RE: Being anti social justice warrior is a catalyst for bullying behavior
October 10, 2016 at 7:34 pm
No I haven't "missed the point" at all and if you're going to argue that, at least elaborate on exactly how I've missed it instead of throwing out a simple quick argument you think sounds good.
That is the world we live in, the "for or against" mentality. When the whole "gamergate" situation was going on, there were people responding with perfectly valid and reasonable points about how video games are not supposed to be for children or depict reality, and are FAR more violent against men than women, and those people were painted as anti-feminist and anti-SJW warrior just for pointing out logical facts. Point at that, while rape is always the fault of the rapist, there are some situations where the victim didn't exactly use common sense as well, you're "victim blaming" and defending rape. Speak honestly about Islam as a political system and criticise the ideas in the Quran, you're an "Islamophobe" who hates all Muslims.
We do live in this world, where you have to constantly tread carefully and watch what you say so you don't become a meme of being attacked for your not-left-enough views. I'm not saying there isn't real ignorance, real bigotry and real Donald Trumps, those are out there. I'm just a bit tired of seeing very reasonable and logical viewpoints get shot down because they're too honest and/or not ideal enough.
"Why so much intolerance for people who are experimenting with ways to identify themselves?"
Because these people pull these terms out their arses and, rather than calmly explaining what it is and why it's different enough to the other 50 current trendy terms with similar definitions, jump down your throat when you question it or react like "wtf is this new thing now?". It's just silly and it's making a joke out of the LGBTQIAYAWNWHATEVER community.
That is the world we live in, the "for or against" mentality. When the whole "gamergate" situation was going on, there were people responding with perfectly valid and reasonable points about how video games are not supposed to be for children or depict reality, and are FAR more violent against men than women, and those people were painted as anti-feminist and anti-SJW warrior just for pointing out logical facts. Point at that, while rape is always the fault of the rapist, there are some situations where the victim didn't exactly use common sense as well, you're "victim blaming" and defending rape. Speak honestly about Islam as a political system and criticise the ideas in the Quran, you're an "Islamophobe" who hates all Muslims.
We do live in this world, where you have to constantly tread carefully and watch what you say so you don't become a meme of being attacked for your not-left-enough views. I'm not saying there isn't real ignorance, real bigotry and real Donald Trumps, those are out there. I'm just a bit tired of seeing very reasonable and logical viewpoints get shot down because they're too honest and/or not ideal enough.
"Why so much intolerance for people who are experimenting with ways to identify themselves?"
Because these people pull these terms out their arses and, rather than calmly explaining what it is and why it's different enough to the other 50 current trendy terms with similar definitions, jump down your throat when you question it or react like "wtf is this new thing now?". It's just silly and it's making a joke out of the LGBTQIAYAWNWHATEVER community.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
