Artex
Jedi
You read my mind. The first thing I did today was unfriend anyone I'd never had a face-to-face conversation with and created a friends group with only people I trust and respect.
Targeted by an Anti-fa acquaintence.
I'm at this crossroad to cutting off all contact. It hurts but what if they one day call the authorities (since we are heading to such a draconian society) because I said this or that years ago. These SJW or cultists and I can't help to notice that they are growing more fanatic. Hopefully they forget about me entirely. For my safety and that of my family.
You can behave like this, or that. But everything is racism. In this way they can silence any form of opposition. They just have to say the magic words. ‘’Racist!’’
It’s to instill fear and obedience.
You are either with them or against them.
See this, you are not the only one:
Hispanic Californian man fired over ‘racist’ OK gesture claims he was only cracking his knuckles, stoking calls to reinstate job
A Mexican-American man who was fired after being accused of flashing a “white power gesture” says he was merely cracking his knuckles, prompting demands that he be given his job back and a retraction from his accuser.
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Google let me down again! How else am I ever to correct my ignorance?!Well, friend, that's because it's spelled "fascism."
Artex
Jedi
It's ridiculous because those terms did not originate as racial terms. Everything is being racialized. All of my software regarding whitelists and blacklists still have to be referred to as such until the software companies call them something else, otherwise you can't communicate properly.My daughter was just given instructions by her company that the terms "whitelisted" and "blacklisted" are no longer allowed to be used in her work. Apparently, these are also terms used regularly in computing as she explained it to me. (I wouldn't have a clue) Anyway, she is frantically deleting these terms wherever they've been used and hasn't been given "replacement words" yet.So yeah, we are only at the entrance of this insane rabbit hole.
Artex
Jedi
I know them through a mutual friend. I shouldn't have argued with them. In fact, the first time I saw them shaming someone on their page, I should have unfriended them. The reason I couldn't let it lie was because the took a screenshot of the post with my name and picture and my wife's picture, wrote "I'm not a white supremacist, but..." above it, tagged me in it and posted it to their page.
The reason it instills fear is because I live in a very PC Left city and an accusation can make you unemployable. I'm far left of center, but I'm not a fanatic. I've heard "liberals get the bullet too" a few too many times recently, and we've had monuments of progressive figures destroyed by BLM/Antifa because "[our city] doesn't live up to those standards and doesn't deserve to display those monuments."
We have our issues, but for -flicks- sake, if it comes to burning it all down or maintaining the status quo, I'm going to have to side with the latter. Honestly, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding what's to come. Gotta figure out a bug out plan for when the Left doesn't accept the results of the election. And when I say "Left" (capital L), I refer to the fanatical left, not everyone left of center.
Artex
Jedi
I already wonder that. I've noticed a radical change in search results from not only Google, but duckduckgo. I now do not get the results I'm looking for unless I'm incredibly specific. If I search for a conservative talking point I want to investigate, like finding the a quote in full context, I only get left-wing results.
Well, at least you can hope that there are some reasonable people who won't fall for that obvious slander based on nothing. And I think there is a good chance that there are at least some. If some "friends", colleges and relatives will take this as the basis to unfriend and be bad to you, so be it, they probably were never real friends anyway. Move on and hang out with people who are reasonable. Other than that I would agree with the feedback so far and make sure to put external consideration to the max now and recognize the idiocracy for what it is and try to find at least some fun with watching that utter insanity unfold. Sounds to me like what that guy is doing is simply mobbing/bullying.
Artex
Jedi
Thanks! I recently discovered Anthony Brian Logan and I appreciate his perspective. I don't think I read the most recent session. I'm actually quite behind though I've read a few from the last couple of years.I agree, Artex. The following video is a good example of this ponerised mind-set: CNN Anchor Don Lemon cuts off a black actor who makes a few reasonable points, but which Lemon considers as an anti-Black Lives Matter stance.
Most people remain quiet for a reason, as they don't want to have a target on their back:
I assume you have read the latest session and the part about strategic enclosure? Maybe read it again? Also, SOTT carries some useful articles about situational awareness which could help you next time. There are are many more where that came from.
Practicing situational awareness can save your life
In December 1972, three days before New Year, Eastern Airlines flight 401 from New York crashed on approach to Miami when the pilot and crew, all focusing on a malfunctioning landing light, failed to register the plane was losing altitude. In...www.sott.net
I really just need to focus on meditation which will bring my situational awareness into full force. Castaneda's "cloak of awareness" analogy was very useful to me.
Artex
Jedi
I really wish I'd read that last weekend! What a different week this would be.I assume you have read the latest session and the part about strategic enclosure?
Practicing situational awareness can save your life
In December 1972, three days before New Year, Eastern Airlines flight 401 from New York crashed on approach to Miami when the pilot and crew, all focusing on a malfunctioning landing light, failed to register the plane was losing altitude. In...
Might be the perfect time to reread "The Fire From Within" by Castaneda and especially the parts about Petty Tyrants.
Also, what I think could really help right now is to set yourself the goal to practice meditation at least 10 Minutes a day (or longer) while sitting upright. Will help you more than you think to be better able to stand above a situation like that, instead of being drowned in it and overwhelmed by it. It always surprises me how very different the world can look after just doing that, especially when nagging worries swirl around the thought loop mill.
SOTTREADER
The Living Force
@Artex my 2 cents...
1 word... Discipline.
You must practise discipline in situations you find yourself in. If in a professional situation, be it in person or in an online forum of peers who know your identity, you must always remain professional and keep your opinion on social situations to yourself. If pushed to present a position, go for the politically correct non-controversial opinion... Don't try to rock the boat and be an 'activist'. It's not your job to correct other people's opinions, let others who have chosen to and have the temperament to, to fight those battles. Your job is to achieve whatever aims you set in that professional environment - I assume your aims are professional in nature.
1 word... Discipline.
You must practise discipline in situations you find yourself in. If in a professional situation, be it in person or in an online forum of peers who know your identity, you must always remain professional and keep your opinion on social situations to yourself. If pushed to present a position, go for the politically correct non-controversial opinion... Don't try to rock the boat and be an 'activist'. It's not your job to correct other people's opinions, let others who have chosen to and have the temperament to, to fight those battles. Your job is to achieve whatever aims you set in that professional environment - I assume your aims are professional in nature.
Artex
Jedi
That will definitely take discipline as I'm used to people being very approving of my liberal viewpoint, but now it's become too far right in the social media sphere.
I was thinking about a middle school classmate who when I asked his opinion on something he said: "I prefer not have have an opinion. It's easier to keep friends that way." At the time I thought I was so much better than him, but now I know he had the right idea. But at the same time, sometimes sharing an opinion reveals the dangers around you. But I think I will stick with the Cs advice and keep my head down, and work to remember that what consumes your mind controls your life.
duyunne
Jedi Council Member
My wife was called a racist once because she scolded someone trying to cut through herself and the check out counter at the super market instead of taking a step a few feet over to go behind her.
You can’t give common sense an explanation to someone who is mentally retarded. This is literal and not to be a smear. We’re dealing with a vacuum of IQ at an unprecedented rate right now.
Be vigilant!
SOTTREADER
The Living Force
If you must express yourself, I think it's safer to do so from a place where you ask something rather than say something e.g. ask someone what they think of something rather than say what you think of something.
This way at least you can know what environment you're in before expressing your position e.g. if you're dealing with SJW type people then obviously you need to modify your behaviour so as not to fall into the position where you're being accused of being a white supremacist when this will clearly undo your professional aims.
Read your environment, know the type of people you're dealing with, keep your aims in mind, maintain discipline... Remember it's not your job to change the world and that you are just 1 man.