What constitutes as a real struggle depends on person to person. So let me ask you again, what have you done for impoverished kids around the globe besides complaining about teens on tumblr? Because this argument ONLY pops up when the poster in question tries to lessen the problem of another. It's the most dishonest tactic of them all. Because the reality is you give no shits about impoverished kids as the people your complaining about.Michael Kirley said:Not at all. SJWs hijack the cause of social justice to pontificate about things that have nothing to do with real struggles. They piggyback off of legitimate movements to make themselves relevant.
Not at all. I've seen this plenty of times. Person A complains about something. Person B thinks Person's A's argument is stupid. Person B states there are greater for Person A to complain about regardless of it's personal relevance to Person A's. This is despite the fact that Person B also doesn't care too much about the problem they bring up, but do so to simply 1-Up Person's A's complaints in an attempt to label it as irrelevant.You've misunderstood my argument.
Except that's what they are arguing about. Like I've said, I've seen the post myself on my dashboard. I haven't seen anywhere near what you've claimed. I browse tumblr a fucking lot dude.Except this is not what they argue at all.
Unless, of course, your went to like the most insane blogs on the planet and claim that this nutty nobody is the face of an entire argument.
Are you really going to claim this? Especially when Islamic and Hindu people themselves have said this very thing?First off, wearing Bindis or Kimonos isn't perceived by the majority of Western culture as being indicative of a lack of free will,
How did we jump from Hijabs to Komonos? Also what if the person claiming this is Japanese themselves? There are definitely people of other cultures who take their religions seriously. I'm not going to act like a Japanese expert, but perhaps there is something about the Kimono that other people are doing wrong? I don't know. Either way I personally think cultural appropriation is a bit too extreme. But it also helps to at least understand the history of the garment your wearing.and yet SJWs on numerous blogs claim that someone who isn't, say, Japanese, shouldn't be wearing a kimono.
I'm sure you have. That's why you use ad hominem insults like "intellectually bankrupt". Sorry if I'm not going to take you seriously when you start out your posts with stuff like that.Get off your high horse. I've debated with tonnes of SJWs. Everything I've said so far has come almost verbatim out of the mouth of multiple Tumblrinas that I've talked to in the past.
Yet you've claimed all SJW's are intellectually bankrupt. With your only claim being "I argued with some people on Tumblr", and since you lump all SJW's into one humongous hivemind it might as well be a judgement of their character.That's not an ad hominem in the slightest. An attack on an argument isn't an attack on character.
And this goes right back into your thinking SJW's are a hive mind. Shame really because the majority of the page was having a pretty calm discussion.I posted a non-exhaustive list of things that I think are ridiculous and which SJWs are wont to say. You can read it here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.855605-Reclaiming-SJW?page=3#21190947
Do you honestly believe all SJW's believe universally half the stuff in that list?
I mean, really now. That's like going on the Escapist right now, finding a couple of people who advocate for Nintendo to go third party, and making the claim that "Gamers" want Nintendo to go third party. Ignoring the fact that just as many people within the gamer community are against that.
Also some of these things you listed (like skewed statistics.) can easily be applied to other groups with their fair share of insane. Out of that whole list, a good chunk of them are easily ignorable, or are regulated to such a small minority that most people don't give a shit.
Except I'm not doing that. You're not the first person I've encountered who's sympathetic to SJWs.
And I certainly won't be the last.
When you use pretty extreme terms like intellectually bankrupt to describe an entire group of people then that reads off as a pretty extreme statement. That's not going to get you brownie points in any debate between said people.
Is it? Because as a tumblr users, I just told you the opposite.Wrong. The "racism = power + prejudice" equation is ubiquitous on SJW Tumblrs.
Then perhaps you should find better people to discuss this with instead of continuously looking for tempermental crybabies on tumblr and using them as representative of an entire group.Not coming "right out of the gate." We're discussing SJWs as a category; obviously I'm going to generalize based on the ones I've encountered. The ones I've encountered have been almost entirely poor people to discuss with.
Yeah. I do. Because with things like this it's always the same. Cherry picked, temperamental nut cases that make up maybe 5% of the group, brought up to the forefront and used as the face of an entire movement.Lol. Do you really want to go down this road? You actually want to deny that SJWs say these things? I think you're the one unfamiliar with the cesspool that is Tumblr.
It's like claiming all MOBA players are pimple faced, basement dwelling losers because out of the whole group, 5 of them made an ass of themselves on a grand public scale.
It's like Anita with gaming feminism. The people who hated her, and feminists in gaming period took this women from being a zero to a star and now user her as a scapegoat for why feminism in gaming is bad.