Were social justice warriors responsible for the election outcome?

[ReptilianPeon]

[Aroura]

Thanks to social media, everyone lives in an echo chamber no matter where you sit on the policital or social or economic spectrums.
It isn't recent that we cannot have productive conversations with "the other side", as people put it, it's just gotten more severe.  The squeaky wheels get the oil, and the most clicks.
I personally, and completely, blame FB, Twitter, and the media in general for taking our division and amping it up 1000% just for headlines.

No one likes to hear they are wrong, and there is a real phenomenon where telling someone they are wrong (even kindly, no SJW assholery needed)), and even with a ton of evidence only causes them to double down on their position.

My solution is to get off FB, and stop reading clickbait news.  And when you do read the news, check the sources, ESPECIALLY if the story is something you want to believe is true.
This election was fraught with hyperbolic disinformation, and once accepted, that kkind of disinformation is really, really hard to unlearn.  The vast majority of people aren't interested in correcting themselves at all, so good luck "fixing" any of this.

[Minimalist]

[Aristocatt]

I'd agree that the SJW probably played a small role in a series of interconnected events that made a Trump presidency possible. I guess my current thinking on the issue is that it was like a series of progressively larger dominos, one toppling the other until the final massive domino fell and created a Trump presidency.

Without the SJW rise, I'd wager that a Trump presidency was much much less likely to happen, but that to focus on it in the face larger ideological shifts in general, might make it a bit of a red herring.

[brewer]

I'd agree that the SJW probably played a small role in a series of interconnected events that made a Trump presidency possible.  I guess my current thinking on the issue is that it was like a series of progressively larger dominos, one toppling the other until the final massive domino fell and created a Trump presidency.

Without the SJW rise, I'd wager that a Trump presidency was much much less likely to happen, but that to focus on it in the face larger ideological shifts in general, might make it a bit of a red herring.

Hey stranger. It's been a coons age!

[Aristocatt]

I'd agree that the SJW probably played a small role in a series of interconnected events that made a Trump presidency possible.  I guess my current thinking on the issue is that it was like a series of progressively larger dominos, one toppling the other until the final massive domino fell and created a Trump presidency.

Without the SJW rise, I'd wager that a Trump presidency was much much less likely to happen, but that to focus on it in the face larger ideological shifts in general, might make it a bit of a red herring.

Hey stranger. It's been a coons age!

Howdy!
Yeah it's been a while.  Life got a little crazy, now it's calmed down a bit(then Trump won the presidency)

Edit: That smiley was really annoying.

[Jackie]

To the answer to the title of the thread NO that is fucking bullshit We lost because of voter apathy and a sick Trump who was evil in his tactics that rallied just enough bigots in the right places

[Neo-Scholastic]

[Edwardo Piet]

I think the social justice warriors are the so-called "regressive left", who aren't really Left, who think the problem is that people were't tolerant enough of the bigots.

The awful voters are responsible for the awful voting. Doesn't matter how much people hate Hilary the fact they think Trump was the better option may not make them bigots but it certainly makes them awful. The SJWs are the same people who say the reason why cartoonists get killed by Islamists is because we're not tolerant enough of their culture. Blame anyone but the people causing the harm, in other words. SJWs are all about taking offence and blaming the decent people instead of the indecent people, because all they want is drama.

[Aroura]

I'd agree that the SJW probably played a small role in a series of interconnected events that made a Trump presidency possible.  I guess my current thinking on the issue is that it was like a series of progressively larger dominos, one toppling the other until the final massive domino fell and created a Trump presidency.

Without the SJW rise, I'd wager that a Trump presidency was much much less likely to happen, but that to focus on it in the face larger ideological shifts in general, might make it a bit of a red herring.

Great to hear from you again!!  Hope you are doing well.