Post: #1

Liberals have turned cannibalistic!

Obvious liberal-impersonating-a-conservative Stephen Colbert is in hot water for satirizing a right-wing racist. Now liberals want to burn him at the stake because he "crossed the line" and "revealed his true racism."

@ColbertReport: I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.

The Twitter hashtag is absolutely exploding:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CancelColbert&src=hash

As I noted on Twitter: "Nothing will come from the #CancelColbert campaign, because Asians are not a politically protected minority. If blacks, homos or women, yes."

Post: #2

On a long enough timeline, every liberal will be denounced by one of their own. There's no loyalty or reason, just a rush from one outrage to the next. What a crappy club to be in.

Relevant story about feminists fighting with themselves: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/...itter-wars

Post: #3

I think that's a Shaq reference: "Tell Yao Ming, ching chong yang wah ah so."
Colbert will be fine. Twitter is full of concern trolls, right and left.

Post: #4

I saw the episode, it wasn't offensive at all. It was just a scathing parody of the Washington Redskin's controversy. I highly doubt there's going to be any articles in the NY Times or Slate etc. calling for his show to be cancelled.

Post: #5

He's a comedian and a political one at that. Comedians are masters of the reframe, and if he's smart he'll use the game he uses on guests on his fans.

Post: #6

(03-27-2014 09:08 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Relevant story about feminists fighting with themselves: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/...itter-wars

That shit is fucking hysterical. Like crabs in a bucket.

Post: #7

This is an opportunity for the manosphere to reach out to Colbert and do an expose on defending his right to comedic free speech. How i'd do the approach is up in the air.

Our central tennant is freedom of speech. If there's one thing we all hold dear, it is our right to say whatever our opinion is.

Post: #8

(03-27-2014 09:51 PM)Ensam Wrote:  

(03-27-2014 09:08 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Relevant story about feminists fighting with themselves: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/...itter-wars

That shit is fucking hysterical. Like crabs in a bucket.

When will this nonsense finally implode?
How many perverted subgenres of "oppression" can be invented before literally everyone on Earth has their own unique label of pre/trans/cis/pan/gender/sex.

I remember back when being bisexual was still cool and edgy... How far we've come as a society!

Post: #9

(03-27-2014 09:51 PM)Ensam Wrote:  

(03-27-2014 09:08 PM)Roosh Wrote:  Relevant story about feminists fighting with themselves: http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/...itter-wars

That shit is fucking hysterical. Like crabs in a bucket.

Rod Serling called it

Post: #10

I've chilled with Colbert. He is funny and cool and rolls with two jacked security secret service looking dudes. He's also like the youngest of 9 kids he told me. Never have watched his show like that though.

Post: #11

(03-27-2014 09:57 PM)frenchie Wrote:  This is an opportunity for the manosphere to reach out to Colbert and do an expose on defending his right to comedic free speech. How i'd do the approach is up in the air.

Our central tennant is freedom of speech. If there's one thing we all hold dear, it is our right to say whatever our opinion is.

I've written a little on that:

Trolling:
http://www.returnofkings.com/29577/how-m...en-society

Trigger Warnings:
http://www.returnofkings.com/29099/how-t...agile-egos

Post: #12

What these women are doing is called trashing. Very fascinating part of the history of feminism.

https://sunshinemaryandthedragon.wordpre...in-groups/

Post: #13

(03-27-2014 08:54 PM)Dagonet Wrote:  If blacks, homos or women, yes."

very true of those groups. and funny, those are the ones who have done the most activism.

Post: #14

I didn't know ching chong ding dong was racist. Thats ehat me and a couple friends say when one us wants to play some ping pong

Post: #15

If it's on TV, there's a 99% chance it's not even worth your thought.

It's just there to distract.

Post: #16

Reaching out to him for the podcast.

It's a stretch but fuckit.

Post: #17

(03-27-2014 11:24 PM)Christian McQueen Wrote:  Reaching out to him for the podcast.

It's a stretch but fuckit.

There's a podcast?

Post: #18

I've heard this kind of controversy before, same phrase gets them riled up every time:

Quote:The term "ching chong" is based on how the Chinese languages supposedly sound to English speakers who do not speak the language and the people of Chinese ancestry that spoke them. While usually intended for ethnic Chinese, the slur has also been directed at other East Asians. Mary Paik Lee, a Korean immigrant who arrived with her family in San Francisco in 1906, writes in her autobiography that on her first day of school, girls circled and hit her, chanting:

Ching Chong, Chinaman,
Sitting on a wall.
Along came a white man,
And chopped his tail off.[3]

A variation of this rhyme is repeated by a young boy in John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row in mockery of a Chinese man. In this version, "wall" is replaced with "rail", and the phrase "chopped his tail off" is changed to "chopped off his tail".

In 1917, a ragtime piano song entitled "Ching Chong" was co-written by Lee S. Roberts and J. Will Callahan.[4] Its lyrics contained the following words:

"Ching, Chong, Oh Mister Ching Chong,
You are the king of Chinatown.
Ching Chong, I love your sing-song,
When you have turned the lights all down."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_chong

Post: #19

They're trying to resurrect the witch hunt of this dumb bitch. Problem: Stephen Colbert ≠ Alexandra Wallace.

Post: #20

I think liberals tend to question themselves more the conservatives, whom I believe usually follow orders more often.

It can be good, but sometimes it goes too far.

Post: #21

A big problem with the liberal mindset is that enough is never enough. Liberalism is based around coming up with an idea of how things "should" be and then working backwards from there. It is not based on observed reality at all. For instance, consider statements like: "men and women should have equal rights" and "all races should be equally represented in colleges" and "everyone has the right to xy or z."

Since these are just made-up things that people want, there's nothing to stop them from taking it one step further indefinitely. Liberalism has little interest (if not outright hostility) for what's practical, what's natural, and what has worked in the past.

What's "good" or "just" by their abstract standards is the only metric they hold themselves to. This is a big part of why the "crabs in a barrel" thing is bound to happen. There's always someone more liberal than you, which immediately makes you today's new evil oppressor. No one can be pure enough forever. As liberalism is so often a "holier than thou" status competition, the goal posts are forever shifting further towards Harrison Bergeron-style craziness.

Post: #22

Comedy Central responded on the Colbert Report twitter account by saying "Stephen doesn't run this twitter account!" But the tweet was just a quote from him on the show.

It's like a giant echo chamber of idiots trying to distract each other, make noise, and waste each other's time with nonsense.

Post: #23

The problem we're seeing here is one the Internet has had since Usenet...Anger is the easiest expression to express online. Anger causes passive lurkers to suddenly become active posters, expressing their anger. This resulted in trolls, who deliberately incited anger in posters to get attention online.

The way experienced Usenet users handled it was by a "killfile" which filtered out troll's postings and anyone foolish enough to "feed" the troll (respond to their post designed to induce anger).

When Usenet stopped being the center of discussion on the Internet, other technologies took over. Discussion board like this have the ban hammer to keep trolls away. On the other hand, Livefyre and Disqus are, by design (very telling that neither service has killfiles), troll magnets (since a long flame war is a surefire way to attract more clicks for online newspapers)...indeed, places like Huffington Post and Raw Story on the left, as well as World Net Daily and Brietbart on the right, consist of little more than flamebait articles that exploit anger to get a lot of comments which bring readers back for more.

Twitter is just as bad: It's pretty easy to express anger in 140 characters, but it's impossible to make a well-reasoned argument supporting a position in a single sound bite sentence.

I have blocked Disqus/Livefyre from my browsers because I have better things to do than read a lot of flames. I don't mind Facebook comments -- I can look at commenter's profiles to see their world view (to see if they are a shill or a well-balanced person), and, more importantly, Facebook has killfiles. I can block users who post a bunch of flame bait.

I like online forums where the moderators know how to use a ban hammer to keep flame wars under control. There's a reason I'm a regular here -- lots of well-articulated discussion and very little flamage.

Edit: Here's a relevant article http://theweek.com/article/index/257915/...ne-outrage

Quote:Why do we love to hate each other online? Over at Beta Beat Ryan Holiday writes about "outrage porn," the steady stream of insincerely performed umbrage and gulping hysteria that seeps like superconcentrated vinegar out of the web's pores every moment of every day. He writes, "'Outrage porn,' as we've come to call it, checks all the boxes of compelling content — it's high valence, it drives comments, it assuages the ego, projects guilt onto a scapegoat, and looks good in your Facebook Feed."

Post: #24

Dave Chappelle used to do way worse shit than that but there was no twitter/facebook back then so people couldn't just instantly fire off an emotional reaction.

Nothing's gonna happen. He's Steven Colbert, he makes fun of people and pisses them off. This is just what he does. If anything it's free publicity for him.

Post: #25

Long Duk Dong not available for comment.