So basically, you're willingly and openly embracing an ideology that you KNOW to be bad and cult-like mainly because the other side are assholes and probably because you headcanon'd out the radicals.
Your stance is "Yeah, I gleefully support the NSDAP because the Bolsheviks are assholes. Well, maybe I just hang out with the nice folks, because I read "Mein Kampf" and the whole "Jews and Marxists are responsible for everything" thing is kinda fucking stupid".
Well, at least you show some sense of self-awareness.
There's no ideology because it's not an organized group, it's an insult. Please define for me, o mighty
@Hassknecht the beliefs of the Social Justice Warrior in a coherent fashion that I must abide by and what qualities I must abide by in order to achieve said status and I think we'll find that it's thrown about at pretty much a vast array of topics. I was first called a social justice warrior for the fact I had in my superhero books gay characters (5 1 star reviews on Amazon because of it), a transgender character, and the fact my protagonist was Jewish.
Generally, Social Justice Warrior is
meant to be "extremely dumb activist who doesn't understand the issues they're crusading for and comes from a privileged background that doesn't usually have to deal with any real consequence of their beliefs." It's more or less a pejorative aimed at people who think arguing over the internet makes them a political activist or that their efforts in, say, comic books or movies have meaning versus work in promoting good works in real life. It's since become a catch-all term for any sort of person who expresses opinions varying from the individual's own politics as well as meaningless like Mary Sue is used for any character we dislike.
An actual "Social Justice Warrior" incident would be, say, the controversy over
The Black Witch by Laurie Frost where a bunch of dipshits got together to more or less Goodreads and Amazon bomb a novel THEY HADN'T EVEN READ because a "respected" internet reviewer quoted parts of the book out of context to make it seem like it was racist. They harrassed the poor woman repeatedly and behaved as monstrous little trolls.
As an internet reviewer belonging to a big fantasy review site (Booknest.EU), I and other people tried to point out the book was about as offensive as Harry Potter since it was about a mage girl who discovers that her society is a bunch of racist assholes. About as offensive as a Slytherin girl finding out Muggles are people too. However, the thought machine had already gotten underway and became an embarrassment of anti-intellectualism and bad behavior that left Laurie Frost an emotional wreck.
You can read about the incident here.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html
However, my experience is that sort of incident and harassment is the exception rather than the rule when that kind of word is invoked.
So, I don't mind embracing the label since it's going to be thrown at any form of internet activism. It's a bit like "grimdark" which was originally used as an insult for George R.R. Martin based on Warhammer 40K before becoming a genre people love and write in.
@Crni Vuk: I don't support the (extreme) Left for the same reason I don't support the extreme Right. They're fucking violent idiots and retards. But unlike the Right I actually agree with the moderate Left on a lot of things, but since the Left is for the most part unwilling to distance itself from the radical elements I can't support the general Left.
I like Die LINKE in principle (even though they're literally the successors/rebranding of the SED [this is not a conspiracy theory, it's the official history]), but they also allow very radical elements in their party to run free and ruin the show for everyone else.
It's why I give them so much shit, I want them to be better, I give a shit about them. But I'm not their target demographic, so I don't even know why I should bother.
One of my all time favorite comic book writers is Nick Spencer and he's going through something of a rough patch due to *finger wag* Social Justcie Warriors *finger wag*. He's the author of Secret Empire at Marvel Comics for example and gets savaged for that, called a Nazi Sympathizer and more. This despite the fact that he wrote a beautiful run on Captain America with Sam Wilson that showed a great bit of humanity as well as social awareness.
(Yes, internet idjits didn't realize Hydra was the villain in the story)
One tone deaf story, though, was where he wrote 3 social justice warrior activists try to kill a Megan Kelly stand-in at a conservative rally at a university only for Captain America (Sam Wilson) to stop them. It was bad timing because a Right wing student attempted to kill a Left wing speaker a week after. It led to basically him being accused of trying to treat the two sides as the same.
I'm not a fan of both sides when the alternative is Nazis. i grew up in an area with a lot of white supremecists and the KKK which, to me, I generally associate with meth as well as violence while being enabled by much much richer people. They're not interested in balanced political discourse but oppressing the other side via whatever methods involved via legal or illegal means.
So, yes, I know assholes exist on the Left but the irony ws I was a moderate Republican in 2000 but while I haven't shifted my politics, the Right side has become so toxic I feel Ihave to side with the Left and fully because taking no sides is not a solution. I stand by my beliefs and feel like one is objectively worse on the political discourse.
if you don't like the elements of a party or movement you should work to fight them and promote the vision you support--because if you take any sort of stand whatsoever, you'll end up getting mocked because the internet is that sort of way so if I'm going to be called out for being a SJW I might as well own it.
