Does Ben Shapiro belong on the SJW list?

The readers at Instapundit are divided on the subject:

Aigghh
Ben Shapiro? You doing Vox Day’s dirty work now Glenn? What’s next? Going after Nick Searcy for his kid? Join in with him saying Sarah Hoyt’s not an American?

ChicagoRefugee
As the link on SJWList documents, Ben Shapiro has publicly stated that “racists” should be hunted down and hounded from their places of employment. Targeting people for unemployment because you disagree with their views? Sounds like a SJW to me.

Richard McEnroe
Ben walked through a crowd of screaming, cursing antisemites to confront them at CSUNLA. What have you done lately?

ChicagoRefugee
What I haven’t done is publicly advocate for a SJW witch hunt against my philosophical and/or political opponents. Which is why he’s on the list and I’m not.

Rad4Cap
“Why am I on the list?

You were added to the list because you publicly called for someone to be fired, disinvited, shunned, no-platformed, or otherwise punished or silenced for refusing to submit to the SJW Narrative. The particular incident is linked to your name in the list.

There are three criteria for inclusion on The Complete List of SJW:

  • Self-identifying as a Social Justice Warrior
  • Publicly advocating the disemployment or no-platforming of an individual for failing to submit to the SJW Narrative
  • Being a journalist and publishing articles that support the SJW Narrative or an SJW attack campaign. “

Crawf
Ben is saying people should be anathema for their views. Does he extend that to socialists or just racists? Socialists murdered 100,000,000 or more during the 20th century — shouldn’t being a socialist be as obscene as being a racist?

I have to admit, I don’t think of Ben Shapiro as an SJW, I think of him as a cuckservative. The two are entirely distinct specimens. However, given that Shapiro has publicly endorsed the most SJW of tactics for one of the five primary SJW ideals, I think his presence on the list is absolutely justified unless and until he publicly recants his support for hunting down racists, punishing them for their opinions, and excluding them from employment.

After all, the purpose of the SJW List is to inform prospective employers who will be a good little SJW and support the organization’s purpose of seeking the highest abstract standard of social justice, and I think it is clear that Ben Shapiro would make an absolutely ideal employee for any converged organization.

That is intrinsically anti-American and anti-Constitutional activity. Regardless of what you think of racists, they have the same right to work and to enjoy free association that you do. One of the reasons SJWism is not merely totalitarian, but will inevitably lead to violence is that they stupidly insist on backing their opponents into a corner from which they must either fight or submit.

Since many, if not most people will never submit to the SJW Narrative or to SJW authority, they thereby seek the very violence they claim to decry and oppose. And if they were more capable of dialectic or had longer time preferences, we might even believe they do so on purpose.

A review of the gods debate

Robert Beisert reviews On the Existence of Gods:

In the past couple of weeks, an amazing written debate on the existence of gods (not God, but gods) was published to the Amazon store. Theist Vox Day (Theodore Beale, for those who care) and atheist Dominic Saltarelli exchanged three rounds of debate concerning the question of whether or not gods could exist. Though it does not establish an airtight case on either side, it serves as an interesting launching point into the debate itself.

He does regret that the arguments were not examined more deeply, but a debate is simply not the idea mechanism for that sort of thing. I would like to consider some of the ideas Dominic and I discussed in more detail at some point, but right now my hands are more than full.

Anyhow, it’s good to see that people who are serious about the subject appear to have thought rather well of both the approach as well as the exchange of ideas.

And don’t miss A Pius Geek’s review of Iron Chamber of Memory, which he says has more in common with Victor Hugo than James Patterson.

SJWs are already crying wolf

As I mentioned in SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, SJWs are all offense, no defense. They can’t take ANY heat, or even the simple, factual documentation of their public statements and actions:

I work in a datacenter and we have just received an abuse complaint (at 1:30 in the morning) from Tim Chevalier regarding the website SJWList.com – a site hosted by one of our clients – claiming it, “Incites harassment and violence against individuals.”

He’s asking us to “take appropriate action according to our acceptable use policy” meaning take it down, which, knowing our client, probably won’t happen. But anyway… the abuse emails are submitted to every person on our team, so I can’t just ignore it and have it go away, but I’d just like to let it be known that this type of backlash is occurring. They are trying to use GG’s tactics against it.

This is who submitted the abuse report to us. He works at Google, apparently.

This sort of counterattack is precisely why I told everyone to keep things absolutely factual and very tightly and narrowly defined on the SJW list site. If you are stupid enough to justify or rationalize the inclusion of anyone whose presence on the list is even remotely questionable, it’s going to be portrayed as incitement or harassment or rape or something equally false.

So, do not explain, justify, rationalize or add anything that involves the words “since” or “because”. Stick to the cold, hard, and objectively verifiable facts that do not require any context or agreement with your opinion.

And clearly, someone needs to add Tim Chevalier to the list for his deceitful attempt to have the site taken down by filing a false report of inciting harassment and violence.

In the meantime, the front page is locked down and a number of admins have been appointed, so there won’t be much trouble handling the griefers. You can still create new pages for individual SJWs and admins will add them to the list on the front page once they’re created.

Not QUITE past it

While the team is doing great, my season has been a little more down than up. This year is the first time I’ve felt too old at times in practice and I’ve been running out of breath and energy much faster than I think I should. I suspect, however, that it is mostly the unusually cold weather we’ve been having combined with a lack of pre-season stretching and being overweight.

The most recent practice went very well at times. I scored three of my sides seven goals and actually managed to beat a good midfielder off the dribble without using either my speed or strength for the first time in about six years. He was so badly faked-out that he actually spun halfway around and fell down, which inspired no little mocking. I was running out of energy too fast, but I was optimistic that I’d play well in the upcoming game, especially when it became clear that instead of starting up front, I’d play the second half on the wing.

We were up 4-1 when I came in, so the captain told me to hang back and help out our right defender, who normally plays midfield. We were under heavy pressure on that side from two of the other team’s three best players, but despite being overmatched, we managed to keep them from any dangerous chances, although it was repeatedly a close-run thing. Generally, they’d tika-taka past me as if I wasn’t even there, then the defender would slow them down enough for me to get back and help close out the attacker before he could shoot, and they’d either lose the ball to us, put it out for a goal kick, or be forced to pass it back to the middle or the far side. Somehow, we managed to avoid giving up a single corner; I’m not entirely sure how considering how under pressure we felt.

I managed to beat the defender on the right once, but then sent over a horrendous cross that hooked; fortunately it went to our center-mid and we somehow ended up with a corner out of it. The center-mid then promptly headed in the corner, which we thought would suffice to finish off the game. 5-1.

The problem was that our staunch and speedy right defender got hurt on a slide tackle and his substitute, though game, is the only player on the team older than I am. He’s even less technical than I am, so we were pretty seriously overmatched, and the attacker who’d been pressuring us all game blew right by him about 10 seconds after he came in and scored. I couldn’t help, because I’d been forward for our corner kick at the time. 5-2.

That encouraged them to attack hard on the left side, and I got completely beaten, didn’t get back in time, and the attacker sent over a nice ground cross that was promptly buried in the net. That made it 5-3 and they were starting to think they might be able to make a game of it. They also knew that our right side was our weakest link. So, at that point, I quit even trying to go forward and didn’t try to cover their wing much either, I just doubled their attacker every time I didn’t have to break off him to attack the guy with the ball.

That frustrated some of my teammates, who didn’t realize that our defender simply couldn’t stop the guy by himself and that it was more important to shut the guy down than worry about their defender or wing advancing the ball, but the double-teaming sufficed to keep them out of the net for the rest of the game. Fortunately, the captain understood what I was doing, and confirmed afterwards that it had been the right tactic to take in that particular situation.

It wasn’t a very good game for me, but the team played pretty well as a whole. I’ve got to lose more weight – I’ve already dropped seven pounds, but I think I’m going to see if I can lose another 13 to get completely lean and see if that improves my speed and overall performance. I’m also back on the stretching machine and have added 10 degrees to my range, but I’d like to add another 20.

Aging is hard for every athlete, but despite the challenges, I feel very fortunate after running into one of my teammates the other day and being told that he’d just learned, after an MRI, that he was done for good. He was a really good player, a wing with an ability to sneak forward undetected and a powerful cannon of a shot. He’d been out all season already, but I really hated to hear that. I don’t know how much playing time I have left to me, but I’ll do what I can to stay on the field as long as I still have something to contribute.

SJW attack on Jim Butcher

This is one of the many, many reasons that an alternative to SJW-run Wikipedia is badly needed. To the admins’ credit, at least it has been tagged as “persistent vandalism”.

It seems to have less to do with his inclusion on the Rabid Puppies list than it does with some SJW activist with a particular axe to grind at a literary celebrity’s expense, but it tends to demonstrate that anyone, no matter how publicly apolitical, is subject to SJW attack.

Personal life

Butcher was born in Independence, Missouri, in 1971.[1] He is the youngest of three children, having two older sisters. He lives in Independence, MO, and has one son.

[Information about Butcher’s personal life redacted.]

Following Spencer’s lead, the moderators of the /r/dresdenfiles sub-Reddit proceeded to threaten any posters making negative comments regarding Butcher with a ban and deletion of their content.[3]

Many Reddit users protested, alleging that the moderators’ actions constituted censorship, a practice that is generally regarded as anathema by artists, authors, and others in the creative fields.

In response, the /r/dresdenfiles moderators proceeded to codify their censorship by requiring users meet certain requirements prior to being able to post comments and also that new users or users with ‘unpopular’ points of view must have their comments approved by a moderator before publishing.[4]

On or around April 9, 2016, several of Butcher’s fans posted an open letter requesting that Butcher comment on the North Carolina transgender law. Other fans requested that Butcher adopt a more public stance, similar to the actions of Bruce Springsteen.

There have been many concerns by Butcher’s fans that Butcher’s books were not friendly to LGBT issues.[5][6][7]

The /r/dresdenfiles moderators proceeded to delete and censor all comments regarding Butcher’s views on LGBT issues, under the posture that those comments were “spam” or “shitposts.” [8]

The /r/dresdenfiles moderators proceeded to post in other sub-reddits regarding LGBT issues and political issues in order to discredit the legitimate concerns of Butcher’s LGBT-friendly fans. [9][10]

This is the great challenge of crowd-sourcing, as we’ve already seen on The Complete List of SJW. The problem is less the purely destructive vandals, who are easily anticipated and blocked, than those who see an opportunity to hijack the platform and try to use it for their own particular interests.

It would be good if we were also able to identify people like the vandal responsible for adding this to the page about Butcher.

As a general rule, if it is even necessary for you to explain your position, let alone rationalize or justify it, it does not belong on a wiki. The moment you find yourself telling someone “well, this is okay because”, the moment you even use the word “because”, just stop and give it up. If it’s not so absolutely obvious that there is no need to explain it, then it does not belong.

If you’re going to contribute to The Complete List of SJW, an excellent place to find SJWs is to look for quotes in articles by SJW journalists. For example, this pair of articles by SJW journalist Tess Townsend, who is running interference for the LambdaConf no-platform campaign, exposes several SJWs. They will readily hang themselves by their own words through their endorsements of no-platforming people on SJW grounds.

Also, Cynic in Chief: a) email me and b) lock it down now. We need admins.

That was quick

You know The Complete List of SJW is going to be important, because the SJWs are already starting to criticize and vandalize it. Time to lock it down, Cynic in Chief. Email me for some admins.

My suggestion is to protect the main page so only admins can edit it, protect the existing pages that have decent proof of SJW already, and have the admins add the new pages to the main page as they come in.

Also, block the vandal’s account. Be a hard target.

SJWs fear exposure

It’s been interesting to see the reaction of SJWs on Twitter to The Complete List of SJW. The mere announcement of its existence has both SJWs and moderates alarmed:

time cube denier @yung_kacho
oh vox. never stop being batshit insane

Ana @ #SweetsJam @SpaceDoctorPhD
Excuse me, why am I not on your blacklist? Can’t even bully people properly, what a mess.

/wooo/’sDolphZiggler @DZwooo
“Have you now, or ever been, a Social Justice Warrior?”

Mariconcito @armlessphelan
You’re an idiot. You don’t fight censorship and blacklists with censorship and blacklists.

Big Dog Barack @BarackSaysWooo
I HAVE IN MY HANDS A LIST OF 50 STATE REPRESENTATIVES WHO HAVE TIES TO THE SJW PARTY

 /M/ischief Reborn @Mischief_Arises
Can you build a waiting list for the gas chamber and put yourself on it? Thanks

Anonymous Damn Crow @CrowReturns1
What is this? A list of people you plan to harass? Don’t even think about it.

Anonymous Damn Crow @CrowReturns1
Looks like a list of people targeted for harassment

Anonymous Damn Crow Retweeted Supreme Dark Lord
This is a list of people targeted for harassment. Really sucks. #Anonymous

deepseadiva @thedeepseadiva
LMAOO this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

Nightwing @Daltimus_Prime
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT. Whatever happened to “being the bigger person” and “not stooping to their level?”

Notice the wide variety of conventional responses. We have the Lolipop response, the “I’m telling Dad” response, the “it’s not me, it’s you” response, the “aren’t you above this?” response, and the McCarthy response.

Translation: the idea that their actions will be tracked and they will be identified and potentially held responsible scares them.

This is why it is absolutely vital to be accurate and conservative in identifying SJWs. They are going to try to transform what is quite clearly a list of harassers into a false claim of being harassed. Don’t give them any ammo; only definite and self-defined SJWs who can be confirmed to have attempted to disemploy or no-platform people in defense of social justice ideals should be included. And take the time to provide the archived evidence of their SJW activity or self-designation. The stricter we are, the more effective the list will be over time.

As for the idea of not stooping to their level, I am the Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil. We delve deeper than they even imagine.

Cameron must go

Is it possible David Cameron is a secret Leave? Because short of growing a Hitler stache and dressing in a EU fascist uniform, complete with a blue-and-yellow armband, it’s hard to imagine how David Cameron could more aggressively drive the British people towards #Brexit:

Thousands march on No10 calling for Cameron to quit over tax revelations: Under-fire PM admits ‘I should have handled it better’ and agrees to publish his returns amid Panama Papers scandal

Protesters called for Mr Cameron to resign after he admitted profiting from more than £30k in an offshore tax haven. Revelations about Mr Cameron’s financial affairs followed a leak of 11 million documents held by Mossack Fonseca. PM’s ratings now lower than Jeremy Corbyn with 56% saying they did not think he had been ‘open and transparent’. Speaking at the Tory Spring Conference, Mr Cameron admitted he botched the handling of the row over his finances.

He’s also botched the handling of the most important political decision of his time, which is the recovery of British sovereignty.

Wonderful timing from Wikileaks.

I don’t know if the Prime Minister will resign, but he most certainly should follow the lead of Iceland’s prime minister and do so. He’s a horrendous hypocrite, he’s openly taken sides against the nation he is supposed to govern, and he has zero credibility.

This looks like a Labor protest, but if the Conservatives join them, as they should, Cameron will have no choice but to step down in disgrace. It’s time for Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to step up and demand his resignation.

Diversity is educational

A freshman at the University of Texas receives a Very Important Lesson in diversity:

University of Texas freshman Haruka Weiser wrapped up a class at the drama building about 9:30 p.m. She called a friend to say she was on her way, according to an Austin police affidavit.

She never made it.

The remains of Weiser, a first-year theater and dance major, were found about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in a creek near the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, on the university campus in Austin, not far from the school’s football stadium, officials said. An autopsy noted trauma to the body and the death was termed a homicide.

Investigators “don’t have a clue what the motive” was for the homicide, Acevedo said….

Not a clue. No idea at all. Who could possibly figure out what might have led to the first murder on the UT campus since 1966? I guess we’ll never know.

Say what you will about diversity on campus, but you cannot deny that it is educational.

An SJW list

It occurs to me that it will be helpful to begin compiling a list of confirmed SJWs, both for those who work for SJW-converged organizations and want to add to their collection as well as for those who wish to keep their organizations free of the creatures.

In either case, it will be useful to know if an individual is an advocate of an ideological movement that promotes the politicization of the workplace, insists that all individuals and organizations make social justice their primary objective, and seeks to disemploy or no-platform everyone who rejects their principles or refuses to submit to their ever-shifting Narrative.

Here is a useful start:

The organizers of LambdaConf, now in its third year, describe it as “one of the largest, most diverse gatherings of functional programmers in the world”. This year, it selected Curtis Yarvin as a speaker—a man known as a founder and advocate of an ideological movement that promotes racist bigotry, and as an apologist for slavery.

Yarvin’s selection as a speaker says to marginalized people that their humanity is considered merely another matter for debate. LambdaConf cannot live up to its goal of being a “friendly community of like-minded souls” when it does not protect current and potential members of that community who are vulnerable to those who would deny their humanity.

We believe that functional programming should warmly welcome those who have been systemically excluded from participating in programming communities. We strongly object to LambdaConf’s actions, which are a step backwards as we work together to share functional programming with a wide audience.

April 8th, 2016

    Joseph Abrahamson (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Andy Adams-Moran
    Carlo Angiuli (Carnegie Mellon University)
    Mario Aquino (co-organizer of Strange Loop, The Climate Corporation)
    Morgan Astra
    Lennart Augustsson
    Timothy Baldridge (developer at Cognitect)
    Gershom Bazerman (co-organizer Compose Conference, LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Josh Bohde
    James Brechtel
    Travis Brown (Typelevel)
    Kevin Burke
    Harold Carr (LambdaConf 2014, 2015 speaker)
    Chris C Cerami
    Manuel Chakravarty (UNSW Australia; Haskell language, libraries & tools contributor)
    Tim Chevalier
    Kat Chuang (co-organizer Compose Conference)
    Athan Clark
    Alex Clemmer (Microsoft, !!Con co-founder)
    Declan Conlon
    Laurence E. Day (Haskell developer, Standard Chartered Bank)
    Reid Draper (Helium)
    Richard Eisenberg (U. of Pennsylvania, GHC implementor, LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Mark Farrell (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Richard Feldman (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Jonathan Fischoff
    Adam Foltzer (Galois; Haskell.org Committee; LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Kenneth Foner (U. of Pennsylvania, co-organizer Hac Phi)
    Phil Freeman (PureScript; speaker, LambdaConf 2014, 2015)
    Harry Garrood
    Gabriel Gonzalez
    Austin Haas
    Coda Hale
    Elana Hashman
    Pat Hickey (Helium)
    Jenn Hillner (Cognitect)
    Libby Horacek (Position Development)
    John D. Hume
    Juan Pedro Villa Isaza (Stack Builders)
    Dan Peebles
    Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego; LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Joseph Kiniry (Research Lead, Galois; CEO and Chief Scientist, Free & Fair, LambdaConf 2015 contributor)
    Edward Kmett (Haskell developer, HacBoston organizer)
    Geoffery S. Knauth (Lifelong Friend of GNU)
    Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs; !!Con co-founder; ICFP Steering Committee member)
    Justin Leitgeb (CTO & Co-Founder, Stack Builders)
    Aaron Levin (SoundCloud)
    Simon Marlow (co-author of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler)
    Vincent Marquez (LambdaConf 2015/2016 speaker)
    Chris Martens (UC Santa Cruz)
    Conor McBride (Mathematically Structured Programming group, University of Strathclyde)
    Andi McClure (LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Bartosz Milewski (keynote speaker: LambdaCon 2015, LambdaDays 2016)
    Alex Miller (Organizer of Strange Loop, Clojure team at Cognitect)
    Richard Minerich (co-organizer Compose Conference, NYC F# User Group)
    Adriaan Moors (Scala team lead at Lightbend)
    Jared Morrow (Helium)
    David Nolen (Cognitect)
    Liam O’Connor (UNSW Australia)
    Erik Osheim (Typelevel)
    Daniel Patterson (member/owner, Position Development)
    Greg Pfeil (SlamData)
    Isaac Potoczny-Jones (Author of Haskell Cabal, Former Haskell Prime Chair)
    Prabhakar Ragde (University of Waterloo)
    Tavis Rudd (Unbounce; Polyglot Software Meetup & Conference)
    Miles Sabin (Underscore Consulting and Typelevel)
    Tom Santero (Helium; MoonConf co-organizer)
    Kyle Schmidt
    Austin Seipp (Glasgow Haskell Compiler maintainer, ATX Haskell founder)
    Amar Shah (LambdaConf 2016 speaker – cancelled)
    Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University; Haskell Symposium steering committee chair)
    Ghadi Shayban
    Satnam Singh
    Aditya Siram (LambdaConf 2016 speaker)
    Leon P Smith
    Jon Sterling (SlamData; PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University; LambdaConf 2015 speaker)
    Bodil Stokke (LambdaConf 2016 keynote speaker – cancelled)
    Asumu Takikawa (Racket developer)
    Patrick Thomson (Helium)
    Seth Tisue (Scala team at Lightbend)
    José Manuel Calderón Trilla (Galois, Inc.)
    Stew O’Connor (Typelevel, speaker: Lambdaconf 2015)
    David Van Horn (University of Maryland)
    Malcolm Wallace (Haskell developer at Standard Chartered Bank)
    John Wiegley
    Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College; former Haskell core library & Haskell.org committees)

Additional Signatories:

    Colin Barrett, 4/9/2016
    Rob Rix (GitHub, Inc.), 04/09/16
    Morgan Chen, 4/9/2016

To this list we can add obvious SJWs such as Anita Sarkeesian, John Flynt aka Brianna Wu (SpaceKat), Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Amber Scott (Beamdog), Dee Pennyway (Beamdog).

If you know others, add them in the comments and eventually we’ll create a PDF that can be distributed with the SJW Attack Survival Guide.