Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[Ho Mo for Women]

Huh, as a philosophy undergrad I'm starting to wonder if my department is an anomaly. I have a professor who has openly mocked the concept of microagressions has straight up said that the current generation is way too fixated on identity politics. He also tends to have a more Continental than Analytic bias (and as someone who is admittedly more interested in the former than the latter, the former sadly seems to be the source of most of this hogwash). He is also one of the most well-read and eloquent people I've ever met.

Your professor is a dying breed. Learn all you can from him so you can stay sane in these SJW-infested times.

 

[AnOminous]

She ranted about how the the philosophical community was conspiring to hide microaggressions and that nobody was taking her work seriously.

I can't imagine why not.

 

[Whatisevenhappening]

Tbh ,in general, most tumblr sjws will be like:

"Respect everyone's opinions including my own"

But then they go on to harass you about your own opinion
Smh

 

[Captain_Asshole]

Spoiler: powerlevel

I took a philosophy class where almost every other student was an SJW. Whenever I said anything such as "is it even possible to know something non empirically" I would get responses of "check your privilege" and "objective reality is patriarchal" and when I asked for the definitions of terms I would always get the response of "its obvious".

How the fuck is that philosophy?

 

[autisticdragonkin]

How the fuck is that philosophy?

The class was supposed to be about medical ethics but the professor and all students but me derailed it into a campaign against microaggressions, the patriarchal concept of objective reality, "western medicine" (excluding homeopathy), cultural appropriation, and the cishet global warming hoax

 

[AnOminous]

The class was supposed to be about medical ethics but the professor and all students but me derailed it into a campaign against microaggressions, the patriarchal concept of objective reality, "western medicine" (excluding homeopathy), cultural appropriation, and the cishet global warming hoax

Cishet global warming hoax. Wait, wut? How the fuck does that even work?

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Cishet global warming hoax. Wait, wut? How the fuck does that even work?

White cishet wealthy scientists made up global warming so that society would try to solve it instead of the real problem: microaggressions!

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Being anti-Semitic seems to be a plus in SJW circles. It's like hating whites only more so. You don't see them calling for divestment from any other country.

If apartheid were still a thing they would.

 

[Logia_Peter]

If these Tumblrinas love the idea of "inverting oppression" so much, why don't they move to Zimbabwe? I mean, Mugabe agrees with them on everything except the LGBT thing, and I'm willing to bet some of these people - going by Alex's example - would be more than willing to sell their "friends" up the river.

Oh, right, Zimbabwe is poor and they wouldn't be able to angrily blog about things.

Last semester, there was a group of people at my college who said they intended to "correct" their low grades because the professor refused to alter standards for them.

They claimed he was "upholding white cis male teaching methods". The teacher was Asian.

When I brought this up to them, one of the students retorted, "Well he's not a real Asian unless he rejects white cis teaching methods."

 

[Meowthkip]

Last semester, there was a group of people at my college who said they intended to "correct" their low grades because the professor refused to alter standards for them.

They claimed he was "upholding white cis male teaching methods". The teacher was Asian.

When I brought this up to them, one of the students retorted, "Well he's not a real Asian unless he rejects white cis teaching methods."

... I feel stupider having just read that.

 

[Rabbit Bones]

My mom is a Maori who immigrated to American from New Zealand in the 70s. She married my dad, who is as white as white can be, and had my sister and I.

My sister and I are white as hell. Pale skin, blue eyes, anglo features, My sister has thick beautiful dark hair, but mine is thin and bone straight. We've always identified as white, because we look white, and it's a pain in the ass to try and explain what a Maori is (New Zealand indians sounds kind of demeaning, even to me). There are no real benefits to claiming to be biracial when you're white / Polynesian, so why bother? I'm very proud of my mothers side of the family and have done a lot of research into our genealogy. I'm proud to be half Maori, but it isn't one of my defining features when I tell people about me.

I was talking to someone on a forum the other day, and the issue of my heritage came up. I told some interesting things about Maori culture (the facial tattoos, the hakka, hunting moas, the green stone and bone carvings, basic stuff). When he asked how I felt about being biracial I said I didn't really feel like I was. I said I was white, and that I identified myself as an American. This guy lost his shit. He accused me of white washing my heritage, and that I clearly had internalize shame about being "not anglo". I was kind of shocked because the guy had seemed reasonable, up until he started all this Tumblirina double talk about how people like me were causing "real" biracials to be scared to admit to it.

Holy fuck dude.

 

[Positron]

The class was supposed to be about medical ethics but the professor and all students but me derailed it into a campaign against microaggressions, the patriarchal concept of objective reality, "western medicine" (excluding homeopathy), cultural appropriation, and the cishet global warming hoax

Homeopathy is not medicine. If a course supposedly about medical ethics does not bash homeopathy to the pulps, you deserve your money back.

White cishet wealthy scientists made up global warming so that society would try to solve it instead of the real problem: microaggressions!

Philosophy is the precinct of cishet white (and often born wealthy: Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer) males too. Why didn't the department close the door in shame?

This guy lost his shit. He accused me of white washing my heritage, and that I clearly had internalize shame about being "not anglo". I was kind of shocked because the guy had seemed reasonable, up until he started all this Tumblirina double talk about how people like me were causing "real" biracials to be scared to admit to it.

Holy fuck dude.

Yup, SJWs can claim to be any race they like (see Rachel Dolezal, Philip "ADF" DeLici), but you have to represent your ancestry correctly. Pretty consistent.

 

[Logia_Peter]

Oh, great, SJWs are starting to mix with the naturopathy nuts. Its like two different breeds of Rafflesia breeding and creating a new and fouler smelling flower.

Also, that guy was stupid - you stated what you identified as, and its on him for having a bitchfit.

 

[Captain_Asshole]

Last semester, there was a group of people at my college who said they intended to "correct" their low grades because the professor refused to alter standards for them.

They claimed he was "upholding white cis male teaching methods". The teacher was Asian.

When I brought this up to them, one of the students retorted, "Well he's not a real Asian unless he rejects white cis teaching methods."

They'll just make shit up at their convenience eh?

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Back when Twitch Plays Pokemon was a thing, when everyone was getting hyped for Fire Red, I met this one dude on Reddit who said that it would be very sexist if Twitch chose another male protagonist. They also said that Pokemon was sexist. After I listed off the names of all the female gym leaders and elite four they said those didn't count, for some reason. I wish I had screen capped this because it was batshit insane.

 

[KingQueen]

The other day I got asked what my pronouns were. It's actually insulting really because it's like saying "I can tell you're a freak but not what kind", but it was young person who was so genuinely concerned and nice about it that I couldn't be mad. (I did give them an Old Fogey rant about the origins of third-gender pronouns though.)

 

[Problematic Kawaii]

Back when Twitch Plays Pokemon was a thing, when everyone was getting hyped for Fire Red, I met this one dude on Reddit who said that it would be very sexist if Twitch chose another male protagonist. They also said that Pokemon was sexist. After I listed off the names of all the female gym leaders and elite four they said those didn't count, for some reason. I wish I had screen capped this because it was batshit insane.

I'm not shocked by stuff like that. For all their thirst for representation in characters, they sure like to ignore ones that don't fit the tumblr ideals.

 

[Boundman]

The other day I got asked what my pronouns were. It's actually insulting really because it's like saying "I can tell you're a freak but not what kind", but it was young person who was so genuinely concerned and nice about it that I couldn't be mad. (I did give them an Old Fogey rant about the origins of third-gender pronouns though.)

I really don't understand why the idea of "heteronormative" or "cisnormative" is apparently offensive.

Statistically speaking, heterosexuality and being cis are the norm. If you were to take a random person in the world and assume their home country, it wouldn't be racist to assume they're Chinese. It's a good guess with 1.3 billion people living there. At the same time, it's not homophobic or transphobic to assume someone is straight or cis upon first meeting them, it's a good guess.

So as not to derail the thread, I'll tell a tale of my own. I was talking to my friend who is a feminist and she was explaining why she was one (how we got to that I hardly remember but never mind), and she said "feminism literally means equality for the genders" and I said "it's a movement based around the ideology of equality of the genders, you can't equate a movement with its ideology, if you could, more people would be communists, as it is centred around the equal distribution of wealth". This went on until I asked her; "Is there any argument or amount of verifiable sources I could use that would convince you to stop calling yourself a feminist?", she said no. I could've saved myself a lot of trouble if I asked that at the start and had known I was arguing against someone who wasn't interested in altering their opinion on anything.

 

[Jaimas]

I remember on a comment thread in the bygone past, I dealt with some maniac on DailyKos who was really pushing the THESE MEN ARE EVIL AND MUST BE DESTROYED angle in regards to the Duke Lacrosse Scandal, an incident which ultimately proved to be a fucking hoax. Some time after the incident was proven to be a fucking hoax, this jackass was still going at it, saying that we should have sent the accused to prison anyway.

I fucking let her have it. I called her out, saying she clearly knew nothing about the law, due process, or rights of the accused, and furthermore, was perfectly comfortable in shredding civil liberties just so she and hers could have a meaningless fucking victory and destroy a few kids' lives. I called everyone at that university who enabled this bullshit, this fucking open case of angry mob justice a fucking coward, and pointed out that if anyone in the thread continued this line of idiocy, I'd be sure to remind them that they'd lose the right to complain if say, someone accused one of them of rape with no evidence and decided to destroy one of their lives.

The post was hide-rated into the ground, and I lost posting privileges for months because I apparently "triggered" someone.

Thus was my first encounter with SocJus idiocy on my own turf.

 

[AnOminous]

I remember on a comment thread in the bygone past, I dealt with some maniac on DailyKos who was really pushing the THESE MEN ARE EVIL AND MUST BE DESTROYED angle in regards to the Duke Lacrosse Scandal, an incident which ultimately proved to be a fucking hoax. Some time after the incident was proven to be a fucking hoax, this jackass was still going at it, saying that we should have sent the accused to prison anyway.

Incidentally, there was one person deeply involved in that whole affair who had the same opinion as that maniac.

He was the prosecutor, Mike Nifong. He pursued the case long after any reasonable and diligent inquiry into the facts would have shown it to be completely unfounded.

His reward? He was criminally convicted and disbarred, and even sent to jail for a day of symbolic punishment. As he deserved. Well, actually, he should have received a more substantial term of incarceration.