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BookOfSouls85 · 36-40, M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8mduTEvnU0

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
Social justice started out as an effort to locate the groups in society who were treated the least appropriate and then mitigate those situations. It's turned into a cluster fuck of people trying to compete for the title of "most oppressed" now. And it's given everyone, the rightists, the leftists, the centrists, the straights, the gays, the Whites, the Blacks, the young, the old, and everything in between, a massive victim complex. I don't care how much a person sees eye-to-eye with me or how dissimilar their opinions are, if they intentionally try to paint themselves as a repressed minority not because they are but rather because they wanna be regarded as some kind of selfless courageous hero who isn't afraid to stand up to "the system", I will hound them day and night to remind them that they are as full of shit as they can possibly be.
Miram · 31-35, F
Social justice is political issue but it shouldn't be. Both parties should care about justice like in the past.

People are always emotional when it comes to matters that [b]hurt[/b] them and affect their well-being. The left are often just as emotional.

Even emotional arguments can be used to make positive changes. Not all truth can be approached strictly through logic.

Anger is present in every mass social change.
People have a strong need to identify with things larger than themselves. That's particularly the case when people feel dis-empowered about issues that matter to them.

SJW is really no different than mainstream politics these days. People throwing their small broken identities into movements with the hope of being part of something in which they matter, to help create a world in which they matter.

That is why SJW and politics are both all-in with no space for dissenting views. Dissenting views risk annihilating people's identities. And this is why they are so nasty and acerbic.

In part this is why more and more people are doing their own social justice work outside of SJW groups, and why people are turning their backs on this whole worn out right-left political spectrum. It is outside their personal experience and identity.
Sicarium · 46-50, M
It's not a ruse, it's the opposite of justice and an attempt at forcing equal outcomes by authoritarians who have bought into a collectivist ideology that reduces everyone to nothing more than their assign identity group. It's an intentional lie.

Your analysis is flawed in that the right has nothing to do with it beyond a few fringe groups that are now demanding their own white identity group because they've bought into the same cancerous ideology. The right certainly had nothing to do with the creation of social justice; neither did liberals, not true liberals. Social justice is by it's very nature anti-liberal. Also, SJWs aren't socialists. They're progressives. Socialists apply their collectivist groups by income. Progressives do it by social and cultural groups, hence why some use the term "cultural Marxists." It's not entirely accurate, but not entirely wrong either.
BookOfSouls85 · 36-40, M
@Sicarium Sounds fair, many thanks for your thoughts Sicarium.

The reason I said 'started by the right' was because there is a term used by the Frankfurt School to explain affecting the outcome on one side so that it benefits you.

As an example:

[i]A is in love with B, but C wants to date B and can't stand A[/i]

[i]D then hires E to wreck the relationship between A & B[/i]

[i]In the end, A & B break up and C then gets to date B. C has used nefarious means but ultimately C has won.[/i]
Sicarium · 46-50, M
@BookOfSouls85 The Frankfurt School was never Right. It was a hotbed of collectivism in one form or another.
ajsk13 · 51-55, M
When it's NOT your idea, it's someone Else's following their lead is just being used ,that not social justice just socialism
purplepen · 51-55, F

 
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