scifiscribbler:

hucowgoddess:

jukeboxemcsa:

kropotkhristian:

Okay but isn’t it the funniest thing in the world that young Republicans think they are oppressed pretty much exclusively because their peers think they’re not cool? Like they get tons of funding for their political bullshit from Koch super-PACs. Most of them are rich or have access to wealth. College Administrations are more than willing to kowtow to whatever they demand almost all of the time, up to inviting straight up neo-Nazis to speak on campus. They get on Fox News on a whim for any perceived slight against them. Like, young conservatives are the most babied group of people in America, and yet…

It isn’t enough because their fellow students or peers think they are uncool and won’t invite them to parties because they are assholes. That is the extent of their oppression. And they whine online about it with huge audiences. Just think about how hilarious that is.

The perfect example of this? Conservative science fiction author/professional troll Jon Del Arroz is starting a GoFundMe so he can sue the giant party known as WorldCon and make them let him in. (Link is to an article on the GoFundMe, not to the GoFundMe, because UGGGGH That Guy.)

His claim is that WorldCon is “discriminating against libertarian-conservatives”, which, setting aside the logic of a libertarian asking the government to help him make a private organization do something it doesn’t want to do, is the epitome of the phenomenon described above. “Oh my god, just because I am frequently and publicly an asshole and have openly said that if I attend your con, I’m going to violate your code of conduct, you won’t let me in? This is worse than a Soviet gulag.”

(Also, for those of you who think I’m using hyperbole unfairly, here’s conservative science fiction author Brad Torgersen literally comparing people disagreeing with him on the Internet to life in a Soviet gulag.)

This is basically a group of people engaging in what I like to call cargo-cult arguments. They look at the lines of discussion that have worked against them (”discrimination is wrong”), and they form something that has the shape and structure of that argument, hoping desperately that somehow it will have the same effect against their enemies. But unsurprisingly? It just doesn’t fly.

Another word they love to throw around is snowflake. Yet if we call them that they loose their damn minds.

^ literally them.

Broflakes.