Wednesday, September 08, 2010
How tolerance works
A perfect little example of how Stalinism disguises itself as "tolerance".
As always, the alleged purpose of this censorship is to increase "tolerance" and "celebrate diversity". As always it comes down to prohibiting the utterance of plain facts, and removing factual terms from the language.
Speaking the truth is sexist, racist, and homophobic, and now it's also Islamophobic. Any time you hear one of those -ist or -phobe words, you know it's a reference to a forbidden truth.
The most annoying aspect of these modern censors: they "wouldn't take Josh Moore's word for it." Josh's word shouldn't have mattered. All they had to do is look up a goddamn fact. Microsoft has its own map engine, for fuck's sake, and still the Microsoft censors couldn't check whether a Fort Gay actually exists. It didn't occur to them. They're stuck in Whoist thinking where everything is a quotation, nothing is factual, and authority depends solely on the Party credentials of the speaker. ¶ 6:20 AM
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. and Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the Xbox code of conduct by declaring he's from Fort Gay.
The town in western West Virginia is real. But Seattle-based Microsoft and the Xbox enforcement team wouldn't take Josh Moore's word for it.
They suspended his gaming privileges for a few days last week until he could convince them his Wayne County hometown is real.
Xbox chief enforcement officer Stephen Toulouse acknowledges the agent reviewing a fellow gamer's complaint against Moore made a mistake. He says keeping up with slang and policing Xbox for offensive language is challenging, but mistakes in judgment are rare.
As always, the alleged purpose of this censorship is to increase "tolerance" and "celebrate diversity". As always it comes down to prohibiting the utterance of plain facts, and removing factual terms from the language.
Speaking the truth is sexist, racist, and homophobic, and now it's also Islamophobic. Any time you hear one of those -ist or -phobe words, you know it's a reference to a forbidden truth.
The most annoying aspect of these modern censors: they "wouldn't take Josh Moore's word for it." Josh's word shouldn't have mattered. All they had to do is look up a goddamn fact. Microsoft has its own map engine, for fuck's sake, and still the Microsoft censors couldn't check whether a Fort Gay actually exists. It didn't occur to them. They're stuck in Whoist thinking where everything is a quotation, nothing is factual, and authority depends solely on the Party credentials of the speaker. ¶ 6:20 AM
