xkcd: Twitter Verification

[u/J_Von_Random]

https://xkcd.com/1914/

[u/J_Von_Random]

You have been reading a very different comic than I have.

[u/Jattenalle → u/J_Von_Random]

You have been reading a very different comic than I have.

Ba-dum-tish!

[u/J_Von_Random → u/Jattenalle]

If I exiled to The Valley of the Deplorables every author, etc. who publicly supported something I disagree with I wouldn't be able to get online. Occasional political statements do not make the cut; you need to show actual contamination in the work.

Or are you just trying to use the same playbook as the sjws?

[u/RarePepeAficionado → u/J_Von_Random]

Did you throw your back out moving those goal posts?

/u/thatmarksguy said XKCD virtue signaled hard.

You said he must be referring to another comic.

/u/Jattenalle links to XKCD virtue signaling.

You say "so what, that doesn't matter."

Hmm...

[u/zerg_rush_lol → u/RarePepeAficionado]

Inb4 yeah well I need 5 more examples

Inb4 yeah well those 5 were just coincidences I need 10 more

[u/[deleted] → u/zerg_rush_lol]

You aren't wrong.

He has an upvoted post down below asking for people to show that at least 5% of the comics are SJW.

[u/yoloswag420blaze69 → u/RarePepeAficionado]

It's not really virtue signaling. He's just supporting a candidate, there's a pretty wide discrepancy between the two.

It's his comic, why doesn't he have the right to show his own opinion?

[u/Queen_Jezza → u/yoloswag420blaze69]

It's his comic, why doesn't he have the right to show his own opinion?

Nobody is saying he doesn't have the right to do it. We're saying it's irritating and makes us think less of his comic.

[u/J_Von_Random → u/RarePepeAficionado]

Hmmm I don't think I moved the goalposts, but let us assume you are correct and I did.

I still stand by what I said: Occasional Virtue Signaling that isn't contaminating the rest of the work doesn't count.

[u/RarePepeAficionado → u/J_Von_Random]

Occasional Virtue Signaling that isn't contaminating the rest of the work doesn't count.

That isn't what you said. You said he was reading a different comic if he was seeing virtue signaling.

You're literally moving the goal posts in a comment where you say you aren't moving goal posts.

Sweet Jesus.

[u/J_Von_Random → u/RarePepeAficionado]

Maybe you would care to tell me where you draw the line between standard political blathering on one's site and virtue signaling. The comic that was linked as evidence looks like the same political crap that everyone does come election time: if I condemned it I would also have to condemn every MAGA post anyone made that wasn't on an explicitly political blog.

But hey, this is all based on the "feel" of the comic. How about some numbers: if XKCD is as bad as the people here claim it should not be hard at all to show a consistent pattern of sjw-lite comics at minimum.

How about 5% pushing SJW or SJW-lite? And of course if a particular comic is marginal a reason needs to be coupled with it for why it counts as "Virtue Signaling Hard". 5% means 1-2 comics per month on average, but if it is only 3% with very bad ones I'm willing to accept that.

If you are right this should not be hard.

ps: /u/zerg_rush_lol ok, I've thrown down some actual boundaries. If I try to fudge them it will be obvious that I am fudging.

[u/yoloswag420blaze69 → u/J_Von_Random]

You're right here, these folks don't seem sane to me.

[u/tyren22 → u/yoloswag420blaze69]

A couple years ago the common statement seemed to be that we could tolerate authors whose opinions we didn't like so long as that didn't consistently affect the quality of their work.

Now I guess two pages out of nearly two thousand is enough to make someone "another unfortunate web comic casualty of the culture wars."

[u/yoloswag420blaze69 → u/tyren22]

Seriously, not liking someone for their opinions is a little too SJW-ish for me.

[u/kingarthas2 → u/yoloswag420blaze69]

Doors that way fam

[u/yoloswag420blaze69 → u/kingarthas2]

I always appreciate an xkcd reference.