would like to take a second to stress, here, that this shit is often characterized as only catching people in the middle of a crossfire while it is also ruthlessly imposed upon people who are already in the woke left, as well. our own are eaten as much as - if not more than - bystanders who haven't been recruited in a direction. this going on for so long has led to a generation of now-teenagers who have been groomed by watching years of "social justice" near-exclusively take the form of extreme group policing and ostracization. these kids then get charged for their first opportunity to hang somebody and do the community some good, which leads to seriously incredible instances of prosecuting thought crimes or minor slip-ups with no concern for the well-being of the prosecuted or the actual impact and intent of the 'crime'.Durandal wrote:Many in the middle who don't have to deal with the right-wing trolling and question modern woke politics out of sincere curiosity are immediately pegged by the woke left as having malicious intent (or because they're impatient assholes who berate you for not getting with the new times you just heard about) and remorselessly blocked/banned.
it starts to be seen as a community imperative to purge anyone who so much as consumes and enjoys media that might contain something transgressive or just be by someone who had a transgressive thought. follow someone transgressive on social media (e.g. a contentious trans person like contrapoints) and it doesn't matter if you're following in full knowledge they're problematic and doing so just to keep up with the discourse, you'll get accused or suspected of supporting them and sometimes called out, unfollowed, blocked, etc. the more 'woke' the community you're in, the more you're expected to go along with this shit without question and obey murmurs and gossip - and obey them very quickly. get caught out of the loop on who is or isn't problematic and you'll get a teenager asserting they're somehow victimized and suggesting you're malicious if you don't obey on the spot. the more public the space, the worse this often is.
you'd be astonished to learn how severely we bludgeon some of our own because they're more accessible than the person alleged of offending. i guarantee to you that right now friendships are being ended and people pushed out of discord servers (that may be among their only daily hangout spaces) for some expressing that they feel this translator was getting unfairly bullied and didn't deserve this no matter how many concessions they make that what he did wasn't right. likewise, i'm sure there are those on the other extreme infuriated with those intimating the translation doesn't need to stay as-is and could be a bit more sensitive.