as small as a world and as large as alone

12:05am May 30, 2014

wretchedoftheearth:

also god it’s hilarious how people will pretend that anti-sj bloggers are separate from very obvious misogynists, racists, etc.

when they’re being reblogged by neo-nazis (and they reblog them back) and sometimes they’re indistinguishable 

when the weird dudes who follow my bdsm blog and have blogs dedicated to snuff, rape, abuse, and male supremacy also regularly reblog anti-SJ content

and so forth

i mean the worst thing you can say about ~SJWs~ is that they’re annoying or deluded, but they’re not in leagues with actual violent bigots

I see a few very different strands in anti-SJ blogs.

There’s a really obvious bigot strand.

There’s a less-obvious bigot strand, where it’s like “I don’t like SJ because they make me see that I have privilege, ha ha what a stupid idea.”

There’s a strand that seems like former SJ people who have gotten sick of SJ, but they are turning all their former SJ principles against SJ.  My friend likens this to a monster set on devouring everything in its path, and once it’s done devouring all the acceptable targets, it ends up devouring itself.

And then there’s – just as in SJ – people who seem pretty thoughtful but who get caught up in their own echo chamber.

You can’t call all of those things one thing, even though they all get lumped together.

(I’m in a weird position where I criticize SJ a lot, but am not anti-SJ, but am not SJ either, but various people call me both because I’m someone who genuinely cares about social justice and activism but has a lot of problems with the SJ echo chambers on tumblr and elsewhere.  So I don’t really fit in either community.  And there’s a lot of people out here like me, but generally people on each side will put us on the other side, when talking about us, whatever the other side happens to be.)

I just got my first neo-nazi ask recently… it was not from someone who liked what I had to say, thank the gods.

But basically, people who are anti-SJ can get into it for good reasons, and then get sucked into a destructive echo chamber with all sorts of people they didn’t realize they were going to be sucked into it with.  And some operate on their own, not knowing who else shares their views or may be using them for their own disturbing ends.  Not that this justifies what they’re doing.  It’s just that there really are many, many different strands of anti-SJ on tumblr and some of them are utterly horrible and some of them are almost harmless.

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