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04-27-2014, 02:23 PM
Stand your ground, and take the war to them by accusing them of being censuring bigots who are trampling your free speech rights. Never apologize. Be aggressive. It's the only language these vultures understand.
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04-27-2014, 02:26 PM
That's like asking, "How do I make sure my parents keep paying me allowance even when I royally piss them off?" If you're going to be a bitch, you're going to have suck some dick.
Public conformity is a job requirement. The only solutions are anonymity and not having the job in the first place. It's possible that if you had enough leverage you could avoid getting sacked, but even then, that looks unlikely, Mozilla is a case in point.
If you're self employed or employed by people who don't give a shit, then take a stand.
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04-27-2014, 03:51 PM
The best long term plan for doing you it is to make fuck you money.
Great idea OP. I look forward to reading the finished piece.
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04-27-2014, 03:53 PM
It really depends on a lot of factors. If your business is not dependent on the mob buying your product (e.g. PUA ebooks), then it has absolutely no impact. In fact, the publicity may be good for business. Same if your clients are not too in tune/dont care about social media (e.g. selling guns, farm equipment, etc.)
If your on the side of the liberal elites, again no impact. In fact, after all the hoopla you can probably run for office. Scandals will get you elected.
Otherwise your screwed, just resign for the good of the business. As you accumulate more wealth, you have have less freedom to truly speak what is on your mind.
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04-27-2014, 04:42 PM
I may do a post soon on ways to cover your online tracks. I've been slowly erasing my online identity over the last few months, quite successfully. I'm sure you could find me if you looked hard enough, but I'm almost at a point where it wouldn't matter.
If they can't find you out, then you don't have a problem. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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04-27-2014, 04:54 PM
Your best bet is to do damage limitation before you get into the sector you work in.
- Human Resources
- IT
- Engineering (depends)
- Aerospace
- Office work
- Catering & hospitality
- Retail
- Tech startups
All of these sectors have a juggernaut in their midst which can and will ruin you if you're not careful. I've worked in both retail and catering and whilst you may get away with some shit, you will not have much leeway on sexist jokes or behaviour which is outside the norm.
You're painting a bullseye on your back if you even talk about innocent sexual things.
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04-27-2014, 05:10 PM
I'm curious on how Donald Sterling will handle it.
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04-27-2014, 06:50 PM
An amusing thing about Sterling is this exchange:
DS: It's the world! You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs.
V: So do you have to treat them like that too?
DS: The white Jews, there's white Jews and black Jews, do you understand?
V: And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?
DS: A hundred percent, fifty, a hundred percent.
V: And is that right?
DS: It isn't a question—we don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture.
There was someone in the Jew's thread talking about how its kumbaya in Israel among the different ethnicities there. Apparently not according to Sterling.
But anyway....I hope he shows no weakness. The conversation was illegally recorded and should have no impact on anything. America should not be modeling itself off the Soviet System of "Political Correctness" where saying the wrong thing can cause you to lose your business.
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04-27-2014, 07:19 PM
I've thought about this a lot before. And I don't see a permanent, dependable solution other than being self employed, and if that's not an option, at least not being a corporate slave. If HR owns your ass or the masses can decide your fate, the very air you breath can't be politically incorrect, let alone writing a manosphere blog or expressing anything slightly unpopular.
Coming back to the question, if you are vulnerable due to your job or position and the witchhunt began and you absolutely can't afford to lose your job, the pragmatical solution would be making a swift, clear, full, (in)sincere apology to everyone whose sensitive feelings you might have hurt in order to save your job and let the dust settle for a while, and then start working on a mayhem plan to slowly get back at those cunts. In essense, live today, fight tomorrow.
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04-27-2014, 09:42 PM
Fuck you money cures all.
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04-27-2014, 10:12 PM
It frees me from the tyranny of the majority.
That's the funny thing. It's not the tyranny of the majority. I doubt a significant number of people really give a shit about Brandon Eich's views on homosexuality or even Sperling's desire to not have his girlfriend post pictures of herself in the presence of black dudes for all the world to see. No. In the modern West, it's the majority that lives in constant terror of a small, vociferously vocal and organized minority, a minority that is becoming increasingly intolerable as it strives to de-facto outlaw ever more ways of living life, and even thinking thoughts. Unfortunately, the majority are just a herd of disorganized sheep with no agency and are docilely led to the slaughter. It's been a long ass while since the majority exercised any power whatsoever in this country, let alone tyrannical power.
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04-27-2014, 11:37 PM
Let me ask another question.
Who do we know who has survived a witchhunt?
Might be some lessons there.
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04-27-2014, 11:58 PM
I almost got thrown out of grad school for running my mouth, I was in my ,mid 30's and did NOT have time to start another career.
They started telling me what was wrong with me , told I could either drop out for a while or go into therapy.
I kissed ass and went into therapy.
"Whatever you say, boss."
Today I made over $600 sitting in an office with the degree I got there.
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04-28-2014, 01:02 AM
The best way to answer this is to ask yourself who has survived witch hunts so far and then analyze their situation.
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04-28-2014, 03:05 AM
My situation is well-known, but the key is not to break any laws that could get the police or government after you. If a witch hunt accuses you of rape, but there was no rape, you will survive it as long as you are self-employed and can leverage that attention into gaining additional business. Your hands must always be clean.
Another point is to attack back---don't just sit there without pointed response. Have you noticed that the people we've skewered on ROK has been silent against me (I think only Anil Dash made one tweet about me after I wrote about him and Nitasha Tiku)? Witch hunts are not unlike riot mobs where they feel protected when attacking at once. But if you single them out, it's amusing how quickly they get scared. You must continue to keeping your hands clean in the counterattack by not resorting to defamation/libel. You must destroy them with the truth.
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04-28-2014, 03:21 AM
Attention span is short with these things. You lay low, have "no comment" and take a vacation somewhere. You resurface a week or two later, no one cares anymore. If you escalate your aggression or fight or hell, even acknowledge, they will too. The only real option for aggressive behavior is to do what your lawyer tells you to do. Threat of lawsuits, defamation, cease and desist, may help as well. Its a case by case scenario, but in general you become hard to reach in the immediate time of impact.
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04-28-2014, 08:00 AM
Vox Day is the go to guy to look at in terms of surviving a witch hunt. He was kicked out of SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) proceeded to start his own publishing company, his sales are higher than ever, 2 other prominent writers just left SFWA in support of him, and one of his short stories was just nominated for a Hugo (an award that is normally dominated by lefty publishing houses).
He never backed down, constantly highlighted his opponents hypocrisy and underhanded tactics and its gotten to the point where is opponents fear even writing his name on his blog because anytime someone attacks him he punches back twice as hard with the truth on his side.
The moral? Don't back down and don't live in the US.