10-29-2024, 11:31 AM
(10-28-2024, 06:57 PM)IdeomotorPrisoner Wrote: To untrain people to be that we must... apparently use the EXACT same assimilation tactics only in reverse to try to make everyone bigoted against the bigots... until it starts harming shareholders. It's somewhere between the extremes of Charlottesville and Portland.
Once again, South Park did it years ago.
Yes! Exactly! And I think this is where the filter applied to culture mediated by online technology becomes so poisonous. It forces everything to become anodyne, lest it be reflected poorly in the hateful light of the "black mirror". For example, in person I could say to a Mexican friend, "I greatly admire the People of the Bean!", and they would laugh, because they could see the friendship in my eyes, or whatever. But I would never say something like that online, because, suddenly, I would be a horrible racist! Oh no!
It makes it impossible to truly celebrate our differences, and we are forced into something like South Park's "Tolerance Camp", self-censoring and repressing. And that effect is used, cynically and divisively, by those who would rule us! That is what's racist!