fairly transparent attempt to remove all the dislikes it was getting.
After this failed (shockingly, everyone still hated it) they just deleted it entirely, which is why I am linking you to a mirror of it.
If you want to understand why I'm lost faith in progressive/feminist/SJW causes, this video basically sums it all up.
This is the kind of cancerous bullshit that has infested the left. It's not only nonsense and bullshit, its poison to rally support.
The main response this video has got is "this is why Trump won."
The left needs to find a new way, because doubling down on this nonsense is just going to dig the hole deeper.
I'm poor! I'm liberal! I don't want to live under a permanent right wing majority and that is what this stuff is inadvertently working towards.
This kinda caps 2016. A friend of mine described it as the SJW manifesto for the year.
I really hope 2017 isn't like this.