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A Game of You (and Me)
Oct. 5th, 2017 12:50 amLet's play Shame the Social Justice Warrior!
Today we'll unpack the shocking revelation that those people whose rights you've been fighting for have, on provable occasions, GAMED THE SYSTEM, TOO!
[audience oohs and ahs]
People of all races, both genders, every nationality and income level, and on both sides of any other border you wish to draw have sometimes resorted to some kind of cheating to get ahead.
Also, poverty can tend to make someone desperate. At the very least, if you are poor, struggling just to afford to live, every message society is giving you is telling you that all the legitimate means of getting ahead you've tried have failed. So why not try something less legitimate?
And for those of you who are not so impoverished, think of the desperation you feel when that new Blu-Ray boxed set or trip to N'Awlins isn't nearly as comfortably afforded for you as you wish it was.
And if you're on the opposite side of impoverished ... well, I guess, think of how much more risk-free your life would be if you had a little "unreported income" to shut those aggravatingly persistent Russian mob characters up.
Yeah, everyone has a reason to be tempted to game the system. So everyone, put your players on the board!
Now let's bring into the game the actual reasons behind the different income levels! We all know those reasons should be performance-based. At the very least, we know those reasons should produce outcomes based on hard work. And we know we're enlightened enough not to discriminate based on race, gender, LGBTQ+ status, religion, all of that stuff.
We also can acknowledge, can we not?, that "those reasons should be" and "those reasons are" are concepts that can be described generously as being in "Never the Twain Shall Meet" territory.
Why is this? Is it because of the desperate impoverished gaming the system? What influence do they have? What influence do the middle-income Blue-Ray/N'Awlins-desperate have? Now look at those CEOs and their inexplicable facial tics when you bring up Putin all of a sudden. How much do they, with their billions, influence the system with their gaming?
Well, imagine your home security system is being assaulted by 50 ratty guys who smell, twenty "Free Tibet" t-shirt wearing millennials who reek of Axe (even after all these years), and one Tom Cruise wannabe with loads of cash, incredible surveillance and breaking-and-entering equipment (because ze can afford it, luv), and no need of personal fragrance product because ze never had to break a sweat a day in hir life, except on those days when those aggravatingly persistent Russian etc. etc. etc. ... You get me here.
Against whom do you need your security system's experts to provide you the greatest protection?
A-ha.
Social Justice Warriors are simply trying to fight those gamers of the system who have done the most damage because they've played the game the best, and, in doing so, have been the primary agents in creating a situation of inequality and mistreatment that almost wholly, if not absolutely entirely, caused the suffering and desperation that led the ... I'm going to use the term because it's an easy, familiar description ... lower classes to try their hand at gaming the system, too.
It's the Biggest Magic Deck Rule. He who has the Biggest Magic Deck makes the rules.
'Zat make a little more sense? What's your view?
Today we'll unpack the shocking revelation that those people whose rights you've been fighting for have, on provable occasions, GAMED THE SYSTEM, TOO!
[audience oohs and ahs]
People of all races, both genders, every nationality and income level, and on both sides of any other border you wish to draw have sometimes resorted to some kind of cheating to get ahead.
Also, poverty can tend to make someone desperate. At the very least, if you are poor, struggling just to afford to live, every message society is giving you is telling you that all the legitimate means of getting ahead you've tried have failed. So why not try something less legitimate?
And for those of you who are not so impoverished, think of the desperation you feel when that new Blu-Ray boxed set or trip to N'Awlins isn't nearly as comfortably afforded for you as you wish it was.
And if you're on the opposite side of impoverished ... well, I guess, think of how much more risk-free your life would be if you had a little "unreported income" to shut those aggravatingly persistent Russian mob characters up.
Yeah, everyone has a reason to be tempted to game the system. So everyone, put your players on the board!
Now let's bring into the game the actual reasons behind the different income levels! We all know those reasons should be performance-based. At the very least, we know those reasons should produce outcomes based on hard work. And we know we're enlightened enough not to discriminate based on race, gender, LGBTQ+ status, religion, all of that stuff.
We also can acknowledge, can we not?, that "those reasons should be" and "those reasons are" are concepts that can be described generously as being in "Never the Twain Shall Meet" territory.
Why is this? Is it because of the desperate impoverished gaming the system? What influence do they have? What influence do the middle-income Blue-Ray/N'Awlins-desperate have? Now look at those CEOs and their inexplicable facial tics when you bring up Putin all of a sudden. How much do they, with their billions, influence the system with their gaming?
Well, imagine your home security system is being assaulted by 50 ratty guys who smell, twenty "Free Tibet" t-shirt wearing millennials who reek of Axe (even after all these years), and one Tom Cruise wannabe with loads of cash, incredible surveillance and breaking-and-entering equipment (because ze can afford it, luv), and no need of personal fragrance product because ze never had to break a sweat a day in hir life, except on those days when those aggravatingly persistent Russian etc. etc. etc. ... You get me here.
Against whom do you need your security system's experts to provide you the greatest protection?
A-ha.
Social Justice Warriors are simply trying to fight those gamers of the system who have done the most damage because they've played the game the best, and, in doing so, have been the primary agents in creating a situation of inequality and mistreatment that almost wholly, if not absolutely entirely, caused the suffering and desperation that led the ... I'm going to use the term because it's an easy, familiar description ... lower classes to try their hand at gaming the system, too.
It's the Biggest Magic Deck Rule. He who has the Biggest Magic Deck makes the rules.
'Zat make a little more sense? What's your view?
