Topic: The reason I came back to the chans
vocalon !UqecPEfbgU started this discussion 12 years ago #36,973
I was pretty strong into the “social justice” crowd. Looking back, that whole thing seems like a cult. It lures in vulnerable people, especially young people. People who are going through puberty and trying to figure out their sexuality. People who might be dealing with disability or mental illness, or those whose family is breaking up.
It sucks them in by spoon feeding the idea that they are special and worthy. It guilts them if they don’t treat everybody else as special and worthy too. It starts forcing you to see everybody as being in a hierarchy Then it gets you to alienate yourself from your friends. Your friends sometime makes racist/sexist jokes? Cut her out of your life. Got any conservative friends? Cut them out of your life. Got any friends who are white straight men? Cut them out of your life. They are oppressors. Constantly berate people if they slip up, because everybody else must be held to the same standard that you are and no other ways of thinking are ”right”.
Then it tells you to start criticizing and trying to change your family. It tells you to “call out” any little thing they do “wrong”. It warps your perception until you are a victim and constantly on the defense. It breaks you off from everybody and makes you feel awful for things you cannot control, and then, if you disagree or start questioning, it cuts you off from the only support you have left, and you are attacked and viciously berated. Maybe if you grovel enough they’ll let you be redeemed and come back, but if you will never be allowed to forget the one mistake you made.
Eventually I found anti-SJW blogs, where people were actively critiquing these concepts and the SJW culture. Originally I felt nothing but hatred for them, but then the words started to sink in. I started questioning whether this was really “right”. I saw how so many people leading the crowd were hugely hypocritical. I realized that I had been causing the problems in my life, not “oppression”. I apologized to my family for how I had been acting and I am lucky that they still supported me. I had lost a lot of friends, including some people I was very close to. It has taken me a long time to rebuild those relationships. It was a very bad period of my life, and one that took me a lot of effort to drag myself away from.
It sucks them in by spoon feeding the idea that they are special and worthy. It guilts them if they don’t treat everybody else as special and worthy too. It starts forcing you to see everybody as being in a hierarchy Then it gets you to alienate yourself from your friends. Your friends sometime makes racist/sexist jokes? Cut her out of your life. Got any conservative friends? Cut them out of your life. Got any friends who are white straight men? Cut them out of your life. They are oppressors. Constantly berate people if they slip up, because everybody else must be held to the same standard that you are and no other ways of thinking are ”right”.
Then it tells you to start criticizing and trying to change your family. It tells you to “call out” any little thing they do “wrong”. It warps your perception until you are a victim and constantly on the defense. It breaks you off from everybody and makes you feel awful for things you cannot control, and then, if you disagree or start questioning, it cuts you off from the only support you have left, and you are attacked and viciously berated. Maybe if you grovel enough they’ll let you be redeemed and come back, but if you will never be allowed to forget the one mistake you made.
Eventually I found anti-SJW blogs, where people were actively critiquing these concepts and the SJW culture. Originally I felt nothing but hatred for them, but then the words started to sink in. I started questioning whether this was really “right”. I saw how so many people leading the crowd were hugely hypocritical. I realized that I had been causing the problems in my life, not “oppression”. I apologized to my family for how I had been acting and I am lucky that they still supported me. I had lost a lot of friends, including some people I was very close to. It has taken me a long time to rebuild those relationships. It was a very bad period of my life, and one that took me a lot of effort to drag myself away from.
Triptych !!/xkPL9myM joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 17 minutes later[^] [v] #501,764
Moderation, love.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 58 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #501,766
So are you transgender?
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Negi Springfield !CyR.DZQRRU joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 29 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #501,771
Welcome back.Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #501,773
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 11 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #501,866
@ OP
KILL YOURSELF FAGGOT
KILL YOURSELF FAGGOT
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 2 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #501,876
Wow you being dumb and criticizing your family is not social justices fault I stopped reading a sentence in
lol don't blame other people for you being a baby
lol don't blame other people for you being a baby
Anonymous H double-posted this 12 years ago, 44 seconds later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #501,877
Think for yourself jeez take a break from blogging