what is the significance of 4chan as an intellectual/political

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Realistically, how you plan to integrate spaghetti dropping artists in out society?

>4chan
>intellectual movement
>political movement

Sweetie I like this site better than Facebook. I think I will explore it some. I left you your chicken tenders on the counter.

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>>2924534
4chan only serves as platform for political ideas to springboard into the public concise; and most of the time that only happens for the "lulz."

Liked it better when it was muh secret club tbqh

>>2924551
me too, but if we truly believe in the values of free expression the website is based on should we not bring the taboo elements of 4chan culture to light and stop fearing the status quo?

>4chan
>intellectual movement
>political movement
LOL, if you're talking about the 2016 US Presidential Election, Trump support on /pol/ was something that started as a joke and only gained momentum because of the massive amounts of butthurt Donald Trump was causing as he kept winning.

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>>2924562
Do you think /pol/ would shift to anti-Trump to cause more butt pain in the future?

>>2924562
i'm not. 4chan is a serious sociological phenomenon that is/will become the birthplace for many future intellectual movements. it's at the heart of today's internet culture. we originate the memes, the memes control social media, social media controls the masses. don't underestimate the importance of 4chan.

>>2924562
t. assblasted redditor still in denial

IT WAS HER TURN

>>2924534
>>>/pol/
No current events.
>B-but humanities
No fucking current events you dumbass

>>2924571
/pol/'s too steadfast in their love of facism and Hitler.
If anything they'll go even further to the right to piss the normies off.

>>2924576
>d-d-dont criticize my clown candidate!

>>2924578
What about ancient 4chan? I remember that site being good at 1845 BC.

>>2924578
i'm not talking current events. look beyond the past year of /pol/. 4chan has been a major intellectual institution for the past decade.

>>2924589
Still current you stupid motherfucker. 25 year rule.

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>>2924587
Fuck off newfag the Hittites ruined 4chan
>tfw you will never experience /new/ during the bronze age collapse again

Whoa 4chan is history

>>2924573
You're not wrong but if you treat this as serious business you lose sight and control of that power

As the other anon said, anything that comes of here is for the lulz. So has been and shall remain.

>>2924562
That doesn't mean its effect wasn't significant. I personally a handful of people that are diehard Trump fans, and it's obvious they picked it up from this site because all they ever say about him are memes. For fucks sake, Pepe memes became part of discourse in the mainstream media about Trump. Stuff here might start as a joke, but autists are always going to take it seriously; this place has a lot more influence than most here realize.

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>>2924589
>4chan has been a major intellectual institution for the past decade.

>>2924599
sweetie /pol/ was overwhelmingly pro Trump since day 1, revise history all you want to push some epic le troll narrative but your reddit is showing and showing hard, you obviously have no idea what /pol/ was like prior to 2015 or its precursor board /new/

>>2924603
Name one more influential person. The only intellectual that comes close is Dawkins who literally invented memes.

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>>2924605
>/new/ was so right-wing m00t was forced to remove in entirely

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>>2924611
Even /new/'s precursor board was deleted in late 2008 for being too right wing

>>2924610
lerm lad, the opinions of kids arent taken serisouly because of their nature, read up on Dunning-Kruger and realise no ones opinion is worth shit until at least the mid twenties, before that point people are generally only correct about something by accident because they simply dont have the knowledge to make an informed decision. people here think they are important becuse they tell each other that, when shit from here gets in the media its not because its important but because the lowest common denominator news sells the most adverts.

>>2924611
>>2924630
You're confusing 'tastelessly & belligerently racist' for 'right wing'.
Moot wouldn't care if /new/ was a board full of traditionalists talking about René Guénon, but it wasn't.

>>2924650
>Implying I was referring to neocon rightwing

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>You're confusing 'tastelessly & belligerently racist' for 'right wing'.
>Moot wouldn't care if /new/ was a board full of traditionalists talking about René Guénon, but it wasn't.

>>2924654
Who said you were? I mentioned "Traditionalists" which is how many /pol/locks like to flatter themselves, but it's more accurate to describe them as reactionary. The heart of /pol/ isn't 'right wing'. It's simply the antithesis of the mainstream thesis.

>>2924561
>but if we truly believe in the values of free expression the website is based on

But that's wrong you retard, the only thing this site is based on is anime and japanese culture.

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>>2924650
>You're confusing 'tastelessly & belligerently racist'
>caring about racism on a site traditionally rife with gore, cp, hentai and shots
Please leave redditor you are out of your element

>>2924678
You want to take that up with moot, he's the one who deleted the board over it.

>>2924678
>caring about racism on a site traditionally rife with gore, cp, hentai and shots

You just literally proved his point. In what world would denizens of such a site be considered traditionalist right wingers?

>>2924693
Why is racism supposed to be singled out now?

Fuck off moralfags and take the Donald with you

Fucking nigger I hope you fall into a vat of boiling fried chicken oil

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>>2924693
Fascism admires the ubermenschen

>>2924562
not him, I was talking more about early internet movements like chanology or the birth of memes as we know them.
In a few years historians will be studying 4chan and getting interviews with m00t and trying to decipher the mad world of the pre-web 2.0 world.

Like it or not 4chan has left a mark on the history of the internet.

>>2924571
it has already happen.

>>2924579
>further to the right
The only thing further right than /pol/ is Israel

>>2924716
no it hasn't.

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>>2924716
I know you guys will say me to go back to /pol/, but I've to post this.

>>2924719
of course. Now 4chan is filled with a bunch of midwestern "people" who think that ebin infographs are evidence.

>>2924719
The ribbit trend starts in March.

>>2924724
This not about ribbat thread on 4chan, but in ribbet itself.

>>2924561
You were never here when it was a secret club. You're post-chanology newfag trash that thinks 4chanz is free speech lul

>>2924571
No, it's become the most reddit board on 4chan. Just imagine a lefty city saying "WE LOVE ISIS" as a virtue signaling meme and then a bunch of ISIS immigrating and taking over a city. Sure some peaceful* Muslims (tm) in ME hate them and chased them out. But they're still sandnigs, even if they not the same as other sandnigs. That's /pol/.

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>intellectual/political movement
>/pol/ macros and reddit/his/ memes

>>2924717
/pol/ loves Israel now because Trump

>>2924743
bs

>>2924719
that's silly.

>>2924610

Peter Sloterdijk
Rogers Brubaker
Eva Illouz
Helmut Schmitt
Ramachandra Guha
Chantal Mouffe

>implying you are not retarded

>>2924534
4chan is the bridge between normies and the more obscure chans and imageboards. This is the reason 4chan had a reputation of churning out all the memes. They dont necessarily originate here, but its where everyone comes together to shitpost.

The anonymity combined with this makes it impossible to stop new ideas from poking their way into the normie Internet using 4chan as a springboard, because fringe opinions cant be downvoted to oblivion and therefore at least some people will be exposed to the ideas,for better or worse.

>>2924746
normally I wouldn't believe him but with the horde of redditors that infest /pol/ now, it wouldn't be too surprising.
>>2924753
>Ramachandra Guha
makers of modern india is a damn good book.

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>>2924746
Uhm well suddenly there are good Jews like the ones in Trumps team and the ones fighting Daesh.

>>2924760
>makers of modern india is a damn good book.
Yeah, maybe I will check that out. I just know him from public speakings and such.

>>2924766
I read about him because most indian "nationalists" call him a secular psuedomuslim who wants to genocide hindus

>>2924759
Are you serious? You've must have been on 4chan something like 5 years or less if you unironically think that. Definitely less than 10 years.

>>2924770
Yeah I know he is controversial but my initial comment just claimed he was influential which he undoubtedly is.

>>2924760
>/pol/ is not one person
right, but when you want to generalize you stick with the most influential posters. trump israel lovers are made fun every day and they mostly can only hang in their general

>>2924773
yeah, he is.

>>2924534
>4chan
>movement
Its time for you to move on to reddit.

>>2924534
>what is the significance of 4chan as an intellectual/political movement?
Giving severely autistic people an outlet. Which is not as good as its sounds, as it allows autists an alternative to socialization, the opportunity to isolate themselves among similar people, which just serves to make them even less capable of functioning in society.
>should 4chan be completely integrated into the public world?
Jesus, no. Keep that shit contained here.

>>2924771
Good argument. I see you directly refuted my statement instead of defaulting straight to "you've been here less than x time." Why dont you point me to some correct info since you've clearly been here so long?

This site has been absolute trash for a year, and slowly declining for 5 years before that.

And the cause is the same as with great empires. A demographic change, bringing the biggest idiots on the Internet here. Also somewhat corrupt leadership. 4chan is not unique in this. Everything millennials have touched since the Twin Towers fell has gone to shit.

Just yesterday I posted some real culture, I checked again right now and just as I expected, there were no responses.

Even other chans have mostly been ruined.

Undoubtedly, some fool will respond to this with some of the insipid, unoriginal cliches - not memes, but cliches - that are all over the place, such as >t. Besides its astounding lameness, >t. signifies an accusation while never giving a substantial response to anything that was said. That is not quality posting, but mods will eexcuse it, calling it "banter", because they themselves are new or ignorant too.

>>2924759
The truth of the meaning of "4chan" is that it's a SIMULACRUM of new ideas, not the origin nor creator of new ideas themselves. It provides the userbase the appearance, the enjoyment of partaking in giving birth to new creations when such ideas has already been done a long time ago. It is the nihilistic conformity of perversion, without active purpose whatsoever.

>>2925256
>Just yesterday I posted some real culture
Get a load of this neckbeard. 4chan is in it's golden age. The only thing I truly miss is Scooby, well and when /x/ was spooky

>>2924595
>So has been and shall remain
This has been false for like the past 3 years

>>2924771
You type like you're "definitely less than 10 years" old.

Fuck you

>>2925337
Not even him but this is the lamest insult ive ever seen lol

>>2924571
What is /pols/ end game?

4chan isn't a movement, the value of anonymity is in fact the opposite, to break up groups and normy clique bullshit.

4chan proved a community can adapt to trolls on its own without overbearing mods who may have their own agendas, it provided an interesting environment to discuss controversial issues. However when 99% of people have the same opinion and use the same thought stopping cliches to avoid debate it overwhelms the "immune system", it becomes little better than a reddit circlejerk.

In a way it is our fault. For whatever reason it is much more fun to BTFO the far-left than the far-right, so we fedora wearing freethinkers neglected to BTFO the far-right as well. We let it get out of hand.

We should have embraced a purer form of disdain for irrationality, perhaps that of Max Stirner.

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>>2924589
>4chan has been a major intellectual institution for the past decade.
Irony really did die in 2016 huh

>>2925283
I said that 4chan has that reputation, not that it is. I even said that content doesnt necessarily originate here, it just seems like it to normies. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt though, i made that post early as fuck this morning so i may have skewed my meanings a bit.

I agree with the rest of your post tho.

>>2925310
It's really sad that you responded to him using cliches probably without realising that yourself.

>>2924589
>>2925492
4chan does discuss things society wouldn't without being an insular echo chamber. These discussions never get very cerebral but since no one else is doing it 4chan ends up at the forefront.

>>2925408
/pol/ is (probably fruitlessly) trying to make sense of the world, and how it is leaving the past behind quicker than ever. I cant say i blame them, im in my twenties and i already feel like a middle aged man who cannot identify with the youth. If i had to agree with /pol/ on anything itd be the degeneracy meme.

>>2925531
> without being an insular echo chamber
Yeah... Like these why africa is poor because of holocaust never happened threads.

>>2925462
It sounds cliched but the left tends to adhere to moral ideals, and people tend to scorn moral ideals because it requires abiding by rules that are not in one's supposed self-interest and requires acknowledging that people are subject to a higher authority, usually politicians and ideologues who cannot live up to these ideals because politics is very much the opposite of morality.

In general, our age is contemptuous of ideals and morals because they've been branded as "childish," "unrealistic," "against freedom of action." Even ideas of unifying or universal values that promote social harmony and progress are under assault. This is, of course, the fault of the so-called "leftist" parties of today, which espouse identity politics or, that is to say, the politics of particularism or interest groups that aren't united by values but the near-tribal and mystical ideas that one's gender or race somehow imbues one with distinctive moral and mental qualities that groups without these biological characteristics lack. This is not leftism; implicit in all of this is the establishment of new gender and racial hierarchies. In my opinion, it is not enough to simply achieve parity between men and women in jobs or wages (assuming these exist) and to have percentages of blacks or hispanics in jobs equal to their percentage of the population. Like all revolutions or movements to upend old hierarchies, what starts as reasonable grievances achieves some initial successes but, when frustrated further (as the complex nature of politics and society can never completely accomodate the total demands of one constituent or another, as government resources are always limited) becomes increasingly dogmatic and resentful. What was once a means of ensuring equality is also the very means by which abuses are committed. Ethnic or gender tensions blur the distinction between equality and crass lobbying for the interest of one's in-group. (cont.)

>>2925531
An echo chamber does inadvertently form, shielded by memes and catchphrases.This sort of shielding was already formed even before 4chan got waaay too political, with /b/ shitting on newfags and enforcing board culture themselves in a social shaming manner free from mod intervention (moot spoke about this before).

But back to the main point, 4chan isn't a 'major intellectual institution' for the sole reason of nobody including itself takes 4chan seriously.

>>2925564
Once one underprivileged group gets a foot in the door through such privileges as affirmative action or yielding to "diversity committees," "sexual assault committees" and other such organs to ensure the end of racial abuse, these very unaccountable organs unsurprisingly take more and more power for themselves. New cultural norms that were meant to ensure equality, such as addressing women and men without the older distinctions or assumptions in speech, avoiding gawking or catcalling against women and other thing I myself find noble, eventually become means to enforce a strict moral code, akin to Christianity, that forces men (imo, this might sound autistic to some) to have to constantly analyze their actions for fear that increasing strictures on language and conduct are perceived as inappropriate, and therefore, risks social alienation and even damaged career prospects. I think, too, that it also becomes a way to discriminate against social pariahs and nonconformists of any kind who do not have the social acuity, or perhaps the desire, to understand these rules. This new morality favors the underprivileged groups and what's more it is abused by them to forward their own personal (career, social, economic) goals while at the same time morally validating any kind of action that forwards the interest of one's identity group.

anyway lost my train of thought, blog over

>>2925607
I should also say the identity politics doesn't hold the sole blame. They're the symptom of I believe neoliberalism and a way of avoiding questioning the economic self-interest that serves as the basis of our economy AND society. A society that prizes self interest above all scorns privileging any moral system over another, but sees nothing wrong with privileging a social group in the name of easing the barriers to that group's self-interest. The focus on identity is a spook and at the end of the day is substanceless for most people except those professional, upper middle classes and rich (the top 10%) who can stroke their vanity fighting for "noble" causes of an oppressed group (which is automatically moral on the basis of its underdog status) because it doesn't force them to concede any of their economic dominance.

>>2925256
>muh millenials
kys old man. don't you need to fucking your lardass wife and feed your kids hamburgers right now?

>>2925564
>>2925607
>>2925632
>people tend to scorn moral ideals
People on 4chan. Also it is more large movements in the normy world that naturally claim to be moral.

Identity politics seems to boil down to 3 things.

The fact we are individuals versus the need for government and society to stratify people into giant blobs. For example men are statistically more likely to crash so insurance companies have to stratify but this is unfair to men who drive well.

Utilitarian versus deontological ethics. At certain extremes like when someone is drowning you are obligated to throw a lifesaver. At other extremes like having to obey some AI that makes you act for the "greater good" it becomes a dystopia.

Corruption. People with irrational beliefs exploited by politician who pervert whatever cause they have taken up which, though a good cause, doesn't mean they are doing what is right in practice.

We could be discussing these things. We could be BTFOing the left. Instead we get /pol/ being just as irrational, we end up with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

>>2925539
>>2925568
That is because /pol/ is leaking, which is another issue.

Nobody takes 4chan seriously, but 4chan is like a slither of scum floating atop the cesspool of the internet and anonymity in general and people take the internet seriously.

>>2924571
Are American satirists so aware of how dumb average American is that they even have to label literally everything?

How much of value would be lost again if 4chan kicked the bucket?

>>2926083
a lot because it would release 1000s of us into the world

>>2926093
>implying you wouldn't creep into another crevice immediately

>>2924739
This post is completely indecipherable.

>>2925408
I think most of them just want a white ethnostate

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4chan isn't taken seriously because people need to be taken accountable in reality in order to have any sort credibility on the public (((opinion))). Anonymity would be able to say something about public opinion only if it weren't muddled by n layers of irony and trolling.

In a world where twitter became the official transcript for a majority of political and journalistic records 4chan fires pretty low on that scale.

>>2924561
>4chan
>Free speech
Yeah, no. Ten years ago maybe, sure, but not for ages. I've been permabanned for posting excerpts from studies finding that incidence of CSA (child sexual abuse) has practically no predictive power for determining the likelihood of negative outcomes in adults, and that the concept is better explained in terms of physical and emotional abuse, with the understanding that nonabusive childhood sexual encounters can and do occur. Literally not even an endorsement of pedophilia, just a suggestion that we should rethink how we talk about CSA.

I've also been banned (from this board) for posting a chart of the relative prevalence of consanguinity in various parts of the world, and suggesting that due to the fact that India and the Islamic world aren't plagued by catastrophically high rates of birth defects, there's probably nothing biologically wrong with cousin or sibling incest, and that our Western version of the incest taboo is almost certainly a social artefact. I did note that as the mother-son incest taboo is observed in all primates including bonobos, who will typically fuck literally anything, it presumably predates humanity and there may well be something there.

Basically, if you have the gall to endorse non-SJW-approved "degeneracy," anything you type will be deleted. We'll see how long this post lasts.

>>2928519
reported, sweetie
;)

>>2925462
It was bound to happen my friend. 4chan, at it's core, has always been contrarian. Popular culture and academia, the environments that most posters in 4chan are subject to, are by and large left-wing. Therefore it follows that in lashing out at the environment of an anon's daily life, 4chan would turn more and more right-wing.
It also helps that right-wing ideologies are labeled as 'extreme' and 'hateful' by the media so they provoke a much more visceral response in normies thus attracting trolls who in turn attract genuine right-wingers creating a feedback loop.

4chan is just a very contrarian website, so its ability to break the conditioning of rl society is built into it

>>2925533
>trying to make sense of the world
If anything /pol/ does everything in it's power to make politics an entirely ridiculous affair

>>2928479
pretty much this. 4chan is just a place to make pepes and spread them now.

>>2924571
Is Ben Garrison the biggest retard out there? Trump fucking over Polar Bears is not a victory, it's autistic.

>>2928519

>Islamic world aren't plagued by catastrophically high rates of birth defects.

I hope for your sake you're being ironic.

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>>2924534
4chan's visitors are stupid in their majority. There's only a significant amount of posters that contributes to the actual creation of memes (speaking about cultural ideas) on "serious" boards. The rest are just circlejerking idiots who are trashing the servers with their low-tier shitposts. Originally this site was a quite fun place to discuss anime. After it took the turn in the direction of politics everything changed for worse. Chanology attracted a ridiculous amount of normalfags and redditors who flooded this site with their retarded agendas and tried to fit in with "cool anonymous edgyness". /pol/ is a fucking laughing stock that keeps pouring its cancer on boards that aren't even related to it with its retarded "redpilled" crossboarders. There's no actual value to this site for our current world. Normalfags are mainly influenced by social networks and left-wing sources. The fact that the white trash of America found its political shelter here is embarrasing for originalfags and those who visited this place for actual humor and discussion about japanese culture, which was its original point. The fact that this place's source code is a literal copypasta from Futaba is a proof of that. And now you'll get called out for posting fucking anime girls.
>hiding your power level
This is ridiculous
This place still exists for the lulz, but the fact that so many outcasts who come here for their share of "muh 6 gorillion" shitposting take it seriously is atroscious.

>>2924542
the sad thing is /pol/ legitimately consider themselves an influential political force whose 'meme magic' was a factor in Donald Trump's victory

>>2931153
Let's play guess who is behind this post

>>2924680
moot is a literal cuckold "male feminist". Who cares what Luggage Lad thinks?

>>2924534
4chan is already "integrated" in the public world, this place is full of redditors and 9gag/facebook/twitter kids who hopped on the bandwagon to le ebin meme web site XDD

>>2925632
Agree with a lot of this but I have to disagree with your classification of leftists as submitting to moral authority while the right does not.

A lot of right and far right justification comes from traditionalist sentiment. Living within the structure, respecting the authority of both the state and its institutions as well as a higher (often religious) power. Moral obligation and the idea that a certain code must be followed and to violate the code through change is tantamount to heresy is a staple of right wing politics.

Conversely leftist politics are often about tearing down or recreating the authority structure, to do away with societal norms and codes and build a new one more in line with their method of thinking.

Of the two I would say the right is more focused on structure, authority, and a moral obligation or code as you put it. The framing of that code doesn't align with the norms left wing individuals and groups want to see in the world.

>>2924707
It has less to do with the virtues of racial theory compared to mainstream scientific consensus, and more to do with people taking shitposting faggotry to an unprecedented level.

>>2931415
Yes, I totally agree with you. But the morality of the rightwing as you describe it, I believe, is a fundamentally different kind of morality to the leftist one. As I see it, traditions, authority and institutions garner respect among the right because of their basis in tradition. Morality and politics, as Burke I think put it, among conservatives (and to extent other right wingers) is believed to be an accumulation of traditions and prescriptions made over many centuries. The moral system created by this accumulation of traditions is described as "organic", as a product of accumulated wisdom created to deal with problems that continuously rear their heads in political social and economic culture. This accumulation of practices, this "tradition", however, is not systematic, codified, or rational. In fact, to try to systematize codify or rationalize these traditions would be to disrupt the system and make it irrecognizable. Rather, like the British Constitution, the tradition is refracted through the minds of the men who understand it, and by unspoken or unconscious decisions adapts with the time. This is the advantage of unwritten tradition: to write a tradition down is to reify it, to limit it and even destroy it. I've read, for example, that a prominent part of modernization is to bring unspoken traditions into the realm of speech and, thereby, bringing light to its inscrutability to human reasoning and consequently making it seem foolish and worth abandoning. This, to me at least, is the essence of morality on the right. To repeat it again it is an unquestioning obedience to accumulated traditions (women can only do this and that, men have this and that duty to fulfill) and the institutions that embody or enforce these traditions.

Correlation =/= Causation

4chan is not the cause but just another expression of the same underlying phenomenon.

People that say /pol/ got Trump elected are either kids or retards who only browse this site all day and have no idea about economics and politics or what is going on around the globe.

People failing to see the bigger picture is nothing rare though. Self-importance bias makes this same thought process common to different groups and communities.

>>2931347
moot made a bigger mark on history than nearly any other "alpha" internet personality.

>>2931507
> Conversely leftist politics are often about tearing down or recreating the authority structure, to do away with societal norms and codes and build a new one more in line with their method of thinking.
Very true, but it's still compatible with what I wrote. Contrary to rightist morality, the morality subscribed to by leftists is a product of the enlightenment. Enlightenment thinkers and their descendants treasured systematic, exhaustive reasoning. In other words, you start with a series of first principles (all humans created equally) and you develop this principle into a body of knowledge through reason. Of course, reason as written down on paper (to repeat a variation of "x has never been tried!) looks plausible but just because a line of reasoning is comprehensible does not mean that it takes into account the innumberable variables that exist in reality. It is, then, reductionist.
Leftists, as you say, want to reorient society and government along the lines of their more "rational" morals. Since leftists believe this morality to be infallible and universal, it gains dogmatic adherents quite similarly to the conservative who dogmatically defends his faith or the institution to which he submits himself. The fundamental difference, however, is that the universalism of leftist thinking, much like proselytyzing religions like Islam or Christianity (historical circumstances eventually forcing leaders of these religions to accommodate difference) want to impose a regularity on society that is contrary to most people's social mores. They want total obedience to this so-called logical morality. Of course, groups on the left are probably unfamiliar with hte reasoning of the enlightenment and haven't read deeply on morality. However, the slogans they appropriate from it, such as human rights and universalism, in the modern day imbues them with a moral authority, because people by and large accept these ideas without recognizing the contradictions (cont.)

>>2931089
Their rate of serious birth defects is nearly twice as high as the US, but 6% isn't catastrophic by any measure and consanguinity isn't the only contributing factor.

>>2931624
cont.
without recognizing the contradictions that result from trying to implement abstract ideas in practice. For one, all resistance to "rational", self-evident morality claimed by leftists is met with incomprehension and hatred. To contradict a reasoning they regard as universal and rational seems to them irrational, and so opponents are subject to menacing attacks of "stupidity" and ignorance. To question some component of leftwing activists that seems contradictory or irrational is unacceptable and marks you out for discrimination and accusations of mental illness on account of the inability to see the Truth and using and abusing the authority of psychology (to which people today yield way too much authority and explanatory power) to undermine the individual's self-confidence or assurance in his own position. Even if the individual doesn't falter turning him into a function of his psychological complexes is held up as an example to others to avoid such a fate by adhering to the true morality. Ironically, I think this is why the soviets put a lot of dissidents in mental hospitals and umped them with drugs. But its also evident in ideas of "internalized oppression" and other unfalsifiable ideas to weed out treachery (read: people of different social economic position or skin tone) in society.

>>2931622
How's the work at Jewgle, mootykins?

The greatest archive of 4chan was turn Watamote in a anime.

>>2931711
So, in conclusion, what is claimed to be universal morality is, in fact, a means to enforce the domination of a new hierarchy, whether upheld by activists of the academia who claim authority over a contemporary movement. As I said above, the adherents to this leftist morality fail to see the consequence of their actions (or maybe they do?) is that they believe themselves to be the bearer of self-evident truth or moral authority. To say that increased authority of women or minorities creates a new hierarchy is not to be believed by them, because they truly believe that, being the embodiment of universal values, they themselves can never be wrong. Any action, whether good or bad, is righteous.
Identity politics is a particularly blatant example of this. It claims to work on behalf of the oppressed and all people but in actuality benefits the group it represents. This group, however, is immune from criticism because on the basis of their "oppressed status" which in turn derives from the color of their skin or their sex organs. To possess these physical features is to possess authenticity, morality or, in a word, universality itself. With this moral superiority established, it's no surprise that some or all of the members of these in-groups use their moral capital to forward their personal goals at the expense of the out-group.

>>2931761
activists or those academia that choose to patronize them*

>>2931761
And to address that last point anon. While in reality the left claims to want to raze hierarchy, structure and moral obligation, in practice what happens is that they create new ones that benefit themselves. It's simply trading one kind of moral domination for another.

>>2931714
They make me clean the floors - for free

ITT a bunch of faggots arguing about gay shit

We are first-movers in internet culture, and lately into real life events as well

But it's still mostly for the lulz, and redditors and other seriouz businez boards take the wheel and drive the car into the building

Dammit, I just want some bantz and some animated pr0n, all that real world shit, get that away from me.

Pretentious faggots