wall street journal story by a dude tryin to make his career. it's like yall never heard of milo or all the neocon shock jocks. he literally milo-d the protestors to get famous. starting some shit abt theyre victimizing him (how exactly? never becomes clear), then making a viral video of their alleged 'misbehavior'. lol. its directly out of any conservative shock jock's agents' playbook. pick a fight then say they started it, and you get rich when it goes viral, after all theyre just a bunch of college kids they dont have time/money to confront national/international media the way a tenured professor or journeyman lecturer would. theyre easy punching bags, already a frequent strawman or trope to push an ideological agenda.
well sometimes the students do have some media access, but in my experience, there is rarely any benefit for a lowly unfunded volunteer based student org to even try to engage with media.
The administration or the students, will turn to the media according to their disadvantage, whoever is weak attempts to leverage the media, which ever has hegemony (this is a definition of hegemony almost), in the context, has little to gain by drawing attention from outside actors.
Let me think, let me think, yes ,all the interviews of the activists i personally am familiar with, done with mainstream outlets, particularly the New York Times, never went to publish.
It's okay, on the media front, a bunch of ppl who used to the organizing end up submitting to the guardian or being hired full out, so...
Here is what actually happened at evergreen:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/matt-driscoll/article153694734.html
This year, Powers says,
a request was made to change things up to allow participants of color to hold Day of Absence activities on campus, while white participants who chose to participate were asked to remain off campus.
“I think that switch was inspired by a desire to affirm the belonging of students, faculty and staff of color,” Powers told me, while noting that, “Participation in the Day of Absence has always been and always will be entirely optional.”
For perspective, Powers says that about 200 staff, faculty and students — out of roughly 4,800 at Evergreen — left campus to take part in this year’s Day of Absence.
This year’s approach to the annual event is where biology professor Bret Weinstein got involved. In emails that were eventually published by the Cooper Point Journal, Weinstein objected to white students, faculty and staff being asked to leave campus, calling it “a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.”
Which brings us to last week, when demonstrations at Evergreen went viral.
Raw video from the previous day shows demonstrators angrily confronting Weinstein on campus. Some call for his immediate resignation. Others refer to him as a racist. None of it was particularly pretty nor constructive.
To take it a step farther, it was a bad look — a flawed approach, and
an example of the kind of thing that makes it easy for naysayers to discredit entire movements.
The showdown eventually earned Weinstein a seat on the Tucker Carlson show,
which is not the outlet I’d choose to thoughtfully air my grievances, but whatever. That’s his right.
"
once again youre welcome for me googling shit for you
as i type this trump has abandoned the paris climate agreement about an hour ago pretty much putting a lie to any claim, for example made by the author of the mindnumbing wsj bull shit linked by thesecondbest that the sciences are being censored by leftists or scientific progress in theory is impeded by social constructionists or w.e garbage victim blaming shit is being peddled in today's or tomorrow's news cycle, im just gonna ignore it, since the mods cant seem to get it up to delete ur posts atm.
for instance the whiny professor writes... (and oh wow the mods did get it up to delete the post actually, but they left gotr's bait up for some reason):
"Rather, the protests resulted from a tension that has existed throughout the entire American academy for decades:
The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with “critical theory,” postmodernism and its perception-based relatives. Since the creation in 1960s and ’70s of novel, justice-oriented fields, these incompatible worldviews have repelled one another. The faculty from these opposing perspectives, like blue and red voters, rarely mix in any context where reality might have to be discussed. For decades, the uneasy separation held, with the factions enduring an unhappy marriage for the good of the (college) kids."
trust me it aint post-modern perceptions that are gonna sink planet earth, but science's capitulation to environment destroying industry lol... well the perpetrators like to blame the victims im told
like i get it
thesecondbest
there can never be a scandal, america is gonna be great again, trump can do no wrong and we'll all be fine as long as we retweet him right?
there will always be someone to whisper that there is actually no scandal, this is most effective when done by deflecting the scandal onto a political enemy or to advance an agenda, for example climate change is a hoax and it is actually companies trying to get you into buying bicycles (brought to you from my hometown congressman dana rorhabacher), or scientists trying to find a way to divert funding to research, or w.e it is. you deflect the scandal according to your goals, so if the context is that youre aim is to silence someone, you claim that it is you who are actually being silenced. if youre a white woman about to tell a bunch of people of color that theyre being laid off, you make sure to cry asap if they get angry with you, like bringing the news to them is actually what is really a hardship. this is a maximal deflection that is actually constantly demanded in order to maintain white/right-wing innocence.
it's cool tho i get it, you want that sweet trump money. youll have all the things that u want to, everything in the world, at any price.
since im always trying to teach ppl smthg maybe a concept from social game theory will help some in this thread think more critically, not like yall do anything but play video games anyway, not that there is rly anything wrong with that, so this is a good use of ur time even if u think im full of shit:
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=WIFOM
WIFOM is the circular reasoning that results from trying to determine the choices of an opponent who acted with full knowledge that their behavior would be subject to scrutiny.
The term WIFOM (short for
Wine In Front Of Me) is named for
this scene in the 1987 movie
The Princess Bride:
Westley: "All right: where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right and who is dead."
Vizzini: "But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet, or his enemy's?"
A Practical Approach
In situations such as the movie scenario mentioned above, one often may try to use what he knows of his opponent to make a better choice. However, in some cases this leads to recursive reasoning. "
This is the linguistic crisis: the perpetrators craft narratives of their own victimhood as part of denying their crimes. They make up their own definitions of racism to obfuscate systemic inequality .The victim mentality characterized the national psyche of germany before the Nazi's seized power, despite their enduring anti-semitism (and biological racism) stemming back for centuries in some parts of germany and the entire country by the late 1800's. Same as white nationalists in america today. They think theyre something new, but theyre the oldest news, theyve been spinning the same yarn for decades. If you resist it or complain about it when shit happens, youre actually at fault, the wrong lies with you, this logic sustains the tragedy.
i dont even care if this post is coherent.