Quote: (03-20-2015 08:08 PM)la_mode Wrote:
Thinking back to my college days on a traditionally liberal major college campus, I remember now seeing what we'd call SJW's today. Pretty easy to spot, they were usually either drama/English/Film majors and sort of dressed like hippies.
Think back to the late 90s/early 2000s.
My parents were old school SJWs. I know this, because after 25 years of being their spawn, I finally figured it out.
How I discovered that my parents were SJWs.
1) They faithfully planted a garden every summer when I was a kid, canned much of the produce and ate it throughout the year. They did NOT bitch about evil farm corporations or GMOs.
2) They lived a life a relative simplicity. Minimized their vehicle needs to one car and after a brief attempt at being vegetarians (before I was born, I think), they just decided to eat a small healthy portion of meat at each meal and limited it to that. They did NOT bitch about the evils of the meat industry.
3) They donated money to a few causes that they supported, but NEVER talked about it.
4) They did NOT start a blog.
5) They focused their energies and money on raising their children well. This was their one priority for 30 years until the last child moved out two years ago. Every single one of their kids, turned out very respectably.
6) They visited the local elementary school when my sister was 4 and weren't impressed by the kindergarten teacher telling them that "there are no bad people, only people who made mistakes." Instead of blogging about this, they spent the next 25 years homeschool/sending their children to private schools at great personal expense.
7) They never talked about racism. Instead, they treated everyone equally. All of their children are incredibly accepting of everyone they meet.
8) They started a local pro-life organization that ended up having a membership of hundreds of people. Instead of primarily complaining about abortion and euthanasia, they focused on celebrating life.
They didn't protest abortion clinics with pictures of aborted fetuses. Rather, they'd participate in or organize the odd walkathon or event where pictures of healthy, unaborted children were held and used slogans like "Chose Life" and "Life is Precious." Their main activities involved receiving and distributing clothing, baby supplies and support for women that decided to keep a child, instead of aborting it and publishing a quarterly newsletter before the days of wide-spread Internet use.
My parents started having kids in the early 80's and raised them through the 90's and 00's.
By the 00's, they were no longer involved in SJW activities, as they were too busy working hard to support their five children.