Post: #1

The observer recently published a critical piece on SJW

http://observer.com/2016/02/the-totalita...-warriors/

Some quotes:

Quote:Not that there’s anything wrong with the principles: Most Americans support gender equality, believe transgender people should be able to live as they wish and reject anti-Muslim hate. But social justice warriors have turned these causes into malignant self-parody. Their feminism frets over men sitting with their legs apart on public transit, seeks dissent-free “safe spaces” and cries oppression at concern about obesity’s health risks.

Quote:SocJus speech- and thought-policing includes self-policing. “I rigorously manage my own thinking and purge myself of dangerous ‘unthinkable’ thoughts—‘mindkill’ myself—on a regular basis,” wrote columnist and former Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu in a 2014 Facebook discussion. “This is what you have to do to be a feminist anti-racist progressive, i.e. a social justice stormtrooper.”

Quote:Conservatives have long railed against “political correctness”; but now, even some progressives are saying that activism based on identity politics, self-righteousness and intolerance toward dissent and error is a dead end.

Quote:If 2015 was the year of the Social Justice Warrior, 2016 could be the year of the anti-authoritarian rebellion.

It's interesting that even the mainstream sentiment towards SJW is slowly turning negative.

Post: #2

common sense will win in the end!

Take care

Post: #3

The title of that piece is pretty accurate. After reading that I feel the the writer reads this forum. Look at her other pieces..all pretty reasonable including calling out the smear campaign against gamergate and also a defense of James Deen. This is all stuff we've discussed on here.

I'm also pretty sure we are the only people who have directly compared the current social justice environment with the extremist behavior of the cultural revolution and "year zero" thinking. I haven't really seen that comparison anywhere else. Usually some writers will refer to it as authoritarian but will stop far short of calling it for what it really is.

Post: #4

Well it is Cathy Young, so I'm not surprised at the piece. She has been quite critical of SJWs and most of the more militant feminsts for a while, especially after gamergate.

Remember, she was on the panel with Milo and Christina Hoff Summers at the Airplay discussion.

Post: #5

(02-15-2016 06:55 PM)Panokko Wrote:  common sense will win in the end!

Take care

I wonder how many humans will be left when that happens

Post: #6

Nice to see something else in the news these days.

Post: #7

Thanks for sharing OP. Good read.