I think it’s finally that time where we can OFFICIALLY declare victory.
It wasn’t something that happened overnight and it wasn’t something I could do alone. I would like to thank and congratulate all of the volunteers who tirelessly worked diligently to help us in our struggle and achieve our goals. You have no idea how much I appreciate you.
/pol/ is DEAD
Gamergate is DEAD
I hope this comes as a nice gift to you all who simply wished for a hate-free holiday season.
So I keep seeing all this posts about 4chan users spamming tumblr with disturbingly graphic images.
In case you haven’t heard, they’re spamming popular tags such as ‘free!’, ‘doctor who’, ‘feminism’, and plenty of others with horrific images. A possible solution? I suggest we strike back! And no, not by hating on 4chan and getting revenge.
That’s exactly what they want us to do, and let’s not allow them to achieve that goal. But instead by filling the tags they’re using with user-friendly posts, and trying to prevent others from searching the tag. We can hopefully push down their images and such with our own posts! Just tag your USER-FRIENDLY posts with the tags from HERE! (credit to thishalfisforjean )
Whether you are personally a victim or not, please spread the word. This could help at least one person from being traumatized.
However, if you would rather just protect yourself, i would suggest blocking the users who have been spotted posting disturbing images. Here’s a list of some of them. (credit to thishalfisforjean )
Or, you could not contribute at all! However, I would suggest at least being cautious in the tags, there’s some pretty nasty stuff out there.
Although this probably won’t get any notes, I think this would be a good idea to spread in order to somewhat slow down this issue. Be safe, guys!
4chan aren’t difficult to deal with and this is great advice
Remember, 4chan actively campaigns for violent attacks against LGBT.
They support and laugh at the murders of innocent people!
This is exactly why we NEED to stand up to them.
We can’t be afraid of them. They’re dangerous idiots who need impeded.
you do realize /lgtb/ is a thing, right?
/k/ is usually a pretty big LGBT supporter. Different boards have different assholes. /pol/ and /b/ need to be burned.
I think if people are clever with their posts they could get 4chan users from different boards to fight amongst themselves. It would have the upside of distracting them from harassing us.
(via okiitos)
Remember, 4chan actively campaigns for violent attacks against LGBT.
They support and laugh at the murders of innocent people!
This is exactly why we NEED to stand up to them.
We can’t be afraid of them. They’re dangerous idiots who need impeded.
Hi everyone, sorry we’re a little late. We’ve been a little busy doing some pride work for the summer and forgot about the internet a little. I feel like a bit of an idiot for missing most of the day but it’s not over yet.
It looks like their mods could be on our side, they banned some idiot who was deliberately exaggerating things.
Great work on the second thread. It’s a little sarcastic but I’m sure that will annoy them even more. Remember, you don’t have to take them too seriously, just use up all of their space.
Spread the word!
Stir up the hype!
It’s a celebration!
do u ever come across some people who are just SO wrong that you cant even argue with them because the sheer amount of bullshit they are spewing is overwhelming
(via ratsbastard)
Another day ending in y where I tackle ableism. Plus, my perspective as a Housebound #disabledWOC on the latest round of ‘Hashtag Activism” bashing.
Hi, thanks for your stories.
You blocked me immediately on twitter @Shut4Chan
I think this is a misunderstanding. Have I done something to offend you?
4chan has been trying to trick people into believing that I’m one of them in an attempt to discredit this blog and campaign. They created fake images that tried to lead innocent people into downloading malware and they distributed it on twitter before I was able to secure the username.
Please reconsider your block. It’s damaging our campaign and is exactly what the trolls hoped to happen
(via therightkindofbrown)
It’s time to shutdown 4chan.org
Join us on July 4th to celebrate our freedom and independence from racists by shutting down 4chan.
We will go to their site and as a form of protest we will overwhelm them with corrections to their awful lies and let them really know what the world thinks of them.
TW: I don’t think it’s really safe to go alone. The misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, anti-semitism, rape jokes and blatant racism will often be too much for any sane person.
Please spread the message and don’t be afraid to get involved!
Comics, stories, poetry, essays or pictures are all welcome! Every little helps!
See you on July 4th
#ShutDown4chan
Quiet reblog to bring it back to the front page
It looks like we weren’t quick enough getting onto twitter. A troll from 4chan has made an account in our name and is using it to spread lies and malware.
Follow the OFFICIAL twitter @Shut4Chan
I have plenty of experience with arguments. Maybe it has something to do with obsessing over Mock Trial. More likely it has something to do with being a sister.
Whatever the reason, arguments are something I enjoy. There is something pure about feeling my face heat up until it’s emitting UV radiation from frustration. I’m also competitive by nature, so it’s just *fun* to pick apart and demolish people’s arguments if I can. I’m also obscenely happy whenever I win a case in the courtroom.
But the real world doesn’t work like a courtroom, and often arguing is about the worst thing you can do when you differ in opinion with someone. Not everyone will believe you’re right just because you have the best evidence. Nor will they agree with you because you argue well and critique their beliefs flawlessly. In fact, if you do that they’ll often just think you’re an ass and their opinions won’t change one iota. Debate is about the most ineffective way of resolving disagreements in the real world. Remember the Creationism debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye? It dragged on and on, yet only confirmed the beliefs the attendees already had.
Laying down a line of social retreat is one of the most important things you can do if you’re trying to change someone’s mind on a topic. (Read Less Wrong’s “How Not To Lose an Argument”). This means you have to allow someone to be wrong without having lost, without being stupid, and without being a bad person. When people don’t have a line of social retreat, opposition to their viewpoint will cause them to cling harder to their beliefs. They will reject what you say out of hand. It’s human nature.
So what is a line of social retreat? Less Wrong used Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to illustrate this idea. One of Tzu’s strategies for winning a fight was to allow the enemy to retreat. He saw that without an escape route,the enemy would fight with more fervor, causing more damage to his own armies. Yet, eliminating lines of retreat for his own army encouraged his warriors to fight more effectively.
Let’s look at some examples. My Seminary class examined how Nephite believers purportedly behaved around the time of Christ’s birth. Samuel the Lamanite had promised them hundreds of years earlier that there would be a sign when Christ was born. The non-believers mocked these Nephites, and said that the time for the sign had already passed. The believers were just being stupid and wasting their time—Christ would not be born.
“What would you have done, if they were mocking you? Would you have felt tempted to fall away from the faith?” my teacher asked.
“No, I would have believed more than ever,” I said. I wasn’t being sarcastic, either. I remembered the Seekers Cult of 1956. Even after the date for their apocalypse passed, the member of the cult clung to their beliefs. They altered the date and hung on, because they couldn’t bear to think that they had sold all their possessions, lost their jobs and devoted their lives to a hoax. In other words, they had no social line of retreat. If they were wrong, they were stupid, so they COULDN’T be wrong.
I don’t want to draw any false equivalencies with supposed Nephite groups and cults. Still, a popular conception in the LDS church is that these particular Nephites felt pressured to conform, and were demonstrating great faith by continuing to wait for the sign. In reality these “pressures” were doomed to be counterproductive. The Nephites already had a social group which agreed with their views, so they felt less pressure to conform. Besides that, the mocking of the non believers eliminated the social line of retreat of those Nephites. If they didn’t believe, they were not only wrong, but also stupid, and had wasted their time for over 400 years. Of COURSE they clung to their beliefs.
Now, I’ll use a more personal (and still LDS, sorry) example. It’s terrifying for me to think of leaving the Church because I have no social line of retreat. If I leave, I lose the approval and respect of my family and friends. If I leave I have wasted 17 years of my life. And if leaving is the wrong decision? THEN I suffer in the afterlife. Doesn’t it sound more appealing to stay, considering the circumstances? Other communities, such as the Amish, have even more severe consequences for disagreement.
Even Christ had a bad habit of eliminating social lines of retreat to hold on to his followers. To paraphrase, he said “You are either with me or against me. If you are lukewarm, I spit you out of my mouth.” Not a lot of wriggle room in that statement.
So what does this mean? When you want to change someone’s mind, you need to give them a social line of retreat, allowing them to be wrong, yet not humiliated. Otherwise, they’ll fight you like a cornered rat on PCP, and you won’t change their opinion no matter how superior your points are. If you want to prevent people from changing their minds when they already agree with you, eliminate their social lines of retreat. Once the thought of being wrong becomes unbearable, someone’s opinions on a topic are unlikely to change.There’s usually two forces that change someone’s mind: evidence or social pressure.
Evidence can be personal experience, or credible sources, or evidence presented in a digestible fashion - for example a common sense point of view (“If this thing really cured cancer, how is it all these people who use/do this thing still get cancer?”). That said, this works only when the person is open to listening and considering to begin with .
Social pressure on the other hand, is about what will gain/lose you esteem in the your social circles. Just as often the shitty views people have were developed by this same pressure and are undone by it.
Consider the support for marriage equality… it’s not like the country was all silently waiting for the laws to change, most of this shift in attitude has been over the last 10 years, really, and a lot of it being based in the fact it’s “no longer cool” to be a homophobic piece of shit.
Of course, the key problem with this is that it’s not actually based directly in “you are a human, therefore your safety and rights matter” as much as popularity of a trend… but that said the environment of the latter does allow of the former to develop… some, anyway.
People assume the only two reasons to argue are to either change an individual’s mind, or to score social points. A third reason exists: to convince third parties by showing how the flawed thinking operates. The nice thing about deep close-mindedness is that it shows itself so easily, the contradictions and ridiculousness becomes so obvious - and it becomes easy to point out the underlying assumptions which make it work.
And for everyone else witnessing, because they’re not in the heat of the moment, more people can see the kind of thinking and go, “Oh, wait… maybe I think that way too… I never thought of it that way”. In other words, the point is for the fence-sitters to learn something, and those are the people most likely to shift attitudes.
Of course, face to face, with family, in work situations, etc, this only creates a great deal of animosity and social repercussion without much benefit - in those places I find it’s more useful to try to mitigate or deflect harmful actions, rather than try to address the poor thinking directly, especially since a lot of times backlash to calling it out can leave folks harassed, demoted, or assaulted.
As I often say: people will show you what they are committed towards. If someone has decades of believing something easily disproven with 30 minutes of research or 10 minutes of thought, consider how much effort goes into sticking WITH that set of ideas…
(via wretchedoftheearth)
What even is 4chan and reddit?
I am so confused….
I’ve put together an introduction to 4chan so people can become quickly aquainted to what it is.
http://shutdown4chan.tumblr.com/post/88873101483/a-brief-introduction-to-what-the-4chan-website-is
Feminists, you wanna help out the cause of fighting bigotry? Help us take down 4chan, a place filled with vile bigots and misogynists!!!
THIS IS A HOAX
This is 4chan and Anonymous trying to get you to install infected malware
DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE LOIC
#EndFathersDay is a HOAX started on 4chan. It is NOT a feminist ploy to take all the sunshine out of men’s lives. I think most feminists would agree that an involved father is the best kind, and celebrating them is a good thing.
PLEASE share this, let’s nip this bullshit in the bud, k?
