The problem of SJWs

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Those are the kind of trivial issues you deal with on facebook. It's not real life.

Facebook isn't real life.

Are you suggesting that the content on Facebook is fictional or purely virtual?

If Facebook isn't real life, neither is a conversation via phone call.

Whilst I personally steer clear of Facebook, that doesn't prevent me from understanding that for many (especially many with neurological conditions or anxiety disorders) it is the hub of their social lives; it's where they primarily maintain contact with friends and family.

Dismissing Facebook as "not real life" as a way of denying the experiences of others goes completely against those progressive values you like to exhibit. If you're not going to be consistent, you're not going to be taken seriously.

You get a distorted view of life, like looking at it through a tiny peephole. People interact with the interface in different ways than they would in reality. It's like judging society by the comments section of YouTube.

Facebook is not real life---because people use it to hide behind the anonymity of the Internet. People frequently become a cartoon version of themselves.

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.

Anyway, here we have yet another example that SJW is being used to denigrate all liberal ideas, not just ineffectual on-line blowhards having a fit about a word. It's being used on feminism, anti-rape counseling, and anti-discrimination teaching.

"anti-rape counseling" (and other similar things) before anything wrong has happened actually is a very bad thing

That's not what I meant. Of course I know the nature of Facebook, Brah.

I meant....as in other Forums (perhaps including this one), people on Facebook have been known to adopt a cartoonish persona unrestrained by having to SEE the person they are conversing with.

And in a similar vein, no one should try to make peace until after war has started. People should not buy weapons for self defense until after they have been assaulted or killed, people should only back up hard drives after data loss and only insure goods and property after catastrophic damage.

Is that the idea?

It's being used on feminism

anti-rape counseling

and anti-discrimination teaching.

And in a similar vein, no one should try to make peace until after war has started. People should not buy weapons for self defense until after they have been assaulted or killed, people should only back up hard drives after data loss and only insure goods and property after catastrophic damage.

Is that the idea?

And in a similar vein, no one should try to make peace until after war has started. People should not buy weapons for self defense until after they have been assaulted or killed, people should only back up hard drives after data loss and only insure goods and property after catastrophic damage.

Is that the idea?

False analogy. In each of your scenarios the onus is on the individual to take measures to avoid becoming a victim. What's taking place in those classrooms is not remotely similar.

proper education infused with constructive values is one thing, implied accusations are another.