I don't know how to respond to this since you are saying the rights these supposed SJWs fight for (feminism, anti-racism, lgbt related rights, etc) aren't really rights or something.
That's not even remotely my argument, and that you've taken it that way is a demonstration of what I'm talking about. It's not the supposition of the rights, it's the supposition that an individual's activities are positive
simply because they believe them to be in the support of rights, which is something that is not necessarily true at all. It is a massive hole in the collective consciousness of rights supporters (that ironically makes it more difficult to obtain said rights, since anybody in opposition to a rights movement can see it easily and are turned off by the blatant hypocrisy that results), and its because of reactions like this.
Nobody is above reproach, no matter what they believe or do. Acting like they are is a quick pathway to Bad Things.
The kind of people that throw that term around find rights activists "annoying" and feel they are ruining their right to mock and degrade other human beings.
Except that you don't really know that. It's not all or nothing to support something, or people involved in something, or the actions of people involved in something. This applies to rights activists as much as any other social grouping.
It shows a deep lack of respect for others, a lack of respect for the issues we care about, and a lack of respect for us as people.
You are not an issue, and cannot equate an opposition to something you've said or done as opposition to everything you believe down to their base principles. Disagreeing with someone also does not equate to disrespecting them, and you yourself acknowledged that the use of SJW has not been in line with what you consider it to be.
Just like I wouldn't want to be called a n-----r lover for supporting black rights, I don't want to be called an SJW for wanting equal rights for all humans.
While I imagine you have been called an SJW, this isn't really about you specifically. You (and anybody else) can
say what they are for is equal rights for all human beings, but that doesn't actually make anything they do in favor of that cause. People almost never advocate what they are really believing or wanting, and so for there to be any recognition of truth even the most pristine concepts must have their followers analyzed. In this case, we see many people who claim the mantel of human rights when not congruent with that mantel, and then use it as a rhetorical shield (usually while amping up the emotional tension of the argument so far that it is almost certain to collapse into a fruitless singularity). That is a SJW.
Author
Topic: Things that made you sad today thread. (Read 9779238 times)