LJ Idol Presents:

Frist?!?

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ellakite.livejournal.com

You had to go and break my streak, didn't you?!? DIDN'T YOU?!?

Well, I have just one thing to say to you about that:

Thank you for taking up the load. I was freakin' exhausted being FRIST several days in a row. I'm not sure I could have survived another round...

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And here I was thinking I was going to be dead to you...again.

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I've noticed that people tend to be less PC IRL but people tend to be more attuned to social injustice online. I do know a couple of -- I guess you'd call them "social justice warriors" for lack of a better term -- IRL, but they're much more quiet about what they do IRL than online. Maybe it's the relative anonymity factor of being online?

The other thing I wonder is education/social status. For example...it bothers me very much that many of my coworkers are on the less-PC scale. They are very open about anti-this and anti-that and frankly, it sickens me to the point that I can't be around them when they start talking like that. Those who are on the more-PC scale tend to be college/university educated and tend to lean left. My husband says it also has a lot to do with social class and, at least where I live, there is a huge "townie" factor where people are proud that they don't have a post-high school education and they're proud that they "don't take any shit" from anybody and proud that they proclaim X or Y without realizing how ignorant they seem to be (not all, but some). Considering I live in the bluest of the blue states, it's rather boggling.

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My earliest experience with "SJW" (to use the term loosely) was people with more academic experience than RL experience, and I wondered how much that factored in. (Those with more RL experience being less vocal, but maybe doing things on a practical level, whereas the academic tend to push the philosophies behind things, expanding the scope to bring up important questions)

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That too, perhaps.

My college roommate practices what she preaches -- she's very active in her community and is involved in many SJ causes. She's also been a advocate for the homeless and a hospice counselor. She never discusses it in public unless she's with her compatriots and never mentions anything on Facebook. She's always been very humble and doesn't like taking the spotlight. To me, what she does is truer to being s "SJW" than a lot of rhetoric...although it's the rhetoric which makes people aware that there are so many injustices out there.

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I think the "SJW" is divided between three main groups:

- Those out in the front lines, advancing a cause with feet on the ground.

- Those discussing it online in broader terms advancing the philosophical side of things

and those profiting from talking about it by writing and talking about it in a way that helps pay their bills

Most people fall somewhere in that spectrum. :D

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millysdaughter.livejournal.com

I see it as a case of "better than..."
**I** am better than you because I am politically correct!
**I** am better than you because I am not a {insert "different" religion/race/gender/status here}!

SSDD
Two opposite sides of the same brush, in my never-to-be-humble opinion!!!!

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On the Axlerod comment - I think people do that with relationships in general. They figure out what they didn't like about their ex, and find their opposite! ;)

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I thought I'd better announce our team so we don't miss the 24-hour deadline, though we still don't have a name. Unless people want to go with "Celebration Day" (the source of those Led Zeppelin lyrics, that continue with "I'm gonna join the band...")??

We are:
bleodswean
thistle_verse
swirlsofblue
watching_ships
halfshellvenus

And Gary's comment about Axelrod and choosing mates applies to parenting, too-- if there was something your parents did that you didn't like, most people tend to do the opposite. Probably "re-evaluate" is a better choice. ;)

And courtesy of my son, he frequently intermixes Social-Justice Warriors and Tumblrinas, though I don't think he spends any more time on that site than I do.

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Make sure that you send this list to me at clauderainsrm@gmail.com - I want to make sure all the records are in one place.

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prog-schlock.livejournal.com

What a great team!

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Thank you! This is a good bunch, though all the teams are looking good. :)

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eternal-ot.livejournal.com

Cool team!..:) Congratulations!!

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Thank you! :D

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kickthehobbit.livejournal.com

re: PC online vs. offline—I think a lot of it depends on demographics. Most of my offline friends are at least passingly interested in social justice. We're all in our mid-to-late 20s.

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prog-schlock.livejournal.com

I don't like the way the acronym "PC" is being used these days because it seems to be used as an excuse to be racist, sexist etc..

"I'm not PC so its ok that I say all women are bimbos and all Mexicans are rapists."

*everyone in crowd applauds*

If by "not PC" Trump means "overtly racist and sexist," awesome, but I don't know that that's something we should admire or treat as "both sides are equal."

Its like that see in Taladega Nights where Ricky Bobby keeps using "with all due respect" before insulting somebody. No, using that phrase doesn't offer him blanket immunity to say anything he wants without us thinking he's being an ass. Same thing with "I'm not PC." That doesn't make what a person says after that phrase any less racist.

I don't know man, I don't think that racists - especially racists that encourage other people to be racist - deserve to have their opinions treated with respect. Even if they do seem to think they're being brave and bold by not being PC.

I'm old though. Let me share a song about the kind of dude who I think is an obnoxious PC person (https://youtu.be/zlc-Pom0MIw) as opposed to a sincere person fighting for social justice.

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thistle-verse.livejournal.com

Can someone explain how the team voting works to me? I was never quite clear on it, but since I haven't been on a team until now it didn't seem to matter. I'm thinking now that I may have been voting wrong this whole time, though. Should we be voting for one person in the team section, and thus one team, or one person from each team?

Sorry if this is clear and I'm just being particularly obtuse.

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Vote for the entries you want to support.

When people are on a team, those final vote totals are added together, and then divided by the number of active writers (byes aren't counted toward that total)

The team with the lowest amount of votes loses the person on their team with the fewest votes.

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thistle-verse.livejournal.com

Any number of entries?

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That's always true. (with the exception of times when you are emailing votes for a special round, and then I'll tell you how many)

You can vote for as many, or few, as you feel deserve your vote.

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thistle-verse.livejournal.com

Ah! I've definitely been doing it wrong then! That's good to know. I'd assumed you only had one vote on each poll.

Thank you for clarifying!

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kathrynrose.livejournal.com

The team with the lowest amount of votes loses the person on their team with the fewest votes.

Clarifying - The team with the lowest average votes loses the person on their team with the fewest votes. Yes?

Edited Date: 2016-01-28 02:22 am (UTC)

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Yep. That is correct.

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porn-this-way.livejournal.com

Late to the party again! Curse that annoying "IRL" beast keeping me away from the magical intarwebz!

Honestly, extremists and both sides of the fence piss me off and I think they're flipsides of the same damn coin. On one side, you've got the fuckwits who wanna harass gay people, spread anti-immigrant propaganda, keep independent and ambitious women "in their place", assume any black kid wearing a hoodie is a thug or a thief, and kick every single Muslim out of North America. Translation = OMG THESE PEOPLE DON'T ACT AND THINK JUST LIKE ME, HOW DARE THEY, I MUST SILENCE AND INTIMIDATE THEM FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MANKIND. On the other side, you've got the fuckwits who launch social media harassment campaigns over people making jokes they don't like, take completely benign shit out of context for the sole purpose of being offended by it and demanding an apology, call for the heads and jobs of public and private individuals alike for the crime of posting a poorly worded tweet, and screech like banshees when they're not immediately and unquestioningly given their way in a situation involving any or all of the above and start calling everyone problematic shitlords from atop their gilded soapbox. Translation = OMG THESE PEOPLE DON'T ACT AND THINK JUST LIKE ME, HOW DARE THEY, I MUST SILENCE AND INTIMIDATE THEM FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MANKIND.

Same shit, different piles. Hell, who am I kidding. Same shit, same pile. Fuck both sides of it.

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