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by incomingpain 947 days ago
I never understand what's the driving force behind it until recently. It also tended to follow me for some reason; not because of me... but it just seemed to always be there.

Worse yet, I always found the warring sides in the social justice battles are almost always the same kind of people. 1 side seemed to hate the other side, not because of what they were, but because they saw their own hate personified in their opponents? Both sides see each other as nazis.

So for example, the atheist four horsemen. Dawkins, Harris, etc. But then "Dear Muslima" from Dawkins went down.

Then the james randi, penn jillette, bill nye, etc. The amazing meeting of skeptics and scientists. But then yikes social justice had to destroy them.

Then gamergate at basically the same time. Armor isn't allowed to have boobs!

shortly there after was comicsgate, but it was the opposite. Like comics aren't allowed diversity? James Damore happened roughly here.

But then Trump got elected and the social justice warriors became anti-trump. Literally the world has ended because he got elected. I'm not in the USA, I dont care about US politics, But Trump is LITERALLY HITLER.

But then in 2018, a terrorist killed a bunch of people in Toronto and the CBC invented/boosted the word Incel. Organizing a group of people for the first time ever. Really bad decision.

Learn to code happened next after this.

Everyone involved in social justice or for that matter anti-social justice are just the same thing. I have been watching autism tear itself apart publicly over and over.

Autistic people, who lived a life of trauma, are very social justice. But also really bad at communicating. Some unintentionally say painful and cruel things. There's no way the autism identity or label could ever stay unified.