Phatose on 8/2/2015 at 06:10

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Just don't try to publish on Steam. Valve is quite protective about their Hat-based game niche.

Manwe on 8/2/2015 at 10:56

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You're welcome, I aim to please. It's good to know America is going down the shitter with a smile on its face.

You don't seem to understand how lobbys work. Do a google search for Pierre Bergé. Gay activist, millionnaire, in favor of "women renting their womb as a factory worker rents his arms" (his exact words), owns half the press. Someone like that has no lobbying power whatsoever, right?

Muzman on 8/2/2015 at 18:00

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No. Not true at all. All the arguments were the same, including this one. It's the original reactionary neo-con position. And further too; these feminists and their desire to disrupt and silence show the left's true colours as crypto Stalinists who wish only authoritarian control, whether they realise it or not. All this getting men not to rape and people to not say mean things is going to bring the entire Western Liberalism project unglued.

Exactly the same in every facet + twitter et al making the regularity of combative exchanges much higher. The agitation, the backlash, the accusations of tyrannical thinking, the concepts and arguments: it's all the same. The very concept of the 'PC Mafia' and 'It's political correctness gone mad!' comes from the late 80s and early 90s. Bush snr's government leapt upon this as a convenient saw to oppose. Virtually the moment the Soviet Union collapses they come out with a new sort of red scare about the intelligensia in the academic world undermining what it means to be American ...by arguing that maybe cross cultural literature should be considered equally to the classic cannon and other terrifying notions. And good ol' fashioned populism and anti-intellectualism gets a new lease on life, for a while.

All those comedy routines about "people aren't dwarves or midgets anymore, they're 'height challenged'" come from around then. "Not Disabled. Differently Abled!", "Not Old! Chronologically Enhanced!". Oh so many waggish op-eds. Some of it was true. But people remember the satire better than the reality. The PC mafia was trying to rename everything to be nicer because they place excessive weight on the power in language. Yes, they do sometimes. But nobody renames things for their massaging effect more than Government, the military, corporations and advertising. Nobody finds that as funny for some reason. Well meaning bleeding heart social workers are easier targets I suppose.

In case you can't guess I think it's a lot of overblown nonsense. Then and now. One which we still have to hear about/be needlessly distracted by to this day as conservatives everywhere pull out this familiar stick to beat the left with whenever it suits. Well played I suppose, from a culture war perspective. And now, to flip the take of that earlier article, a whole new generation of neocons and anti-feminists has learned all these tricks enough to pick up the mantle and carry on.

The thing is, the terrible SJWs are mostly right, if people would bother to examine what's being asked for most of the time. What they say and what they want isn't all that interesting usually. So you met some angry feminist or other -young, brash, passionate, thought they knew more than they do- who said extreme things and called you names or terms you didn't like. Same as it ever was (if and when it bubbled up). This hand wringing that goes on makes people look like a lot of fussy aunts (sexism and agism double whammy).

DaBeast on 8/2/2015 at 23:57

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Well, what I saw was someone talked about censorship, then someone else saw an excuse to push their SJW beliefs which attracted others to push their contrary beliefs. Then the shit flinging commenced.

froghawk on 9/2/2015 at 01:57

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Not just you - that's exactly what happened.