Quote: (10-17-2015 07:31 PM)Phatom Wrote:
Hey guys,
I am a regular poster at a video game site and I just run into some radical Social Justice Warriors. I was opposing 'Group Think' and endorsing thinking for yourself. And suddenly, this SWJ tells me I have dangerous ideas and that he his afraid of me. I was disgusted by all the nonsense he was saying like 'if you don't conform to what the majority thinks you are a soon to be shooter.'
I am speechless as how this people are spreading their evil everywhere.
They're over-represented online. Same with "internet atheists".
I think they tend to gravitate toward 'outcast' subcultures like 'gamer' because they identify with the oppressed; or vice versa - people who think they are 'outcasts' tend to identify with social justice since they have a victim complex and want some nanny state to take care of them.
You won't see nearly as much of it on a bodybuilding, entrepreneurial, or martial arts forum for example.
I see enough of it that it's pretty embarrassing regardless however; on some gamer site I spend a short time on, some mod there decided he was a "transgender woman", then started claiming other posters had no right to discuss feminism with him because he was a woman and they weren't.
There are other factors involved too - such as basement dwellers who've never been able to defend a woman (other than saving Princess Peach from Bowser) having a bunch of pent-up sexual aggression, a la Elliot Rogers, and using internet 'social justice' as an outlet for their desire to defend a woman's honor.
Usually the staff of these sites aren't very political either way, the 'social justice' crowd just use the Alinksy tactic of trying to appear more relevant than they are, known as 'astroturfing'.