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| Blue on Blue: SJWs Eat Their Own |
| 2018-07-17 |
| [Quillette] I drive food delivery for an online app to make rent and support myself and my young family. This is my new life. I once had a well paid job in what might be described as the social justice industry. Then I upset the wrong person, and within a short window of time, I was considered too toxic for my employer’s taste. I was publicly shamed, mobbed, and reduced to a symbol of male privilege. I was cast out of my career and my professional community. Writing anything under my own byline now would invite a renewal of this mobbing—which is why, with my editor’s permission, I am writing this under a pseudonym. He knows who I am. In my previous life, I was a self-righteous social justice crusader. I would use my mid-sized Twitter and Facebook platforms to signal my wokeness on topics such as LGBT rights, rape culture, and racial injustice. Many of the opinions I held then are still opinions that I hold today. But I now realize that my social-media hyperactivity was, in reality, doing more harm than good. Within the world created by the various apps I used, I got plenty of shares and retweets. But this masked how ineffective I had become outside, in the real world. The only causes I was actually contributing to were the causes of mobbing and public shaming. Real change does not stem from these tactics. They only cause division, alienation, and bitterness. |
| Posted by:Bangkok Billy |
| #3 Sounds like what vegans do to ex-vegans. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-07-17 18:48 |
| #2 I love this sentence, "...I was publicly shamed, mobbed, and reduced to a symbol of male privilege...." if you are shamed and mobbed doesn't that mean you aren't privileged? |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-07-17 18:16 |
| #1 Blue on blue??? Uh, that's red on red, friend. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-07-17 10:45 |