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Is the rage against SJWs a huge Straw-Man argument?


I've been on Youtube a lot recently and the whole place is awash with SJW hatred.In fact, there is so much anti-SJW hatred, that it outnumbers anything actually posted online by SJWs by about ten to one.

On Youtube, you have a wide and diverse range of anti-SJW and anti-feminist opinions, all of which say pretty much exactly the same thing. You get people who call themselves 'classical liberals,' including Dave Ruben and the Skeptic Community, all of which got bored hating on religion and seemed to decide that attacking SJWs was a more marketable past-time now. They like Jordan Peterson too and he is a Christian so work that one out. You also have the alt-rightish commentators and people like (the unpretentiously named) Sargon of Akad who is kind of in-between the two. If you want a video of a crazy student being 'triggered,' it is easier to find than a funny cat video.

I know there are some nutty students on University campuses and on Tumblr. No shit. They are young people on the internet. They also have minority views and have little power. So why the rage against them?

I just think its the tried a trusted political tactic of taking the worst example of a ridiculous thing a political opponent can do and then making it representative of the entire political left. Pick an angry student on a bad day and film them doing something crazy. Then say; "See! This is what 'the left' is like".

Its taken even further too because the 'Cultural Marxist' conspiracy theory seeks to explain how these young and excitable defenders of minority causes are seeking to take over the entire Western World. Jordan Peterson calls it 'Post-Modern Neo-Marxism' and this seems to be the same as 'Cultural Marxism'. I.E. A batshit crazy conspiracy which thinks Marxist theory was a theory of how to control people and that Post-Modernist theory was about control of culture.

Peterson may be an excellent psychologist but he should probably stick to that because he doesn't seem to understand Marxism, Post-Modernism or the word 'Neo'. The idea that a few French intellectuals in the 60s and 70s who represented a (never-dominant) faction within social-science academia could take over the world is ridiculous.

The west has been moving towards more progressive cultural values but a lot of that is due to the decline in Christianity and the more individualistic and atomised way that we live these days. Social diversity is a result of technology, travel and free-market capitalism. It's not because of some French dude in the 60s who nobody has read, nor is it down to a purple-haired 19-year-old who shouts a lot. None of that affects you at all, actually.

Most SJWs see themselves as defending the rights of minority groups, yet the entirety of the political right on Youtube thinks that [i]it [/i]is a besieged minority group which is denied free speech (it isn't, they are allowed to say all kinds of crap on Youtube and some are even NAZIs).

I know Youtube politics is silly but these people do have influence. Some have north of a million subscribers and a lot of people take them seriously. Really though, this shouldn't happen.
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
You are misrepresenting what Jordan Peterson has been saying.

You're also incorrect about conservative and centrist people being in a state of rage.

If anyone is showing rage and violence that would be the leftists.

The left are thugs.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SteelHands No, I am correctly representing how JBP misrepresents things. I have watched a dozen of his videos and read his book so I know his positions.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 Sorry that you don't read well and think that you're the only one who can.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SteelHands Okaaay...

Explain Post-Modern Neo-Marxism to me and how it works?
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 It isn't any different. It just tells a few new lies and makes even bigger false promises.

And it's methods of using force and violence, dragging ignorant children into the argument, causing sorrow and death will be a hundred times worse.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SteelHands Post-Modernism was a tool for seeing society and was a rejection of grand narratives (such as Marxism). Its heavily concerned with critiquing literature.

99% of what Marx wrote was a critique of capitalist economics. He didn't really write about what he wanted for a socialist society, or about political strategy.

You told me I haven't read well. TBH, you just haven't read anything.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 and what we have here is absolute and recalcitrant false bullshit.

You know that Marx is foundational to socialism, Lennin Stalin , Kruschev , Hitler , the whole ugly death camp gulag filth to rot shit Putrid and dead failed result.

You should know as well as Peterson.

I'm practically sure people like you know how deadly the lies are that you and they are telling.

You're motive isn't humanistic. It's greed amd lust for the ability to murder your oponents and forcibly confiscate what you want.

You already are benefiting well by the only workable systems of Republican government and free market capitalism but you think you'll be in the historically scant few that gain in the horror of your socialist nazi kremlin panacea.

You well read self appointed phoney baloney card carrying little red book quoting draft dodging do nothing but talk never wielded a shovel or strained a muscle cumguzzling cocaine sniffing disease minded dollops of dog shit can complain we pulled back your false curtain.

You can hurl your racist slurs against us, keep trying to sell your racism to our friends, keep trying to turn our women and our men against each other. You keep telling the little high schoolers they're becoming wiser and more successful by smoking pot. You can keep telling them you'll take the money from the ones who won't hand it over.

Go on. Advise them how I'm so enraged. I promise you that I'm never enraged. People like you don't rate my feelings. You rate a clown nose. You rate a dunce cap.

You're like a little girl complaining she don't have a dick.

You're nothing.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@SteelHands And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a typically triggered SJW. 😘 🤣
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@Burnley123 Hey dick face. Are you talking to me or stroking your ego pretending that you and me are performing a debate at the Appollo.

You're such a bucket of bullshit. Lol