Quote of the Day: That NPC Meme

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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton

A new meme has appeared on the Internet mocking the lockstep thinking of leftists and social justice warriors: the NPC meme. It casts these people as non-player characters (NPCs), analogizing them to computer AI characters which appear in role-playing games.

In RPGs NPCs have very limited actions, sometimes repeating one phrase over and over as programmed in the game. Kind of like leftists in a social media mob. Which is what makes the meme so painful to leftists and SJWs. It exposes the vacuity of their thoughts.

In graphic form, the face is replaced by a blank oval (generally light gray) with a text emoticon superimposed in the oval, thus:

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Or rather:

I think it is brilliant. So do leftists, who are sputtering like wet cats over this. They have been writing denunciations of it (claiming, as in the cartoon above, that it is dehumanizing). Twitter has suspended 1,500 accounts using the meme as the avatar. (Proving yet again, you know you are over the target when you start taking flak.)

What will be the leftist response? (Besides banning Facebook and Twitter users posting the meme.) I suspect very soon we will start hearing that anyone using this meme is a racist and a white supremacist. I will further predict we will see someone denounce the meme on Ricochet because they have been reliably informed (by the humorless scolds upset by being revealed as the unthinking automatons they are by the meme) that it is a racist meme, and that it violates the first three points of the Code of Conduct.

But you know — George Patton is correct: If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

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