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Bluesky Claimed It was a Different Kind of Social Media Platform Theyre the Worst of the Lot

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Its not just transgenders of course The whole victim culture has found a home on Bluesky Not only the victims themselves who know that they enjoy an elevated moral status on Bluesky as Yascha Mounk points out But the radical left posters see themselves as defending the oppressed To do this they make death threats and other threats of violence against their targets In many ways it makes X look like a coffee klatch by comparison Bluesky bills itself as a safe and welcoming place and brags about the large number of moderators who supposedly police the site Its baloney of course Indeed as long as the threats and bloodcurdling hateful language are directed against a worthy target the moderators dont bother with them A leftwing writer Jesse Singal wrote a compelling article in The Atlantic about detransitioners and other controversial LGBTQ issues The threats were appalling worse than anything Ive ever seen on X I think Jesse Singal should be beat to death in the streets one wrote Another wrote Jesse Singal and assorted grifters want us dead so I similarly want him dead another user wrote And theres much worse much of it is too obscene to post here Theres a culture of just total impunity over there when it comes to violence On Twitter as far as I can tell its rare for people to post violent threats or musings under names identified with their IRL identities Over there they know they can do so without any risk pictwittercom3xRWdAo3Kl Jesse Singal jessesingal December 15 2024 Though they blatantly violated Blueskys restrictive community guidelines the platform hardly took action against such accounts It even failed to ban users who shared what they believed to be Singals private address or made especially graphic threats against him Evidently the people making decisions for the kinder gentler platform dont mind actual death threatsas long as they are directed against those who in their judgment have it coming to themWhat can possibly explain the descent of a platform populated by progressives who claim to abhor all forms of violence into an echo chamber that revels in violence against anyone who defies its taboos or threatens its ideological conformity Claiming one is a victim has become increasingly advantageous and even fashionable wrote Ekin Ok and three coauthors from the University of British Columbia in a 2021 paper The thesis the authors advance is that Western democracies have become so responsive to the needs of the people perceived as victims that claiming the mantle of victim allows them to pursue an environmental resource extraction strategy that helps them survive flourish and achieve their goals The papers second striking empirical finding shows that the tendency of people with dark personality traits to falsely claim being a virtuous victim may also give them cover for engaging in bad behavior In another experiment they asked respondents to play a simple coin flip game which was manipulated in such a way that its participants could easily use deception to increase their monetary payoff It turns out that people who have portrayed themselves as virtuous victims were far more likely than their peers to lie and to cheat Leftism is an ideology that attracts antisocial psychopaths because it excuses their behaviors as normal It also allows for righteous anger to mask a pathological personality and gives free rein to behaviors that most of the rest of us find appalling Its not surprising that Bluesky is what it is It was born that way

Rick Moran

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