RE: So did Atheism + bite the dust?
February 8, 2015 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2015 at 11:29 am by Dystopia.)
(February 8, 2015 at 11:19 am)TheMessiah Wrote:- Are you saying you don't care for social justice? When there's two sides fighting opposite causes likely there will be hate and disagreement. However, I doubt those people have really poisoned atheism and feminism and gaming, how many people in every of those communities agrees with such hardcore positions?(February 8, 2015 at 11:15 am)Dystopia Wrote: I still don't understand what the problem is with being social justice warrior, after all, isn't social justice a good thing? I'm all for social justice and I've talked about it here in AF - How I think some people have it easier than others. Can someone explain me?
In theory, Social Justice sounds good. I was once an advocate for it, but as soon as I began to voice an opposing argument, I was verbally harassed, my personal details were threatened and ridiculed. From then on I learnt that Social Justice Warriors are vile; they have poisioned Feminism and tried to do the same for Gaming and Atheism.
These Social Justice Warriors, that clam to campaign for justice, often mis-construct words such as Feminism, Misogyny, etc and they will in any way possible try to silence opposition. Atheism + is an example, look at that link the previous user cited, it showed how they dealt with other Atheists who tried to offer an alternative view.
Read this link for proof: http://www.skepticink.com/avant-garde/20...-atheists/
--> I think insulting people who don't agree with you is usually not wise if you want to get more support. If you ask me, atheists have more reasons, as skeptics, to be pro-social justice - Religion in particular is used and has been used to deny social justice and reinforce oppression to specific groups of people. "It is not natural to be gay", "God says women should be put in their place", "Rich people are gifted by god and poor people are lazy", etc. Being a skeptic means you probably will not believe people who bring bullshit excuses to oppress other groups
If these people are like the woman that said intercourse was always rape, then I really doubt there's even a remote possibility that most people will agree with it
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you