RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/December 2015

December 2015
Shield: A £23 Tinfoil Hat "You do not have to be paranoid or into conspiracy theories." Well okay then! UPDATE: The Kickstarter was funded with three days to spare. Time to wait and see if they'll pull a CrystalWash 2.0 Nibiru is Coming at Us Like a Runaway Freight Train, Say Planet X Researchers. Even Before It's News points out that true believers are likely deluded and chasing their own tails at this point. Another fine rant about teh anti-white, anti-male evulz of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this one from the manosphere's favorite Anton LaVey wannabe. Milo Yiannopoulos ranting about Neil deGrasse Tyson The new Star Wars film has some non-white characters. WHITE GENOCIDE!!! The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been sued for "deliberately and affirmatively endorsing anti-Semitic, racist and offensive, view-point based discriminatory speech", "institutionalizing 'white supremacy' propaganda", and causing the plaintiff to feel "emotional and psychological harm from exposure" and "rejected by society"... by displaying a couple 16th-century Italian paintings that happened to depict Jesus with lighter skin and hair. The complainant is acting as his own lawyer. On the wiki dedicated to the Silent Hill series of video games, one editor knows what the series is really about: Circumcision and its ties to the Satanic Illuminati. Not content with supporting Trump's call to ban Muslim entry to the US, Phyllis Schlafly proposes a total ban on immigration to the US for an indeterminate time. Islam is not a religion. The San Bernardino shooting occurred because of a nebulous and elusive motive currently under investigation, possibly hanging somewhere between a long-term workplace grievance and religious fundamentalism/extremism SEXISM and the shooter's mother's "grotesque and enabling incuriosity" for not spying on her son. Do you ever feel as though there are two different species inhabiting the Western world? Ordinary people, and anonymous right-wing internet tough guys? Somebody watched the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and was somehow thereby inspired to write this eye-watering mind fart of an article about black men's penises. LessWrong realises it's probably useless now (even Eliezer Yudkowsky tends to stick to his Facebook these days), discusses plans to deal with this. This guy has it all: Thomas Paine reference, birtherism, Islamophobia, racism, calling for the President's impeachment, and bad puns San Bernardino shootings already attracting accusations of being a false flag (link is to google search) Alabama State Rep. Alan Harper (R-61): Kauft nicht bei Juden! Stop supporting shops and gas stations not owned by "American... God fearing Christians"! (i.e., owned by brown immigrants) Because terrorism!