University graduate berates Lyft driver for Hula doll

[desura]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMT3vuSQk3g

Apparently she escalated beyond giving him a 1-star to trying to get him fired and threatening to publicly shame him for his "racism."

People go into debt and emerge with these ideologies.

 

[pcgeek11]

I have no words for the stupidity of that woman. I thought it was great how he finally dumped her on the side of the road. He was a lot more patient and polite than I would have ever been.

Now I want to go buy a Hula Doll for my dashboard.

 

[alien42]

clearly not news and not worth clicking on.

 

[brycejones]

Now I want to go buy a Hula Doll for my dashboard.

The marketing plan is working!

 

[Jaskalas]

Not news? But definitely relevant politics as it speaks to the hateful, racist, and divisive ideology being encouraged (and thus endorsed) across college campuses in America. It is radicalization... but to what end? Not physical violence per say, but trying to take away and deny a person's work. We don't call it a living for nothing. It goes to food and housing, and without basic income those essentials feel like a struggle of life and death. In many cases physical violence would be less threatening.

For what, a hula doll? BS, that's an excuse to select a target. If it wasn't that it'd be something else. Anything to attack the "other".

 

[alcoholbob]

Meh, the good thing is SJWs rarely have kids, so they will breed themselves out of existence.

The bad news is human medicine will eventually achieve biological immortality, in which case getting rid of them from the gene pool will be almost impossible, lol.

 

[shortylickens]

Meh, the good thing is SJWs rarely have kids, so they will breed themselves out of existence.

The bad news is human medicine will eventually achieve biological immortality, in which case getting rid of them from the gene pool will be almost impossible, lol.

False.
SJW's come from ultra conservative parents and theres TONS of them. So no, the problem is not going away.

 

[alcoholbob]

False.
SJW's come from ultra conservative parents and theres TONS of them. So no, the problem is not going away.

Truly? I've always heard SJWs primarily come from single parent households. I've always imagined kids of conservatives--assuming you are referring to social conservatives--would most likely be conservative themselves.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Where is Antifa and BAMN? What are they going to about Hula dancers on peoples dash boards?

Yank people out of cars and assault them with rocks and pepper spray?

 

[NesuD]

Ok this is purely anecdotal but I only personally know one SJW type and he did come from a single parent home. That single parent is conservative as well. At times he is fine to talk to at others he is the most uncivil numbnuts you could meet. Was telling me this morning how his dad started an argument with him about something and to demonstrate how he never starts the arguments he started the exact same argument with me. I generally like the guy but sometimes I just want to punch him in the nose. The driver certainly had more patience than I would have. Civility is a two way street and you don't have a right to use my services. I would have kicked her to the curb about 1 minute into that.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I'll admit I didn't click on the link. I'm getting suspicious of all these unreasonable people. I'm starting to think many are staged and not real.

 

[Jaskalas]

I'll admit I didn't click on the link. I'm getting suspicious of all these unreasonable people. I'm starting to think many are staged and not real.

There must always be a segment of crazy hostile actors. Humans are prone to that mental disease of finding "others". I demonstrate a part of it by calling "them" out, but the crux of the disease is whether one acts to harm the "others". I would be content to live and let live, to marginalize the influence of hostile actors through positive messaging, the sort that they don't tolerate and act unhinged over. At worse, I think I would promote hula dolls.

Then we can all decide for ourselves whether we want to join in with ripping into one another, or supporting one another. I believe a number of people will actually choose the former, but hopefully a growing majority find it useful to do the latter. I think if we stop fixating on our imaginary divisions (hula dolls!?) then we can move forward as one people with common purpose. My idea of progressive values is to inspire people towards greatness, not beat them down into submission.

I fear those values aren't being promoted to our youth nearly as much as they might need to be.
We (America) dropped the ball. It's time we pick it back up and struggle to do better.

 

[Svnla]

Whatever happens to MLK's words of let judge others by his/her content of character?

Now if the doll was a Hitler doll or a Chucky doll with a bloody head on his hand, then I could see her point but a hula doll? Goodness.

 

[glenn1]

Hopefully Lyft (and Uber) terminate her account; no reason another driver should be subjected to her behavior.

 

[jman19]

Isn't this a year (or more) old? Swear I saw this a while back.

Anyway... who cares? Passenger is dumb.

 

[soulcougher73]

This bitch needs to DIAF.

 

[momeNt]

This is from August 2016. You must have gone deep into clickbait to even come up with something this old.

 

[desura]

Ok this is purely anecdotal but I only personally know one SJW type and he did come from a single parent home. That single parent is conservative as well. At times he is fine to talk to at others he is the most uncivil numbnuts you could meet. Was telling me this morning how his dad started an argument with him about something and to demonstrate how he never starts the arguments he started the exact same argument with me. I generally like the guy but sometimes I just want to punch him in the nose. The driver certainly had more patience than I would have. Civility is a two way street and you don't have a right to use my services. I would have kicked her to the curb about 1 minute into that.

Most people I know who are SJW are basically crusaders who have gotten really riled up arguing with their right-wing relatives all the time that they get polarized by it all.

There are a few who are weirdly autistic and oddly childlike in real life while on the internet they have all of the terms and conceptual models.

And a few really do come from messed up family situations.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

The thread title is amusing. You could also have put Porn site CEO berates Lyft driver. This is more than a year old. We are digging deep here today.

 

[desura]

This bitch needs to DIAF.

In the olden days the crown would pack people like this onto ships and send them off to the Americas or to Australia or wherever. Make them dig their own wells, sew their own clothes.

 

[NesuD]

Most people I know who are SJW are basically crusaders who have gotten really riled up arguing with their right-wing relatives all the time that they get polarized by it all.

There are a few who are weirdly autistic and oddly childlike in real life while on the internet they have all of the terms and conceptual models.

And a few really do come from messed up family situations.

Oddly child like is an apt description of my sjw in real life and he certainly did come from a really messed up family situation. I don't think I would peg him as autistic however. He comes off more as spoiled to me. His mother abandoned them when he was a child and I suspect his father overcompensated when he was raising them by himself.

 

[Fardringle]

It has been my experience that while some activists are truly trying to improve situations that need help, the vast majority of sjws are solutions who are desperately looking for a problem (any problem at all, even if they have to invent one) so they can feel like relevant, important "winners".

 

[woolfe9998]

What a miserable bitch. Anyone notice that the loudest voices these days are either from the far left, with their hyper-sensitive PC bullshit, and actual racists on the right who seem emboldened by Trump's election? Both of these factions are authoritarian in their own ways. And both are feeding off or each other. Too much PC on the left increases racism on the right, and increased racism on the right causes the far left to become more PC. It's a vicious cycle.

Political extremism needs to be de-legitimized in this country, ASAP. It's eroding democracy, and dragging us down fast.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

What a miserable bitch. Anyone notice that the loudest voices these days are either from the far left, with their hyper-sensitive PC bullshit, and actual racists on the right who seem emboldened by Trump's election? Both of these factions are authoritarian in their own ways. And both are feeding off or each other. Too much PC on the left increases racism on the right, and increased racism on the right causes the far left to become more PC. It's a vicious cycle.

Political extremism needs to be de-legitimized in this country, ASAP. It's eroding democracy, and dragging us down fast.

I agree, but how? If it's denounced, the supporters from both sides rise up as though they personally are being attacked (not far from the truth). Can't ignore it or the feedback loop intensifies. Can't ban it, that'd legitimize it further. Can't educate the masses, because the staunchest supporters are willfully ignorant and are louder than you are.

I guess there's always hope for MuskCo's Mars Colony 1 in a decade or three?

 

[woolfe9998]

I agree, but how? If it's denounced, the supporters from both sides rise up as though they personally are being attacked (not far from the truth). Can't ignore it or the feedback loop intensifies. Can't ban it, that'd legitimize it further. Can't educate the masses, because the staunchest supporters are willfully ignorant and are louder than you are.

I guess there's always hope for MuskCo's Mars Colony 1 in a decade or three?

We can only do what we can do, which is to denounce it. And it needs to be denounced in a non-partisan way in order to be credible, in spite of the fact that each side thinks the extremism problem is worse on the other side than on theirs. The extremists are "louder" precisely because those who aren't extremists don't seem as passionate possibly because rational politics involves using one's head more than one's emotions. Denouncing It probably won't work, but that is not a reason to be complacent about it. It's time that people who are not insane got involved in our national dialogue to a much greater degree.

What might actually work is to have extremists get their way for awhile until there's a catastrophe, which could be economic or possibly existential. That's what usually curbs extremism, when people start to see what happens when extremists get their way.

Extremism led to WWII, for example, but after 80 million died in that war, Europe started getting a clue. It's returning now and I don't think we should just sit back and wait for the catastrophe even though that is probably going to be the outcome.