John Oliver condemns online harassment, the Internet responds predictably

[The Mikado]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNIwYsz7PI

First off, this video has the worst like-dislike ratio of any Oliver video I checked, and I checked the more popular videos. With 1.9 million views in two days, this segment has been heavily viewed. Because Oliver chose to play about a ten second clip of some controversial people (Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu), his video has been flooded with comments about how that was a terrible decision and what terrible people those two ladies are...proving his point. Certain segments of the population seems crazily determined to establish some sort of "bitch had it coming" justification for the crazy stuff that's happened to Sarkeesian and that alone is a good example of why John Oliver's segment is as important as it is.

In a civil society, a person should be free to express their opinions without threat of bodily harm or death. If you disagree with someone, criticizing that person or even organizing a boycott of that person are acceptable responses. Trying to chase people off the Internet and hunt them down in their ordinary lives for having the gall to express their opinions is monstrous. Thank you John Oliver for picking examples for your segment that would get this exact response so you could show the Internet just how ugly it has gotten.

[The Mikado]

And this thread is amply demonstrating the reason why this segment is so valuable.

It's always amusing watching how people react to the really mild and entry-level media critique that Sarkeesian does so personally. It's like she ran over your dog or something.

SJWs are the bane of man. John Oliver deserves everything he gets.

Using the term SJW as a negative is one of those things, like a Confederate flag signature, that indicates that the person has nothing to say worth listening to.

[The Mikado]

And this thread is amply demonstrating the reason why this segment is so valuable.

SJWs are the bane of man. John Oliver deserves everything he gets.

Using the term SJW as a negative is one of those things, like a Confederate flag signature, that indicates that the person has nothing to say worth listening to.

Comparing a literal symbol of secession and figurative emblem of racism to a internet slang about overzealous bloggers is a massive hyperbole even by Atlas standards.

Bashing "social justice" sounds a whole lot like an endorsement of social injustice. I'm puzzled and a bit saddened that we've gotten to the point where a large segment of society is so twisted that it regards social justice and advocacy for it as a negative.