My issue with SJWs is the (seemingly) constant self contradiction. I’ll see SJWs complain that you shouldn’t categorize people, especially by a single action. But then a few posts later, they’ll call someone out, but their post will have 3 or 4 -ist words in it. For example, ‘ewww, you support ___ that’s makes you no different than all the other imperialist, racist, misogynist white privileged men out there…like, wow, blocked, have fun buddy’. And the other guy is sitting there like ‘I just said that one of my stocks jumped 3% today and I got a PM saying I’m no different than a KKK member?’
Similarly, another thing I see SJWs say, constantly, is that people of the non-oppressed group have no business inputting their opinion into the discussion. Now, while I want to say ‘as a person that’s part of the group that’s oppressing you, but not actually oppressing you, perhaps my insight may have some value’, but I just keep my mouth shut because 99% of the time the people telling everyone else to stay out of the discussion and that their opinion is less than worthless is, wait for it, 30-40 year old, well to do, white women. I’m sorry, when discussing police brutality against black people why do you get to shut me down, but you get to continue in the conversation?
Another contradiction I see is that “everyone has been raped”, “stop all the raping”, “report rapes”, “so much violence against trans/blacks/gays/etc”. Okay, got it, makes sense (except maybe the everyone has been raped part), but that doesn’t jive when you’re also crying to totally and utterly get rid of jails and police, period. So, um, who do you want responding to all these raping? What do you want done with them?
Two more quick ones, still more self-contradictions
Person on social media site puts up a post about a technical issue she’s having. A bunch of people, myself included, toss out some ideas. I and I alone got called out for ‘mansplaining’. The two females, nothing. To me, I saw that as ‘fuck you, I don’t want help from a man’. She also sent me a message telling me she knew more about the subject than I do so she didn’t need my opinion anyways. I didn’t respond, but all I could think was that she’s a FOAF and I’ve only met her once for a few minutes at a bar, there’s no possible way she could have any idea about her knowledge vs mine on an extremely specific subject. It’s was, literally, nothing more than ‘stop talking, male’. To this day I wish I had responded to that comment with 'how do you know?"
One of my favorites. SJW, complains about something. Non-SJW, says it’s no big deal. SJW tells him he has no business and his opinion doesn’t count since he’s not part of the oppressed group. Non-SJW says ‘neither are you, so why are you talking about it?’. SJW comes back with the fact that they were just quoting someone from that group. This is similar to the argument that when an SJW accuses someone, they’re right and you’re not allowed to defend yourself. What was funny, to me at least is that the non-SJW found an official PR statement from the head of the ‘oppressed’ regarding the (non) situation, and brought it to her attention and said that if all that matters is quotes, here’s one from the top person specifically saying that they’re actually happy about the way this is playing out. SJW continues to tell the other poster that he’s wrong.
You know, I’m (most of the time) a lefty, but, it’s funny, the more of this I see, the more I understand my super-right friends when they say things like ‘the left is supposed to be tolerant, but they’re only tolerant to people with their view point and as soon as you disagree with them, they yell and scream and call you names until you give them what they want’.
I think the internet has made this considerably worse and, as I’ve said before, if the way left and way right would both just take a few steps towards the middle and stop digging their heels in, we might be able to get somewhere. Like c’mon, do you, honestly, think getting rid of the police is a good idea, do you truly think that every.single.cop is a terrible human being or could you maybe look at Shaun King’s list of ways to make the police force better and and say 'yeah, if we could implement half (or so) of these, it would really make a difference. And again, to stick with the cop thing, yes, there’s a lot of cop/minority issues, but if we get rid of them, what do you want to happen when someone breaks into your house and you call 911?
Could you maybe attempt to think more than an hour into the future? Maybe try not to call someone a nazi or a racist or an imperialist or a (gasp) capitalist because they dared to say 'that makes sense, but I’m not so sure about one of your points".
FTR, I do like to keep SJW’s in my facebook feed because even when I think they’re reactions are beyond ridiculous, I think sometimes it’s necessary and, also, it brings attention to the issues facing people that I wouldn’t otherwise be aware of. Same reason I keep the super-right people in my feed and together they sort of balance out.
On preview, this turned out to be a way longer post than I thought it would be…
TLDR, probably pretty much what was said above.
