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I am torn between seeing the SJWs as the emerging tea party of the left and minding my own business because I'm an old GenX fart who needs to get out of the way
by oneshot908 9y ago
I am torn between seeing the SJWs as the emerging tea party of the left and minding my own business because I'm an old GenX fart who needs to get out of the way of whatever the millennials are cooking up to remake society in their own image. I do not agree with the firing of James Damore because I believe Google acted as an enabler here by allowing the existence of a forum entitled "Politically Correct Considered Harmful."
James Damore's plausibly deniable implication that he had a Ph.D. OTOH alone should have been grounds for his termination. But again, IMO the Boomers made a mess, GenX built on the mess, and now it's up to the Millennials to decide what they're going to do with the place.
- stcredzero 9y agoI'm an old GenX fart who needs to get out of the way of whatever the millennials are cooking up to remake society in their own image. Why? Because what younger people do is automatically good? Your voice is invalidated because you're older, and that makes sense because of "reasons?" I guess this is why the Cultural Revolution was such an unqualified success. I guess the young men of the Freikorps were correct because they were young.
- oneshot908 9y agoNo, not at all. But I'm past reproductive age, I have more than enough money to retire comfortably, and I have no kids and therefore no skin in whatever game they want to play with the planet. I'll be gone in 30-50 years, poof, like I never existed. But I will be around more than long enough to watch a bunch of rich obese white gasbags die of coronaries and other otherwise easily preventable ailments, and to see whether AI does something magical around 2050 or so. That's enough for one life, no?
- stcredzero 9y agoI'll be gone in 30-50 years, poof, like I never existed. Nihilism -- ever the source of far-seeing wisdom. But I will be around more than long enough to watch a bunch of rich obese white gasbags die of coronaries Looking forwards to the deaths of others on the basis of racial stereotypes? Always a good sign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreDa1xarTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreDa1xarTM
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- Bizarro 9y agoNo, not at all. But I'm past reproductive age, I have more than enough money to retire comfortably, You think you'd be safe and gone before they would have a chance to confiscate everything you have? SJWs are just old fashioned collectivists, marxists. The author seemed to be afraid to call them what he knows they are, even though he danced around it.
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- Jtsummers 9y agoI dig this paranoia. Very fashionable these days. On what do you base your fears and anxieties?
- stcredzero 9y agoOn their attitudes and behavior, which I’ve also witnessed personally.
- Jtsummers 9y agoI keep hearing this from people. I've just never witnessed it and no one seems to be able to point me towards anything, US-based at least, where this is happening or being called for by anyone with real authority and potential to achieve this feared outcome.
- justherefortart 9y agoAs a GenXer myself, let me know when it's my turn. I see the long lasting effects of the "greatest generation" and Baby Boomers far more than anything GenX has "built".
- psyc 9y agoI’m also old, and my main objection to the present “SJW” movement is their strong preference for a fight fire with fire approach, in contrast with the fight fire with water approach encouraged by Ghandi and King. For example, they have reinterpreted the “respectability politics” concept to mean they can be as rude and mean-spirited as they please. In the civil rights movement, that term meant something quite different.
- oneshot908 9y agoAgreed, they're well-intentioned, but the minute they're OK with a few innocent victims in their pursuit of the guilty, I'm no longer on board.
- psyc 9y agoIt’s so absurd to me. Like, I agree with them on every actual issue, but I want nothing to do with their activism because they appear to be raging, absolutist jerks to everyone including other liberals.
- tomlock 9y agoI think we see it through a lens of what gets upvoted and shared, and the actual irl people involved in these movements and the activism aren't the caricatures we see online.
- stcredzero 9y agoWhat happened to James Damore and the surrounding events read just like other over the top SJW shenanigans.
- tomlock 9y agoSure, but the over the top SJW shenanigans are shared and upvoted somewhere, amirite? Or is this all based on SJWs you know in real life?