Ex-SJWs

[TiggerNits]

I used to be left-center, but after getting screeched at by a 300lb tranny for saying Mark Twain was America's greatest writer even though he used "Nigger-Jim" as a name because it was parlance of the time.

At that point, I went pretty Deus Vult

 

[Derp Potato]

Don't believe I was ever a SJW or close to it. I did used to hop on Change.org if that counts.

Leaned left when I was younger. Fuck, I think everyone was left of center when younger. Religion made no sense to me, abortion was fine with me, all about the environment, etc etc. The Religious Right was a pain to deal with and every right leaning person I met or dealt with was uber religious and just annoying.

Then I grew up, didn't pay attention to politics, lived in other countries and came back to the US to the shitshow Tumbler started. Saw how hypocritical the left was becoming, and in my eyes how they were ending up like the right. Then the bullshit Occupy movement happened, literal burger flippers demanding to make more money than most people, not understanding the economics, etc. Then the racist af BLM movement started.

I saw the majority of the "left" latch on to a narrative, disregarding any and all facts, celebrities calling me shit, getting called a Nazi with white privilege, so on and so forth. Even more hardcore disregarding, backpedaling, refusing to admit shit. Everything they would say about the right, they were doing themselves. Been against anything "left" for awhile now, to be honest.

I wouldn't even say I'm right wing. Right of center? Moderate? Libertarian? Idfk. Idfc.

Still don't care for religion. Abortions are more "meh" to me at this point; just use a damn condom or the pill. Still care about the environment because smog is nasty af. But there is such a thing as too much of an inept government. Too many handouts. Too many fucking taxes. But I also don't care who someone wants to fuck as long as it's another consenting adult. If they wanna get married, fuck it, be miserable like everyone else. I even like my guns, even if I rarely shoot them. I just want to live my life in peace without getting called a bigot for no other reason other than the dangerhair thinks they're hot shit.

Edit: Forgot to mention those fucking die-hard cultish atheists. The ones that need to constantly remind everyone that they don't believe in a god and always looking for a "Gotcha!" moment when it comes to a religious person. They tend to always go after the Christian/Catholics, never the black Protestants or Muslims...But that's a different topic all together.

Those fuckers I felt were ingrained in the SJW/far left culture. I never saw the reason for it. They were as bad, or even worse, than religious people. They're pretty damn close to Born Agains in their annoyance of forcing their beliefs.

 

[PrettyIceCube]

Yeah, I was involved in various "sjw" groups in my teens through my early 20's.

Why did you decide to leave?

It just got to be too much. I was getting into arguments with other people over the most petty shit. Noticed that I was spending so much energy on nonsense, and getting upset over these encounters that ultimately mean nothing. I think the last argument I got into on twitter was over whether or not "folx" was appropriation from AAVE and whether or not it was gender neutral. Really.

I also notice this underlying sense of "Nothing matters so why bother?" Apathy and negativity are what run these social groups. Like, don't even bother recycling because some company will dump oil into a river. Don't even bother trying to lose weight because you'll just gain it back. Every mention of bettering yourself had to be behind trigger warnings. The "crabs in a bucket" mentality is very strong.

There's also this denial of personal responsibility. You don't have to manage your mental illness in any way at all, that's other people's problem. If you have an emotional response to something, that's not ever something you need to learn how to control. There was a whole fucking crisis on tumblr and twitter over whether or not expecting able bodied people taking a fucking shower is ableist. Some mutual friends of mine stopped speaking because of it. These people were in their late 20's. They're also completely unable to do any action relating to being an adult. It's very sad.

Just realized that's not how I want to live my life, and that remaining in my social group would only stunt me.

What were some of the difficulties you had when you decided to get out?

I'm really going to miss some of the people I met in these circles. Some. There's some good people there, who were good friends to me.

Sometimes I see some of my old friend group at the grocery store. They haven't ever made eye contact with me. But I've also lost 30lbs after cutting ties and being able to progress with my life unencumbered by a pack of manchildren. Maybe they just don't recognize me.

Do you think we will see more people leaving these communities as time goes on?

I think so. I hope so, lol.

What sorts of crazy things did you do while you were still into it?

Not much. I was "nonbinary" for a while but that's about it.

When you left it behind, did your ideological views swing to the right, or did they simply become more moderate?

They haven't really changed. I was never involved in any of the commie trends.

 

[Gordon Cole]

I was a low-key SJW back in high school, parroting all the big talking points, amplifying my distaste towards Conservatives, and being Anti-GG. Then a bunch of things happened all at once (Realizing that all my SJW friends were impossibly lame, general alienation with the left, discovering this website) and now I'm just laughing on the sidelines at everyone who makes an ass of themselves.

 

[Soggy Towel]

I made the unfortunate decision of joining Tumblr when I was 12 and got sucked into the SJW lifestyle through the people I followed at the time. I wanted to fit in and be liked, and not be shunned as an annoying, boring cis chick so I hopped on the genderspecial bandwagon for a few years. I was surrounded by an echo chamber of “be whatever gender you want! use whatever random pronouns you feel like pulling out of your ass! cis/str8 people are boring!” so it got ingrained in my head that I was a special nonbinary person and nobody could tell me different.


the craziest shit i did was make “drama blogs” where I literally just picked fights and got into useless arguments with anyone that talked shit about LGBT people/nonbinary genders/pronouns, which got me posted on r/tumblrinaction a few times (the single user that made most of the posts about me got banned from the sub for not censoring my username so I have no idea if the posts are still there, and I’m not about to try to find them lmao).


I left/got less invovled in the community (and tumblr in general) when I was around 15 and realized I wasnt actually a nonbinary pansexual etc etc person (SHOCKER), and I really started opening my eyes to how badly I was entrenched in the sjw echo chamber and how much my young impressionable mind was being twisted and taken advantage of by adult tumblr SJWs (which is a whole other subject I could write a novel about). My mind matured and I saw just how immature some people were being, how exaggerated people made certain issues (like overanalyzing things and screaming “homo/transphobia!!!” when it wasnt really there) and how far people reached to be offended about things.


I’m a lot more mellowed-out and laid back person now that I know that garbage people say on the internet doesn’t mean shit and all the obscure SJW issues that consumed my life on tumblr could easily disappear and not affect me in real life by pressing the “shut down” button on my computer and using my brain for more than a few seconds. it’s great. one of the few perks of becoming an adult I guess

 

[itesou]

I joined tumblr as a young teen, and knew vaguely enough of the stereotypes so that I told myself I should stay away from its political side. I just wanted to post my fanart. Slowly but surely I got sucked into tumblr politics. I think the earliest thing I remember being conflicted about was backlash against a popular user named "sixpenceee" or something like that. People were accusing the owner of being ableist and therefore everyone should unfollow. I never actually saw any evidence of "ableism", but I felt that I should unfollow because otherwise I was being a bad person. I was conflicted because it was a great account that posted interesting, spooky facts and pictures. This theme continued through the years that I used tumblr and even when I had stopped.

Spoiler: lots of text :p

I went from the "lol if gay people can have pride parades why cant straight people? XD" type to the "I'm a pan-romantic demisexual demigirl and straight pride is literally celebrating oppression you fucking bigot" type within a year of using tumblr. (I told my conservative mother I was pansexual. Cringeeeee). By the time of the 2016 election, I had expanded to Reddit as well. This was the peak of SJW-dom for me; I was pretty much a full blown Marxist. I wanted to punch Nazis and support Antifa. I followed a lot of very hardline communists. Fatphobia, ableism, racism, colorism, misogyny, transmisogyny, misogynoir, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, any "internalized" variant of the previous, and patriarchy/kyriarchy, microaggressions, White Feminism(tm), and capitalism were things I had to worry about every single day. It was so much. And if you fucked up even a little bit, you were shamed and attacked until you repented. Even still, people collected "receipts" on you. They'd take screenshots (rarely smart enough to archive, unsurprisingly) of your offending words and save them for a later date, when they would need proof to slander your name for the next time you'd mess up. And there would always be a next time.

I followed lots of "discourse blogs", where the entire point was just to argue with each other about pointless shit like whether or not "asexuals" are LGBT, or discussing the intersectional nuances of some Disney film or some shit.

The only reason any of this made sense in my head was because I thought I was righteous. I was on the right side of history, fighting for the little guy being stomped out by the enormous, leering oppressor. This whole experience really drove into me the validity of the saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

When I first realized I had been an SJW, my views were fairly moderate, I'd say I was a centrist or even a classical liberal. By then I had realized that I had been pushing people away and secluding myself from possible friends because I had feared that they were a murderous bigot just waiting to get their dirty hands on me. Or if anyone said anything that was not PC, I would distance myself. I needed to stay pure; I was a good person, right? The reason I was able to leave was because my brother had suggested to me a Shoe0nHead video. I did *not* like it. But I thought she was cute so a month or so later, I rewatched it and ended up watching all of her videos. I think I started watching LeafyIsHere and H3H3 around this time as well. They opened me up to more offensive styles of humor, breaking me out of the politically correct bindings of before. Now, however, I am much more right wing. I'm trying not to swing from one extreme to the other, as I can feel the pull towards far-right authoritarianism and it's reminding me of those early tumblr days. There's a parallel between tumblr and 4chan, as I told myself not to stray from boards like /fit/, /ic/, and /wg/ because I knew of the reputations of /b/, /pol/, and /r9k/. And yet, I now browse /pol/ a few times a month.

Leaving was kinda tough. My entire worldview was challenged; every person, every idea, every belief I so strongly held was questioned and found untrustworthy. I was also forced to face the fact that I had a victim complex. I was a narcissist. It wasn't MY fault that I was fat. It wasn't MY responsibility. "Why is being fat a bad thing? This is just another expression of patriarchy!! REEEE!! Everyone hates me because I'm fat! It's their fault! I'm perfect as I am and I love myself! The world needs to change, not I!"

Maybe this is :powerlevel: a bit, but during this time I had also been dating a "genderfluid" person who had changed their name (not in the legal sense) twice. It ended up devolving into them calling me stupid incredibly often and most of our conversations were just them ranting about how shitty their family was and how much they wanted to die. I tried being a "therapist girlfriend" but it really wore me down and made me see the similarities in the people I followed online. It compounded on top of my own white guilt. I felt so fucking bad for being white, as the mob told me that all whites are inherently racist; I cried at least one time. That's how bad I had been manipulated. We broke up at pretty much the same time I abandoned the SJW ideology.

I believe that more people will leave. I know a few people who have shifted away from the insanity, at least a little bit. We still need to nuke the fuck out of Twitter, though. I don't think anyone's mind is going to be changed on there.

Sorry for the wall of text. I tend to ramble. Have a good day and don't forget to pwn the libtards

 

[Wallace]

Leaving this here since it's relevant: I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came For Me

How did I become that person? It happened because it was exhilarating. Every time I would call someone racist or sexist, I would get a rush. That rush would then be reaffirmed and sustained by the stars, hearts, and thumbs-up that constitute the nickels and dimes of social media validation. The people giving me these stars, hearts, and thumbs-up were engaging in their own cynical game: A fear of being targeted by the mob induces us to signal publicly that we are part of it.

When my callouts were met with approval and admiration, I was lavished with praise: “Thank you so much for speaking out!” “You’re so brave!” “We need more men like you!”

Then one day, suddenly, I was accused of some of the very transgressions I’d called out in others. I was guilty, of course: There’s no such thing as due process in this world. And once judgment has been rendered against you, the mob starts combing through your past, looking for similar transgressions that might have been missed at the time. I was now told that I’d been creating a toxic environment for years at my workplace; that I’d been making the space around me unsafe through microaggressions and macroaggressions alike.

 

[Toucan]

I was always and still am very much on the left and actively campaigned for gay rights back in the day. I never went so far as to finger myself while reading the mary sue or anything like that. I get that many people on the left are obnoxious and unbearable to be around but what I dont get about many Ex-SJW's is the same thing I dont get about many Ex Atheists. It seems odd to me that just when you find out that some hysterical blue haired daemon beast might be loudly wrong about some things that you immediately renounce all of your previously held beliefs on economics and social policies and sign up to stormfront. I think when people go from Noam Chomsky to Ben Shapiro just because they watched a video of Big Red then there is always something more to the story that they aren't telling you.

 

[Soggy Towel]

I was always and still am very much on the left and actively campaigned for gay rights back in the day. I never went so far as to finger myself while reading the mary sue or anything like that. I get that many people on the left are obnoxious and unbearable to be around but what I dont get about many Ex-SJW's is the same thing I dont get about many Ex Atheists. It seems odd to me that just when you find out that some hysterical blue haired daemon beast might be loudly wrong about some things that you immediately renounce all of your previously held beliefs on economics and social policies and sign up to stormfront. I think when people go from Noam Chomsky to Ben Shapiro just because they watched a video of Big Red then there is always something more to the story that they aren't telling you.

from what I’ve seen, nobody I still follow on tumblr from my sjw days has changed majorly in terms of politics or other viewpoints. A lot of them are now very vocal about their distaste for neogenders/sexualities, but they’re all still pretty left or completely devoted to communism/anarchy (which is a whole other conversation probably).
I shudder to think of what kind of special hell a person had gone through to make them go from sjw/liberal to completely conservative at the drop of a hat.

 

[Toucan]

I shudder to think of what kind of special hell a person had gone through to make them go from sjw/liberal to completely conservative at the drop of a hat.

When I used to troll Stormfront I would see threads where people would talk about having once been a communist or something similar until they saw the light (presumably a white light) and converted to 14/88. I was always very skeptical about these threads because it seemed like a sort of self validating form of masturbation (even the enemy can see we are right and true!) kind of thing. I also saw it all the time on Islamic forums where a muslim would say they used to be deep in atheism but converted for one reason or another, seemingly also completely and conveniently forgetting many of the philosophical arguments of atheism that contradict religion entirely but hey.

I dont believe many of these supposed radical conversions as I think it is in some way a form of propaganda but for the ones that are real I can only assume they were only attracted to the idea of authoritarianism rather than liberal ideology. It seems to me that many of them just were drawn in by the group that looked stronger or had some kind of aesthetic quality that appealed to them more and not for any kind of political reason.

 

[Gingervitis]

When I used to troll Stormfront I would see threads where people would talk about having once been a communist or something similar until they saw the light (presumably a white light) and converted to 14/88. I was always very skeptical about these threads because it seemed like a sort of self validating form of masturbation (even the enemy can see we are right and true!) kind of thing. I also saw it all the time on Islamic forums where a muslim would say they used to be deep in atheism but converted for one reason or another, seemingly also completely and conveniently forgetting many of the philosophical arguments of atheism that contradict religion entirely but hey.

I dont believe many of these supposed radical conversions as I think it is in some way a form of propaganda but for the ones that are real I can only assume they were only attracted to the idea of authoritarianism rather than liberal ideology. It seems to me that many of them just were drawn in by the group that looked stronger or had some kind of aesthetic quality that appealed to them more and not for any kind of political reason.

My theory is that unstable people just tend to gravitate towards extremes, whether it’s evangelism, neo-nazism, social justice, euphoric atheism, or extremist islamism.

 

[Toucan]

My theory is that unstable people just tend to gravitate towards extremes, whether it’s evangelism, neo-nazism, social justice, euphoric atheism, or extremist islamism.

Sure. Strength attracts weakness and all that.

It should be worrying to any group that suddenly finds itself with an influx of followers who say they used to be something completely opposite. Its a surefire recipe for inmates running the asylum.

 

[QB 290]

When I used to troll Stormfront I would see threads where people would talk about having once been a communist or something similar until they saw the light (presumably a white light) and converted to 14/88. I was always very skeptical about these threads because it seemed like a sort of self validating form of masturbation (even the enemy can see we are right and true!) kind of thing. I also saw it all the time on Islamic forums where a muslim would say they used to be deep in atheism but converted for one reason or another, seemingly also completely and conveniently forgetting many of the philosophical arguments of atheism that contradict religion entirely but hey.

I dont believe many of these supposed radical conversions as I think it is in some way a form of propaganda but for the ones that are real I can only assume they were only attracted to the idea of authoritarianism rather than liberal ideology. It seems to me that many of them just were drawn in by the group that looked stronger or had some kind of aesthetic quality that appealed to them more and not for any kind of political reason.

The answer is hate

Hating something is a great way to change something about yourself and the more you indulge, the more excuses you'll find to keep hating. I'm confident this is something everyone is guilty of in some moderation but politics is a magnet for that kind of stuff.

 

[Toucan]

The answer is hate

Hating something is a great way to change something about yourself and the more you indulge, the more excuses you'll find to keep hating. I'm confident this is something everyone is guilty of in some moderation but politics is a magnet for that kind of stuff.

I dont understand. Can you elaborate?

 

[Gingervitis]

Sure. Strength attracts weakness and all that.

It should be worrying to any group that suddenly finds itself with an influx of followers who say they used to be something completely opposite. Its a surefire recipe for inmates running the asylum.

I was talking just emotional instability, not just weak people. But yes, that too.

 

[Wallace]

The answer is hate

Hating something is a great way to change something about yourself and the more you indulge, the more excuses you'll find to keep hating. I'm confident this is something everyone is guilty of in some moderation but politics is a magnet for that kind of stuff.

I dont understand. Can you elaborate?

Do you mean projection? Or perhaps the law of mirrors?

 

[QB 290]

I dont understand. Can you elaborate?

maybe I didn't explain it so well.

Have you ever done a complete mental U-turn on something? Have you ever gone from loving one thing one minute to hating it the second? Like for example, you love house of cards until kevin spacey comes out as a paedophile and they fire him; meaning there will never be a real ending to this series you like, making you dislike it. I know I have, I don't know a person who hasn't but usually these are just the small things, like what food you like or hobby you have.
Politics makes these small things into extremes. You pick up a tumblr blog; now all men are rapists and you hate them. You join a very far right group; now all jews and blacks must die. Election night is close; anyone who doesn't vote for ______ is a faggot and should kill themselves.
Point is, politics is very good at selling stuff like this to people, that stuff is hate. Not the wishy washy worthless kind of hate, like a flavour of marmalade you dislike or an allergy, but a real burning hatred you're willing to base your identity, life and future towards. The kind tumblr SJW's inject themselves full of hormones over to fight an enemy that doesn't exist (or barely does) or the kind a KKK would organise a lynching over (making them the monsters they always cry about).
Something else to note is that this kind of hate feels good, it feels good to have an enemy or an adversery to fight against. It's why I think so many people believe in the Abrahamic religions because there's a clear villain to struggle against (the devil). This kind of pure hatred is addictive and most people will use any reason they have to keep feeling it, either so they can ignore the self hatred they have for themselves (pretty common amongst sjw's) or so they can feel like they have a purpose in life.

TLDR: people have complete changes in thought because they like being the victim and having an enemy, even if that enemy doesn't exist

 

[Wallace]

Another blog from someone who left the SJW side. On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself

 

[Oudent Cultkill]

I was definitely an inexperienced, confused 14 year old. I found comfort in the idea that people would accept me no matter what I chose to do, no matter how crazy it was. That my odd personality could be a gender. But then I discovered the "real internet" and I've never been better.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I almost got sucked into that whole SJW thing on Tumblr. To the point where I started feeling guilty about things that weren't my fault because I saw so many angry rants and guilt posts about things like race and sexuality. I had joined the site before it turned toxic. After witnessing bullshit where SJW's hijacked some of my posts to start drama, it turned me completely away from the whole thing. It's cost me followers over time and I lost one mutual that I had since I joined the site because they didn't like some things I said. (They called me a reactionary asshole.)
I've been called a Meninist and a person who hates women since then, and it's making me turn against them even more.