"Social-Justice Warriors Are Worrying about..."
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White Male Privilege on Mars"
Despite the fact that we’re clearly pretty far from colonizing Mars, the social-justice crowd is already freaking out that it’s going to be an oppressive, white-male dominated society and that we must act now to stop it.
“The last thing we need is to wake up in 50 years and find that a bunch of #gamergate nobheads are running Mars,” Martin Robbins writes in a piece for the Guardian titled, “How Can Our Future Mars Colonies Be Free of Racism and Sexism?” Robbins explains that part of his concern comes from the fact that humans’ colonization of new lands has traditionally been oppressive.
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In space no one can hear you nag,nag,nag.
As Da Techguy implies, space will be for lusty swashbucklers like James T Kirk, not wussy bureaucrats like Jean Luc Picard.
There's probably a well-established tradition of science fiction stories that explore a dystopic world where all of humanity's basic survival needs are absolutely assured, and we're all going insane with boredom, so we contrive a bunch of false conflicts among ourselves in a pathetic attempt to reconnect with our Pleistocene natures.
I can't think of any examples, right off the top of my head.
But it's possible -- possible -- that there just might be one right in front of my nose, . . . if only I could see it.
The best way to solve this problem is to shoot all the SJWs into space in the general direction of Mars. It will improve their self-esteem and we can tell any slackers that when they colonize the red planet, they can community organize any Martians they find and sneak them back into the country. Illegal Space Aliens are the next big DNC voting block.
"The best way to solve this problem is to shoot all the SJWs into space in the general direction of Mars."
Just remove "into space in the general direction of Mars" and the sentence is fine.
Can someone explain Gamergate in simple terms for me? Every article I read assumes prior knowledge and I am totally ignorant.
The big reason I went into nuclear engineering was because I wanted to be Scotty on the first Luna Colony. I figured my chances would be better, as a woman, if I had needed skills not in common supply. Obviously that didn't work out the way I dreamed.
Re: Gamergate
http://sjwar.blogspot.com/2014/10/gamergate-explained-in-five-minutes-or.html
Breitbart explains Gamergate
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/11/12/the-authoritarian-left-was-on-course-to-win-the-culture-wars-then-along-came-gamergate/
So, what would be the problem if we were talking about Venus?
Let's talk about Uranus.
Pogo, thanks.
Not being a SF fan, I used to think SF was full of white nerds like George Lucas. Then i found out the publishers and critics are all SJW's who give awards to books based on how many transgender people of color are in each book.
However, there's now a fight over the SF Hugo awards. Some people want to give the award based on the quality of the fiction, the SJW's want to it based on the politics of the author. It's unclear who will win.
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