:cure-for-fascism:
Citizen-generated counter speech is a promising way to fight hate speech and promote peaceful, non-polarized discourse.
Why do all these losers want "peaceful discourse:"?
Academics are workers, and you get fired if you say "beat the shit out of them" in a journal article.
"The Implications of High-G Kinetic Forces on Contemporary Political Discourse"
We had a control group of unpunched fascists. And then we punched them anyways.
According to our results, citizens wishing to engage in counter speech would likely increase the effectiveness of their efforts if they organized and participated in discussions in a coordinated way. For example, they could organize around a central platform where members can communicate and strategize (e.g., RI members communicated via Discord server). As an organization they could then steer hateful conversations to a more neutral or even positive ground, by supporting the victims, voicing dissent to hateful positions, or even simply by “liking” counter messages so that they are more broadly visible.
Bullying works, but brigading to bully works better
users of online platforms themselves generate responses to hateful content in order to stop it, reduce its consequences, discourage it, as well as to support the victim and fellow counter speakers
Yes, yes...
and ultimately increase civility
What? No! Fuck civility this was going so well!
What? No! Fuck civility this was going so well!
If we can expand the discourse window so that bullying Nazis is considered civil, maybe libs will but out instead of trying to wag their fingers at us
Sam Biddle, one of Gawker's best and most notoriously aggressive writers, had tweeted that the lesson of Gamergate was that nerds should be bullied into submission; this in turn led to a flood of tweets and emails to me demanding that he be disciplined; I responded in a mode that seemed appropriate: I goaded and dismissed and largely treated the people complaining with a great deal of contempt and flippancy.
-- Max Read, Gawker.com
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html
the key thing to remember with bullying, as well as comedy and other domains is Don't Punch Down. If you're punching up, you're probably fine. If you're punching down, you're probably not. That's why school bullying, as it typically exists, is wrong. But bullying people into being good humans isn't wrong. Bullying someone into being a better person isn't punching down.
What if you're an upper middle class person and you're bullying someone who lives in his parents' basement? That's punching down but it's OK. Encouraged, even.
Don't bully them for having a shitty housing situation though, bully them for saying shitty things.
yeah I don't think there's a right way of becoming pointlessly obsessed with internet weirdos
the people who need to see this will probably gloss over the cringe just because of the aggressive edgy logic bro aesthetic, is what i mean. it's hard to articulate something as vibes-based as cringe
Neither your mind nor your heart is in the right place with this one. Huge miss.
ChapoFYM displays plenty of lolcows, but too bad nobody watches them.
We need to find our lolcow
We already had Painbow, was fun while it lasted.
Damn looks like we’ll just have to organize online to brigade the chuds
I’m adding emphasis bc i often hear ppl say that online organizing “doesn’t work”
I think we should build some kind of tank for this, we could then maybe dunk the fascists in the tank ? IDK I'm still working out the details.
