I've started to worry about it a little. Granted, most of the extremism I see is online, but there's so much of it and I see that it's really becoming dangerous. Unfortunately, I think it will only continue to escalate until some very bad things happen. These people are almost mental; so sure of themselves, so angry, so rigid. They're satisfying something inside them, but it's completely juvenile the way they're going about it. Normally people can catch themselves when they're into something bad, but in the context of social justice everything they do and feel seems justified, and any opposition will seem evil. It really makes me sad.
Good new is that you're right, most people are fine. People like that have deep-rooted issues to begin with. If anything, their extremism just makes it easier to spot the crazies.
Unfortunately very bad things are already happening under the guise of "social justice". I've seen many instances of people's lives being ruined simply because they were accused of something that didn't happen. Too many self-proclaimed "Social Justice Warriors" don't see people as people but as categories.
Yeah that's kind of why I'm scared. Moderator is right in the sense that these are people with very deep-seeded issues lashing out, but it's the real-world consequences of their actions that scare me.
I recently read So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, and the stories of some of the people in there scared me so much I went through my entire facebook history and deleted anything that could be skewed as remotely questionable. Hell, there was a lot of stuff in there that was blatantly questionable because I have a very dark sense of humor. That's sorta why I feel scared. Seeing my friends get drawn into it just makes me paranoid, like someone is going to lash out one day and I'll be next.
Or maybe I'm just way too fucking anxious. That could be possible as well.
I can relate. I tread more carefully in social situations than I used to. I'll gladly talk to someone about these issues, but if I get even a whiff of Tumblr-type extremism I simpsonsgif the heck out of there. Frankly, a lot of it is just regular human stupidity, but it's taken a dangerous form. Counter-movements are counter-productive, so I can only hope someone on their side rises up to lead them back to the plot.
If you give idiots a platform to speak, people will advertise what stupid people say. It's not only a vocal minority, it's that gossip is human nature. It's not fun to gossip about people's reasonable opinions, it's fun to gossip about stupid people. This is just a side effect of mass adoption of Internet access. You just have to trust that the average person is a reasonable enough to come to a sensible conclusion.
I've started to worry about it a little. Granted, most of the extremism I see is online, but there's so much of it and I see that it's really becoming dangerous. Unfortunately, I think it will only continue to escalate until some very bad things happen. These people are almost mental; so sure of themselves, so angry, so rigid. They're satisfying something inside them, but it's completely juvenile the way they're going about it. Normally people can catch themselves when they're into something bad, but in the context of social justice everything they do and feel seems justified, and any opposition will seem evil. It really makes me sad.
Good new is that you're right, most people are fine. People like that have deep-rooted issues to begin with. If anything, their extremism just makes it easier to spot the crazies.
Unfortunately very bad things are already happening under the guise of "social justice". I've seen many instances of people's lives being ruined simply because they were accused of something that didn't happen. Too many self-proclaimed "Social Justice Warriors" don't see people as people but as categories.
Yeah that's kind of why I'm scared. Moderator is right in the sense that these are people with very deep-seeded issues lashing out, but it's the real-world consequences of their actions that scare me.
I recently read So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, and the stories of some of the people in there scared me so much I went through my entire facebook history and deleted anything that could be skewed as remotely questionable. Hell, there was a lot of stuff in there that was blatantly questionable because I have a very dark sense of humor. That's sorta why I feel scared. Seeing my friends get drawn into it just makes me paranoid, like someone is going to lash out one day and I'll be next.
Or maybe I'm just way too fucking anxious. That could be possible as well.
I can relate. I tread more carefully in social situations than I used to. I'll gladly talk to someone about these issues, but if I get even a whiff of Tumblr-type extremism I simpsonsgif the heck out of there. Frankly, a lot of it is just regular human stupidity, but it's taken a dangerous form. Counter-movements are counter-productive, so I can only hope someone on their side rises up to lead them back to the plot.
If you give idiots a platform to speak, people will advertise what stupid people say. It's not only a vocal minority, it's that gossip is human nature. It's not fun to gossip about people's reasonable opinions, it's fun to gossip about stupid people. This is just a side effect of mass adoption of Internet access. You just have to trust that the average person is a reasonable enough to come to a sensible conclusion.