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Title: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS ARE COMING FOR OUR MUSIC #metalgate Post by: Wilikon on December 19, 2014, 05:27:53 PM Social Justice Warriors (SJW) are coming for our music. The first salvos of their offence have been fired, some from within our own ranks, and they are aiming to take out the heart of Metal. The defence of the realm has begun by adopting the hashtag #metalgate. SJWs are a divisive and destructive force in the world today. Masquerading under the guise of social justice they seek a position of victimhood and aim to label everything that stands against them as prejudice. Their modus operandi is to use shaming language to close down the conversation leaving them free to assert their dominance. SJWs are currently waging a war on gamers claiming games aimed at men are by default sexist, misogynistic and guilty of promoting domestic violence. Now they've turned their attention to us. It started innocently enough with a backlash against Mastodon's twerking video. Unfortunately that has lead to closer scrutiny by the blight of the SJW community. Remember the philosophy of SJW is to look for disparity and claim prejudice. See a preponderance of white skin and the group is racist, more men, sexist. It's a as simple as that. Defending yourself against their position is an altogether more difficult task. I wrote an article arguing against the Mastodon backlash and the comments I received essentially accused me of naievety and sexism. Below are three videos pertaining to #metalgate. Below them are small selection of articles with an SJW slant. In this video, YouTuber Sargon of Akkad makes reference to the language and methods used in the attack on gamers. Check the links in the video description for more anti-Metal articles and the original #metalgate piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vou_0RW5T5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oZCZicsuHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nct5RhNIwWo Here's a few articles critical of Metal. The Problem With Heavy Metal Is Metalheads: Stop Calling Everyone A Faggot http://archive.today/ah7cr A Very Dirty Lens: How Can We Listen To Offensive Metal? http://www.popmatters.com/column/a-very-dirty-lens/ Rock Bottom: Why Mastodon's Misogynistic New Video Misfires http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/sep/30/ mastodon-the-motherload-misogynistic-new-video-sexism-metal If SJWs win, they'll sanitise the output of Metal labels. No more will bands like Anal Cunt be allowed to exist. Freedom of expression will be replaced with self-censorship. Metal has withstood attacks in the past but this is different. Before, we could rely on facts but SJW are different, they will use any means, however foul and dishonest in order to get their way. What starts out as a message of tolerance and understanding ends up ripping apart the community they infiltrate. We are a subculture, by its very nature it must exclude people. But we don't exclude with prejudice, instead we encourage the prejudiced to exclude themselves. If you don't like Metal, we don't care. If you don't like our particular subgenre of Metal, we don't care. It has become the Metal way that if you don't like us or our message, we turn our back. SJWs will stop at nothing to undermine the F.U. attitude that is the cornerstone of the rock community. We must stop at nothing to refute their claims, learn our history and at a whim be able to point to songs that promote positive values in society. We are the ones that dare to think differently, we always have and always will promote true social justice, we must fight on. Don't let them win, don't let Metal change. Let Freedom ring with a shotgun blast! http://www.metaltalk.net/columns/20102263.php Title: Re: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS ARE COMING FOR OUR MUSIC #metalgate Post by: alani123 on December 19, 2014, 05:44:43 PM I'd like to see how big this could become. And I can see it getting bigger if it gets enough buzz that publishers can see a profit out of it. I'm a longtime metal music fan myself, I'm never surprised when metal music receives wrongful coverage through major media channels. Some are even willingly refusing to call genres with their name and just call every band that has electric and bass guitars hard rock or just rock. I never thought this could be a problem to the industry though, but now with #metalgate I see people saying it's a threat to our music. Is it really a threat though? Can people trying to push an agenda for social justice really affect a music genre?
Title: Re: SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS ARE COMING FOR OUR MUSIC #metalgate Post by: Wilikon on December 19, 2014, 06:53:33 PM I'd like to see how big this could become. And I can see it getting bigger if it gets enough buzz that publishers can see a profit out of it. I'm a longtime metal music fan myself, I'm never surprised when metal music receives wrongful coverage through major media channels. Some are even willingly refusing to call genres with their name and just call every band that has electric and bass guitars hard rock or just rock. I never thought this could be a problem to the industry though, but now with #metalgate I see people saying it's a threat to our music. Is it really a threat though? Can people trying to push an agenda for social justice really affect a music genre? Replace metalhead with gamer, go back in time 2 years and read your statement again. I am not a metalhead, but I would be like a hawk and be preemptive if I were you, right now. This cancer will attack and try to destroy everything it touches. |