Social Justice Warriors Thread

[doc_loliday]

https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1824-mi ... ets-killed

[Haumana]

https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1824-mi ... ets-killed

Death by Fuzzy Thinking
DARWIN AWARDS, ISIS, ISLAM, LEFT THINK, TAJIKISTAN

http://neveryetmelted.com/2018/08/11/de ... -thinking/

[Okeefenokee]

https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1824-mi ... ets-killed

Death by Fuzzy Thinking
DARWIN AWARDS, ISIS, ISLAM, LEFT THINK, TAJIKISTAN

http://neveryetmelted.com/2018/08/11/de ... -thinking/

Death by Entitlement



Austin's blog also provides a window on his (and presumably her) hippie-dippy worldview and ultra-PC politics. Elephants, writes Austin, “may very well be a smarter, wiser, more thoughtful being than homo sapiens sapiens.” When white South Africans tell them “that the nation and its redistributionist government are making poor, ignorant choices,” Austin sneers at their “Eurocentric values” and their failure to realize that “[n]otions like private property” are culturally relative. This is apparently a comment on the South African government's current expropriation of white farmers' land without compensation. (To be sure, when a friendly Afrikaans man advises Austin and Geoghegan to move their tent because they've pitched it too close to a black settlement and may antagonize the locals, they're quick to let him lead them to a safer spot.)

Perusing all the reader comments, I found exactly two that mentioned Islam critically. Here's one: “Tajikistan is 96.7% Islamic. It is a dangerous place for American tourists....This is not Islamophobia. It is common sense.” Here's the other: “As a Western woman I have no desire to visit a majority Muslim country because of the religious and cultural bias regarding their treatment of women.” Both of these comments attracted outraged replies. (“Many parts of the US are not so kind to women either, particularly those states that have managed to close just about all their Planned Parenthood clinics.”) Several readers railed against “religion” generally, as if terrorism by Quakers and Episcopalians were a worldwide problem.

One reader comment, a “Times Pick,” read, in part, as follows: “A great story and an admirable couple. But those who condemn their killers as evil probably fail to recognize that ISIS fighters see themselves as being on the side of good. For them, these young Americans were an embodiment of the Great Satan....Instead of bandying around moral absolutes, perhaps we should recognize that good and evil are relative categories, dependent on your culture and your values.”

https://pjmedia.com/trending/death-by-entitlement/

We need to organize bike tours for all of these people.

[Fife]

Just consider the savings on helicopter fuel.

This will be like Jurassic Park, except with only the smart and friendly animals.

[Speaker to Animals]

"Good and evil are relative categories.."

[Okeefenokee]

What, then, is the moral of this couple's story? In the last analysis, it's a story about two young people who, like many other privileged members of their generation of Americans, went to a supposedly top-notch university only to come away poorly educated but heavily propagandized – imbued with a fashionable postmodern contempt for Western civilization and a readiness to idealize and sentimentalize “the other” (especially when the latter is decidedly uncivilized). This, ultimately, was their tragedy: taking for granted American freedom, prosperity, and security, they dismissed these extraordinary blessings as boring, banal, and (in Austin's word) “beige,” and set off, with the starry-eyed and suicidal naivete of children who never entirely grew up, on a child's fairy-tale adventure into the most perilous parts of the planet. Far from being inspirational, theirs is a profoundly cautionary – and distinctly timely – tale that every American, parents especially, should take to heart.

[Fife]

Living in D.C. for very long will cause total dissonance.

There are going to be some very disappointed motherfuckers in that place when the lights go out.

[Okeefenokee]

The Unsolved Case of the “Lost Cyclist”
Author David V. Herlihy discusses his book about Frank Lenz’s tragic failed attempt to travel the world by bicycle
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... -57021309/

[Okeefenokee]

These never made sense to me,

[Speaker to Animals]

These never made sense to me,

They made sense to urbanites.

I remember seeing them around in the Chicago area.

City dwellers are more into style and novelty than function and practicality.