What grinds my gears

I have written several times about the social justice ideology "protection stack", or "oppression stack". In summary, "social justice" is an ideology of oppression. It's highly hierarchical and stratified, and also highly collectivist: It divides people in large groups, decides by an arbitrary metric how "oppressed" that group is, and demands and grants privileges, protections, responsibilities and guilt depending on how "oppressed" that group is. This forms a stack: The more "oppressed" a group is, the higher on the stack, and the more protections and privileges those people are granted. People at a certain level on the stack can not criticize, disagree, talk back or in any way behave in any other way than absolute submission and servitude towards the people higher on the stack. However, they are free to take advantage of, discriminate against, deride, insult and abuse people lower on the stack, with complete impunity. (W...

Somehow in many countries people have forgotten what the whole "flatten the curve" thingie was. When most countries started putting up restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was made quite clear that the plan was never to completely stop the epidemic on its tracks. It was always understood very early on that it's not practical nor feasible to just completely kill the epidemic and stop it completely. Too strict and too many restrictions for too long would just be worse than the disease itself. The whole idea with the restrictions, with "flatten the curve", was never to stop the epidemic, but to slow it down , so that the peak of severe cases is not as massive that it overwhelms the healthcare system. Sure, the pandemic will overall last for longer, but fewer people will be seriously sick at any given moment, and thus the healthcare system will have the resources to care for them. Hospitals will not be overrun with patients in severe condition. Well, e...

Huge disclaimer: The sample size I'm basing the opinions below is extraordinarily small, nebulous and subjective, and none of this is based on any sort of study or statistics or anything of the sort, and it's all just my personal guesswork based on a few patterns I have noticed. The patterns I am referring to in particular are the kind of men who, according to what I have observed, tend to be more of the feminist / social justice persuasion, versus those who tend to be more skeptical (or even staunchly opposing). This idea came to my mind because I have been watching several graphical artists on YouTube, and I suddenly noticed that every single one of them seems to at the very least given subtle hints of being at a very minimum slightly "blue-pilled", ie. sympathetical to social justice ideology tenets and premises. This might be completely coincidental (as stated, my sample size is extremely small), and in some cases I may have completely misinterpreted these subtle ...

"Jazza" is the nickname of a professional artist who makes YouTube videos. Recently he uploaded a video where he goes through pictures he drew as a young child. This is one of those pictures: He comments in the video that the robot maid is "a bit misogynist". This honestly leaves me completely perplexed. How is it "misogynist" in any way, shape or form? For starters, it's a robot. The drawing isn't depicting a human being. It's not even a very human-looking robot, and instead looks like like those robots in old-school TV series from the 50's and 60's. So, it's a robot maid. So what? What exactly makes it "misogynist". If it had been a "robot butler" would that have made it misandrist? Maid services are offered to this day in most countries. They are completely normal. Just make a google search for "maid service" and google will probably tell the closest one to you. Is that somehow "mis...

For years now famous feminists (such as Anita Sarkeesian) have promoted the slogan "listen and believe" as a counter-movement to the perceived alleged prevalence of people, especially police officers, dismissing rape accusations without enough investigation (because feminists think that the entire western society is deeply misogynist and rape claims by women are simply dismissed as a matter of fact, and hardly any rape victim gets justice because she is not taken seriously.) However, if you ever succeed in asking such a feminist in more detail what that slogan means, what they really mean is "listen and take seriously", not "listen and believe". In other words, what they are advocating for is that when a woman makes a rape or sexual harassment accusation, that accusation should be taken seriously and investigated, rather than simply dismissed outright. Most feminists would probably agree with this. But there's a rather major difference between ...

This tweet, made in response by a tweet by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is so right on the money that I just had to share it: Demonstration marches are organized for the purpose of making the government do something about the issue in question. The leader of the country participating in a demonstration march is completely asinine. He is, essentially, protesting for the purpose of his own government to do something. That's like a company CEO going on strike to protest his own salary... You know, rather than just doing something about it (such as raising it outright, or speaking to the board of directors about it). Or a car mechanic posting a negative review on himself because he botched the repair of his own car. The above is the epitome of virtue-signaling instead of doing. The epitome of engaging in empty gestures that make you feel good, rather than actually doing something. As the commenter says, he is the guy who is at the top, the one who should be doi...

Naughty Dog, the developer company of the Uncharted and The Last of Us game series, has been the subject of a big controversy recently. A disgruntled employee (something related to crunching, abuse, underpayments and threats of firing) leaked the entire plot of the soon upcoming Last of Us Part 2 , and the gaming community at large was less than happy about the contents of the story. It turns out that Naughty Dog has become yet another one of these big game companies that have swallowed the blue pill very hard, and become social justice ideologues and activists, and this is heavily reflected in the story and contents of the game. And this is not just rumors, theories or conjecture, as the motivations were made clear by the company management in subsequent interviews with the gaming press: The design and scriptwriting decisions made in the game were very strongly and directly influenced by modern social justice ideas, very much including those of Anita Sarkeesian, and those of the r...