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    Well, I'm downloading that immediately. The odds that'll stay online seem minuscule

    Uh... the title of the video sounds ludicrous but I can't deny history is a string of such things happening, and each time the participants are almost always surprised. I'm sorry to say (and I can't believe I am going to this place) but at the moment I can't discount the terrible thought that this could happen.

    Let me explain why: it's because using logic in reason doesn't work any more, and hasn't worked for a while. Rules and formal boundaries are ignored in favour of emotional and unfounded bias. "Alt-right" turns into "far right" and "conspiracy theorist" turns into "dangerous conspiracy theories". People who identified as centre-thinking are suddenly 'far-right'. Struggle all you want to get out of these labels, sadly logic in reason doesn't work any more. Also, good luck with nuances. If you literally kneel you can get out of it because strong emotional responses work against a strong emotional responses. It's all strong emotional response. So why won't it go to stronger emotional responses, like hating people to death?

    This is why I looked twice at the title of the video, because the censorships recently have all the hallmarks of unfounded, negative and emotional bias, and this dominates over logic in reason.

    All the time it's easy to ignore this censorship from our peripheral vision. "It will never happen to me, just people who deserve it", but this denial is using logic in it's reasoning... I'm not convinced it works any more

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    Well said Matthew. We are clearly now in a post-truth society. The narratives being created now around things like race and gender are largely emotionally driven and meant to acquire power, not unity. The woke see the world as nothing but power games, and language is only important so far as it garners power. Truth is irrelevant. They don't need to make sense because making sense is, according to the postmodern woke, a tool of colonial patriarchy. Or a tool of "whiteness", whatever that is. So is rationality, common sense, and objective reality.

    Making sense has become a cancellable offense. In the not too distant future, it may just get you killed.

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    Quote Posted by Matthew (here)
    because using logic in reason doesn't work any more, and hasn't worked for a while. Rules and formal boundaries are ignored in favour of emotional and unfounded bias. So why won't it go to stronger emotional responses, like hating people to death?
    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    The narratives being created now around things like race and gender are largely emotionally driven and meant to acquire power, not unity.

    Making sense has become a cancellable offense. In the not too distant future, it may just get you killed.
    One of the most dangerous aspects of the cancel culture is that moderate Democrats are being targeted all the time (see post #9 or post #1). These people are targets because they are fact-driven moderates. The purpose of canceling them is to move their position to the extreme emotional left where facts no longer matter.

    When you think about war (where facts certainly don't matter) it is nothing more than the cancel culture taken to the extreme.

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    'Coca-Cola Confirms Training Employees to ‘Be Less White’

    'Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to "try to be less white."


    https://beckernews.com/coca-cola-con...s-white-36954/

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    Quote Posted by Jill (here)
    'Coca-Cola Confirms Training Employees to ‘Be Less White’

    'Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to "try to be less white."


    https://beckernews.com/coca-cola-con...s-white-36954/
    I still shake my head in disbelief that the oppressors most powerful bullet today is to be stupid.  It seems to be the only slug that fits into the controlling oligarchs arsenal as they continue to bomb stupid around the globe.

    How do you fight stupid?

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    Quote Posted by Jill (here)
    'Coca-Cola Confirms Training Employees to ‘Be Less White’

    'Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to "try to be less white."


    https://beckernews.com/coca-cola-con...s-white-36954/
    I still shake my head in disbelief that the oppressor's most powerful bullet today is to be stupid.  It seems to be the only slug that fits into the controlling oligarchs arsenal as they continue to bomb stupid around the globe.

    How do you fight stupid?
    Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to "try to be less white" is a blueprint for creating racist an extremist. This goes beyond stupid it almost seems intentional.

    There is a famous prayer that seems applicable here.

    God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
    courage to change the things I can,
    and wisdom to know the difference

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    Quote Posted by Gemma13 (here)
    Quote Posted by Jill (here)
    'Coca-Cola Confirms Training Employees to ‘Be Less White’

    'Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to "try to be less white."


    https://beckernews.com/coca-cola-con...s-white-36954/
    I still shake my head in disbelief that the oppressors most powerful bullet today is to be stupid.  It seems to be the only slug that fits into the controlling oligarchs arsenal as they continue to bomb stupid around the globe.

    How do you fight stupid?

    By eradicating logic, their stupidity cannot be disproved. Especially when proving things thru reason and rationality no longer matters anyway. The more you fight back with reason the bigger the hole you dig for yourself.

    It's a vicious circle of insanity. Kind of brazenly ingenious actually..to give the devil his due.

    It's as if someone read Orwell's 1984, confused the bad guys for the good guys, and set about diligently creating a world in that image

    If there are aliens watching us right now, shaking their alien heads in exasperation, I just want them to know that if they're going to take some of us off world to begin a new, sane civilization at some point, I would really really like to join them.
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    I don't have a telegraph subscription, or login, but I've gleamed a little from the free snippets

    A 81-year-old widow was threatened by Facebook with a permanent ban from the site after her posts about knitted ‘white pigs’ fell foul of hate speech rules. ...

    Rita Rich-Mulcahy, 81, has knitted 73 of the five-inch high woollen pigs

    'Porcophile' Rita Rich-Mulcahy created had posts about her creatiosn (sic) deleted by the social media giant

    Related Topics
    Facebook, Social media, Pigs, Shropshire

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...n-pigs-breach/


    Twitchy cancel culture. Automated misjudgement I guess, else someone has to drink less caffeine.

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    If there are aliens watching us right now, shaking their alien heads in exasperation, I just want them to know that if they're going to take some of us off world to begin a new, sane civilization at some point, I would really really like to join them.
    I've had that whimsy myself for many many years. It's stayed with me, and is now more strong than ever. All I'd have to say is, 'where do I sign', and 'let's go.'
    "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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    Salesforce, the CRM provider, have chosen to be moral guardians and block customers who they judge as having "potential to incite politically motivated violence", which they say is motivated by the Jan 6th events.


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    Loomer: Is the Next Step For Cancel Culture To Drive Certain People From All Society?
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    https://ise.media/video/loomer-is-th...ociety-85.html
    Video at the link
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    These are good reasons I am glad to be in my 70s and on my way out of this very weathered body.
    If we can just choose to go to a better world, I'm all for it, and I hope it's really that easy.
    On the other hand, if weathering all this insanity means we get to enjoy a Golden Age on Earth, that's not a bad option.
    As long as it doesn't take much longer to get there!!!
    Meanwhile:"Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty - and the pig likes it."


    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    Quote Posted by Gemma13 (here)
    Quote Posted by Jill (here)
    'Coca-Cola Confirms Training Employees to ‘Be Less White’

    'Coca-Cola is forcing employees to complete online training telling them to "try to be less white."


    https://beckernews.com/coca-cola-con...s-white-36954/
    I still shake my head in disbelief that the oppressors most powerful bullet today is to be stupid.  It seems to be the only slug that fits into the controlling oligarchs arsenal as they continue to bomb stupid around the globe.

    How do you fight stupid?

    By eradicating logic, their stupidity cannot be disproved. Especially when proving things thru reason and rationality no longer matters anyway. The more you fight back with reason the bigger the hole you dig for yourself.

    It's a vicious circle of insanity. Kind of brazenly ingenious actually..to give the devil his due.

    It's as if someone read Orwell's 1984, confused the bad guys for the good guys, and set about diligently creating a world in that image

    If there are aliens watching us right now, shaking their alien heads in exasperation, I just want them to know that if they're going to take some of us off world to begin a new, sane civilization at some point, I would really really like to join them.
    Each breath a gift...
    _____________

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    I think it is important to document even the absurd so that people can look back and see how far they went down this slippery slope before they hit bottom with a resounding thud.

    ‘Cat in the Hat is racist?’: Dr. Seuss is being canceled for ‘anti blackness and white supremacy’



    A leftist educational group in Virginia called Learning for Justice has convinced the school system in that state to cancel Dr. Seuss’s books for children because they have “racial undertones.”

    The national educators’ organization is advising schools that the beloved children’s stories suffer from “anti-blackness, and white supremacy.”

    For over two decades, March 2 has been celebrated as “Read Across America Day” in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The day was ironically created in 1998 by the National Education Association. The theme this year is “Create and Celebrate Diversity.”

    Seuss is an American writer and is arguably among the most popular children’s authors to ever have authored books. His fantastical stories have helped millions of children learn to read while having fun doing it. Dr. Seuss has become a cultural icon in America but now his stories have fallen out of political favor and are being canceled.

    An affluent Virginia school district, Loudoun County Public Schools, has taken the demand to cancel Dr. Seuss to heart and has now ordered its schools to avoid “connecting ‘Read Across America Day’ with Dr. Seuss.” They will no longer recognize the gifted author on his own birthday.

    The school district announced that Suess’s children’s books contain “racial undertones” which they consider not suitable for “culturally responsive” learning, the Daily Wire reported.

    Source: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/02...hite-supremacy

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    'Ivy League University Offers Rock Climbing Class — No White Students Allowed'
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...sharingbuttons

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    Ivor Cummins is suspended by LinkedIn

    He's known for being very outspoken in criticism against mainstream c~~~d science




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    Just got suspended on Linkedin, nearly 4,000 business contacts there and I back them up every week - but wow.
    I am particularly careful on the platform - appeal just gone in.
    Can't wait to find out why censored...I'll fill everyone in on every platform when the details emerge Face with raised eyebrow

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    Doublegood doublespeak and when you think it cannot get better......

    Quote From The New York Times (Archive):
    Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

    Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.

    By Charlie Warzel

    For an academic, Michael Caulfield has an odd request: Stop overthinking what you see online.

    Mr. Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at Washington State University Vancouver, knows all too well that at this very moment, more people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than at perhaps any other point in human history.

    Misinformation rides the greased algorithmic rails of powerful social media platforms and travels at velocities and in volumes that make it nearly impossible to stop. That alone makes information warfare an unfair fight for the average internet user. But Mr. Caulfield argues that the deck is stacked even further against us. That the way we’re taught from a young age to evaluate and think critically about information is fundamentally flawed and out of step with the chaos of the current internet.

    Michael Caulfield teaches students to avoid critical thinking lest they “run the risk of misunderstanding something” or getting exposed to counter-narrative views
    “We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” Mr. Caulfield told me recently. He suggested that the dominant mode of media literacy (if kids get taught any at all) is that “you’ll get imperfect information and then use reasoning to fix that somehow. But in reality, that strategy can completely backfire.”

    In other words: Resist the lure of rabbit holes, in part, by reimagining media literacy for the internet hellscape we occupy.

    It’s often counterproductive to engage directly with content from an unknown source, and people can be led astray by false information. Influenced by the research of Sam Wineburg, a professor at Stanford, and Sarah McGrew, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Mr. Caulfield argued that the best way to learn about a source of information is to leave it and look elsewhere, a concept called lateral reading.

    For instance, imagine you were to visit Stormfront, a white supremacist message board, to try to understand racist claims in order to debunk them. “Even if you see through the horrible rhetoric, at the end of the day you gave that place however many minutes of your time,” Mr. Caulfield said. “Even with good intentions, you run the risk of misunderstanding something, because Stormfront users are way better at propaganda than you. You won’t get less racist reading Stormfront critically, but you might be overloaded by information and overwhelmed.”



    Sam Wineburg helped create the “SIFT” method which teaches students to avoid delving too deeply into topics on their own and to instead “stop” and let experts think for them
    […] In 2016, Mr. Caulfield met Mr. Wineburg, who suggested modeling the process after the way professional fact checkers assess information. Mr. Caulfield refined the practice into four simple principles:

    1. Stop.

    2. Investigate the source.

    3. Find better coverage.

    4. Trace claims, quotes and media to the original context.

    Otherwise known as SIFT.

    Mr. Caulfield walked me through the process using an Instagram post from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaccine activist, falsely alleging a link between the human papillomavirus vaccine and cancer. “If this is not a claim where I have a depth of understanding, then I want to stop for a second and, before going further, just investigate the source,” Mr. Caulfield said. He copied Mr. Kennedy’s name in the Instagram post and popped it into Google. “Look how fast this is,” he told me as he counted the seconds out loud. In 15 seconds, he navigated to Wikipedia and scrolled through the introductory section of the page, highlighting with his cursor the last sentence, which reads that Mr. Kennedy is an anti-vaccine activist and a conspiracy theorist.

    “Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the best, unbiased source on information about a vaccine? I’d argue no. And that’s good enough to know we should probably just move on,” he said.

    The old high school advice that Wikipedia shouldn’t be cited as a source is now passe.

    If the Wikipedia editors say Rachel Levine is a woman and erase that “she” was born Richard Levine then Rachel was always a woman and it’s misinformation to say otherwise.

    The SIFT method and the instructional teaching unit (about six hours of class work) that accompanies it has been picked up by dozens of universities across the country and in some Canadian high schools. What is potentially revolutionary about SIFT is that it focuses on making quick judgments. A SIFT fact check can and should take just 30, 60, 90 seconds to evaluate a piece of content.

    The four steps are based on the premise that you often make a better decision with less information than you do with more. Also, spending 15 minutes to determine a single fact in order to decipher a tweet or a piece of news coming from a source you’ve never seen before will often leave you more confused than you were before. “The question we want students asking is: Is this a good source for this purpose, or could I find something better relatively quickly?” Mr. Caulfield said. “I’ve seen in the classroom where a student finds a great answer in three minutes but then keeps going and ends up won over by bad information.”

    […] “The students are confused when I tell them to try and trace something down with a quick Wikipedia search, because they’ve been told not to do it,” [Christina Ladam, an assistant political science professor at the University of Nevada, Reno who teaches the SIFT method to students] said. “Not for research papers, but if you’re trying to find out if a site is legitimate or if somebody has a history as a conspiracy theorist and you show them how to follow the page’s citation, it’s quick and effective, which means it’s more likely to be used.”

    As a journalist who can be a bit of a snob about research methods, it makes me anxious to type this advice. Use Wikipedia for quick guidance! Spend less time torturing yourself with complex primary sources! A part of my brain hears this and reflexively worries these methods could be exploited by conspiracy theorists. But listening to Ms. Ladam and Mr. Caulfield describe disinformation dynamics, it seems that snobs like me have it backward.

    Perhaps Warzel is “anxious” because he knows he’s lying and anyone who isn’t dumb enough to use the “SIFT method” could easily find that out.

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    Cancel Culture is the Q-anon of the left.

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    Bill Maher on the cancel culture


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    "Hollywood is living in fear thanks to Lucasfilm's cooperate sponsored Cancel Culture. Recently Bill Burr has come out again. along with Bert Kreiscsher, and Joe DeRosa, to call out Gina Carano's firing from Disney Star Wars sort of. Prior to that Bill Maher called it out as well, without mentioning Disney or Lucasfilm by name."


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