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atelier morgan: Mar 11, 2003; super-scientific, ultra-gay; Lipstick Apathy

Control Volume posted:

I got halfway through writing a serious post about The Gamergate, realized with horror what I was doing, and quickly erased it to replace it with this text. This thread is dangerous, and should be destroyed.

that's a harrowing story

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:51

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Venom Snake: Feb 19, 2014; by Nyc_Tattoo

Zeitgueist posted:

Thanks for this

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:51

Fabricated: Apr 9, 2007; Living the Dream

Control Volume posted:

I got halfway through writing a serious post about The Gamergate, realized with horror what I was doing, and quickly erased it to replace it with this text. This thread is dangerous, and should be destroyed.

finish the lp

like seriously i was watching it

havent looked at the thread in a bit tho

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:52

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Control Volume posted:

I got halfway through writing a serious post about The Gamergate, realized with horror what I was doing, and quickly erased it to replace it with this text. This thread is dangerous, and should be destroyed.

I know that feeling. :spergin:

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:52

Uncle Wemus: Mar 4, 2004

im a little surprised people go to berkley and don't care about participating in impotent campus protests

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:54

blackguy32: Oct 1, 2005; Say, do you know how to do the walk?

Control Volume posted:

I got halfway through writing a serious post about The Gamergate, realized with horror what I was doing, and quickly erased it to replace it with this text. This thread is dangerous, and should be destroyed.

I honestly think it is quite interesting in the ways some people come up with ways to attempt discredit the people who are criticizing their specific media platform, straight down to calls for conservatism (This is the way things always have been).

I wouldn't mind historians looking back on the whole incident in some years time.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:54

Al Cowens: Aug 11, 2004; by WE B Bourgeois

Dreylad posted:

if that prevents you from getting your work done you should go to health services and see if you have ADD or something.

Yeah and practice some brazilian jiu-jitsu and beat up the human mob + armed police blockading the entrances and exits. Or maybe parkour your way in with an improvised ramp. Or...

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:55

Bedlamdan: Apr 25, 2008

Uncle Wemus posted:

im a little surprised people go to berkley and don't care about participating in impotent campus protests

Man my professor went to Berkley and he tells me the weirdest stories

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:56

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

Al Cowens posted:

Yeah and practice some brazilian jiu-jitsu and beat up the human mob + armed police blockading the entrances and exits. Or maybe parkour your way in with an improvised ramp. Or...

I don't remember when every single building at u of t was blockaded by a human mob and armed police

also my post wasn't glib. I've encouraged more than a few students who were obviously smart but had trouble focusing on school work to go to student/health services and without exception the ones that did saw significant improvement in their grades

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:56

LostRook: Jun 7, 2013

Control Volume posted:

I got halfway through writing a serious post about The Gamergate, realized with horror what I was doing, and quickly erased it to replace it with this text. This thread is dangerous, and should be destroyed.

Isn't that the point of moving it to D&D?

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:57

Al Cowens: Aug 11, 2004; by WE B Bourgeois

Dreylad posted:

I don't remember when every single building at u of t was blockaded by a human mob and armed police

also my post wasn't glib. I've encouraged more than a few students who were obviously smart but had trouble focusing on school work to go to student/health services and without exception the ones that did saw significant improvement in their grades

I shouldn't have to evade human shields on the way to a scheduled appointment.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:59

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

LostRook posted:

Isn't that the point of moving it to D&D?

Idk, the hellthread died, so it got moved.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 22:59

hwordhan: Sep 27, 2012; Ask me about the taste of a video game character's breast milk!

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Idk, the hellthread died, so it got moved.

Hellthread demands blood. It will never die.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:01

Shadoer: Aug 31, 2011; Zoe Quinn is one of many women targeted by the Gamergate harassment campaign.

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Al Cowens posted:

I shouldn't have to evade human shields on the way to a scheduled appointment.

That and

http://cbldf.org/2015/06/college-student-wants-four-graphic-novels-eradicated-from-the-system/

quote:

College Student Wants Four Graphic Novels �Eradicated from the System�

A 20-year-old college student in Yucaipa, California is protesting the inclusion of four landmark graphic novels in an English class that she took during the recently-finished Spring 2015 semester at Crafton Hills College. According to the Redlands Daily Facts newspaper, Tara Shultz and her parents object to Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The Last ManVol. 1, and The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll�s House as �pornography� and �garbage.�

Shultz, who is working towards an Associate of Arts in English at the public community college, signed up for English 250: Fiction because it fulfills one part of her degree requirements. She was apparently aware that the specific focus of the class was graphic novels, but she told the newspaper that �I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography.� Shultz says that Associate Professor Ryan Bartlett, who has taught the course for three terms without any other complaints, failed to adequately warn students about the books� content. Her father Greg Shultz said that �if they (had) put a disclaimer on this, we wouldn�t have taken the course.� Tara Shultz agreed, saying that Bartlett �should have stood up the first day of class and warned us.�

Of course, Shultz and her parents did have complete information about which books would be covered in the class�the school requires instructors (p. 20) to distribute a detailed syllabus on the first day of the term�and ample time to withdraw with no effect on her grade. Fourteen other courses offered at Crafton Hills fulfill the same degree requirement as English 250. The college�s online calendar shows that the Spring semester began on January 12, and the last date to drop a course with no grade penalty was January 30. Shultz apparently brought up her objections to four out of ten books covered in the class after that date, when her only options were to complete the assigned work or withdraw with a 0.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid

quote:

I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

I'm a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations. I am not a world-class teacher by any means, but I am conscientious; I attempt to put teaching ahead of research, and I take a healthy emotional stake in the well-being and growth of my students.

Things have changed since I started teaching. The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me � particularly the liberal ones.

Not, like, in a person-by-person sense, but students in general. The student-teacher dynamic has been reenvisioned along a line that's simultaneously consumerist and hyper-protective, giving each and every student the ability to claim Grievous Harm in nearly any circumstance, after any affront, and a teacher's formal ability to respond to these claims is limited at best.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:02

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

Al Cowens posted:

I shouldn't have to evade human shields on the way to a scheduled appointment.

university life is a hard life my friend

free speech is a menace

Dreylad fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jun 26, 2015

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:03

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

Mormon Star Wars posted:

It was the dude who looks either like a chubby version of Kane from command and conquer or a chubby version of the warlock from contemporary christian musician Carman's hit music video "The Witch's Invitation" or whatev

Oh that dude. I think he split up with the guy who did all his youtube videos in a dressing gown, but they might be back together now for the money.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Idk, the hellthread died, so it got moved.

I'm picturing a Lucius the Eternal-type situation here.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:05

Dapper Dan: Dec 16, 2004; Can't post for 3 years!

XMNN posted:

Oh that dude. I think he split up with the guy who did all his youtube videos in a dressing gown, but they might be back together now for the money.

I'm picturing a Lucius the Eternal-type situation here.

Please god no, I had hoped that they would have run off together. They are going to produce the worst poo poo ever. And Budget Kane has a skull fetish.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:08

Shadoer: Aug 31, 2011; Zoe Quinn is one of many women targeted by the Gamergate harassment campaign.

Support a feminist today!

Oh Huff Post, you're the best

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-cheng/gamergates-cold-war_b_7671256.html

quote:

Gamergate's Cold War

We're nearing the one-year anniversary of Gamergate, a cultural battle that has now attained the lamentable status of a cold war. To fathom why d�tente, much less peace, has not come to pass, we must take stock of how well--or how poorly--we truly understand the rhetorical weaponries of online hate.

Both sides of Gamergate believe they occupy the high ground: anti-Gamergaters strive to reform the video game industry's dismal representation and treatment of women, while Gamergaters purport to combat corrupt ethics in game journalism, the crusading of Social Justice Warriors, and the stigmatization of male nerds. Both sides cry bully, claiming to be the real victims amid the strife. The result is fire fought with fire, vigilantes run amok, dark knights rising.

There was a time when people held out hope for a Gamergate ceasefire. That ship seems to have sailed. Because as with the war on terror, the war against trolls is a Hydra encounter. Trolls, like termites, are not easily exterminated; they nest and proliferate in the very infrastructures of the Internet.

Last month, a bomb threat in Washington, D.C. forced the evacuation of over 200 Gamergate sympathizers who were gathering in a bar. "I have multiple bombs planted around the area #GGinDC is being held in," said the tweet that sounded the alarm. "If #GGinDC is not evacuated within the next hour, it will detonate." To be clear, this threat presumably came from someone opposing Gamergate--someone seeking to rectify sexism and misogyny in gaming.

That's right: the incident was deemed a "feminist bomb threat."

With Gamergate, this is simply the latest incident among torrents of death threats, rape threats, and someone's chilling promise to commit "the deadliest school shooting in American history."

Earlier this year, a "Gamergate villain" explained that his homicidal messages to the game developer Brianna Wu were "all a joke."

But it's not a joke. This isn't a game.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:11

LostRook: Jun 7, 2013

blackguy32 posted:

I honestly think it is quite interesting in the ways some people come up with ways to attempt discredit the people who are criticizing their specific media platform, straight down to calls for conservatism (This is the way things always have been).

I wouldn't mind historians looking back on the whole incident in some years time.

It's a fascinating incident, definitely interested in the Airplay thing.

That HuffPo article is hilarious.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:11

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

Shadoer posted:

That and

http://cbldf.org/2015/06/college-student-wants-four-graphic-novels-eradicated-from-the-system/

students can want whatever they want but if american academic freedom rules aren't robust enough to protect professors from this poo poo then lol

I mean there's not much you can do when the board shits on you because you tweet about palestine but academic freedom groups in canada loving defend sexual harassment as academic freedom

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:11

Prav: Oct 29, 2011

I love that value brand-Kane is an actual person that exists so so much.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:12

Scrub-Niggurath: Nov 27, 2007

Lmfao 40 pages in under 12 hours what the gently caress is wrong with you people

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:15

Slanderer: May 6, 2007

Shadoer posted:

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid

I like how he admits that his only complain was from a conservative student, but it's the liberal ones that are going to complain and get him fired.

and also:

I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn�t scare me at all.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:15

woke wedding drone: Jun 1, 2003; by exmarx; Fun Shoe

Dapper Dan posted:

Please god no, I had hoped that they would have run off together. They are going to produce the worst poo poo ever. And Budget Kane has a skull fetish.

I can't imagine what any of this means.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:17

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

if you're afraid of your students challenging you I can see how they could be scary but holy poo poo if one actually does it's a success because they're actually engaging with the material.

and I can call that day a success.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:18

Twinty Zuleps: May 10, 2008; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

Control Volume posted:

I got halfway through writing a serious post about The Gamergate, realized with horror what I was doing, and quickly erased it to replace it with this text. This thread is dangerous, and should be destroyed.

Fabricated posted:

finish the lp

like seriously i was watching it

havent looked at the thread in a bit tho

finish it Control Volume

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:19

420 Gank Mid: Dec 26, 2008; WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

where is the thread where people can make fun of idiots who still care about this?

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# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:21

Twinty Zuleps: May 10, 2008; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

Slanderer posted:

I like how he admits that his only complain was from a conservative student, but it's the liberal ones that are going to complain and get him fired.

and also:

I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn�t scare me at all.

So it doesn't mean anything if someone just feels like they're threatened if nothing has actually happened yet? You think that someone finding an atmosphere hostile and taking pains to avoid giving it something to attack is a perfectly peachy way for things to go?

I don't think you do. I don't think you agree with all the implications of what you said there.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:25

Dapper Dan: Dec 16, 2004; Can't post for 3 years!

SedanChair posted:

I can't imagine what any of this means.

They're hardcore libtards who are making an anti-anita video. It is going to be awful and lovely and people actually gave them money. He's called Budget Kane because of his resemblance to Kane in C&C. Here is the skull video if you are curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdIHK8O5yo

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:25

blackguy32: Oct 1, 2005; Say, do you know how to do the walk?

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

Lmfao 40 pages in under 12 hours what the gently caress is wrong with you people

It's a hot topic in a subject that people are interested in and passionate about.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:26

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

420 Gank Mid posted:

where is the thread where people can make fun of idiots who still care about this?

It's this one.

blackguy32 posted:

It's a hot topic in a subject that people are interested in and passionate about.

Soon it will be a whole year.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:26

Slanderer: May 6, 2007

Wulfolme posted:

So it doesn't mean anything if someone just feels like they're threatened if nothing has actually happened yet? You think that someone finding an atmosphere hostile and taking pains to avoid giving it something to attack is a perfectly peachy way for things to go?

I don't think you do. I don't think you agree with all the implications of what you said there.

From the response article I linked:

quote:

The problem isn't the substance of student complaints � the problem is that university lecturers are so terrified of the effect student complaints could have. That's a problem to be solved by universities having faculty members' backs, not by somehow silencing the debate over identity politics.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:26

Mekchu: Apr 10, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

420 Gank Mid posted:

where is the thread where people can make fun of idiots who still care about this?

Nowhere. You can't mock these people.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:27

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

420 Gank Mid posted:

where is the thread where people can make fun of idiots who still care about this?

It depends on which idiots you are making fun of careful you don't stray too far from Correct Thought.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:27

Broniki: Sep 2, 2009; Feminist Frequency is one of many women targeted by the Gamergate harassment campaign. Donate today!

Josh McInjosh is like Frank Miller in that he had a mental breakdown after witnessing 9/11 and is now a gibbering lunatic but instead of becoming an ultra-conservative he went to the opposite extreme.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:27

Zeitgueist: Aug 8, 2003; by Ralp

Powercrazy posted:

It depends on which idiots you are making fun of careful you don't stray too far from Correct Thought.

Lol yes we thought policing you.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:28

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

Where can I make fun of this:

http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21131

quote:

Governor Greg Abbott today released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court�s same-sex marriage ruling:

�The Supreme Court has abandoned its role as an impartial judicial arbiter and has become an unelected nine-member legislature. Five Justices on the Supreme Court have imposed on the entire country their personal views on an issue that the Constitution and the Court�s previous decisions reserve to the people of the States.

�Despite the Supreme Court�s rulings, Texans� fundamental right to religious liberty remains protected. No Texan is required by the Supreme Court�s decision to act contrary to his or her religious beliefs regarding marriage.

�The Texas Constitution guarantees that �[n]o human authority ought, in any case whatsoever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion.� The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion; and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, combined with the newly enacted Pastor Protection Act, provide robust legal protections to Texans whose faith commands them to adhere to the traditional understanding of marriage.

�As I have done in the past, I will continue to defend the religious liberties of all Texans�including those whose conscience dictates that marriage is only the union of one man and one woman. Later today, I will be issuing a directive to state agencies instructing them to prioritize the protection of Texans� religious liberties.�

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# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:28

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

Zeitgueist posted:

Lol yes we thought policing you.

Who's we?

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:29

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

420 Gank Mid posted:

where is the thread where people can make fun of idiots who still care about this?

the original gamergate thread in gbs was about that and this is what happened to it: exiled to a humourless subforum.

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:29

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Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

Zeitgueist posted:

Lol yes we thought policing you.

someone might quote you and tell you you're wrong and then what do you do? huh??

# ? Jun 26, 2015 23:29

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