Fuck, dude, I usually don't read super long stuff like this, but I started skimming and I got pulled into it, hard. Thanks for sharing your experiences, it's very fascinating what you've gone through.

I can't exactly say I used to be an SJW but I was certainly being groomed into becoming one. I remember one particular time on tumblr when I realised just how fucked up all of the world is and how uncomfortable it would be to interact with people who aren't super progressive, since I saw them as evil. That thought was so interesting to me at the time that the moment crystallised in my mind perfectly.

I wasn't very active or pushy about it, although maybe I was, considering that I cut contact with a friend over his positive opinion of guns. That was pretty embarrassing. It felt kind of wrong to do even back then, but I felt like it was the "right thing to do". We're friends now, though we don't talk frequently. I just messaged him, you reminded me to chill with him some more, he's fun.

I also remember spending untold hours arguing about how SJWs were an unimportant internet thing and how they'd never actually affect reality in any way... And when I was even younger, I remember joining circlejerks about how evil and bigoted right-wingers are.

I was so obsessed with the scientific method, I believed that morality not only could, but must, dictate morality. I would still believe in science if it was political neutral ground. But politics have tainted science. The mechanics through which our societies used to determine what is true and what is false have been completely corrupted. We literally live in a post-truth world, thanks almost exclusively to the left.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, the thing that finally redpilled me was, indeed, gamergate. It's what convinced me that leftism was irredeemably corrupt.