Origins of SJWism?

[ICametoLurk]

SJWs and Alt-Righters are both children of Born Again Evangelicals who voted for Bush saying FUCK YOU to their parents while hilariously still being in line with their parents' viewpoints.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

SJWs and Alt-Righters are both children of Born Again Evangelicals saying FUCK YOU to their parents.

Then I wonder, how did they manage to become a thing outside the US?

 

[ICametoLurk]

Then I wonder, how did they manage to become a thing outside the US?

The Internet is nothing but American Political Cultural Imperialism because they spend all their time on the Internet spreading the first thing they find about politics because their system has literally no actual politics or any originality at all, and their shitty economic system has made it so that they all spend their days on the Internet.

And they have a guilt complex because of how they have succeeded thus far that causes them to spend all their time "trying to fix the rest of the World" which turns them into zealot keyboard warriors.

These three things turn them into the worst hellspawn

The American Far-Right poisons the Internet with how people north and south of the Weißwurstäquator are the same or how people in the rest of the World don't literally think the next person over is Sub-Human even if they are apart of the same Race. The American Far-Left poisons the Internet with how everyone in Europe not liking the USSR was an evil Nazi Capitalist plot and their "anti-Imperialism" leads them to defend the worst things ever (hilariously drowning out the voices of Actual Leftists in many cases).

I've seen Greeks care about tranny bathrooms, seen Australians care about Black Lives Matter, Russians getting mad at SJWs two continents away, Dutch talk about decolonization, and etc.

White privilege? """Cis""" privilege? Fuck that shit. Let's talk about American privilege: the privilege to comfortably be able to preach dumb shit about the rest of the world while forcing that uninformed view upon everybody else and lecturing anybody who disagrees with American cultural imperialism so you have them preaching about their white ethnostate/army/whatever as if the interests of all white people somehow are the same despite the fact that the cultures aren't the same and history is full of examples of European countries being at war with each other or results of their beloved communism/socialism outside of their restricted American view on things because they've never actually set foot in an ex-communist/socialist country (and would rather neck themselves than doing so) and think that the whole world can be boiled down to the dynamics of American identity politics.

 

[AnOminous]

I've seen Greeks care about tranny bathrooms, seen Australians care about Black Lives Matter, Russians getting mad at SJWs two continents away, Dutch talk about decolonization, and etc.

The Internet is the Babel fish. Everyone was suddenly able to understand what everyone else was saying and the result was immediate war.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

The Internet is nothing but American Political Cultural Imperialism because they spend all their time on the Internet spreading the first thing they find about politics because their system has literally no actual politics or any originality at all, and their shitty economic system has made it so that they all spend their days on the Internet.

That's clearly not true, I'd even say the American political system has many advantages to e.g. the political system in France, Germany, the UK and of course, Russia.

The American Far-Right poisons the Internet with how people north and south of the Weißwurstäquator are the same or how people in the rest of the World don't literally think the next person over is Sub-Human even if they are apart of the same Race. The American Far-Left poisons the Internet with how everyone in Europe not liking the USSR was an evil Nazi Capitalist plot and their "anti-Imperialism" leads them to defend the worst things ever (hilariously drowning out the voices of Actual Leftists in many cases).

Let us just do "Hunger Games" with SJWs and the Alt-Right.

I've seen Greeks care about tranny bathrooms, seen Australians care about Black Lives Matter, Russians getting mad at SJWs two continents away, Dutch talk about decolonization, and etc.

What do you mean with "seen"? Met them in real life in their countries, or talked to people on the internet who are from there (in their native tongues or in English)? May I ask where you're from? Currently I live in Continental Europe and yes, the lunacy has become a thing here.

The Internet is the Babel fish. Everyone was suddenly able to understand what everyone else was saying and the result was immediate war.

Only those who can speak English. But to many Americans, "the ability to speak" and "English" are the same.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Necroing this thread because I think a lot of the origins had to do with the cult of personality surrounding Obama.

I remember seeing a lot of butthurt back around 2012 when anyone would criticize Obama or disagree with Obamacare, the anger lefties would get at anyone who disliked Obama definitely seems like they would try to "cancel" them if those methods around been around back then.

Obama was one of the first times that you had to think a certain way about a subject or you would be labeled a Bad Persontm, even when the guy arguably fucked up big time with Benghazi it was always "blah blah blah anyone who dislikes him only does so because they're racist" which is exactly what someone said at a TED talk circa 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5SNpCtiWk

The climate surrounding Obama gradually ballooned to encompass more and more things for which there is only one "right" way to think.

We call SJW a cult and if it's a cult (which it is) it started as a cult of personality surrounding Obama.

 

[A Thick Piece of Meat]

from morals to fight against oppression

 

[Kosher Dill]

We call SJW a cult and if it's a cult (which it is) it started as a cult of personality surrounding Obama.

I think Obeatlemania was mostly tangential to the whole thing - at most, it may have tamped down bomb-throwing leftists' desire to organize against politicians and redirected more of their energy into culture warring. But the timelines don't really match up with Obama's career, generally speaking.
The embryo of SJWism formed in the aftermath of the Bush-era culture wars, which mostly fizzled out around 2005, and the movement really took off around 2011.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I think Obeatlemania was mostly tangential to the whole thing - at most, it may have tamped down bomb-throwing leftists' desire to organize against politicians and redirected more of their energy into culture warring. But the timelines don't really match up with Obama's career, generally speaking.
The embryo of SJWism formed in the aftermath of the Bush-era culture wars, which mostly fizzled out around 2005, and the movement really took off around 2011.

You're not wrong, the embryos of SJWs started with just how smug the left was getting in the Dubya years.

But it was pretty different at the same time as no one got a bug up their ass about sexy women in video games or jokes or whatever, but the sheer smugness and arrogance the left was getting big, Stephen Colbert summed it up when he said "reality has a well known liberal bias" and the fact that people on the left thought that statement was true, is why we're in the situation we're in today.

Basically there was already a strong desire in the 2000s among the left to just have everyone shut up and think the same.

 

[Odnovo]

"reality has a well known liberal bias"

I wonder why Stephen Colbert would bother to say that, because the past six years or so have pretty much proven that the exact opposite is the case. If anything, liberalism depends on warping reality into something that it was never meant to be, whereas conservatism pretty much simply has a "work with what you have, not what you want" philosophy. Perhaps that is an oversimplification, but it is practically true.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I wonder why Stephen Colbert would bother to say that, because the past six years or so have pretty much proven that the exact opposite is the case. If anything, liberalism depends on warping reality into something that it was never meant to be, whereas conservatism pretty much simply has a "work with what you have, not what you want" philosophy. Perhaps that is an oversimplification, but it is practically true.

Well, you have to keep it in context of when he said it, 2006, back then it was conservative's that seemed to want to ignore reality when it went against their beliefs in regards to the Iraq war and whatnot.

But it was bullshit even then because 2006 was the year of peak "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" which the left has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes and made them forget that 9/11 Truthers started as a left wing thing tied in with the antiwar movement and the anti-Bush movement.

 

[Drain Todger]

I've studied this topic for a very, very long time, since I've been getting into slapfights with SJWs over censorship and propriety since about eight years ago, and basically, I came to the conclusion that SJWs were as much of a threat to freedom of speech and freedom of expression as the hand-wringing Christian evangelists were a couple decades before when they argued that D&D made your children worship Satan and that violent video games will turn them into the next Columbine shooters. SJWs are driven largely by the same exact sense of piety, and SJWism is, itself, a religion with taboos and rituals and everything.

To know how it came about, you need to know your schools of philosophy. SJWism has its roots in Jacques Derrida and postmodern deconstructionism, and its progenitor ideals have been taught in Western colleges since the 1970s by bald-pated liberal college professors who were quite literally spending all day brainwashing their students. Derrida, in turn, ripped off Phenomenology. Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and so on. This is why SJWs ironically use dehumanizing language like "black bodies" to describe black people. No normal person talks like that. It's a clear reference to phenomenology.

https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2802&context=etd

This project offers the term Black body memory to point toward the threatened existential disposition of Black people in society today. Moreover, Black body memory becomes metaphorical to the narrative paradigm of a shared experience. While popular conceptions theorize race as a social construction, the lived reality of Black people is frequently imbued by racialization and racism. Black body memory emerges from the intersection of the Black body articulated by Franz Fanon, Charles Johnson, and George Yancy, among others and body memory, as described by Edward Casey and Thomas Fuchs. Black body memory is a culturally-laden and sedimented lived reality. The Black body receives and maintains memories reflective of her raced disposition. Such knowledge or memory becomes a tool for navigating the social sphere and at times, for survival. Black body memory is rhetorically transferred through the talk which is the v artifact discussed in this project. The talk has recently come to attention with the current state of affairs concerning the vulnerability of Black lives as shared on social media.. In the interest of teaching self-protection, the talk includes a variety of directives on how to respond to potential confrontations with police and self-deputized individuals.

SJWs are not honest about where they come by these ideas. They are despicable little weasels, and if you tell them, to their face, that their college brainwashed them, they will argue the exact opposite; that they came by their ideals rightly after reasoned debate with fellow intellectuals in the public sphere, and their college had nothing to do with it at all. They will say this right after leaving an hours-long class on the Hermeneutics of Clitoral Imagery in Pop Culture.

This is the first thing that you learn about them, in fact. They are incredibly dishonest. The next thing you learn about them, after that, is that they are pious little twits who can make a taboo out of anything, so long as it satisfies their need to have something sacred and inviolable in their life.

Harold Bloom called the early Proto-SJWs the "School of Resentment". He noted that people were attacking his beloved Shakespeare not because of the aesthetic, moral, or other qualities of his work, but because Shakespeare was white, and they'd prefer that authors of other races be afforded the same prominence.

SJWs are indeed characterized by their resentment, and indeed, ressentiment. Those two words mean two similar, but slightly different things. The latter is, indeed, picked up as a typo in most web browsers.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resentment

Definition of resentment

: a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury

Definition of RESSENTIMENT

deep-seated resentment, frustration, and hostility accompanied by a sense of being powerless to express these feelings directly… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of ressentiment

: deep-seated resentment, frustration, and hostility accompanied by a sense of being powerless to express these feelings directly

Nietzsche spoke at length on these matters, back in the day. He believed that ressentiment was the most basic expression of what he termed "slave morality", or sklavenmoral.

https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/genealogyofmorals/section3/

Nietzsche suggests that the "slave revolt in morality" begins when ressentiment, or resentment, becomes a creative force. Slave morality is essentially negative and reactive, originating in a denial of everything that is different from it. It looks outward and says "No" to the antagonistic external forces that oppose and oppress it. Master morality, on the other hand, concerns itself very little with what is outside of it. The low, the "bad," is an afterthought and is noticed only as a contrast that brings out more strongly the superiority of the noble ones.

While both slave and master morality can involve distortions of the truth, master morality does so far more lightly. Nietzsche notes that almost all the ancient Greek words denoting the lower orders of society are related to variants on the word for "unhappy." The nobles saw themselves as naturally happy, and any misunderstanding rested on the contempt and distance they held from the lower orders. By contrast, the man of ressentiment distorts what he sees so as to present the noble man in as bad a light as possible, and thereby to gain reassurance.

The noble man is incapable of taking seriously all the things that fester and build in the man of ressentiment: accidents, misfortunes, enemies. In allowing resentment and hatred to grow in him, in having to rely on patience, secrets, and scheming, the man of ressentiment ultimately becomes cleverer than the noble man. This constant brooding and obsession with ones enemies begets the greatest invention of ressentiment: evil. The concept of the "evil enemy" is basic to ressentiment just as "good" is basic to the noble man. And just as the noble man develops the concept of "bad" almost as an afterthought, so is the concept of "good" created as an afterthought by the man of ressentiment to denote himself.

The quintessential "evil enemy" of the SJW is the white, heterosexual cis-male colonialist oppressor who they accuse of dominating culture with his ideas. Never mind that white, heterosexual cis-males also experience poverty, police brutality, and sink into drug abuse and homelessness like anyone else. That's not the point. The point is having a readily identifiable enemy-figure with which to fixate one's obsessions on. Where evil does not exist, SJWs would have to invent it. The white, heterosexual cis-male, in effect, becomes a figurative oppositional figure, like Satan, that one can scapegoat and blame all the ills of society upon. In other words, it's not a real person they're railing against with so much energy, but the mere idea of a person.

SJWism requires cognitive dissonance. It requires one to ignore that many of the world's injustices are rather universal in scope and there aren't convenient classes of victims and oppressors in reality. They are, as they themselves like to say, taking a complex issue and reducing it to a very simple and childish morality play.

I find that most SJWs are narcissists who are seeking the sense of validation that comes with virtue-signaling and passing each other's piety checks. Without that validation, they are scared, alone, and entirely empty.

SJWs have no way, mentally, to deal with the concept that Islamic radicals kidnap and rape women, behead their enemies, and defenestrate gays. Their skin is brown. Their ideology is Eastern, and thus "other". In the SJW's mind, they are not responsible for their own actions. They are potential allies who are only lashing out temporarily because the white, male, colonialist oppressor (a.k.a. Satan) is keeping them from flowering into all-loving progressive dildo-jugglers like them. They will maintain this idiocy right up to, and beyond, the point where a takbir-shouting lunatic's serrated knife is sawing into their carotid artery.

My guess would be that it has some roots in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Both were a way to express anger at a system that was clearly fucked up, yet power either couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it. Barack Obama's election also contributed, since for a while the media was spinning the Republicans as the party of racist sore losers for daring to defy the Will of the People, because racism was the only possible reason anyone could be opposed to Obama.

Actually, OWS was entirely about class differences, but the media spun it into a racial thing as a distraction from the massive wealth gap in America. This effectively created a massive new base of SJWs.



Another important incident in the early days was the flame warring on LiveJournal back in '09 over science fiction. That was perhaps ground zero of the modern SJW phenomenon, or close to it.

RaceFail '09 - Fanlore

fanlore.org

A lot of people out there rail against SJWs without studying them or putting up any real opposition to their ideas. I think that's ludicrous. These mangy twits are taking a chainsaw to Western culture and chopping it down just to satisfy their ego, and they're doing it with the blessing of huge multinational corporations who don't actually care about SJWs and their ideology but would absolutely love it if everyone on this Earth was reduced to a homogenous untermensch class of brain-dead, tax-paying, debt-slave consoomers.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Another important incident in the early days was the flame warring on LiveJournal back in '09 over science fiction. That was perhaps ground zero of the modern SJW phenomenon, or close to it.

RaceFail '09 - Fanlore

fanlore.org

This is an excellent find - the cameo by future "usual suspect" N.K. Jemisin is a nice touch too.

Tracing back through the references, it seems like there was even a previous iteration of the race flamewar in 2006:
https://web.archive.org/web/2012011...itle=Cultural_Appropriation_(WisCon_30_Panel)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080723143246/http://rydra-wong.livejournal.com/7386.html

What's interesting in both the 2006 and 2009 material is the lack of what we now know as SJW jargon. Even the most toxic posters still mostly communicated in internet nerdspeak, though you see a few avant-gardists starting to work in terms like "marginalization", "white supremacy" (when not referring to KKK-style ideology), "safe space", and so on.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

I've studied this topic for a very, very long time, since I've been getting into slapfights with SJWs over censorship and propriety since about eight years ago, and basically, I came to the conclusion that SJWs were as much of a threat to freedom of speech and freedom of expression as the hand-wringing Christian evangelists were a couple decades before when they argued that D&D made your children worship Satan and that violent video games will turn them into the next Columbine shooters. SJWs are driven largely by the same exact sense of piety, and SJWism is, itself, a religion with taboos and rituals and everything.

To know how it came about, you need to know your schools of philosophy. SJWism has its roots in Jacques Derrida and postmodern deconstructionism, and its progenitor ideals have been taught in Western colleges since the 1970s by bald-pated liberal college professors who were quite literally spending all day brainwashing their students. Derrida, in turn, ripped off Phenomenology. Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and so on. This is why SJWs ironically use dehumanizing language like "black bodies" to describe black people. No normal person talks like that. It's a clear reference to phenomenology.

https://dsc.duq.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2802&context=etd

SJWs are not honest about where they come by these ideas. They are despicable little weasels, and if you tell them, to their face, that their college brainwashed them, they will argue the exact opposite; that they came by their ideals rightly after reasoned debate with fellow intellectuals in the public sphere, and their college had nothing to do with it at all. They will say this right after leaving an hours-long class on the Hermeneutics of Clitoral Imagery in Pop Culture.

This is the first thing that you learn about them, in fact. They are incredibly dishonest. The next thing you learn about them, after that, is that they are pious little twits who can make a taboo out of anything, so long as it satisfies their need to have something sacred and inviolable in their life.

Harold Bloom called the early Proto-SJWs the "School of Resentment". He noted that people were attacking his beloved Shakespeare not because of the aesthetic, moral, or other qualities of his work, but because Shakespeare was white, and they'd prefer that authors of other races be afforded the same prominence.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjYi2BwKdCU
SJWs are indeed characterized by their resentment, and indeed, ressentiment. Those two words mean two similar, but slightly different things. The latter is, indeed, picked up as a typo in most web browsers.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resentment

Definition of RESSENTIMENT

deep-seated resentment, frustration, and hostility accompanied by a sense of being powerless to express these feelings directly… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Nietzsche spoke at length on these matters, back in the day. He believed that ressentiment was the most basic expression of what he termed "slave morality", or sklavenmoral.

https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/genealogyofmorals/section3/

The quintessential "evil enemy" of the SJW is the white, heterosexual cis-male colonialist oppressor who they accuse of dominating culture with his ideas. Never mind that white, heterosexual cis-males also experience poverty, police brutality, and sink into drug abuse and homelessness like anyone else. That's not the point. The point is having a readily identifiable enemy-figure with which to fixate one's obsessions on. Where evil does not exist, SJWs would have to invent it. The white, heterosexual cis-male, in effect, becomes a figurative oppositional figure, like Satan, that one can scapegoat and blame all the ills of society upon. In other words, it's not a real person they're railing against with so much energy, but the mere idea of a person.

SJWism requires cognitive dissonance. It requires one to ignore that many of the world's injustices are rather universal in scope and there aren't convenient classes of victims and oppressors in reality. They are, as they themselves like to say, taking a complex issue and reducing it to a very simple and childish morality play.

I find that most SJWs are narcissists who are seeking the sense of validation that comes with virtue-signaling and passing each other's piety checks. Without that validation, they are scared, alone, and entirely empty.

SJWs have no way, mentally, to deal with the concept that Islamic radicals kidnap and rape women, behead their enemies, and defenestrate gays. Their skin is brown. Their ideology is Eastern, and thus "other". In the SJW's mind, they are not responsible for their own actions. They are potential allies who are only lashing out temporarily because the white, male, colonialist oppressor (a.k.a. Satan) is keeping them from flowering into all-loving progressive dildo-jugglers like them. They will maintain this idiocy right up to, and beyond, the point where a takbir-shouting lunatic's serrated knife is sawing into their carotid artery.


Actually, OWS was entirely about class differences, but the media spun it into a racial thing as a distraction from the massive wealth gap in America. This effectively created a massive new base of SJWs.

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Another important incident in the early days was the flame warring on LiveJournal back in '09 over science fiction. That was perhaps ground zero of the modern SJW phenomenon, or close to it.

RaceFail '09 - Fanlore

fanlore.org

A lot of people out there rail against SJWs without studying them or putting up any real opposition to their ideas. I think that's ludicrous. These mangy twits are taking a chainsaw to Western culture and chopping it down just to satisfy their ego, and they're doing it with the blessing of huge multinational corporations who don't actually care about SJWs and their ideology but would absolutely love it if everyone on this Earth was reduced to a homogenous untermensch class of brain-dead, tax-paying, debt-slave consoomers.

This coincides exactly with what I've been saying in other posts about the rise of SJW/wokeness. I'd say for sure the seeds of IdPol/SocJus were planted in the 2000's during Dubya, Katrina, anti-war sentiment, and the religious right's last stand. The beginning of Obama's 1st term seemed like an actual start of normalcy and perhaps a unifying nation, by the end of his 1st term was when things kicked into high gear starting with the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman circus, which then accelerated the clown car into the Aurora shooting, Sandy Hook, ISIS, Black Lives Matter, GamerGate, and everything else that made the 2010's a shitshow woketard pre-Clown World.

But yeah, if I could pinpoint the exact flash point, it's early 2012 for sure: the 2000's with Bush Derangement Syndrome was just the fertilization of the SJW fetus.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

It seems to have just come out of nowhere within the past decade, and spread throughout our popular culture like a virus. I honestly couldn't have even imagined something as bizzare as this during childhood.

I also don't even really know what term to describe them with other than "SJW", even though it's incredibly overused and doesn't roll off the tongue well.

So what's the ground zero for this bullshit, how did it get into our bread and circus, when can we expect it to fade away, and who are the groups collaborating to push this shit into culture and tech (inb4 da jooz)?

I'd say 2004 is the year where seeds of what would become SJWs germinated.
The Iraq War became unpopular and the Bush administration, which drapped itself in the traditions of America (even though it subtlety was stripping freedoms away with the Patriot Act), was reviled in the eyes of the media.
So much so that anything "traditional" about America was being rejected as it was being linked to the Religious Right and the Bush administration.
The fact that Obama's "redistribute the wealth" line or his connections with Jeremiah "Not 'God Bless America,' But 'God Damn America'" Wright or former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn didn't kill his candidacy is proof of this.
I know some users here will cry "Obama was a globalist!" but his roots are in the far-left and the media treated him as a Christ-like figure.
Is it any wonder then that the SJWs are rabid far-leftists?

 

[X Prime]

I know some users here will cry "Obama was a globalist!" but his roots are in the far-left and the media treated him as a Christ-like figure.

Huh? Far-leftism tends to be heavily tied up in internationalism, how is this contradictory?

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Huh? Far-leftism tends to be heavily tied up in internationalism, how is this contradictory?

I've seen users here argue that Obama was not a socialist, but a globalist.
The "Globalist" term does exclude those on the Right: Big Government Republicans can fall in this category, too.

 

[X Prime]

Socialists are usually internationalist/globalist by implication. It's one of those "a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not necessarily a square" type situations.

After all, the customary opposite of globalism is nationalism, and we all know what National Socialist is.

 

[Drain Todger]

This is an excellent find - the cameo by future "usual suspect" N.K. Jemisin is a nice touch too.

Tracing back through the references, it seems like there was even a previous iteration of the race flamewar in 2006:
https://web.archive.org/web/2012011...itle=Cultural_Appropriation_(WisCon_30_Panel)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080723143246/http://rydra-wong.livejournal.com/7386.html

What's interesting in both the 2006 and 2009 material is the lack of what we now know as SJW jargon. Even the most toxic posters still mostly communicated in internet nerdspeak, though you see a few avant-gardists starting to work in terms like "marginalization", "white supremacy" (when not referring to KKK-style ideology), "safe space", and so on.

It took them a while to develop their lingo. I did a little glossary several months back:

https://kiwifarms.pa/threads/social-justice-warriors.4463/page-2246#post-7167396

This coincides exactly with what I've been saying in other posts about the rise of SJW/wokeness. I'd say for sure the seeds of IdPol/SocJus were planted in the 2000's during Dubya, Katrina, anti-war sentiment, and the religious right's last stand. The beginning of Obama's 1st term seemed like an actual start of normalcy and perhaps a unifying nation, by the end of his 1st term was when things kicked into high gear starting with the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman circus, which then accelerated the clown car into the Aurora shooting, Sandy Hook, ISIS, Black Lives Matter, GamerGate, and everything else that made the 2010's a shitshow woketard pre-Clown World.

But yeah, if I could pinpoint the exact flash point, it's early 2012 for sure: the 2000's with Bush Derangement Syndrome was just the fertilization of the SJW fetus.

It was really simmering around 2009-2012 or so, but right around 2012/2013 was when Anita Sarkeesian's bullshit reached critical mass.

Another hotspot of all this crazy bullshit is Buffy Studies. Because that's an actual thing that people thought was worthy of academic analysis.

Buffy studies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Anita Sarkeesian was deep into Buffy Studies back in the day. I was railing against her bullshit a whole year before GamerGate started. I analyzed the content of her critiques, and I was like, wait a minute... this person is completely retarded.

https://www.academia.edu/4066522/I_LL_MAKE_A_MAN_OUT_OF_YOU1_STRONG_WOMEN_IN_SCIENCE_FICTION_AND_FANTASY_TELEVISION

Her thesis, "I'll Make a Man Out of You: Strong Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television", is basically just paragraph after paragraph of her ranting about how masculine traits are valued and feminine traits are demeaned in fictional women. Imagine a so-called feminist actually arguing that it would be better to show female fictional characters being traditionally feminine and using feminine wiles to win the day instead of violence and intimidation and raw power and other traditionally manly things. I thought it was incredibly ironic. Nobody noticed or cared about the gender-essentialism of Sarkeesian's message. She was arguing, essentially, that it was impossible for women in the audience to empathize with "badass" female characters who win the day through shooting and fisticuffs. SJWs lapped it right up without any argument against it.

Given that I have a fondness for tomboys and action girls, I felt almost personally attacked. River Tam? Alita? The Bride? Samus Aran? Ellen Ripley? Imperator Furiosa? In Anita Sarkeesian's pacifist worldview, all of these characters are simply contrivances for male enjoyment, and they're totally unrelatable to real women who do non-badass things.

To quote her thesis:

In “Gender and the Action Heroine: Hardbodies and the Point of No Return,” Jeffrey Brown (1996) argues, “The development of the hardbody, hardware, hard-asnails heroine who can take it, and give it, with the biggest and the baddest men of the action cinema indicates a growing acceptance of nontraditional roles for women and an awareness of the arbitrariness of gender traits” (Brown, 1996, p. 52). While these female action hero roles are welcoming over the ‘damsel in distress’, placing women in traditionally masculine roles without disrupting the male value systems associated with them maintains male dominance. Female action heroes, although not helpless, are still subject to the male gaze in a way that male heroes are not. Placing women in these non-traditional roles makes it more acceptable for women to emulate masculine power dynamics, not necessarily a positive step towards solid, complex and positive representations of women. Lara Croft, for example, is the star of a video game and movie series who emulates masculine behaviours through violent conflict resolution and a tough emotional exterior. So while there are now female heroes that fit within patriarchal norms and adopt masculine traits, it is still not acceptable to have a situation wherein feminine qualities can be transformed as heroic characteristics.

Basically, her entire argument boils down to this: violence, intimidation, and machismo are all man-things. If women in fiction do them, then they're admitting that the male way of doing things is superior to the female way. Therefore, female characters in fiction should be shown being traditionally feminine and dabbing their eyes with doilies and begging and pleading for the vile villain to stop raping and pillaging their way across the countryside.

Wow. Imagine those words coming out of the mouth of, say, Pat Buchanan. He'd be pilloried.

There is, indeed, a whole sect of feminism, called "Difference Feminism", that preaches this drivel.

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I'd say 2004 is the year where seeds of what would become SJWs germinated.
The Iraq War became unpopular and the Bush administration, which drapped itself in the traditions of America (even though it subtlety was stripping freedoms away with the Patriot Act), was reviled in the eyes of the media.
So much so that anything "traditional" about America was being rejected as it was being linked to the Religious Right and the Bush administration.
The fact that Obama's "redistribute the wealth" line or his connections with Jeremiah "Not 'God Bless America,' But 'God Damn America'" Wright or former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn didn't kill his candidacy is proof of this.
I know some users here will cry "Obama was a globalist!" but his roots are in the far-left and the media treated him as a Christ-like figure.
Is it any wonder then that the SJWs are rabid far-leftists?

Anti-globalism used to be a left-wing position. In twenty short years, the Left have gone from railing against the IMF and structural adjustment programs and the poverty they caused in third-world countries, to singing the NWO's praises.

What is happening here is incredibly pernicious social engineering to cover up trillions of dollars in economic theft from the working class and reorient popular anger towards irrelevant red herrings. It's backed by billionaire-controlled NGOs with a sinister political agenda.

Leftism has been completely hijacked by this nonsense.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Alright, so I think we can all unanimously agree that early 2012 with the death of little Trayvon was the bonafide start of the SJW takeover, but after reminiscing some more about my life in 2010-11, here's a few additional farts in the wind which led up to this historical moment of our current timeline:

• Hatred for anti-gay GOP politicians in the media and on social media. I specifically remember around 2010-11 when there were tons of tweets and Facebook posts on my timeline making fun of Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachman over their stances on gay marriage. I remember people ranting about muh gay marriage and uploading shitty memes of Rick Perry sucking on a corndog in a curious manner. Oh god, was there so much backlash towards Santorum...so many fucking memes and jokes about his name.
• The Jeffrey Sandusky Case. I remember when this bomb struck, my social media was at war with people demanding Penn State admins' heads on a pike whilst others were defending Joe Paterno, and changing their Facebook photos to the Penn State logo in solidarity. I remember seeing some feminists going berserk and demanding college sports be dissolved over this issue.
• The Debt Ceiling and the raising of it.
• Arizona's strict immigration policies. Oh god, there were so many shitty change dot org petitions uploaded by idiots protesting Arizona's immigration laws, and I remember some dumbasses were boycotting AriZona iced tea solely for its name. A girl I know on Facebook changed her Facebook photo to a graphic of the state of Arizona colored red with a swastika over it.
• Arab Spring. TL;DR, Google it.
• Julian Assange's arrest. Yes, liberals, believe it or not there was a time when your people praised this man and referred to him as a political prisoner.
• The BP Oil Spill. This clusterfuck really got the environmental spergs bitching, and I'm sure little Greta was probably in tears.
• The proposed Ground Zero mosque and the debate over building it.

...These are all some geopolitical world events that started to divide people and set the stage for the main event of a teenage negro getting killed in self-defense by a white beaner in Florida, thus propelling us all on a one-way ride to the circus.