The problem of SJWs

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It's especially infuriating to keep hearing the "SJWs don't exist and/or are a minuscule group with no influence" when they're a major presence on my own Facebook page, which I limit to people I know in person, mostly friends from school. Getting their attention on twitter or tumblr is also a pretty reliable way of proving both their existence and their numbers, as is cruising any feminist website; these people really aren't hard to find, so I have to presume wilful ignorance at this point.

I won't lie. I have seriously limited my friends on my FB page because of some extremists. I had certain pictures up for a long time of me wearing a bandana which I usually wear in the hot summer. I've even collected scarves from my grandmother who used to wear them. Then a couple of "friends" messaged me about the pictures. One girl was polite and sent me an article on cultural appropriation. I then felt guilty and scared after I had picture of my niece wearing a wrapped up scarf and a lot of other stuff. I have tried to see things in a different light but any more I feel like I can't even be myself. I strongly believe in equality and acknowledge racism and white priveledge exist but at the same time I'm begininnig to see a lot of issues that are beyond crazy and I factual. For instance I was reading about the history of scarves and apparently they go so far back that they are not not owned by any one culture. I really have tried but I think I failed this movement and I'm struggling with issues far more serious than what one wears or chooses to listen to musically. I don't have health care, I can barely afford medication or food and because of these daily struggles and more, I find it too depressing to see people even to whom I could just talk to now behave as if everything including words like picnic and clothes like hoodies are the ultimate wars we're being faced with. I know not all of them agree but you don't dare speak up unless you want to risk being ostracized as a racist or being called an Uncle Tom or coon, something my friend who is black has in fact been called by her own friends and she is for racial equality and loves her African heritage vehemently...go figure. But that is the frustration it can pose and if you're not part of the white upper middle class then you got yourself to blame by both political extremist spectrums or so that's what I'm told. Sometimes the left extremists are a little sympathetic though when I bring up my autism and issues with depression but at least as a white person I'm not part of the white majority because poc tend to be more poor, an issue I don't deny.

"Afraid to speak up: In the era of trigger warnings, a tenured professor stays silent"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/gra ... ys-silent/

"As an assistant professor climbing the ranks in higher education, I frequently challenged the loudest voices in the room when I thought they were wrong."

"Now I have tenure, which assures even greater academic freedom. But in the current campus climate of safe spaces, trigger warnings and outrage over anything politically incorrect, I find myself increasingly holding back and second-guessing myself."

This is the strategy of every totalitarian Leftist movement, whether it's international socialism, national socialism, fascism, Maoism, Kim Il-Sung-ism, or anything else.

Cultural appropriation is a phrase being used to promote the odious argument that use of aspects of one culture by a person of another culture is morally wrong if the person using the culture of the other is more powerful, as can be seen in this article by Kovie Biakolo

This is a rubbish idea, like the one that says skin prejudice is only bad and worthy of condemnation as racism when it is used by a person whose skin pigmentation group is more powerful and the person who against whom the prejudice is being shown is less powerful--the idea espoused by Sonny Carson and Sister Souljah in the 1990s, and is today promoted by [url="https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/black-people-can%E2%80%99t-be-racist"]Sobantu Mzwakali.[/url]

As Barbra Jordan put it to the Democratic Convention in 1992, shocking the Sister Souljah contingent:

Unfortunately, your complaints are the result of misunderstanding and distortion of the actual thing for political gain.

What's wrong with teaching little boys to respect women? Nothing. This sort of training could go a long way to preventing campus rape and violence later in life. Of course, conservatives freak out about feminism, and so they call it "teaching little boys that they are inherently sexist rapists" f**k that s**t.

Same with teaching about white privilege and inherent bias.

"Meanwhile, white kids are herded into separate classrooms and taught to raise their “awareness of the prevalence of Whiteness and privilege,” challenge “notions of colorblindness (and) assumptions of ‘normal,’ ‘good,’ and ‘American’” and “understand and own European ancestry and see the tie to privilege.”"

Sounds good to me. Colorblind racism is all over this forum, white idiots pretending that all they have to do is announce that everyone is equal. It's a form a racist denial. It's a whitewashing of American culture. A trivial gesture that makes them feel better about themselves while disallowing any acknowledgement of the racist culture where blacks names on resumes get 50% less callbacks from the same qualifications. Don't tell me we don't need some education in this regard.

Microaggression training. So they point out certain subtle things that belittle people. So what.

Refusing to hire men. Again, so what. Men are overrepresented in STEM. But men's rights! Give me a break.

What's really happening is you can no longer easily get away with being a horrible sexist and racist person, you have to look out for the feelings of others. Whaaa.

White people are in the majority, and saying they need to do things about their culture isn't the same thing as saying blacks are impotent to address any of these problems too. These are conservative attempts at counter-propaganda. While at the same time they undermine minority voting rights, and seek to create a government small enough to allow a small powerful elite of white Christians to dominate the country. Wake the f**k up, you are being conned.