Necrometer wrote:pretty much any ideology will twist weak minds into case studies - even straightedge produces bad apples somehow. if it's going to help people understand that date rape is just rape etc. I'm totally fine with a few people going off the SJW deep end... since those types are probably going to find a deep end to off-go eventually anywayFisk wrote:Mostly posted that triggly puff spin off because the original jam is so terrible and overplayed to the point where any repurposing is a win, but I have to differ with y'all... this new age bizarro reactionary contagion of "evolving" political correctness is real, on the internet and in real life. It's been brewing in pop culture, media, academia and to some extent civics/government/the courts for decades. Testimony from survivors of the cult:Whee of the Dead wrote:This a trillion times. I wouldn't even know what a safe place was if I didn't see tough guys on the internet crying about it so much.Pisscubes wrote:How many of these people bitching about "trigger warnings" and going so far as to make fucking music videos about it do you think have actually ever seen or interacted with the hit they're bitching about outside of a couple inflammatory op-ed pieces they read on the internet?
I guess you can just attribute it to the 'I live in fear' qualities of the right. They catch wind of something and all of a sudden it's an epidemic that's going to destroy the world.
Completely on board with chipping away at frat boy/bro ethics, just figured the nerd/geek contingent won the culture wars in that department compared to when I was a little shaver (is this crowd any less misogynistic overall, though? I dunno). SJW modernity seems to me the endgame of unchallenged liberalism (which tends to celebrate diversity in all realms but that of thought) and definitely embraces gender issues in a weird way - particularly by selling over reliance on appeals to emotion and superficial perception - like espousing false income disparity numbers and plying expectations somewhere along the lines of 'can't *the government* just fix this convoluted area of grievance that I am both misrepresenting and don't fundamentally understand'. Too much in common with Gloria Steinem 'woman as victim' neo-feminism.
Also submitted for evidence (to help demonstrate that there's a hell of a lot of bathwater with said baby, though again the SJW movement is only a symptom - i.e., don't care if we're ~70% of The United States, I still maintain the powers that be intelligentsia claiming racism outrage exclusivity for African-Americans, Jewish people and the occasional scattered native population is played out and clearly indicative of premeditated cultural marxism, not true anti-oppression sentiment):
