Encounters With SJWs/Tumblristas Offline or In Unusual Communities

[~*dank meme*~]

Right so. Story time.

Had a friend in high school. We'll call her Shay. Back in the day, she was always very bossy. Liked to throw her weight around and order people about. She had this boyfriend named Pat with whom she seemed to get off on making his life a living hell. Always ordering him around, always shaming him for things he wasn't responsible for, constantly making him play gallant knight to attend to her every whim. Then she up and dumps the poor guy at the end of the school year because she got bored with him. I was young. I drank the Koolaid and bought whatever bullshit excuse she told me at the time on why her breaking up with him (and utterly devastating him) was a great idea and we surprisingly stayed friends.
Cut to years later and Tumblr increasingly becomes a thing. Shay quits dieting as she sees that it's "a construct of fat-shaming" and slowly spends the next few months morphing into a small land whale. Becomes heavily addicted to Doctor Who and spends the entirety of our visit together sperging about it while I make sidelong glances at the door for an escape. The following year becomes addicted to Homestuck and starts identifying as "aromantic asexual" despite having a girlfriend and suggesting that they move in together and get married. I ask her how that will work if she's asexual and she tells me that she intends on using the marriage as a way of mooching off funds from the government for cheaper living while remaining sex-repulsed. Wow. Keep it classy. I don't buy it.

She visits me one last time in the spring and by then I'm done with this nonsense. She's dyed her hair this ugly shade of bright blue at this point and whenever it's really sunny she literally SWEATS blue. During the visit she constantly tells me to check my cis privilege and whenever I make an offhand comment that doesn't conform to her world viewpoint she actually smacks me hard upside the head and knocks me over. Like wow. Someone has entered crazytown full force. I cut her out as do any of my sane friends that knew her and here we are in the present.
Today she has several kintypes, still identifies as aromantic asexual in spite of bragging about chicks she's banged, self-diagnosed herself with borderline personality disorder and autism, is a member of the fat acceptance movement, and usually spends her time blogging about how cis people are apparently cancer for existing and how men are scum of the earth.
It's amazing what a few years cruising the SJW movement can do to someone who already wasn't playing with a full deck.

Don't ever let someone else hit you over menial bullshit. You should've smacked her fat ass back, the ripple of the impact through her body fat would at least send her stationary for a few minutes.

 

[TowinKarz]

Nah, then they just get points for being the victim of a "X-phobic assault" better to just ignore them.

Smart people take their whuppings fair and square.

Dumb people come back for more.

 

[Adamska]

There's another big shitstorm concerning the webcomic "Stand Still. Stay Silent" that was mentioned before by @hiroyuki.

Spoiler: not even funny stuff, just an illustration of SJWs being SJWs

At this point of the story, the main characters stumbled upon a well-preserved antique store in an abandoned Danish town. The author, Minna Sundberg (ethnic Swede living in Finland), uses this episode to show how little the characters know of the pre-pandemic world, as well as foreshadows the possible existence of isolated survivors elsewhere in the world. One of the characters finds a Chinese book and the crew debate about the name of the language - their low-educated flamethrower guy Emil suggests "Ching Chong".

That was enough to trigger the sensitive Americans, Brits and Australians. They flooded the author's inbox with threats and vitriolic comments, demanding to redact this part of the story altogether and apologize to offended Chinese (i.e. them - actual Chinese from the PRC were okay with it). A similar shitstorm occurred in the Disqus comments. Minna had to remove the comment section and change Emil's suggestion to "kung fu". However, unlike other artists that bow down to SJWs, she expressed her frustration at the sensitivity of her English-speaking fanbase and said she won't navigate around all the things that offend them.

Some Twitter salt remains in the replies on Minna's Twitter - unsurprisingly, the complainers are absolutely not Chinese or even Asian.

Before that, people were once again arguing about 'representation' and the author's moral 'obligation' to shoehorn minority characters into the story no matter if they fit into the setting or not. The author ignored them.

She should've just told them to get fucked like the dudes behind that Rick and Morty show, since they'd "reeee" regardless.

 

[Pancake]

Not too bizarre in comparison to other stories here, but today I met a chick who identified as nonbinary and gay.

Well? Which is it? Unfortunately I didn't have time to ask.

I know of someone who identifies as an agender lesbian.

Specifically using the word lesbian, too, and not just gay. So who knows how the logic behind that works.p

 

[DatBepisTho]

There's another big shitstorm concerning the webcomic "Stand Still. Stay Silent" that was mentioned before by @hiroyuki.

Spoiler: not even funny stuff, just an illustration of SJWs being SJWs

At this point of the story, the main characters stumbled upon a well-preserved antique store in an abandoned Danish town. The author, Minna Sundberg (ethnic Swede living in Finland), uses this episode to show how little the characters know of the pre-pandemic world, as well as foreshadows the possible existence of isolated survivors elsewhere in the world. One of the characters finds a Chinese book and the crew debate about the name of the language - their low-educated flamethrower guy Emil suggests "Ching Chong".

That was enough to trigger the sensitive Americans, Brits and Australians. They flooded the author's inbox with threats and vitriolic comments, demanding to redact this part of the story altogether and apologize to offended Chinese (i.e. them - actual Chinese from the PRC were okay with it). A similar shitstorm occurred in the Disqus comments. Minna had to remove the comment section and change Emil's suggestion to "kung fu". However, unlike other artists that bow down to SJWs, she expressed her frustration at the sensitivity of her English-speaking fanbase and said she won't navigate around all the things that offend them.

Some Twitter salt remains in the replies on Minna's Twitter - unsurprisingly, the complainers are absolutely not Chinese or even Asian.

Before that, people were once again arguing about 'representation' and the author's moral 'obligation' to shoehorn minority characters into the story no matter if they fit into the setting or not. The author ignored them.

I had a feeling that would happe n the day I read that update. I mean it's obvious they don't know what the fuck China is. And they assume what could be cliffs in Japan are probably in Mandarinland too. The point is the world was nearly wiped out and with it went a lot of knowledge. It's not a pretty or warm fuzzy subject and the ignorance can be pretty offensive at times.

I'm glad the artist and author is standing her ground though. Fuck fans like that, man.

 

[Tailypo]

Let’s talk about a class that I took.

It was my final semester before graduation. I’ve finished all of my core classes but still needed a few more credits before I could be officially done with it all. As a result, I picked some classes that I thought would be interesting to take. One of these classes was called “Activist Rhetoric.”

I honestly should’ve known better, but the class was taught by one of my favorite professors, so I figured it wouldn’t be that bad.

The first person I see when I walk into the classroom is T, the girl from my previous post. That was my first red flag that I wasn’t going to enjoy this class, but I still held onto some hope.

That was very stupid of me.

At first, the class wasn’t that bad. We had some discussions where it looked like everyone was genuinely interested in real activism instead of Tumblr SJW bullshit, but that quickly fell apart. Within that semester, the professor and the other students had:

-Supported self-diagnosis, claiming that “you know you have a specific mental illness/disorder when you can feel it” (in other words: no facts, only feels).
-Claimed the media only reports black-on-black crimes and underreports white-on-black crimes (I actually muttered “What?” under my breath because of how dumbfuck retarded this statement was).
-Supported Black Lives Matter.
-Criticized a video that promoted love between people of different races/ages/beliefs/sexualities for not having visible transgendered people (what the hell do you want them to do? Where giant signs that say, “YES, I AM TRANSGENDERED!”?)
-Criticized another video that made fun of first world problems like complaining about pickles in your burger or that your charger is too far away when there are real problems like people not getting clean water. You should’ve heard the bitching and moaning of “Just because they’re not life-threatening problems, that doesn’t mean they’re not important!” from these brats who have never stepped foot in an impoverished country in their entire lives.
-Claimed that using internet memes in the name of activism was a good idea (not as bad as the other examples, but this moment was still pretty stupid).

But by far, my favorite moment was when the professor decided to stray off the syllabus and talk about Beyonce’s “Formation” video and how fucking amazing and perfect Beyonce is. This bullfuckery lasted for almost two weeks (the class was only taught two days in a week) and it resulted in us watching a shitty SNL skit that made fun of people who didn’t like Beyonce’s song. As it turned out, everyone in that class was a rabid Beyonce fan, so I made sure to keep my mouth shut and not say a word about me disliking her music.

Needless to say, I am so glad I’m done with this class. It’s sad, really. I had a lot of respect for this particular professor, but now I’m not so sure anymore.

 

[Dismaying Tree]

-Supported self-diagnosis, claiming that “you know you have a specific mental illness/disorder when you can feel it” (in other words: no facts, only feels).

People think like this outside of tumblr?

 

[Tailypo]

People think like this outside of tumblr?

Sadly, yes.

The worst part? We also had a guest come in who is part of an autism awareness organization and she supported self-diagnosis as well.

 

[Melkor]

Sadly, yes.

The worst part? We also had a guest come in who is part of an autism awareness organization and she supported self-diagnosis as well.

Go on ratemyprofessor, find that professor and give her an honest, bad rating.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Overheard students talking outside my window today. Apparently 'talk like a pirate day' is cultural appropriation and really terrible. They weren't joking.

 

[Adamska]

Overheard students talking outside my window today. Apparently 'talk like a pirate day' is cultural appropriation and really terrible. They weren't joking.

lol, but the accent came from whitey so why should they care?

No seriously, the stereotypical pirate accent is basically a spoofed up west country accent. Disney accidentally it in the 50s.

 

[Jaimas]

Sadly, yes.

The worst part? We also had a guest come in who is part of an autism awareness organization and she supported self-diagnosis as well.

She should be fired.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Overheard students talking outside my window today. Apparently 'talk like a pirate day' is cultural appropriation and really terrible. They weren't joking.

Lighten up Francis...

Though I want to know what culture "Arrrrrrr Me Hearties!" is from.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Overheard students talking outside my window today. Apparently 'talk like a pirate day' is cultural appropriation and really terrible. They weren't joking.

Robert Newton, who originated the way most of us imitate pirates, came from Cornwall in England.

If I'm not mistaken, they're white. I thought white people had no culture.

 

[MysteriousStranger]

Dorset. But definitely English and white. That's too, too funny.

 

[RM 810]

There's actually a lot that can be written about the stereotyping of rural communities in the UK, and how the impressions people have a certain accents are tied to classism and a sort of mini-xenophobia (is there a word for this?). But lol whitey oppressing themselves. You're all the same race, stop hitting yourself.

 

[Ruin]

Robert Newton, who originated the way most of us imitate pirates, came from Cornwall in England.

If I'm not mistaken, they're white. I thought white people had no culture.

Pirates were pretty fucking progressive. It was common for them to offer slaves membership in the crew after they raided slave ships and this lady commanded the largest and most feared pirate fleet in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

 

[Sailor_Jupiter]

Pirates were pretty fucking progressive. It was common for them to offer slaves membership in the crew after they raided slave ships and this lady commanded the largest and most feared pirate fleet in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

Seconding this (source: Villains of All Nations. One of the most famous in Europe, a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I, was also a woman: Grace O'Malley. {{affiliate link 'cuz I'm currently broke}}

 

[lolwut]

Pirates were pretty fucking progressive. It was common for them to offer slaves membership in the crew after they raided slave ships and this lady commanded the largest and most feared pirate fleet in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

That's because unlike the subjects of this thread, they understood that race and culture mean jack shit in the face of absurd wealth and drinking your weight in grog.

 

[Ruin]

That's because unlike the subjects of this thread, they understood that race and culture mean jack shit in the face of absurd wealth and drinking your weight in grog.

It was more the fact that they realized race and gender meant very little when everything from world governments to the weather were trying to kill you but yea.