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I suppose I should have tried to come up with a solution.
When it comes to busybodies and whiny psychotics; the best thing to do is ignore them and avoid giving them any power no matter how small. That is the easiest way to it.
As awful as these s--ts are, they aren't like Islamic Fundamentalists or Nazis. They are not going to go out and cut off heads or fill gas chambers. Not because they are better people, but rather they are lazy and want other people to cut off heads and fill gas chambers for them, but few of them have the type of hypnotic charisma that firebrand clerics or Adolf Hitler possessed, so they don't really have an army goons to carry out violence on a large scale.
But if you stand your ground and fight them, they lose steam rather quickly. Look at South Park. When South Park first started they were bombarded by would-be censors from the Right and the Left, but South Park stood its ground and Comedy Central told the busybodies to pound sand and eventually they gave up because they knew that not only would South Park not capitulate, but rather that they would purposely push the limit even further just to **** their critics off.
Also, is it just me or don't you notice that so many authoritarians aren't self-made? I've seen this with Islamic Fundamentalists, the Nazis, Communists, SJWs, and Nanny Statists. They are usually "professional activists" or civil servants or they leave on handouts or they come from money already. Some are amazingly wealthy and some are hovering above the poverty line, but they never seem to have started their own business and built it up or worked an everyday job in the private sector. They seem to view themselves above such s--twork like they deserve to be on some council that sits around and decides what everyone else should be doing.
They really are out to destroy the university system and the culture. Like you I could see them in power having the potential to be like Hitler or Mao.
It's a shame we can't just deprive them of citizenship and deport them. I would much rather have most illegal immigrants than SJWs.
Give the infertile grounds that Social Justice Chicks would have in most of Latin America, I see your point.
The real crime in all of this thus far is the effect on universities. If anything, it's a real indictment of sane people that alternative (ie : traditional) liberal arts programs aren't being set up somewhere. The highly religious schools appear to be the only other source, but outside of something like St. Thomas Aquinas College, I haven't run into any that seem worth the money and time.
"Like you I could see them in power having the potential to be like Hitler or Mao."
I wouldn't worry about that for now. Both Hitler and Mao rose to the top of a system of competing groups that ratcheted their way up through levels of violence to outright civil war. You can tell that SJWs are inconsequential in that no ideologically opposite-but-similar groups have arisen.
That's when you have to worry.
The natural enemies of SJW thinking are capable of going from idle navel contemplation to full-on opposition in a matter of a few years, and are generally far more capable. The feedback loop that could arise is where the problem lies and people might get the exact opposite of what they want.
"Like you I could see them in power having the potential to be like Hitler or Mao."
I wouldn't worry about that for now. Both Hitler and Mao rose to the top of a system of competing groups that ratcheted their way up through levels of violence to outright civil war. You can tell that SJWs are inconsequential in that no ideologically opposite-but-similar groups have arisen.
That's when you have to worry.
The natural enemies of SJW thinking are capable of going from idle navel contemplation to full-on opposition in a matter of a few years, and are generally far more capable. The feedback loop that could arise is where the problem lies and people might get the exact opposite of what they want.
I more worry about the effect they are having on the education system (especially universities) and them gaining positions of power in government via filling up the civil service.
I don't worry about them or any of the other odious Progressives staging a revolution or civil war to take over because they are cowards to be put it bluntly. They are also lazy.
I worry about other people doing the dirty work on their behalf. Because they are in the same mold as people like Trotsky, Lenin, Robespierre, and so on. Wealthy or upper-middle class who talk of blood and guts, but are really too squeamish to man the guillotines and firing squads themselves but I think a lot of them would give the orders if they had the chance.
There is almost a religious zeal when it comes to the authoritarian Left that us really only matched by hardline religious fundamentalism in its intensity. You start reading all this good stuff about harmony and ending discrimination, but it quickly turns into a huge portion of the population are evil oppressors.
Ignorant, sometimes well meaning but just as often angry people looking for a fight about anything. It's fueled by the desire to be part of a movement (and that can be a positive and a REAL BAD negative, depending on the way the wind blows). Young people especially jump on bandwagons with more zeal than sense or knowledge, which is why they usually go straight to "calling out" everyone rather than living and learning whatever values they claim to support and how it fits into the big picture called LIFE. Online I've seen examples of people putting down folks in the same camp with decades more experience than them, a person who just recently joined the movement. It would be funny but it's so sad and not limited to social justice warriors.
That's my experience.
That's what I've noticed as well. These causes nowadays seem to do more harm now from folks with little knowledge and sense. Just look at how the fraternity house in UVA was vandalized when the falsified Rolling Stone story was revealed.
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OP, it's not a left vs right issue. It's actually liberals who find themselves in online feuds with SJWs. Bill Maher, who many would describe as a liberal, is hated among SJW crowds.
SJWs aren't for social justice. They are just PC police. They aren't about solving systematic problems.
This is what I think social justice has evolved to now. Much like how feminism has evolved. Both have the right idea but their messengers have veered off to do more harm than good.
I more worry about the effect they are having on the education system (especially universities) and them gaining positions of power in government via filling up the civil service.
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One take away for me is that in modern times, there is absolutely no point in going to a university outside of it's usefulness as a trade school (electrical engineering, music performance, civil engineering, and the like). It isn't like being a scholar and being formally educated are the same thing, and a bunch of lunatics are running the asylum.
The kind of nonsense that happens in schools in recent years makes for first rate comedy.
I agree they're a plague. Their existence is fueled by finding oppression where none exists, so they find absolutely absurd things to be offended about. By asserting that everything is the fault of whites, cisgenders, Christians & males, they're asserting their own bigotry about these groups. If you're any of those groups, you're at fault for the wrongs in our society. If you're all of them, you're pretty much pure evil.
They're kind of the polar opposite of the extreme-religious right, whose walls are so cemented in what they believe they refuse to step back and see how absurd some of their ideas are. Its made worse that these attitudes are cultivated in our educational system, so these people's views are even less flexible. They're so convinced they're right because they're more educated than the bumpkins who don't have any college education.
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don't major or take classes in anything that ends with the word "Studies".
don't go near the buildings on a campus where the "Studies" departments hold court
don't go to any of the **insert victim class name here** Resource Centers on campus
don't attend any college that is only recently co-ed.
Right off the bat, that will eliminate 80-90% of all your SJW interactions. After that, simply stay away from festivals, **insert cause name here** Days, and any large gatherings of young people in any large metropolitan area's parks or open spaces. Oh, and avoid political forums on the Internet. It's a pretty easy SJW-free existence by following a few simple rules.
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