privilege as a meme

Anger spreads faster and more broadly than joy, say computer scientists who have analysed sentiment on the Chinese Twitter-like service Weibo.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519306/most-influential-emotions-on-social-networks-revealed/

http://youtu.be/yW8VfqwSfUc

linked in brief because the comments are, indeed, key

Without being able to follow the whole string down this rabbit hole, wow, that guy is a dick.

doug henwood?

man, poor stalin, dude is hated on by just about everyone but now it's official, he's a "no"

For the “NO” list, I asked people to send me the names of “cis men, living and dead, who make [your] blood boil: misogynists, paternalists, abusers, rapists, rape apologists … people whom you find toxic, people whose physical presence or intellectual influence in left spaces … hinders or forecloses our collective possibilities for transformation, liberation, and making total destroy.”

search for "making total destroy"

About 26,300 results (0.31 seconds)

that's a new phrase to me

lonely dudebro marxist just thinking baout making total destroy

lol the results are some youtubes of guys playing slap bass and then this:

http://anoki.wikispaces.com/Make+Total+Destroy

i think i might have found today's rabbit hole, thanks everyone.

this guy is mentioned in those facebook comments somewhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Avakian

"He has continually published writings on Marxism and Maoism for over 35 years and is viewed by many inside and outside the communist movement as the foremost Maoist revolutionary in the U.S.[citation needed]"

lollll

he's a big ol' no fyi

that's a new phrase to me

― goole, Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:48 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude that introduced me to this phrase (variant 'make total destroy') insisted it is v popular in far left circles but he's the only person i've ever heard use it

is it like a metal thing or a lolcat thing?

lol that 'yes/no' list is such an on the nose indicator of the amount of maturity involved in these kinds of discourse

I can't tell if the divide on that yes/no image is supposed to be top/bottom or left/right, the design is just so bad

is it like a metal thing or a lolcat thing?

― druhilla (k3vin k.), Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:04 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

comes out of like black metal i guess

ty for 'brocialism' btw.

I finally read the list and LOL

"People that I hate and need to go get fucked! Chairman Mao, Charlemagne, Keith Richards, My asshole brother AND his girlfriend, Pol Pol Pot, Orville Redenbocker, Charlton Heston, Louis XVI, Chairopractors..."

do ppl know 'manarchism/manarchists' broadly

guys you are totally brosilencing those list makers.

Yes, I am familiar with 'manarchy' etc.

Is this the YMCA
Or is this the PUA
Or is this the MRA
etc

"Pol Pol Pot" sounds like the punchline to a grim knock-knock joke.

The exercise that started this is very poorly thought out, but jesus christ that facebook thread. If there is too much #whitemantears in one place, do they all drown?

doug henwood's fb feed is just the greatest source of leftist academic intrigue and squabbling ever

http://gawker.com/the-privilege-tournament-1377171054

"Pol Pol Pot" sounds like the punchline to a grim knock-knock joke.

Shimmy shimmy pol pol pot,
shimmy shimmy pot

pretty funny, gawker

i think my favorite part of the YES/NO thing is putting "Pol Pot" just above "Macktivists"

the gawker thing is essentially the poll i wanted to start on ilx but was too afraid of getting fp'd into oblivion

hay fever, but real bad

steroidal

AIDS/CANCER

whatevs, that kind of thing, you know, super sick but not lupus, or that thing where you think you're already dead

rolling my eyes out of my head

the reception to that in my internet corner has been varied and completely unintuitive

queer muslims high fiving, SWMs calling for the author's byline on a pike

yr corner of the internet seems a little confused

you're telling me

no one's pointed out the best comment

A white man made the game; set up the categories and tells us to fight it out. Sounds about right.

no one wins bc the most unprivileged group at the end can't be particularly happy ab that designation; it reminds me of the time my parents went to buy an RV and the salesperson asked them w/ "genuine curiosity" how it feels to be in the most despised group of ppl in the world. they didn't buy an RV from that person, obvs.

"yay i'm the most abjected!"

i mean

right

haha and your prize is the absolute objective sovereignty of your critical gaze. enjoy that!

no one's pointed out the best comment

A white man made the game; set up the categories and tells us to fight it out. Sounds about right.

― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, September 25, 2013 2:42 PM Bookmark

Just about sums it up.

I reckon that RV guy needs to finesse his sales technique a little.

Cast my votes and so far the only outcome that's really hard for me to accept is bisexual << (is less priviledged than) lesbian. Bi (man) << gay man maybe, I couldn't tell you about that, but bi (female) clearly have it better than lesbian women.

So you assume that bisexual men don't exist?