"How SJWs Gatekeep," Just Some Guy, Apr 2018
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From 2018. Just Some Guy explains the difference between fan gatekeeping versus SJW gatekeeping, and some pointers on how to resist it.
I just listened to some guy ramble on about identity politics for 12 minutes, so let me summarize: Get woke, go broke. His advice was to not buy their completely-woke, or even half-woke bullshit products.
I liked his point on how groups will "gate-keep" by just having a common set of values. The so called "gate-keeping" of the comics community is that you can't start excluding people and make everything about you and your politics.
Imagine all the various fans at your favorite Comic-Con, an inclusive and tolerant fandom with diverse ideologies and tastes, a large cross-section of American culture. You have everyone from the awkward board-game enthusiast who's been dumping paychecks into comics for forty years, to the Overwatch e-girl that craves anything Deadpool.
Now imagine the big name comic and movie makers call them all "toxic" and bash them for being "white males", trying to explain away the sales figures of their terribly written stories. Only the cool kids would get it, everyone who doesn't consume this product are nerds.
The fandom was forged in the weird outcast subcultures, so there's no way this bullying would affect it.