fractional slacker Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 You have to feel sorry for Peter Boghossian who teaches on the campus (Portland State Unviversity) where this took place. He has the unenviable task of having to deal with these sorts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7cwWegXCU
tjt Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 What is this? I don't think I have the background info to understand what's going on in this video?
Daniel Unplugged Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 For supposed anarchists, they are behaving a lot like sheep. They repeat the same line over and over again in unison. It seems like all traces of individuality have been erased from them. BTW, I have no idea what this was about. I just realized it was called the An Com conference. That sheds some light on their chanting.
ParaSait Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 BTW, I have no idea what this was about. Don't worry, that's how everyone feels about left-"anarchist" protests.
nathanm Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 I wish more people would record the boring stuff that happens before the ruckus starts, because this like so many phone videos doesn't have any context to explain what's going on.
dsayers Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 No context. There are things we can see though. Chanting repeatedly is not the same as starting a dialogue. It's verbal brow-beating. Chanting, "We will not be silenced," in response to others trying to talk is hypocritical. And as Daniel pointed out, it speaks to lack of individuality. Every one of these things makes it hard for a rational person to take these people seriously. Self-knowledge, rational thought, and using empirical evidence to test your theories are very important!
fractional slacker Posted May 12, 2014 Author Posted May 12, 2014 The "anarchists" were upset about a guy, Kristain Williams a fellow anarchist, who had the audacity to say allegations are not proof of wrong doing. Typical leftist nonsense:Williams’s controversial writing, “The Politics of Denunciation,” states that factions of feminism have made questions about sexual assault “off limits” because it has become widely accepted that the answer is always “whatever the survivor says it is.” “Under this theory, the survivor, and the survivor alone, has the right to make demands … one obvious implication is that all allegations are treated as fact. And often, specific allegations are not even necessary” it reads. “It may be enough to characterize someone’s behavior … as ‘sexist,’ ‘misogynist,’ ‘patriarchal, ‘silencing,’ ‘triggering,’ unsafe,’ or ‘abusive.’” The students organized the protest through a Facebook event titled “Shut Down Kristian Williams!” “Please come and support the survivors who Kristian Williams has targeted, support the feminists and survivor-supporters who Kristian Williams has deemed as ‘divisive,’ support a rad community that supports survivors and values women,” the description reads. http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5612
fractional slacker Posted May 15, 2014 Author Posted May 15, 2014 Need another laugh? Apparently threre is something called the Jericho Movement. You see them referenced on the opening shot of OP video.This bullet point is taken from the Oregon Jericho website is an article about communist Chilean "Anarchists" (a slight contradiction IMO). Anarcha-Feminism • The Theater of the Oppressed and popular education • Patriarchy and structural violence through capitalism, state and religion• Gender violence and discrimination http://oregonjericho.wordpress.com/
GRosado Posted May 18, 2014 Posted May 18, 2014 All ideological factions have this in common whenever there is a crowd. It's called Deindividuation. Gustave Le Bon, Leon Festinger & Philip Zimbardo have excellent books on this subject.
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