This is actually where the term Social Justice "Warriors" comes from. The old vernacular was to refer to people who were constantly starting and participating in "flame wars" on boards which would piss everyone off and rile everyone up was called a "keyboard warrior". Well, guess what happens when a perpetually offended Leftist goes on a board and starts ranting about how everyone's a fucking mysoginyst and you're a sexist bigot that too ignorant to understand how real feminism works because they have a college degree and you don't? Feminism's actually only about believing women are human, and if you don't hate women then you're a Feminist, and also here's some Queer Theory nonsense to boot. Feminism just wants to bring about ... Social Justice.
If you are being a keyboard warrior for Social Justice, then you are a Social Justice Warrior.
Hate to say it, but GamerGate really did get turned into a fixed point in time where shit changed. You really just couldn't nuke entire threads and just ban entire news topics from being discussed on an internet forum. The concept itself was ridiculous. However, the SJWs had effectively worked their way into moderator positions, and in Gaming were the heads of the websites and journalistic outlets. So when they decided to abandon the mask and go full activist, it caused massive blowback from people who were astonished that the establishment organizations were pushing thought and speech control... particularly from journalists and forums.
They were trying to balkanize the gaming audience into Leftist and non-Leftist factions that they could destroy. This is what they did with Atheism vs Atheism+. You couldn't be an atheist without being a Feminist. You couldn't be an Atheist, without promoting equality. You had to be an Atheist... and more. This is why the wrote the "Gamers Are Dead" articles. It was a line in the sand, they were so bold they just drew it fucking behind us. In retrospect it's not really a surprise. The Leftists in Journalism would have looked at consumers as the lowest scum of the earth, literally Consooomers who were being told which Capitalist products to obsess over because the Leftists determined that it was what we should want. They told us to get in line, and a shit load of people said, "absolutely not". Someone told them no, maybe for the first time in their worthless lives, and it scared them forever.
It didn't contain itself to academia and Tumblr. The disease spread and with the help of HR, PR, and Advertising realizing how useful it is to manipulate social media, it's infesting everything.
Luckily the whole systems about to fucking implode, and each and everyone of these fucking assholes have earned the disaster they are creating.
This is actually where the term Social Justice "Warriors" comes from. The old vernacular was to refer to people who were constantly starting and participating in "flame wars" on boards which would piss everyone off and rile everyone up was called a "keyboard warrior". Well, guess what happens when a perpetually offended Leftist goes on a board and starts ranting about how everyone's a fucking mysoginyst and you're a sexist bigot that too ignorant to understand how real feminism works because they have a college degree and you don't? Feminism's actually only about believing women are human, and if you don't hate women then you're a Feminist, and also here's some Queer Theory nonsense to boot. Feminism just wants to bring about ... Social Justice.
If you are being a keyboard warrior for Social Justice, then you are a Social Justice Warrior.
Hate to say it, but GamerGate really did get turned into a fixed point in time where shit changed. You really just couldn't nuke entire threads and just ban entire news topics from being discussed on an internet forum. The concept itself was ridiculous. However, the SJWs had effectively worked their way into moderator positions, and in Gaming were the heads of the websites and journalistic outlets. So when they decided to abandon the mask and go full activist, it caused massive blowback from people who were astonished that the establishment organizations were pushing thought and speech control... particularly from journalists and forums.
They were trying to balkanize the gaming audience into Leftist and non-Leftist factions that they could destroy. This is what they did with Atheism vs Atheism+. You couldn't be an atheist without being a Feminist. You couldn't be an Atheist, without promoting equality. You had to be an Atheist... and more. This is why the wrote the "Gamers Are Dead" articles. It was a line in the sand, they were so bold they just drew it fucking behind us. In retrospect it's not really a surprise. The Leftists in Journalism would have looked at consumers as the lowest scum of the earth, literally Consooomers who were being told which Capitalist products to obsess over because the Leftists determined that it was what we should want. They told us to get in line, and a shit load of people said, "absolutely not". Someone told them no, maybe for the first time in their worthless lives, and it scared them forever.
It didn't contain itself to academia and Tumblr. The disease spread and with the help of HR, PR, and Advertising realizing how useful it is to manipulate social media, it's infesting everything.
Luckily the whole systems about to fucking implode, and each and everyone of these fucking assholes have earned the disaster they are creating.