Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging

[Pointless Pedant]

Meanwhile, adult cartoons cannot deal with complicated and dark topics like drug abuse, murder, dealing with trauma and overcoming abuse because "that's a no no and might get people a bit upset".

I'm pretty sure they do, though. I didn't watch Bojack Horseman but it definitely covered those kinds of themes.

 

[Jarolleon]

Reminds me of that doomer satire I wrote awhile back:



But really, as this election shows, and as said in another thread, at least not everyone is on board with being "woke", and America sure likes riding that pendulum. Also "wokethink" is very much a Western thing.

I get the impression that China between 400 AD and the early modern period was basically that timeline except with Confucianism rather than woke shit. It's more likely than you think.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Yes, they think words replace legitimate action. They police people for 'wrong think' and 'ouch word' rather than trying to actively do anything for the community, which is actually probably for the best seeing as they are deranged manic retards who would probably do more harm than good.

They really need to repeat 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' as a mantra.

Their whole movement is based on pity. Not love and compassion, but pity. Everyone is a victim no matter what. Do they help the victims they pity? Of course not. Doing that would require they actually solve problems, which is something they're averse to doing. For instance, instead of improving the quality of mental health care they'll just make superficial gestures like banning supposedly offensive words. That won't fix or change anything, but it certainly gives them more power and it also makes them feel like they're absolved from their own hypocrisy. They do this silly shit for themselves. None of these people would volunteer at a mental hospital or psych ward or strive to improve the quality of these places. They never cared to begin with.

Treating me like an equal individual is how they can show respect, instead of calling me the Other and taking away people's rights.

 

[Jarolleon]

This is actually pretty fucking funny. Remember how the left spent all eight years of the Obama administration resting on their laurels and their only major lasting contribution was Obamacare, which ultimately just preserves the insurance industry's stranglehold on healthcare?

What has been will be again.

"But this time it'll be different, now the chuds have revealed themselves, and we have the resources and will to expunge the Republican crime syndicate and enact real change!"-Them, probably

Has the actual Democrat establishment become more radical and utilitarian, or is this just all election-time theatre?

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

It's not about victims, but risk groups. AKA, the people that have higher risk of getting infected because of genetical factors, the ir age or habits they have.

Also, you better not bring up that when AIDS was discovered, gays were warned and they brushed it off and kept having unprotected sex. Later when it became an epidemic in the gay community they blamed the government for doing nothing to fight it.

The title for the book (and later movie) was And The Band Played On. Stupid people assume it was a reference to the Reagan administration. Smarter people knew it was a reference to the gay bathhouse community in San Francisco.

 

[NoReturn]

Their whole movement is based on pity. Not love and compassion, but pity.

They redefine their pity as compassion and love and cloud the meaning of the latter two.

 

[Dave.]

Meanwhile, adult cartoons cannot deal with complicated and dark topics like drug abuse, murder, dealing with trauma and overcoming abuse because "that's a no no and might get people a bit upset".

One more thing, there was a reason before as to why LGBT representation wasn't allowed or strongly discouraged back in the mid to late 2000's. It's not because the higher ups of the company hated people of that demograph, it was because so much funding went into making the cartoons in the first place and seasons, depending on how consistent and popular the trends of viewers grow, were a risk. Because at the time it was a hot button topic that had divisive to almost flat out mixed opinions, channels and investors were very worried that viewers would stop watching the show either out of disgust or because parents wanted nothing to do with it and the press that would come along either from Fox News or conservative news sources would curb stomp them into the ground. So the show gets slashed in viewership numbers and investors get less or sometimes no returns at all. So this battle is horseshit to me, this is a matter of cultural acceptance, not a fucking battle of representation.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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wonder what his thoughts would be if he found out dead people vote overwhelmingly Democrat

 

[The Curmudgeon]

They redefine their pity as compassion and love and cloud the meaning of the latter two.

Exactly. They would rather be activists than volunteers. I've known too many idiots who conflate those two roles.

Also, for all their talk about loving open society, they sure do a lot to stereotype and divide people. Example: They cringe at the notion that we're all equally Americans who should be judged as individuals, yet they also insist that we exist as Hyphenated Americans who never share ideas and cultures. We must all be judged as faceless collectives who live apart from and hate each other. You must conform to the collective you originate from and never think for yourself. Hell, you must never think at all! That's social "justice."

 

[Red Hood]

Exactly. They would rather be activists than volunteers. I've known too many idiots who conflate those two roles.

Also, for all their talk about loving open society, they sure do a lot to stereotype and divide people. Example: They cringe at the notion that we're all equally Americans who should be judged as individuals, yet they also insist that we exist as Hyphenated Americans who never share ideas and cultures. We must all be judged as faceless collectives who live apart from and hate each other. You must conform to the collective you originate from and never think for yourself. Hell, you must never think at all! That's social "justice."

Activists yell and get attention, volunteers actually do things.

 

[Dave.]

Exactly. They would rather be activists than volunteers. I've known too many idiots who conflate those two roles.

Also, for all their talk about loving open society, they sure do a lot to stereotype and divide people. Example: They cringe at the notion that we're all equally Americans who should be judged as individuals, yet they also insist that we exist as Hyphenated Americans who never share ideas and cultures. We must all be judged as faceless collectives who live apart from and hate each other. You must conform to the collective you originate from and never think for yourself. Hell, you must never think at all! That's social "justice."

Sometimes you have to ask yourself do you care about this topic or do you care enough to talk about this topic?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

wonder what his thoughts would be if he found out dead people vote overwhelmingly Democrat

He might sing "la-la-la can't hear you".

 

[Corn Flakes]

Exactly. They would rather be activists than volunteers. I've known too many idiots who conflate those two roles.

Also, for all their talk about loving open society, they sure do a lot to stereotype and divide people. Example: They cringe at the notion that we're all equally Americans who should be judged as individuals, yet they also insist that we exist as Hyphenated Americans who never share ideas and cultures. We must all be judged as faceless collectives who live apart from and hate each other. You must conform to the collective you originate from and never think for yourself. Hell, you must never think at all! That's social "justice."

To be completely fair to those people, some of them do volunteer to righteous causes. But it's never enough for them.

The problem is that they're so heavily indoctrinated into thinking globally that local causes don't really do anything for them. In their mind, they don't see the worth in helping in a soup kitchen or running donation drives to help drug-addicted homeless people go clean, because it "only" helps their neighborhood or their city at most. Meanwhile, their idology talks about how the entire world is unfair and terrible and how the very fabric of society is woven out of the congealed blood of the oppressed and all that crap. At minimum, they have to "help" and entire demographic group, which is where you get the race advocates (read: racists).

Helping a single poor person or even a hundred feels like nothing to them, they can never be happy because their worldview is completely dystopic. Which is ironic, since they see everything through a lenses of class but refuse to look objectively at the most basic distinction of class out there: haves vs. have-nots.

 

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

To be completely fair to those people, some of them do volunteer to righteous causes. But it's never enough for them.

The problem is that they're so heavily indoctrinated into thinking globally that local causes don't really do anything for them. In their mind, they don't see the worth in helping in a soup kitchen or running donation drives to help drug-addicted homeless people go clean, because it "only" helps their neighborhood or their city at most. Meanwhile, their idology talks about how the entire world is unfair and terrible and how the very fabric of society is woven out of the congealed blood of the oppressed and all that crap. At minimum, they have to "help" and entire demographic group, which is where you get the race advocates (read: racists).

Helping a single poor person or even a hundred feels like nothing to them, they can never be happy because their worldview is completely dystopic. Which is ironic, since they see everything through a lenses of class but refuse to look objectively at the most basic distinction of class out there: haves vs. have-nots.

You can take pics and video of yourself “protesting” and get internet stickers.

If you tried that with actual volunteer work that benefited any community at all, like the soup kitchen or whatever, you’d be excoriated for exploiting the homeless.

The very fact that what they’re doing doesn’t actually do anything to help anyone is what makes it something they can document and post about.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

To be completely fair to those people, some of them do volunteer to righteous causes. But it's never enough for them.

The problem is that they're so heavily indoctrinated into thinking globally that local causes don't really do anything for them. In their mind, they don't see the worth in helping in a soup kitchen or running donation drives to help drug-addicted homeless people go clean, because it "only" helps their neighborhood or their city at most. Meanwhile, their idology talks about how the entire world is unfair and terrible and how the very fabric of society is woven out of the congealed blood of the oppressed and all that crap. At minimum, they have to "help" and entire demographic group, which is where you get the race advocates (read: racists).

Helping a single poor person or even a hundred feels like nothing to them, they can never be happy because their worldview is completely dystopic. Which is ironic, since they see everything through a lenses of class but refuse to look objectively at the most basic distinction of class out there: haves vs. have-nots.

Tragic too, because one wonders how much change they could make if they just started at home.

I remember reading an interesting article by a 'green' activist who was going heavily against the grain. He was arguing that the best green technologies aren't large-scale crap like solar and wind farms, but little things, like improving home insulation and more efficient HVAC systems. That little stuff adds up fast and has a better ROI than the big wind turbines that are so prone to breaking down.

But that's not BIG and AWESOME, so they blow it off.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

the big wind turbines that are so prone to breaking down

And that also kill thousands of birds a year. Not even kidding, these things slaughter birds like they are nobody's business. And then we need to consider the enviromental impact of these, something most "ecologists" actually don't have into account.

 

[AnOminous]

Which is ironic, since they see everything through a lenses of class but refuse to look objectively at the most basic distinction of class out there: haves vs. have-nots.

If you're in an Ivy League school and the only people you claim are "oppressed" are people in the same social echelon you ARE the bourgeois. You do not magically become oppressed by deliberately turning yourself into a freak and dying your hair unnatural colors.

 

[Private Pyle]

"I want more gay les representation in cartoons!"
"...wait, you still watch cartoons? Aren't you 23?"

Couldn’t help but notice Catra was in the thumbnail. You know, the crazy and abusive villain who tormented Adora for most of the series before being redeemed at the last minute. Not sure why anyone would want to claim that for positive representation...

I'm pretty sure they do, though. I didn't watch Bojack Horseman but it definitely covered those kinds of themes.

I think he might have been referring to the incident with Hazbin Hotel. The series had a music video that touched on drug addiction, emotional pain, sex abuse and the overall darker side of the sex work industry. It was well received for the most part but you had a bunch of people clutching pearls over it and raising a big stink.
Granted, it’s more the exception than the rule.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Has the actual Democrat establishment become more radical and utilitarian, or is this just all election-time theatre?

It's 100% election-time theatre.

Ask Black People - who Democrats have been campaigning on for the last 30+ years but never actually seem to get around to help.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

If you're in an Ivy League school and the only people you claim are "oppressed" are people in the same social echelon you ARE the bourgeois. You do not magically become oppressed by deliberately turning yourself into a freak and dying your hair unnatural colors.

Champagne socialists are tiresome.