Origins of SJWism?

[Syaoran Li]

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.

Agreed for the most part except I'd put the start of SJW's and the Woke Left in late 2011 with Occupy Wall Street's emergence and how it scared the fuck out of the corporate elite while events in 2012 like the reelection of Barack Obama, the Trayvon Martin case, the rise of Anita Sarkeesian, and the Sandy Hook tragedy being major catalysts that helped codify the Woke Left further.

Other events worth noting in the early 2010's was increased media coverage of the Westboro Baptist Church, who had been around since at the 90's and were hated even among the Religious Right but suddenly got a massive spike in media coverage from 2010 to 2014 but after Fred Phelps died, the MSM stopped taking the bait despite the fact WBC is still active under the command of Steve Drain.

Also, in 2011, you had the death of Bin Laden. That more or less put the kaibash on any sentiments against Islamic terrorists in the wider MSM since the guy behind 9/11 was finally gone and Al Qaeda more or less faded into irrelevance.

 

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[Michael Jacks0n]

Agreed for the most part except I'd put the start of SJW's and the Woke Left in late 2011 with Occupy Wall Street's emergence and how it scared the fuck out of the corporate elite while events in 2012 like the reelection of Barack Obama, the Trayvon Martin case, the rise of Anita Sarkeesian, and the Sandy Hook tragedy being major catalysts that helped codify the Woke Left further.

I mean, but still though, the relationship between OWS and the Trayvon fiasco are part of the same chain of events. I believe what happened was OWS made the (((elites))) scared shitless, so in their effort to not let a good crisis go to waste, they amplified the death of Trayvon as a smokescreen to promote infighting between race instead of class. In the early days of OWS, they had support from Tea Party conservatives as well as woke Millennials that wanted their student loan forgiven. Then when anarchists and black nationalists joined in the protests too, this looked highly problematic for the elites.

The timing is too perfect: right around the time OWS reached its peak, the powers that be cherry picked a random interracial self-defense shooting in Florida to hype as their big media circus and from there it spiraled out of control. It would have happened sooner or later anyway, but from perhaps from a different case of white-on-black homicide.

TL;DR - Occupy Wall Street was pouring lighter fluid on society, Trayvon's death was throwing a lit match on it, and from 2012 onward each crazy event was adding more fuel to the fire. 2020 was just straight up napalm.

 

[AnOminous]

The timing is too perfect: right around the time OWS reached its peak, the powers that be cherry picked a random interracial self-defense shooting in Florida to hype as their big media circus and from there it spiraled out of control.

Funny how they did that when people were actually cooperating against them. How convenient to suddenly start a bunch of race baiting bullshit and spam bogus news stories about it for years while continuing to throw out astroturfed woke stupidity in every imaginable form of media.

 

[PaleTay]

I think it's been popular for a while before 2011, it's just losers getting into management or other positions of power and trying to justify it. I remember in 2007 playing an online game and I matched with a content creator/ambassador and it was buggy being 2007, he was abusing the bug and still got destroyed by me but made content whining about it in typical SJW fashion.

What was the bug? It was a card battling game and a bug let him heal his card by 15 Energy (about 30%+ of its Hitpoints depending on the card) almost every turn (he could essentially decline or heal a card that wasn't fighting to not have the bug do anything but chose not to).

 

[Drain Todger]

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.

Remember how Occupy Wall Street was taken over by nutcases insisting on a "progressive stack" that drove out the saner elements of the movement until all that was left was SJWs?

Remember how, after Code Pink and the anti-war left put Obama in power, the Democrats promptly snubbed them and cut funding for anti-war NGOs, and then, they helped France bomb Libya into dust for no discernible reason? Right after Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize?

Remember how protesters everywhere in the Arab Spring all carried banners with the same Otpor fist logo, demonstrating that the Elites had developed a method to initiate color revolutions anywhere they wanted? A method that they, in fact, reused during the 2020 US Presidential Elections?

For Some Arab Revolutionaries, A Serbian Tutor

Srdja Popovic was a key figure in the 2000 revolution in Serbia, and in recent years he's been providing training to other would-be revolutionaries. His pupils include young Arabs who have played leading roles in uprisings in their countries during the past year.

www.npr.org

https://syncreticstudies.com/2014/12/23/otpor-canvas-and-terrorism/

Remember when GamerGate uncovered links between SJWs in academia, video game journalism, and well-funded think tanks linked to New World Order bullshit?

http://todigra.org/index.php/todigra/article/view/39

I remember.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

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)?

It started with hippies. Each generation‘s kids grow up to fly banners of increasingly stupid shit after getting brainwashed for the first 10 years.
While the core sjw thing existed in various underground scenes over the last 50 years as with their scenes rise in popularity so has the collected way of retarded sjw thinking.
The 90’s were pretty fucking PC and while the adults will reach middle age & stop caring the kids they had picked up the slack and really doubled down on their parents stupidity. Hence the current shit sandwich we‘re all taking a bite out of.

there is no end.

 

[Cool Dog]

It used to be a cancer that was limited to academia but the internet changed that

Most SJWs are the children of privilege, just like beatniks and hippies were, because only rich kids can stay years in college debating bullshit without having to get a real degree, they go and live the bohemian life with dad's credit card

These people would debate socjus bullshit for hours at college because they had no other obligations. So when the internet became mainstream enough that even these useless turds could figure out how to use it they did what they always do: screech, screech more and louder than anyone else

They are permanently online because they dont have jobs or kids or even any real hobbies besides being complete cunts so they outcompete every other form of discussion

Social media isnt representative of the real political discourse in any country, that trump got elected against all social media metrics should be proof enough but SJWs are too powerful now, they get to bend reality ever since they got a seat at governments and corporations

They certainly dont give a shit about real problems tho, I'm a third world brown guy and SJWs never offered to help me at all. They pretend to help but dont do shit

The attitude is pretty old.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n1tFbZ5kaY8This is a skit from 1993.

I was thinking of Married with Children and realized Marcy is a proto-SJW who claims to care about activism but is actually self-serving.

That couldnt be made today, thats the difference

Even without the dyke joke they would get cancelled assuming the producers even let that sketch go live in the first place which they wont, lots of self censorship in media now

this shit is already starting to rot in pathetic misery, fading out prematurely.

3 years later and its more stronger than ever, this comment didnt age well

don't stereotype all black people as 'hood

The people doing that are other black people who arent hood, see every rich black person specially comedians

Black people are not only really racist, they are both racist and extremely classicist towards other black people

Black men prefer black women who are more light skinned, black people in general are brutal towards poorer blacks, flexing has always been part of their culture and being a "broke ass nigga" is social death

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Alright, so after going through everyone's posts in this thread, I honestly think the REAL conception of SJW/wokeism in our current timeline can be traced back to 2003 in the eve of the War in Iraq. I don't even care about powerleveling at this point, but I'm in my early 30's and was in high school during Bush's 1st term, so I distinctly recall pre and post 9/11 America and how the country shifted from united to divided...and all signs point to spring 2003 when the first signs of wokeism and early SJWism could be visible. If Trayvon's death in 2012 was the de-facto "birth" of the woke cult, then 2003 was when the woke left fucked America raw dog and got her knocked up.

Prior to Iraq, the liberals and conservatives I knew IRL weren't as extremely vocal, and often had a lot in common...in fact, some Boomers I knew flip-flopped over their support for George Dubya around the time of the beginning of Iraq, with the real battle lines being drawn between Left & Right pretty evenly. Not to mention, Iraq was a war which people [leftists] tried to tie into race and social justice, such as arguing that Bush supporters are all literally Nazis for advocating the genocide of poor innocent Muslims. This was the part I remember as being a black and white issue for both sides. The libs said "You're either against the war or else you support murder and genocide", the GOP was basically "You're either for the war or you're a cowardly traitor who supports terrorism." This was when protests started, the media went rabid in Bush Derangement Syndrome, and the entertainment industry was rampant with anti-war rhetoric. For Christ's sake, we had debates about the war in school at the time, and lots of rabid spergs on both sides arguing for or against it.

For anyone over the age of 30 who remembers like I do, this was the general division of zeitgeist of America after the start of Iraq, and up until Bush was gone:

The Left:
System of a Down
"No blood for oil!"
Michael Moore
Rock Against Bush
"Bush/Hitler = same shit, different asshole" graffiti
Janine Garafallo
Sean Penn
David Cross
Anti-Bush humor in zombie Simpsons
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Dixie Chicks

The Right:
Toby Keith
Sean Hannity
R. Lee Ermey
"If you don't like it, leave it."
Bless Our Troops yellow ribbons
Kid Rock
ProtestWarrior.com
The call to boycott left wing celebrities
Freedom Fries
Bill O'Reilly
Anti-France bumper stickers

Prior to this, most Bush-bashing was relegated to just goofing on his dimwitted attitude and his ineptness, but after the start of the war, the country was really divided among the left vs. right -- not nearly as bad as it is now, but it was a real precursor of what would become in current year. Plus, all of the real SJW's I know in person started to show their obnoxious beliefs immediately after the start of the war, and things like Katrina, the financial crash, and the shit in Obama's 1st term accelerated their early wokeness.

Here's the timeline...

1. The War in Iraq: Conception
2. The later Bush years: Pregnancy
3. 2009-2011: Pregnant belly showing
4. Occupy Wall Street: Water broke
5. Death of Trayvon Martin: Birth of Woke... "It's healthy a non-binary genderfluid, Ms. America!"

EDIT: I want to add too that I recently learned that the whole concept of red state vs. blue state is actually a recent thing which wasn't actually created until the 2000 election. I honestly think the literal color-coded division of states based off voting patterns was another major contributing factor to our country's division, and was also a catalyst for the problems today.

 

[queerape]

There's always been woke types, they aren't really unique to the 2010s. Second wave feminists in the 1960s could get sort of cringey at times, and there was tons of black power stuff too. In the 80s-90s we had the whole "womyn" debate, veganism going mainstream, and sperging over the acid rain and the ozone hole (both of which actually improved thanks to said sperging).

Those eras also had their own alt right oppositions too, like the segregationists and evangelical christians. It's always been the same shit different day.

 

[FatalTater]

Came across a Murphy Brown clip from probably around 1995-ish. Some of it sounded familiar as hell.

I miss that show.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Alright, so after going through everyone's posts in this thread, I honestly think the REAL conception of SJW/wokeism in our current timeline can be traced back to 2003 in the eve of the War in Iraq.

I think that's pushing it back a bit too far. Polarization and toxicity can be traced back as far as you like, but I don't think it makes sense to talk about a real woke movement until we see identity politics, academic jargon, far-left radicalism (Kropotkin, not Kerry), and a general rejection of Enlightenment ideals. Or at least, movement in those directions. In 2003 I think the battle lines were still too sharply drawn between theocrats and libertines to allow development along other lines.

 

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Came across a Murphy Brown clip from probably around 1995-ish. Some of it sounded familiar as hell.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tz4gziOFU3w
I miss that show.

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[Syaoran Li]

I think that's pushing it back a bit too far. Polarization and toxicity can be traced back as far as you like, but I don't think it makes sense to talk about a real woke movement until we see identity politics, academic jargon, far-left radicalism (Kropotkin, not Kerry), and a general rejection of Enlightenment ideals. Or at least, movement in those directions. In 2003 I think the battle lines were still too sharply drawn between theocrats and libertines to allow development along other lines.

True.

I do think that the events of 2003-2004 did help set the stage for the Woke Left and the current culture wars but it was more likely conceived as a result of the Great Recession.

If any event in the Bush years would be a genesis point for the Woke Left, I'd say it was the 2004 election when Bush was re-elected and won the popular vote thanks to pandering to the Religious Right.

The "Fundies and Neocons vs. New Atheists and Liberals" battles of the 2000's were more like a quick teaser of what was to come.

To use a historical analogy, 2003 was like the Petersburg to Current Year's Verdun. You see the earliest signs of what was to come but it was relatively contained and on a fairly small scale in general.

The final years of the Religious Right are sort of like the Franco-Prussian War. More intense and essentially sets the backdrop that allows the conditions for the big war to kick off.

I'm assuming stuff like the Great Recession, Occupy, the rise of Anita, the Trayvon Martin case, GamerGate and Ferguson would be sort of like the 1905 Revolution, the Bosnian Crisis, the Balkan Wars of Independence, and the July Crisis in this analogy.

 

[Kosher Dill]

If any event in the Bush years would be a genesis point for the Woke Left, I'd say it was the 2004 election when Bush was re-elected and won the popular vote thanks to pandering to the Religious Right.

He always did that though. Remember his "favorite political philosopher"?

THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE PHILOSOPHY; Conservative Church Leaders Find a Pillar in Bush (Published 2000)

Republican presidential candidate Gov George Bush's campaign refrain that 'Faith changes lives' is not only personal confession but political platform; religious leaders and friends say governor's religious belief in Jesus Christ, far from mere political posturing, is central pillar of his life...

www.nytimes.com

Bush was in bed with the evangelical right long before 2004.

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

I personally think that the hippies were the OG SJWs. They came of age during the Civil Rights era, when so many rights movements popped up. Many of these movements were necessary, but as with all movements, there were members and allies who saw prejudice in everything. I saw this documentary about the 1960’s and there was a part that was talking about the Vietnam War and the protests against it. In one scene of the protests, a soyboy hippie, when interviewed, called the war a “genocide”. I know that many hippies left the subculture and became conservative, but hippie subculture paved the way for the SJW cultures in the decades since to appear.

 

[gang weeder]

You guys are mostly talking about when "SJW" shit actually became the dominant ideology, but in terms of its origins, you're waaaaaay off the mark. The origins go back at least to Marx, and arguably all the way back to the Enlightenment and the development of "liberal" philosophies and mindsets.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

You guys are mostly talking about when "SJW" shit actually became the dominant ideology, but in terms of its origins, you're waaaaaay off the mark. The origins go back at least to Marx, and arguably all the way back to the Enlightenment and the development of "liberal" philosophies and mindsets.

Liberalism and leftism are two entirely different things

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Way back in the 60s and 70s, there were plenty of people who acted like social justice warriors, and held the same exact ideology, and were motivated by the smell of their own farts, just like SJWs of today. These people were even made fun of in the animated film Fritz the Cat.

Just like BLM or antifa, there were also leftists who wanted a race war, because they realized that class warfare wasn't sufficient to destabilize the west.

Unlike BLM or antifa, they were much more honest about it. They were known as the "Weather Underground," and there was a successor group, the May 19th Communist Organization.

Weather's political theory sought to make every struggle an anti-imperialist, anti-racist struggle; out of this premise came their interrogation of critical concepts that would later be known as "white privilege". As historian Dan Berger writes, Weather raised the question "what does it means to be a white person opposing racism and imperialism?"[52]

At one point, the Weathermen adopted the belief that all white babies were "tainted with the original sin of "skin privilege", declaring "all white babies are pigs" with one Weatherwoman telling feminist poet Robin Morgan "You have no right to that pig male baby" after she saw Morgan breastfeeding her son and told Morgan to put the baby in the garbage. Charles Manson was an obsession within the group and Bernardine Dohrn claimed he truly understood the iniquity of white America, with the Manson family being praised for the murder of Sharon Tate; Dorn's cell subsequently made its salute a four-fingered gesture that represented the "fork" used to stab Tate.

Unlike the SJWs of today, however, they committed far more atrocities, presumably because they didn't have the internet as an outlet for their violent tendencies. There were at least a thousand bombings committed by these people, up to 2000, possibly more.

However, even way back in the 1940s, western communists already advised its members to brazenly accuse its enemies of being "racist" or otherwise bigoted without proof or evidence. Western communists were also the ones that decided that class conflict wasn't sufficient, as stated earlier, so moved the conflict to other aspects like race, culture, sexuality, etc.

 

[Ser Prize]

Way back in the 60s and 70s, there were plenty of people who acted like social justice warriors, and held the same exact ideology, and were motivated by the smell of their own farts, just like SJWs of today. These people were even made fun of in the animated film Fritz the Cat.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ygNnyHZ12cs
Just like BLM or antifa, there were also leftists who wanted a race war, because they realized that class warfare wasn't sufficient to destabilize the west.

Unlike BLM or antifa, they were much more honest about it. They were known as the "Weather Underground," and there was a successor group, the May 19th Communist Organization.




Unlike the SJWs of today, however, they committed far more atrocities, presumably because they didn't have the internet as an outlet for their violent tendencies. There were at least a thousand bombings committed by these people, up to 2000, possibly more.

However, even way back in the 1940s, western communists already advised its members to brazenly accuse its enemies of being "racist" or otherwise bigoted without proof or evidence. Western communists were also the ones that decided that class conflict wasn't sufficient, as stated earlier, so moved the conflict to other aspects like race, culture, sexuality, etc.

Communists literally invented the term racist for use against their western opponents.