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I saw an interesting post yesterday about Charlie and social media algorithms. Someone was talking to their friend about him and she really liked Charlie and couldn’t understand why the friend hated him. During the discussion it came out that the one who liked him and only ever had good positive videos and interviews in her feed over the years, videos the person who didn’t like him had never seen. Likewise the person who liked him was horrified when she saw the other side of Charlie. It goes to show what an echo chamber social media is.

I insist on the right to be judged using the same standards, and not to have to exceed the dominant majority in every way to be judged as adequate. Wendy P.

Nobody on this forum disagrees with that. It’s a straw man. That said, as someone who is part of the dominant culture in many ways, it’s easier to find the faults in the different. I’ve worked with at least as many marginally competent or incompetent white men as all other incompetents combined. Thats partly because of my industry in the latter part of my career (computer science), and partly because management (overwhelmingly white male) could understand the problems of men. But women being bullied or talked over in meetings? Minorities not even being invited as optional, only mandatories? They should just grow some balls or thicker skin or something. The obviously superior in all ways will stand out. It’s just that sometimes it’s easier to see the faults in someone who already stands out, because you don’t understand the unique problems they may face — only the ones you share. So many men don’t think that an always-adversarial testosterone-laden environment is as issue. Except that it silences anyone who isn’t that way. Why shouldn’t the dominants have to step out of their fucking comfort zone sometimes? Wendy P.

I don’t really understand why you feel you have to point out that you don’t think the motive of a murderer was actually a justification for murder. Do you often find yourself agreeing with criminal murderers that their victims needed killing?

Isn’t the white fragility theory that white people often react angrily to the idea that society benefits them because they think it means they personally are accused of being horrible racists? I’d be curious to know how you think you are not providing strong support for that theory…

There is this obsession with "so called" Cooper suspects to be extraordinary people,, a bad ass special ops,, a metallurgist who worked on the Manhattan project, an assassin, CIA spy or mercenary etc...... Cooper was a forgettable loner, above average intelligence but a bitter chronic underachiever whose grudge was to accomplish something substantial in life... Something nobody else had done based on his ability after lifelong rejection from a corrupt system that rewards undeserving people.... Cooper was not unique or special or remarkable in life...

Because he knows that white males never benefit from any aspect of society. They are the downtrodden, and thus if they succeed, it is entirely upon their own merit. Unlike, say, women or gays or brown people or black people or Muslims or trans people, who have had only benefits from society. It is also interesting that Winsor claims he is wildly indifferent to a person's background when it comes to value judgments about their intelligence or abilities. But has also stated that trans people are mentally ill and that Muslims are nuts because they worship a pedophile. (Which is even more ironic today.)

John: "My wife ran off with my best friend Mike yesterday." Eddie: "Mike? Since when has Mike been your best friend?" John: "Since yesterday."

Both excellent points. The power and influence of the radical christian right can never be underestimated.

Remember that shithead thought kids should be forced to watch public executions. I mean come on man, spreading god’s merciful love? This is a supposedly devout Christian who read the bible and ended up rooting for the Romans. Ironic, given that shithead was a traitor who helped organise a literal attack on the nation on Jan 6.

Social media isn't a cancer but it discloses cancer in the minds and in the thinking of many.