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Samizdata quote of the day Don’t back down. Don’t apologize. Don’t make clarifications, and don’t try to appease the mob. All of these will only be taken as concessions, and embolden the mob to demand more. The real Achilles’s Heel of the cancel crowd is its short attention span. Once they bully someone into submission, they move on to the next victim. It’s a system designed for quick wins. If you don’t back down, they’ll raise the pitch as far as they can—but eventually they’ll be at a loss for what to do next, and all but the most fanatical will lose interest. The few that remain, now bereft of their backup, are just what you need to teach all of them a lesson, as we did in my case.
– Pedro Domingos from the excellent article “Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence”
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@Samizdata Illuminatus
Thank you. I read this essay with great care and have bookmarked it for when my turn comes, which it well may.
Copy it. I’ve been copying all sorts of things locally lately. Too many sites and articles have been purged or taken down.
Nice to know that some sort of victory over these scum is possible, especially in academia. I had been despairing of people ever doing anything but folding and turning on their fellow men in the face of vicious witch-hunts by cluster-B lizard-people. Of course, now that they have actual police power to back up their madness, the outcome will always be in doubt. Truly mankinds real original sin, the real tragic flaw in human nature, is obedience to authority. Most of human history is a tragedy, because most people obey.
An excellent article.
The comments are always worth reading. In this case they reveal that any mention of this affair and in particular the public apology by the ringleader has been wiped from her wiki page.
The problem arises when the witch hunt escapes from Twitter to find a home with politicians particularly in Government, media and celebs, and other luminaries. .
That’s the backup they get.
That is why NeverTrumpers are worse than useless: they back down, apologize, and try to appease the mob.
Trump does, however, fall short wrt another recommendation in the article:
I am not sure that this principle works as well in American politics as in the AI research community, though.
The strategy can only work if you are not an easy target.
I know of reports of people who have been the victims of such an outrage and who have received flyers in the mailboxes of their neighbors, whose houses have been graffitied, etc.
Why should they stop?
Some people says that they even would be hited by Masked men in the night.
If they thinks you are evil enough, maybe, they’ll even kill you on day.
In Christian culture people who apologise and repent are supposed to be forgiven – they may not be in practice, but this is the expectation. So people apologise – expecting the “Woke” to stop attacking them.
But the “Woke” are MARXISTS, true they are Frankfurt School Sect Marxists – but they are Marxists, and Marxists are not Christian – they do not forgive people who ask for forgiveness, they treat apologies as a sign of weakness. “He is on his knees – kick him harder” has always been the Marxist way.
Just how Frankfurt School Sect Marxism came to dominate the education system, the media, government bureaucracy and Big Business (yes Big Business) is a complex story – but “Cancel Culture” is Marxist (to the core) and begging for forgiveness will just make them attack even more viciously.
@MadRocketSci
Thank you. Warning noted and followed.
As an academic who speaks up about free speech in my university, I expect to be a target sooner or later.
I never bookmark, always download in pdf format.
That’s not so much because i fear that documents will disappear. (Although i do, and most of the time they disappear because the website is re-organized, or is closed down for perfectly innocent reasons.)
I download mainly to be able to sort the downloaded documents into appropriate folders, by subject.
And employers.
“But the “Woke” are MARXISTS, true they are Frankfurt School Sect Marxists – but they are Marxists, and Marxists are not Christian”
Are we allowed to say what they are, or will the board go spastic?
I mean they’re most definitely anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-family, anti-democracy…
I bet your sock drawer is very neat.
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Paul Marks, not only a Christian credo but television has for a long time taught the false and dangerous moral message that an apology can make everything OK (tightly coupled with the insinuation that everything can be made right if you just try hard enough).
Then there’s the confusion of an apology as a sincere expression of repentance vs just a bit of grease for society’s gears like “please” and “thank you”. Marxists have become adept at exploiting politeness and compassion. I usually found the appropriate remedy for this kind of behaviour in school to be a quick right hook.
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I don’t have anywhere as many socks as downloaded files, not by orders of magnitude.
If i did, i’d have to keep the socks paired in my storage facility.
FWIW: Music was influential and sometimes subversive in the 60s unrest.
As they used to say on The Hit Parade TV show: #1 with a bullet – Maggie’s Farm (anotherdotcom.com)
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The trick is to wear nothing but white athletic socks, so that any two socks you pick will match.
“Are we allowed to say what they are, or will the board go spastic?
I mean they’re most definitely anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-family, anti-democracy…”
No. A Marxist is against anything and anyone in their path – even other Marxists if they end up in another power faction -.
Those that help them get power they are not anti at that time.
So a Marxist can be pro to your list depending on circumstances. If a Marxist wants an army, votes you can be sure he will find a way to be pro-family if there is no better path.
What matters to a Marxist is only one thing: Power, absolute power over others. This power does not need to be even physical to some of them. It can be just moral.
But you have to obey the priest.
Ted, that’s a strategy I employ with socks (but black) but the manufacturers are on to me and subtly vary the style from time to time. It can be quite annoying but in a pinch, you can take a gamble that nobody will notice.
Yes, that is a problem. Plus, it would be a nuisance to try to be faithful to a single manufacturer.
As for the black, i haven’t worn my 3-piece pin-striped suit for quite some time, but it still fits and i want to be able to use it at a moment’s notice.
Unless you wear a suit, of course.