Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Kat Blaque Accidentally Destroys Anita Sarkeesian's Victim Narrative

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July 29, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Kat Blaque Accidentally Destroys Anita Sarkeesian's Victim Narrative

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	I was at the VidCon panels that people are freaking out about and these were some of the most passive and typical things to ever happen at a convention ever.
	I'm sorry, could you repeat that?
	He's just standing there, menacingly!
	While my trolls didn't materialize in the real world, they certainly became even more common as my channel grew.
	Soon, I wasn't just making videos anticipating that they were watching, I was actually making videos directly responding to them.
	And this consumed me.
	For years, this used to actually be the vast majority of my content, even through college.
	And it took me a long time to really realize that that's exactly what they want.
	Congratulations, Kat.
	You figured out not only what every single middle schooler with an internet connection already knows, but what every single person in the anti-SJW community has been telling you for years.
	Trolls want nothing more than for you to derail your space and to make it about them.
	They thrive on your reaction and rely on your attention.
	I'm Captain Obius.
	And even though I still know this, today I devote so much time to interacting with trolls and it's a big flaw of mine to overlook positive comments for trolls, but I'm working on it.
	To be honest, I've dealt with so much stuff on and offline that today I largely consider trolls to be sort of hilarious and silly.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Wait a minute, Kat.
	You can't say that.
	If you find trolls hilarious and silly, then they can't be scary, threatening bigots that prove that all non-white males live as second-class citizens in a terrifying, imperialistic, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.
	And that means...
	Who's saying I'm not a victim?
	It's okay, Anita.
	Calm down.
	I'm sure she'll bring up how she's a victim soon.
	I'm sure she's on her top-year livelihood of making money off of victim status.
	Deep breaths, deep breaths.
	When you're dealing with online harassment and trolls, it feels so massive.
	I've dealt with some pretty severe stuff that I've never told any of you guys about.
	At one point, my harassment made me not even want to leave the house or share anything about my personal life.
	Trolls online can feel overwhelming.
	Online, there are these big, huge, terrifying monsters that are made even more terrifying when they have fan bases that co-sign and encourage what they're doing.
	Good.
	but in person they're very well different yes they're far more terrifying By now I'm sure you've all heard about the happenings at VidCon this year.
	A horde of your favorite online shitlords and trolls attended and did their very best to start shit and in some situations they were successful.
	Aside from what happened, meeting trolls in person really changed my perspective on them completely.
	You had people who flew from the UK all the way to Anaheim, paid for a VidCon ticket, then paid for their hotel and food for three days just so they can sit in the front row of a panel sniggling at each other while recording the women that they've harassed online.
	Might wanna pull back on that ego there, cat.
	I was just at San Bruno speaking with Susan about some of the recent changes on YouTube, and I asked Google staff and some of the heads at YouTube if they were familiar with any of these people and some of the people that I've criticized recently.
	And none of them knew who any of these people were.
	No, Kat, what are you doing?
	We're the underdogs.
	Society is overrun by the patriarchy.
	Stop, Kat.
	Stop.
	I mean, I was invited to the headquarters of Google and I spent my time talking to them about online trolls that aren't even on their radar.
	I had a similar experience at VidCon, where I would sit in the green room with other YouTubers giving the full story, the who, the why, and the where.
	And we spent so much time doing this.
	We were backstage surrounded by amazing creators and industry people and all we could talk about were the damn trolls.
	And then I realized, it's happening again.
	These people inserted themselves to get a response, and some of my panelists gave it to them.
	This is some next level trolling, guys.
	And now these conversations that should be about whatever subject is being discussed or whatever professional relationship we could build revolved around them.
	And they got content out of it.
	Press even.
	And I'm sure they walked away feeling like it was all a trip well spent.
	Is this the moment, folks, where Cat Black finally gains self-awareness, where she finally understands that it is not the quote trolls that have the power, but the individual person that gets upset?
	Will she finally accept personal responsibility for her feelings and stop blaming others, thus destroying a main component of the SJW victim narrative?
	VidCon really put things into perspective for me because I realized one important thing.
	None of this f***ing matters.
	I was just in New York sitting on a mass incarceration panel, the second that Google has invited me to, where I heard from men and women who were unfairly treated by the prison system.
	I listened to them talk about the abuse they experienced, the loss of time and life, and how the legal system had robbed them of their relationship with their families because of technicalities and other unfair practices.
	And what was I working on at the time?
	A script about petty online drama that isn't going to matter a year from now.
	Really?
	Focusing about real social problems instead of complaining endlessly about trolls is a good thing?
	It's like I've never heard anyone ever say anything like that ever before.
	Everyone and the dog brutally honestly, it's all a fucking fever dream, so who cares?
	I think all too often we get wrapped up in the drama that we see online.
	I was at the VidCon panels that people are freaking out about.
	And these were some of the most passive and typical things to ever happen at a convention ever.
	I'm sorry, could you say what?
	I was at the VidCon panels that people are freaking out about.
	And these were some of the most passive and typical things to ever happen at a convention ever.
	And these were some of the most passive, passive, passive, and typical, typical.
	These were some of the most passive and typical things to ever happen at a convention ever.
	Oh, damn, Anita.
	I bet you thought your girl Kat had your back.
	Looks like you were wasting your time attacking Boogie.
	The real enemy was from the place you least to save.
	But if you believe the spin doctors, people were growing heads and screaming from the stage.
	Stage?
	She means crowd, right?
	Right, guys?
	She means crowd, right?
	They're selling you this overly dramatic narrative that doesn't really match up with what actually happened.
	If by they, you mean Anita Sarkusian.
	For them, it's a thrill to use the power they have under patriarchy to try to keep women in their place, to try to intimidate or silence women who dare speak out and assert their humanity and their right to exist as full human beings in these spaces.
	Maybe I'm just used to it, but none of this was a big deal.
	Jeez Wooz!
	Cheez-Woo's!
	But everyone is so addicted to the back-and-forth drama that sometimes the pettiness of it all is lost in translation.
	What?
	We present the spectacle of these personalities clashing as though it's front-page news.
	We click past stories of real tragedy and trauma to focus on petty online squabbles and internet drama.
	Exactly.
	Just like how feminists ignore the shitty treatment of women in non-white countries and race advocates attack supposed allies for imaginary racism.
	The white supremacy that lives and breathes within every single white person standing here right now.
	I refuse to shut my mouth and let white people set this agenda.
	But VidCon really helped me see that none of this really matters.
	And that's hard to recognize when this stuff is constantly in your feed.
	But I think we all need to back away from these things constructed to make us upset and really examine how productive our anger actually is.
	In my opinion, at some point people on all sides need to move beyond petty YouTube drama that doesn't really move anything forward and start thinking about what we're really doing on this website.
	Wasn't your last video entirely a thinly veiled attack on Lacey Green?
	AKA drama?
	Implying that she doesn't believe what she's saying and only doing it for the money?
	Wasn't your last video all about how the anti-SJW side is so much more profitable than your ethical moral side?
	And yet now you're saying a mere two weeks later, all the people you were strawmanning in your last video are just nobody trolls, unlike important and respected you.
	It's almost like you just say stupid shit that satisfies you emotionally at the time, but has no thought or consideration whatsoever.
	Well, maybe not.
	Maybe Kat only just now realized the error of her ways.
	I'm sure Kat will use her newfound enlightenment and apologize to Lacey Green while retracting her ridiculously stupid last video, which now makes her seem like a huge fucking hypocrite.
	Yep, that will definitely happen.
	How much of your life are you missing out on while you're collecting screenshots and receipts?
	Maybe that time could be spent doing something that enriches you and the people around you.
	Anyways, this is all just food for thought.
	Personally, I can't imagine paying thousands of dollars to fly to another country just to be shitty in the front row of a panel at a convention.
	But then again, I haven't paid for a flight in a while.
	Wow, you were a deer.
	Yeah, you got it down to a science.
	Congratulations, Kat.
	In your smug-filled, egotistical, you don't matter rant, you accidentally not only destroyed Anita's entire victim narrative, but the entire concept that we live in a society controlled by the racist rape culture patriarchy.
	Because if we did, then the literal Nazis like Sargon would be the ones getting all the cool Google meetings and not paying for their flights.
	I guess this means you guys won.
	You're not the victims anymore.
	Now, whenever some SJW type goes on whinging about how oppressed they are, not because of anything specific in their life, but rather some vague, general claim of the dread patriarchal racist oppression of society, we can just point them to your video.
	So thanks, Kat.

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