Comment by Barrin92
5 days ago
It is extremely silly and in bad faith to accuse anyone to disagree with of indoctrination, but it's even sillier when every single tech bro is basically the same person, reads the same books, repeats the same topics, on the same day using the same phraseology.
You could have literally taken this essay from PG posted it on the timeline of any single one of his colleagues and you couldn't even tell who wrote it. The "anti woke" economy, if you look at the numbers accounts of that flavor do on Youtube, Twitter et al. is a magnitude if not larger than what, according to them, cannot be criticized.
The phrase "woke mind virus" also featured in this essay, is more of a literal meme or mind virus in the Dawkins sense of that term than anything it attempts to address. The lack of awareness to accuse others of indoctrination when you write an essay so generic that you can autocomplete the last 90% after reading the first 10% chatgpt style is quite something.
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If you thought about this from your former friends' perspective, what do you think they would say about it?
They already did in the process of going off the deep end.
The most prominent incident was a friend (female, Chinese-American born to Chinese immigrants for context) who ran a guild I was in, we were like 50 members and played various games. Fun times.
It all fell apart overnight when all the sensationalizing and fearmongering about how the Right were going to round up and deport all Chinese (this was back in 2020, peak of covid lockdowns) finally got to her. She kickbanned anyone who didn't share in the fear and victimizing. She exploded on me particularly hard because I'm Japanese-American, a fellow Asian, and I guess she expected me to join the bandwagon.
She threw all manners of vitriol at me for no good reason, but I still wish her good fortune and hope she's still doing well and managed to recover from all that.
I fucking despise the Left for destroying that network of friends.
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