Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The Bell Tolls for Xe

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May 12, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Bell Tolls for Xe

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	And as for that red pill, well...
	So, the internet is currently on fire talking about the red pilling of Lacey Green.
	But we'll talk about that in a minute.
	First of all, I want to congratulate all of the noble shit posters engaged in the culture war that we've all been fighting.
	All of those people who are minding their own business, enjoying their hobbies, enjoying the spaces that they had paid money and time to create, that were invaded by the scourge of social justice and feminism, and found themselves drafted against their will in the Great Meme War.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it was you who held the line in the comment sections.
	It was you who fought the good fight on social media, regardless of what they called you, regardless of what they said or did, and regardless of how many times you got blocked or banned or slandered.
	Recently, our old nemesis, Count Sarkeesian, has decided to retire from gaming after finishing her Tropes vs. Women video series.
	Finally.
	And maybe we should thank her because on her way out, she vindicated us all.
	One of the main objections people had to Anita Sarkeesian is that she wasn't a gamer.
	She was pretending to be a gamer.
	And the gaming press would time after time say, no, no, no, she is.
	We promise.
	She is a gamer.
	Please listen to her because she's one of you.
	How do you feel about video games?
	I still love them.
	Video games are so interesting and engaging and interactive.
	I'm a gamer and I enjoy games.
	I love games.
	I'm a fan of games.
	And as far as I am aware, not one, not one single video game press outlet acknowledged the 2010 video of her that leaked to the internet in which she said, I'm going to show you a remix that I just finished this weekend and no one else has seen.
	One person has seen it.
	It's a soundtrack of one song, except I'm doing video games.
	So that's not exactly a fandom.
	I'm not a fan of video games.
	I actually had to learn a lot about video games in the process of making this.
	One might think that that admission would be enough for the gaming industry to condemn her as the liar and charlatan that she was.
	But now we have something even better.
	Anita recently gave an interview with noted peer-reviewed social science journal Mashable about her leaving the gaming industry, in which she says, and I quote, It's never been about video games, it's always about social justice.
	It's always been using feminism to talk about these things.
	So let's turn our attention to Lacey Green.
	Now, I'm someone who's somewhat of a fan of Lacey Green.
	I've watched a lot of her videos and I've enjoyed many of them.
	But she never struck me as a bad person.
	She wasn't like Anita Sarkeesian.
	Lacey, as far as I can tell, hasn't been dishonest.
	She hasn't conned people out of money.
	She hasn't gone out of her way to silence other people.
	In fact, in her video, she complains about it.
	You know, I think the definition of harm is being pushed too far in regard to political speech.
	That this heightened level of sensitivity is actually resulting in some censorship.
	She also elaborates about why she's come to these conclusions.
	And I think it's really interesting.
	Listen to this.
	So all of this comes to a head in a brutally bizarre spectacle that happened last week amongst feminist scholars who appear to be cannibalizing themselves as usual.
	It all started with a feminist philosopher's publication in the philosophy journal Hypatia about transracialism.
	So, in the paper, she examines arguments that are used for transgender equality and basically finds that that logic can be applied to race as well.
	She highlights some of the logical inconsistencies and weaknesses in the arguments that are used against someone like Rachel Dolezal.
	It's a controversial topic and a controversial conclusion, and you know, she may well have some things wrong.
	But instead of refuting her arguments on their logical merits, the academics penned an open letter claiming that the paper needs to be revoked, citing its various harms, including you know, using the wrong word, degrading trans people by comparing them to Dolezal.
	And having read the paper, the accusations that are made in this open letter are a complete misrepresentation of her argument to an extreme degree, which really makes this whole ordeal all the more troubling.
	These are not grounds to censor an academic paper, they're not grounds to ruin someone's academic reputation.
	I mean, what's the end goal here?
	Is it that, you know, only a very specific perspective can be heard in a philosophy journal exploring feminisms?
	Like, that strikes me as very contradictory.
	Lacey, we know that you are only doing this because finally, the negative effects of feminism have caught up with you.
	In your own spheres, in the academic journals you read, they are now doing what they have been doing to everyone else for years.
	And we also know that the reality of feminism in the world is also catching up with you.
	For example, these were your channel statistics before this video, and these are your channel statistics after this video.
	We have seen the like-to-dislike ratio on your videos, Francesca Ramsey's videos, and everyone else, where they are even still showing them.
	Because now the common habit is to simply turn off the comments, shut down the ratings, and assume that the misogynists will just go away.
	Well, it turns out they didn't.
	And last year, there were a spate of feminist YouTubers who had finally had enough and finally realized that, look, we will have to start talking to the anti-feminists because this cannot go on.
	And you are one of them, Lacey.
	But that's okay.
	Finally, if you are ready to talk to people, we are ready to talk in return.
	You can ask someone like Ian Miles Chung, who had a similar experience during Gamergate, and this was my opinion then.
	So, very interesting things have been occurring recently.
	Ian Miles Chung has issued a full apology for his behaviour during Gamergate towards gamers.
	I think that if this was a member of Gamergate apologising to the social justice warriors, they would probably make that person crawl on their belly through the dirt to apologise, to lick Leia Alexander's boots and say, Yes, I was a wailing hyper consumer, I was an obtuse shitslinger, and I am so, so sorry.
	Well, I don't think that we should do that.
	I think that we should accept Ian's apology at face value to enable him to keep his dignity.
	My opinion on this has not changed.
	I still think that if someone offers a heartfelt apology, they should be forgiven any prior trespasses because of the apology.
	But I have yet to see that from you, Lacey.
	I have yet to see you apologize for calling anyone a misogynist or a racist or whatever.
	These labels are insults, and you have been using them just like every other feminist uses them.
	I saw you talking to Sean Head on Twitter about people on Reddit who were not convinced that your turnaround was genuine and that you were seeing which way the winds were blowing and realigning your sales accordingly.
	I think that they think this because you haven't apologised.
	And I just want to say it's all well and good for the two pretty girls to sit on Twitter and go, ha ha ha, aren't those people silly?
	But that's not going to win you any favours.
	Because those people are not the pretty popular girls.
	Those people, and I speak from personal experience here, are the neckbeards who have never had any social power and never will.
	Merely waving your hand and dismissing them is not going to make them go away.
	Just like it didn't when you were calling them misogynists.
	My advice is to think about the people that you will have insulted by blanket dismissing them as misogynists when you were a die-hard feminist declaring that everything was problematic and apologize.
	Anyway, that's just some friendly advice from me.
	That's just what I would do in your position.
	But I really think that Lacey is just the symptom of a wider malaise in the social justice community.
	I think they know the tide is turning against them, and I think it's making them afraid.
	Look at this video from Mike.com.
	At first, I just thought my internet was down.
	Maybe something wrong with Facebook or Twitter.
	But they were gone.
	All of them.
	It was the day the social justice warriors disappeared.
	Yes, just imagine a world without social justice warriors.
	How empty and devoid of life and happiness it would be.
	We were thrilled the day that the SJWs just disappeared until we started making the next video.
	And then suddenly it was like, oh, f.
	What do we even talk about?
	Having an original idea turned out to be kind of hard.
	I mean, I could only see as far as the bridge I was burning directly in front of me.
	It's like, hello, I'm actively contradicting myself on Twitter and no one's taking the bait.
	So I guess what I'm saying is, I wouldn't mind if that liberal cancer reinfected our country.
	This is actually incredible.
	This is the social justice warriors appealing to the self-interest of anti-SJWs, saying, look, you need us to mock us.
	We are a necessary evil that you need to exist.
	Thank you for the tacit admission that what you are doing is oppressive to someone else.
	We are entering into the final phase of the great war against social justice, and social justice is losing.
	And the social justice warriors know it.
	So where does this leave us?
	I want to continue these conversations, which is why soon I'm going to be launching a series of live debates with feminists and anti-feminists.
	I'll take you up on that, Lacey.

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