| > I'm sure I won't change your mind. But for the record: the belief here is that when you have a privileged group and an underprivileged group, the privileged group has a large role to play in righting this wrong. I think you'ce misunderstood me here. I strongly believe in positive, progressive social change, and I strongly believe that in a large part this has to come from the dominant section of society. The issue I have here is with frivolous linguistic change wrapped up as real social change. These SJWs, or whatever you want to call them, are essentially role playing at social change. I will highlight again that I don't think these are all rich white Americans, just that that is where the movement originated. Sure, they can force through a minor change (often entirely incorrect, in the case of master branch having anything to do with slavery, or deciding that latinos should be referred to as latinx even though the actual latinos seem to largely deride this term). But that does exactly zero to improve anyone's lives, except for these few already mostly privileged SJWs who get to pat themselves on the back. Meanwhile, the main actual change that has happened is that loads of people - potential allies - have been frustrated or even alienated by this whole foolish endeavor, and society as a whole has shifted a step to the right. |