tumblr sensitivity in real life

[Bamyasi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpo8zl4Z-Cw

hey guys what's going on in this thread

[Philip K Dick]

page 6 of a thread: totally okay to get all irreverent and sidetracked, i think

[Gilthwixt]

I'm not really sure where I stand politically but since I'm trans, there's this tendency for me to gravitate to the left. And whenever I hear people talk about "those fucking feminists/sjw/tumblr/etc" I feel uneasy. Cause to most people I'm automatically in that camp.

That's something that bothers me. People seem to have this inability to separate actual human beings from collective labels. I go to meetups with my college's gun club and follow their facebook page and it's hilarious how much some of them will shit talk "liberals", even directly to my face, not realizing that by most metrics that label applies to me. Some of them, especially the officers, are actually pretty open minded and chill, but then others are surprised that someone like me could even find any common ground with them at all, much less enjoy a day at the range.

I'm almost given the impression that people enjoy having an antagonist group to project all of their frustrations and anger onto, as if they are gratified by generalizing an entire group of people as inherently worthless and completely incompatible with their own world views.

[Bamyasi]

That's fair but I also think both "sides" are equally guilty of doing it. It's not just the opposing groups pigeonholing people either. I think a lot of us are more than willing to relinquish some of our identity to be part of a tribe.

[Unless]

I'm not sure how incorrect it is, but I really love when people speak broken English. I find it really beautiful and endearing, especially when Russians and East Asians do it, which is racist of me. Nonfluent speakers always find ways to use words that would never come naturally to me. I'm a grammar and spelling Nazi in all other cases, but I wouldn't consider this a form of abuse.

I'm not sure that really counts as racist. Or at least it's definitely not the bad sort. You mean because of the accents, right? It a pretty objective and inoffensive fact that most people from Russia have Russian accents.

Also I feel similarly about this, though it's Russian and French accents that are my favourites. I used to befriend a lot of Dutch and French people back when I played League of Legends. There are a few examples and often they're cute. This is the second one that comes to mind:
[spoiler]

Person 1: Is everybody ready to play?
Person A: Sure, I'm.
Person 1: ... Sorry?
Person A: I'm.
Person 1: You're what?
Person A: I'm ready.

[/spoiler]

The issue is endemic to the the user reviews system I think. Everyone's a critic now, including your racist uncle.

I guess big deals are made of nothing much now. I linked to a news article reporting negative feedback of showing Watership Down over Easter, which was before I realised it actually only seemed like a big deal because several sites copied each other on wanting to get in on the hot news, and the actual initial article was just somebody who had to write something because that's their job, and they figured they could make a click-baity titled article based on three or four tweets for which they probably specifically searching.

I go to meetups with my college's gun club and follow their facebook page and it's hilarious how much some of them will shit talk "liberals", even directly to my face, not realizing that by most metrics that label applies to me. Some of them, especially the officers, are actually pretty open minded and chill, but then others are surprised that someone like me could even find any common ground with them at all, much less enjoy a day at the range.

I'm almost given the impression that people enjoy having an antagonist group to project all of their frustrations and anger onto, as if they are gratified by generalizing an entire group of people as inherently worthless and completely incompatible with their own world views.

It's almost certainly healthy to befriend or at least associate with people with different viewpoints like so. I'm probably biased, but in my experience, strongly opinionated people 'on the left' tend to be annoying in bearable ways that make me want to roll my eyes, whereas their equivalents 'on the right' tend to be more outright hateful and make me not want to talk to them at all.
I'm also not used to the left/right terminology at all and hadn't ever been called one/called anybody the other until about a month ago where somebody tried to insult me with it.

The game currently sits at a 3.6 out of 10 on Metacritic's user reviews section and 2 out of 5 on GOG, though has a Mostly Positive rating on Steam. Coincidentally, this is the only one of those three platforms that requires the user to own the game they're reviewing.
Read more at http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/972903-gamers-flood-baldurs-gate-expansion-negative-reviews-introduces-transsexual-character#Gdie3j5R80uRXRtt.99

"Coincidentally."

[Bamyasi]

I'm not sure that really counts as racist. Or at least it's definitely not the bad sort. You mean because of the accents, right? It a pretty objective and inoffensive fact that most people from Russia have Russian accents.

Oh yeah I just meant a preference for these things could be construed as racist by the undersexed cohorts who like to point stuff like that out.

Also that's fucking hilarious they showed Watership Down on Easter. I guess the outrage over that goes back to Armon's point about people not being able to take jokes.

I'm curious if he had any stories about that. For catharsis, like the rest of this thread.

[Unless]

Here, have something else light-hearted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xDuBBW1bY

[SrsSam77]

did unless post their english degree yet

[Unless]

so sry "light-hearted" is tomuch 4 u ill keep it breef

[Bamyasi]

did unless post their english degree yet

so sry "light-hearted" is tomuch 4 u ill keep it breef

Match made in Heaven.

[crackers]

can actually imagine sam and unless hate fucking

[Bamyasi]

I just want to say that English degrees aren't inherently more worthless than say, animation or graphic design degrees. I know plenty of jerkoffs who majored in those so they could smoke weed and have no idea how to market themselves upon graduation. At least an English degree should teach you how to speak and write the language properly, which is pretty rare in an age of degenerate tumblr diction.

There's really no problem with getting one as long as you come from an aristocratic family.

[basketweaver]

I just want to say that English degrees aren't inherently more worthless than say, animation or graphic design degrees. I know plenty of jerkoffs who majored in those so they could smoke weed and have no idea how to market themselves upon graduation. At least an English degree should teach you how to speak and write the language properly, which is pretty rare in an age of degenerate tumblr diction.

There's really no problem with getting one as long as you come from an aristocratic family.

Was gonna write a long reply to this but I deleted it. In short, I think that English is the least interesting humanities major possible. You could have chosen art history, philosophy, european history, foreign languages, religious studies, or classics, and you just had to choose English? Really? The one exception to this judgment is for English majors who study great authors like Chaucer and Milton -- that type of English major is way better than Steinbeck bros.

[basketweaver]

https://sweettalkconversation.com/2016/04/23/who-is-the-social-scientist/

Amazing article about the type of narrow thinking that goes into the social sciences. Key quotes:

"In the human sciences, the academic conversation concerns the very question of what it means to be human. And the conclusions which are drawn there, again, do not occur in a vacuum."

"Behavioral economists and psychologists appear to fail to account for themselves. If we can demonstrate that even statisticians fail at basic statistical inferences when put on the spot, one has to ask how and in what context they do succeed in making statistical inferences."

"It is one thing to say, as many do, that models that are wrong on their face are still useful for arriving at correct judgments. Milton Friedman famously said as much about economic models. But in practice social scientists seem to treat their models as literally true, especially when making policy recommendations. This will not do."

"The current specialization of professional social science is practically designed to arrive at dehumanizing conclusions. What is the point of students of human nature who are ignorant of human history, philosophy, poetry, and law?"

[Bamyasi]

Was gonna write a long reply to this but I deleted it. In short, I think that English is the least interesting humanities major possible. You could have chosen art history, philosophy, european history, foreign languages, religious studies, or classics, and you just had to choose English? Really? The one exception to this judgment is for English majors who study great authors like Chaucer and Milton -- that type of English major is way better than Steinbeck bros.

I was contesting its supposed uselessness, not its intrigue.

Also a lot of those majors won't teach one how to not write like a retard.

[basketweaver]

I was contesting its supposed uselessness, not its intrigue.

Also a lot of those majors won't teach one how to not write like a retard.

I agree that it's dumb to shit on English as being a "useless" major in the literal sense of the word "useless", but I do think the type of person who chooses to become an English major is more likely to be a "useless person".

And I've met a lot of English majors at my school who don't know how to write or talk properly.

[SrsSam77]

english, psychology, and sociology/development majors fall into my personal college degree axis of evil

[Bamyasi]

Well yes, but those complaints have more to do with the people getting the degrees than the majors themselves, no? People who should probably be in trade school, and most likely would if it were more glamorous. Alas, Pragmatism and Decadence don't mix well.

I only make the kids salad so my perception is clean.

[Philip K Dick]

don't be snobs, being an english major is fine, being an academic elitist isn't

[basketweaver]

don't be snobs, being an english major is fine, being an academic elitist isn't

lol ooooooooook dude