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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html
Odd that the NYT did a write up on this. And that Twitter came down with the banhammer on anything related to the meme. Why? They gave some rationale that some of the accounts posted info meant to mislead about the election. Ok fair enough, but that wasn’t really the point of the NYT article, just a piece of it. Kotaku explains further
https://kotaku.com/how-the-npc-meme-tries-to-dehumanize-sjws-1829552261
Long article about how the meme dehumanizes sjw’s and the NPC term is encroaching on the sjw label itself (doubtful imo). But maybe it’s the term encroaching that’s feared. The left and especially progressives used to view themselves as being the counter culture, with the good and bad that came with it. Now the alt-right has donned that crown. Are the sjw's afraid that maybe they’ve been infiltrated with an echo chamber thought process, that much of the rebellious streak is lost, pc culture has rotted the soul, and they’ve become the society they’ve failed against?
Maybe not but a thought.
Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
As a Reddit user, BasedMedicalDoctor, explains in a thread about the appeal of the meme, NPCs are “completely dependent on their programming, and can’t do or think on their own.”
Odd that the NYT did a write up on this. And that Twitter came down with the banhammer on anything related to the meme. Why? They gave some rationale that some of the accounts posted info meant to mislead about the election. Ok fair enough, but that wasn’t really the point of the NYT article, just a piece of it. Kotaku explains further
https://kotaku.com/how-the-npc-meme-tries-to-dehumanize-sjws-1829552261
Long article about how the meme dehumanizes sjw’s and the NPC term is encroaching on the sjw label itself (doubtful imo). But maybe it’s the term encroaching that’s feared. The left and especially progressives used to view themselves as being the counter culture, with the good and bad that came with it. Now the alt-right has donned that crown. Are the sjw's afraid that maybe they’ve been infiltrated with an echo chamber thought process, that much of the rebellious streak is lost, pc culture has rotted the soul, and they’ve become the society they’ve failed against?
Maybe not but a thought.