The Demise of SJW's? - Will The Madness Ever End? Now With Poll!

[Syaoran Li]

We've discussed at length in multiple threads the origins of SJW's and the current SJW cultural zeitgeist and everyone has their own theories as to the how and the why.

Personally, I'm of the view that the SJW's are the result of a natural backlash against the Religious Right of the last three decades, particularly the form it took under the Bush presidency. However, what would otherwise be a normal backlash reached new levels of intensity thanks to help from both academia and media, to say nothing of the massive influences of Silicon Valley, Web 2.0, and the original Occupy Wall Street protests.

We've also discussed when or if it's going to end, and I think it will end eventually (at least in America) since American sociopolitical and cultural discourse is built on the pendulum effect and has been since at least the end of the American Civil War, and probably even earlier than that.

I'm curious about how soon the bubble will burst and what other Kiwis think about that idea.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

I voted late 2020s based on the length of the religious right's height of power. Realistically though, its one of those things that never really goes away. It just wanes and then mutates and comes back in some other form.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

I think Trump's reelection, along with Ocasio-Cortez/Omar/Tlaib being tossed out of office will deal a heavy blow to the movement. It won't officially be killed until 2022 when there are no Socialist candidates on any ballots though, imo.

 

[Y2K Baby]

When the woman bomb is set off by the incel insurgency.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

When Gen Z shoves them in the ovens.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Problem will self-attenuate heavily within a decade. It's a moral panic. Those don't typically last longer than a generation or two IIRC.

 

[Eryngium]

When the Gamers finally have enough of the oppression and censorship of their video game titties, and rise up.

 

[I Love Beef]

I think SJWs will die when they get caught up in some huge social discovery that ousts them and any related to them as complete monsters and social pariahs.

 

[CakeCutey]

I think they'll just eventually fade into obscurity.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

I think SJWs will die when they get caught up in some huge social discovery that ousts them and any related to them as complete monsters and social pariahs.

I can't figure out an easy way to socially engineer a lot of the messages in that way.

 

[I Love Beef]

I can't figure out an easy way to socially engineer a lot of the messages in that way. It's not like the right wing where you can just pretend to be a girl and convince them to run their car into a crowd of protesters.

blugh. Fuck I'm tired. Sorry about that.

What I mean to say is that there will be some huge scandal that will ultimately slander and brand SJWs with one hell of a scarlet letter.

Already we have pedophile troons and babyrapers in the higher eschelons of fringe entertainment news like Sarah Nyberg and Dan Olson. If any major newslet wanted to have a field day, they could outright report on them and nothing of value would be lost.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

blugh. Fuck I'm tired. Sorry about that.

What I mean to say is that there will be some huge scandal that will ultimately slander and brand SJWs with one hell of a scarlet letter.

Already we have pedophile troons and babyrapers in the higher eschelons of fringe entertainment news like Sarah Nyberg and Dan Olson. If any major newslet wanted to have a field day, they could outright report on them and nothing of value would be lost.

The lulziest scenario would be them reporting on some shit like that but trying to present it as the future/stunning and brave only to be shocked, SHOCKED!1!! when the peasants are officially done with their shit

 

[Chalk Eater]

Honestly I think they'll end when we just all kinda forget about them. Could be a while from now, but I imagine a majority of people remembering it several years from now when sitting outside, and going "Oh, THAT happened"

 

[verissimus]

Hard to say when exactly based on the above choices considering the following :

1) SJWs will certainly not disappear from university and college campuses until the hammer is dropped on them regarding student loans and/or free speech in campuses;
2) SJWs won't disappear from the entertainment industry unless it takes a huge financial hit in which case they may decide to stop going woke any more since they won't be able to afford doing so; and
3) SJWs won't disappear from the news media or from political office any time soon as well until either the viewer or electorate have simply grown tired of the media and politicians focusing on trivial matters as opposed to problems which the general public actually care about and struggle with at a personal level.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I think identity politics is so deeply ingrained that it would take a drastic change -- like a cataclysm -- to end it.

People won't give a damn about "microaggressions" or "cultural appropriation" when survival is a pressing matter.

 

[AF 802]

It's already happening, but slowly. It's in the form of businesses losing money or closing due to pandering to woke ideologies.

 

[BR55]

I think it won't ever truly die but will instead just become a little quieter and little more subdued. The comparisons to the Christian Right are quite apt in that sense.
Trump's reelection won't kill it though thats for sure.
In fact four more years of Trump will just go make them go even ballistic in the short term.
It should be good for Lols though so there's always that silver lining.

 

[Richardo Retardo]

As long as there is an societally lauded sentiment that can be used to gain unearned "I'm such a good person" points people will purport to hold the sentiment for personal gain and claim that others lack the sentiment to attempt to damage their social and personal enemies when they have no grievances deemed socially legitimate.

EDIT: The issue isn't social justice. The issue is that society says "If you believe X you are inherently a good person and If you believe Y you are inherently a bad person".

 

[ProgKing of the North]

I think Trump's reelection, along with Ocasio-Cortez/Omar/Tlaib being tossed out of office will deal a heavy blow to the movement. It won't officially be killed until 2022 when there are no Socialist candidates on any ballots though, imo.

It doesn't even need to disappear completely (i.e. no socialists whatsoever on any ballots), just scurry back to the San Franciscos and Portlands like the Religious Right mainly confines itself to the Bible Belt and rural Midwestern pockets these days.

 

[Lemmingwise]

1) SJWs will certainly not disappear from university and college campuses until the hammer is dropped on them regarding student loans and/or free speech in campuses;

They're going to need to drop both the hammer and the sickle for us to get to that and I honestly don't see it happening any time soon.