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Author Topic: Margaret Atwood latest victim of the Left turning on one of their own.  (Read 1166 times)

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/15/margaret-atwood-feminist-backlash-metoo

How dare she ask for due process for those accused of a sexual crime. One must believe every word said on the subject. No matter how non-existent the evidence.

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Margaret Atwood latest victim of the Left turning on one of their own.
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2018, 05:53:52 PM »
It's hilarious that all the women doing "Handmaid's Tale" cosplay and pretending that Trump's America is like that (while completely ignoring the plight of women in countries like Saudi Arabia, that really ARE like that setting) now despise the woman who invented it all.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2018, 05:59:50 PM »
This happened a while ago and I already posted the link in the Ansari thread.

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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2018, 04:43:24 PM »
Wait.

If Margaret Atwood is also "the Left" does that mean she is attacking herself?

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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2018, 05:52:28 PM »
The revolution always eats its own.

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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2018, 06:00:28 PM »
Quote from: Tait Ransom;1020803
The revolution always eats its own.

Oh so very true. Saw this in the convention artist circuit back in the 90s.

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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2018, 07:21:16 AM »
I know that this is treading into tinfoil hat territory, but I doubt that these women's rights marches are anything more than a well-funded and organized opposition to Trump just because he is not part of the DC Establishment. Rabble rousing for the sake of causing a scene and a disruption to coincide with the Federal Shutdown.
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2018, 07:38:24 AM »
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It's hilarious that all the women doing "Handmaid's Tale" cosplay and pretending that Trump's America is like that (while completely ignoring the plight of women in countries like Saudi Arabia, that really ARE like that setting) now despise the woman who invented it all.


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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2018, 09:57:29 AM »
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Wait.

If Margaret Atwood is also "the Left" does that mean she is attacking herself?

It's almost as if the Left and Right aren't monoliths and the labels were largely useless outside of the simplistic "Go Team!" political discussion preferred here and at rpg.net.

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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2018, 10:21:10 AM »
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I know that this is treading into tinfoil hat territory, but I doubt that these women's rights marches are anything more than a well-funded and organized opposition to Trump just because he is not part of the DC Establishment. Rabble rousing for the sake of causing a scene and a disruption to coincide with the Federal Shutdown.

Why would it it be real in Year Two when it was clearly a paid, organized effort in Year One?

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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2018, 02:48:06 PM »
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Why would it it be real in Year Two when it was clearly a paid, organized effort in Year One?

True. It just looks like this is the only group that whoever is behind this has left with any shred of legitimacy.
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2018, 10:26:41 PM »
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/.


Kudos to Margaret. I was particularly struck by this quote:

In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated.

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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2018, 10:48:29 PM »
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Kudos to Margaret. I was particularly struck by this quote:

In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated.

Yeah, and it will go in one ear and out the other is the sad part.

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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2018, 11:09:48 PM »
I don't expect extremists (of any stripe) to pay attention to those words.

It's the majority (who are moderates, even mushy moderates) who need to pay attention and not allow extremists (of any stripe) to control any narrative.

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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2018, 10:52:41 AM »
Well, at least one of the Women's Marches got an Epic Troll....

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