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How To End Online Harassment
Presto Vivace sends this excerpt from an article at the Kernel, titled 'With Gamergate, it's not enough to ignore the trolls.'
Gendered bigotry against women is widely considered to be "in bounds" by Internet commenters (whether they openly acknowledge it or not), and subsequently a demographic that comprises half of the total human population has to worry about receiving rape threats, death threats, and the harassment of angry mobs simply for expressing their opinions. This needs to stop, and while it's impossible to prevent all forms of harassment from occurring online, we can start by creating a culture that shames individuals who cross the bounds of decency.
We can start by stating the obvious: It is never appropriate to use slurs, metaphors, graphic negative imagery, or any other kind of language that plays on someone's gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. Not only is such language inappropriate regardless of one's passion on a given subject, but any valid arguments that existed independently of such rhetoric should have been initially presented without it. Once a poster crosses this line, they should lose all credibility.
Similarly, it is never acceptable to dox, harass, post nude pictures, or in any other way violate someone's privacy due to disagreement with their opinions. While most people would probably agree with this in theory, far too many are willing to access and distribute this humiliating (and often illegal) content. Instead of simply viewing stories of doxing, slut-shaming, and other forms of online intimidation as an unfortunate by-product of the digital age, we should boycott all sites that publish these materials.
We can start by stating the obvious: It is never appropriate to use slurs, metaphors, graphic negative imagery, or any other kind of language that plays on someone's gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. Not only is such language inappropriate regardless of one's passion on a given subject, but any valid arguments that existed independently of such rhetoric should have been initially presented without it. Once a poster crosses this line, they should lose all credibility.
Similarly, it is never acceptable to dox, harass, post nude pictures, or in any other way violate someone's privacy due to disagreement with their opinions. While most people would probably agree with this in theory, far too many are willing to access and distribute this humiliating (and often illegal) content. Instead of simply viewing stories of doxing, slut-shaming, and other forms of online intimidation as an unfortunate by-product of the digital age, we should boycott all sites that publish these materials.
is more important than the right not to be offended.
I'll let more eloquent persons explain this :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Only harrasers should feel harrased by this debate. If you treat people with respect you should be happy with this debate, whether you are a white man or not.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
So that harassment should also end. Still women suffer much more so that get's more attention.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
If gals are attacked simply for being female, you'd have a point. Hint: you don't have a point. It's pathetic attempts like yours - to equate men being attacked for simply being men and gals being attacked for being cunts - that is causing people outside of gaming and IT to see this for what it is - some gals crying foul for being called out as the misandrists they are, pretending to be oppressed, when they are the vast, vast majority, and doing the lion's share of the oppressing. But I'm sure you can conjure up some excuse to make your "logic" seem perfect. Pathetic.
While I agree that religion is a choice, I think we should have some sympathy for those who were brainwashed with it from birth. It isn't always easy to shake it off, even when the rational mind knows better.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Wrong. There is only one feminism. And every woman, who takes advantage of excessive feministic laws is a feminist.
Claiming otherwise would be as honest as a German in Nazi Germany who took Jewish gold, artwork, or let Jews do forced labor in her factories, claim: I am was not a Nazi. I was not member of the NSDAP and I never sent a Jew into a concentration camp.
This clearly shows how misogynist you are. I suppose you are white, straight and male? Who cares how men are treated? Not automatically believing a woman is a sure sign of misogyny. Ok, ok... almost a sure sign... If a loud feminists declares this woman wrong, you are allowed to nod... a little.
Trying to censor the internet is:
Ah yes the internet.
You know gaters were actually calling up Zoe Quinn and her family to yell threats and insults at them?
You have a right to free speech. You don't have a right to walk up to someone and yell in their ear. There's also no need to "censor the internet", just apply existing laws on harassment and libel to anyone who gets caught.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
The ex-boyfriend of Zoe Quinn had a massive 8000 word rant to splatter all over the internet about getting his sorry ass dumped.
FTFY
He got dumped, had a massive tantrum tried to smear someone with actual lies (the whole thing about trading favourable reviews for sex) and got banned form many forums in the process. Why should I believe anything else he said?
And as for RH: so? Women can be assholes too. I'm not sure what your point is. No one claimed men never got harassed or all the harassing was done by men.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
So what you're saying is you're a racist misogynist who doesn't believe women and minorities can have a different opinion than you without being tricked or stupid? Also I didn't say a majority were women, I said they were disproportionately women as opposed to the almost universally rich white male demographics they're opposing.
By the way do you have any idea how you look saying it's photoshop when people are holding handwritten signs saying "#gamergate #notyourshield"? You should know that you're echoing a campaign of racially targeted harassment against blacks and other minorities supporting gamergate.
And yknow for someone who cares so much about people "spouting hate" you sure do seem to have a double standard considering you're supporting the side that started screaming racial slurs like "house ni**" at women and minorities, got a black man fired for daring to speak out against white journalists, and have escalated well beyond death threats in phonecalls, emails, and text messages into the realm of mailing people syringes, knives, and dead animals.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."