Worst of Social Justice

[Ironchew]

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(The second one is about Christopher Hitchens)

This isn't necessarily a contradiction. As Stallman said after Jobs's passing, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone."

[Sigmaleph]

Alternatively, y'know, tribal signalling.

Being magnanimous about the deaths of some random person who has zero influence in your life is easy, even if the person was horrible. But saying something nice about a member of the Other Tribe, the group of people you fight politically and ideologically every day in your daily life, is much harder. (As usual, Scott Alexander explains it better than I could. Section VI in particular is directly relevant)

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

(The second one is about Christopher Hitchens)

Killed =/= death by natural causes.

[niam2023]

Giving you information is now bullying.



This is getting out of hand.





Anorexia = bad, horrible eating disorder. Therefore the opposite must be good!



Tumblrinas decide they want a website that doesn't permit non-Social Justice point of views.



She sounds like she'd be a wonderful person to have in class.



Fucking fandom...



Now, I could not support the police less, but this is just silly.



Your headcanons are not important.



Them or Us mentality in action.



Ex-fictkin who realize they acted completely fucking stupid back then are the best.



radflakes are angry that Tumblr does not let them bully their enemies.

[I am lizard]

Well fuck...




I will say I'm angered at the staffs reaction to the KKK, not because it was right or wrong to stop them from being doxxed but because the staff usually doesn't give a shit about doxxing or rape/death threats. 

Also, why are you calling the angry social justice ppl "Radflakes"? That term is meant as an insult towards radical feminists with dandruff problems.

[chitoryu12]

But it is possible to be racist against white people. Even if none of the different ethnic groups amongst humans is considered a separate race that does not wipe away the concept of "racism."

The current effort is actually to change the definition of racism. There's been an effort even among college professors (as I discovered when a friend of mine began repeating what he had "learned") to change the definition of racism so that it specifically refers to power + prejudice, leaving "bigotry" to simply mean.....well, bigotry.

The end result of this is that it allows people to make sweeping generalizations about the people "in power" and deflect accusations of racism by stating that they don't fit the definition.

[Askold]

That redefinition was probably what I came across when I discovered "social justice warriors" and I still think it is ridiculous.

[SCarpelan]

The end result of this is that it allows people to make sweeping generalizations about the people "in power" and deflect accusations of racism by stating that they don't fit the definition.

People abusing things brought up in academical discussion is nothing new. It doesn't necessarily mean that the discussion itself is flawed when viewed in the proper context.

[Ultimate Paragon]

And while we're on the subject:

[Dakota Bob]

Can we plz stop with this prejudice + power shit

[dpareja]

And while we're on the subject:

I want to show that person this image:

[Damen]

Your headcanons are not important.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

And while we're on the subject:

Borrowed from X group cannot be racist becuase Y group has more power in society.

Because structural discrimination is obviously identical to individual discrimination and all societies are identical-obviously. 

[I am lizard]

[Dakota Bob]

I think you'll have to re-host that image on some other site if you want it to show up, or just post it as a link.