Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.
- Professor Ted, "Industrial Society and its Future"
Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average ghetto-dweller, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from upper-middle-class families.
Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems.
- Professor Ted, "Industrial Society and its Future"
@blaha Come into IRC if you want to have a discussion how hydroelectric power works.
My point here is that what is "true" on reddit is being decided by popular opinion - upvotes and downvotes - and the silencing of data that doesn't have popular support. This is not how science should be determined.
People who once read a middle-school physics text get highly upvoted by claiming that because of "conservation of energy", putting a turbine on a river slows down the whole river downstream.
Corrections pointing out that that's not how rivers work are being silenced with downvotes. This is how science by consensus works.
Ignoring the "child porn" aspect for a moment, how many of you trust Microsoft or Google or Apple or Facebag to not do the same for other "unlawful" material such as copyright or speech?