Ex-SJWs

[Education Lottery]

Being part of several demographics that many SJW want to insert themselves in the causes of will make you hate them, especially since once they find out that their magical negroes, noble savages, token wheelchair guy, or their gay best friends are normal humans who want fuck all to do with them, their true colors come out. It's fascinating.

I was never one, but I have come close several times. It usually died down likely due to the fact I know a reality they often fantasize about witnessing, nor do I need to have a void filled by pretending I'm some hero helping 'the lessers.' I've been through and overcome a lot more than these wannabe victims ever had. People mentioned earlier it can be hard to pull away because of the feeling of belonging, but people have to remember it's a trash movement full of people who prey on this very fact.

 

[Russian Civil War]

... once they find out that their magical negroes, noble savages, token wheelchair guy, or their gay best friends are normal humans who want fuck all to do with them, their true colors come out. It's fascinating.

A big 'this'. Just look at how cisgendered gay men are being disparaged by the woke types now. It's so fucking annoying and it makes me despise these parasites.

 

[Munchingonfish]

I've never hated myself enough to be an SJW.

 

[The Sourdough Region]

I used to lean a lot more to the left back in high school. I was never a full on SJW, but I got pretty close. I moved back towards the center after getting out of a relationship with someone super entrenched in communist ideology. These days, I'm still pretty socially liberal, but I lean more to the right on some key issues (such as gun rights and immigration).

Bottom line, never stick your dick in crazy.

 

[Sun Shihong]

I never believed that SJW would care about minorities, oppression and such, given that their motives are exaggerated, filled with contrarianism and most of their arguments being based on the ridiculous idea of "oppressed people can never do wrong and all act of violence commited by minorities is justified because of centuries of inequality and such".

Fact, it all started when I saw people praising socialism as the ultimate solution for world's problems and was constantly skeptical of it. When political correctness became a thing, my common question was "why are all that bunch of fucktards always trying to take away all the things I like?".

It didn't help that a few online communities exposed most of the contradictions of theirs, such as advocating towards politics of equality while at the same time bashing people who didn't victimize themselves.

Gamergate, of all things, was the apex of it. I had an interest in libertarianism during GG's life cycle, which cemented my views on how I should boycott this concepts because I found SJW behavior toxic.

 

[Muttnik]

I was pretty left during college, though not in the smug anti-male/anti-white way that a lot are. I just genuinely thought there were issues out there that we needed to take responsibility for. It wasn't until I started seeing people pointing fingers and unfairly blaming other people that had nothing to do with anything that I started to change my perspectives. I've had nothing but good influences in my life from the very same people the left likes to demonize so I slowly realized that everything I knew was just the product of an echochamber. So while lots of my college friends only got worse and worse after college, I deviated and now am way more in the middle than anything else. I just don't like hypocrisy and if they're going to be just as backwards as the people they like to shit on, might as well have some fun and poke fun at them until the sjw movement finally dies down.

 

[2 litre soda]

What flipped my switch from SJW to 1920s liberal was actually working with the poor.

Time was, I was a self-hating, constantly apologizing, "everything is racist" jackass. Then I actually spent time in the adult world, where no one gives a shit about any of that beyond your ability to do your job properly and not shit yourself in public. Trouble makers get fired.

Then, I volunteered with charities that worked with the real poor. Homeless people, families living out of their cars, people who squat under bridges. Not kids who want shit and their parents won't pay for it.

Fact is, most of them want money they can earn, not charity. They want jobs. The ones who don't want to work, fuck um, let them be poor. But the ones who want to work, find them work and let them succeed. They didn't want my apologies, they didn't care that I was white, they couldn't give a shit if I listened to rap or not.

And, I hasten to add, a lot of them were complete fucking assholes. Not the "noble suffering savages" or whatever that need whitey to vacate the area. When I see their kids playing together, they don't give a shit about race, they care about who has what toy or who knows the rules to what game.

It really put things into perspective, and shocked me into seeing what really matters.

 

[Emperor Julian]

I've never been one but I can see the trap, it's the simple appeal of us vs them thinking and a distraction from the larger economic and social problems. In addition accusations of white privilege are pretty cute when you come from a place which never really had a ethnic underclass and you (and about a 5th of the population) grew up dirt poor -you overtly don't give a shit about us so why should I care about you?

 

[soryu]

My SJW journey lasted about 5 years.
I had to rewrite this a few times, but hopefully it's not too lengthy.

It's kind of hard to pinpoint exactly when I got into these groups, but I can say it's due to Tumblr. I spent a few years on Tumblr enjoying myself and finding new friends, there's still a few posts from my early days still up where I'd throw around a couple offensive jokes and used not very politically correct language. I was young, whatever, no big deal.
I found these groups of friends online and in real life who gave me emotional support and they reassured me I was loved. It was very cult-like behavior. I ignored a lot of things they did in the beginning of our friendships because they came to my side when I was at my lows. Overall, I wasn't doing well at home. My new friends encouraged me to vent out my weaknesses, they loved hearing how helpful they were to me. It also gave them a chance to insert their opinions because they knew I was struggling. At one point I dated a troon right at the start of their egg hatching moments. Suddenly I had to start caring about gender. Called myself pansexual and agender, basically reflecting how much I didn't actually really care. That phase went away after a year or so, but I had to keep my views on gender on the down low.
My views of a lot of things had to change to fit the SJW narrative. As extreme as they were, they reminded us they were the only good ones. Especially me being someone who's a person of color, they made me and a lot of other people believe they were the only good people in the world. There was a lot of race fetishism going around, especially the white SJWs who would share articles and opinions nonstop about racism like it was entertaining to know about and would shove the few friends they knew who were people of color into random arguments of the subject. Basically toyed around with us to a point where they guilt tripped us into saying, "Yeah, there's a couple people of my race who give into white supremacy," about friends who showed a hint of disagreement with their racial issues. It felt like white supremacy in its own way, but they just slapped a rainbow sticker on top of it.

I moved onto the racial injustice community shortly after Trump won. This is where I realized the race fetishism of SJWs. We were still technically SJWs, but without the gender and sexuality focus. I still had my other SJW friends, mostly because the aura the racial injustice groups gave off came from a place of wanting to stem away from relying on validation for others and taking matters of justice into our own hands. It was very weird, none of us wanted to make friends, but it was basically a place to learn. I did the whole ordeal of getting into Facebook arguments, posted employers and addresses of racist law enforcement, nurses, random trolls, small business owners...
This community relied on making the biggest reaches one could imagine on racism. The difference from the last group was it wasn't really a power trip, but a way to act more victimized than you actually were. There was infighting as well with other races, mostly making jabs like, "I had instances where people of this race didn't like my race so we shouldn't be nice to all of them just because one person showed they were good." The "Fuck you, here's my PayPal *Beyonce gif*" part of the whole thing turned me away after a few months. Also, the ties with black supremacist groups was something I learned after leaving, but I had some fun figuring out all the big names in groups like BLM and ANTIFA in general were bullshitters. Essentially, I was tired of knowing about racism all the time, it pretty much kept me in a state of paranoia.

I started looking into anti-SJW communities. The place I first found had a hodgepodge of types that in the end just became SJWs themselves. It was odd, but not surprising. I found this website during that time, too.
At this point, I'm just an individual. I realized my identity doesn't matter in the real world and whatever these groups taught me was just a manipulation tactic. I still have a couple close SJW friends, but they're the ones who were toyed around with by the main ones like I was. We reconnected to each other with that and now focus on being legitimate friends, like focusing on our hobbies rather than our identity.
I don't have a need really to label my political stance anymore because everyone's views are different, but at the same time being curious and critical of views is normal. I just know that I try my best to continue being a decent person and stay away from extremists. I'm glad I got out before the commie uprising holy shit.

 

[AnOminous]

These days, I'm still pretty socially liberal, but I lean more to the right on some key issues (such as gun rights and immigration).

I never really grasped how anyone can say they're for the Constitution and then pick and choose what they want. The whole point of something like the Bill of Rights is that there are things the government has no legitimate authority to do, and the Bill of Rights is a nonexhaustive list of those things the government is ordered to keep its filthy fucking mitts off of.

 

[OG 666]

I'm glad I got out before the commie uprising holy shit.

This probably won't surprise people, but it's worth noting that I know very few leftists who have actually read The Communist Manifesto, lmao.

I once went out with a handful of people from a radical leftist organization and after a few drinks, they all started joking about how they've never actually read any of Marx's full texts because they found them too boring and/or confusing. Swear to god.

 

[AnOminous]

This probably won't surprise people, but it's worth noting that I know very few leftists who have actually read The Communist Manifesto, lmao.

I once went out with a handful of people from a radical leftist organization and after a few drinks, they all started joking about how they've never actually read any of Marx's full texts because they found them too boring and/or confusing. Swear to god.

The Communist Manifesto is not a difficult read in the least, unless you're functionally illiterate. It's about 50 pages. Das Kapital is a turgid monstrosity and nobody should be blamed for not reading it. Mein Kampf is somewhere between the two in terms of unreadability.

The Communist Manifesto is a poisonous book more than Mein Kampf because Mein Kampf is nearly unreadable and its author is just more or less a repulsive piece of shit whining about being in prison when he belonged there. The Communist Manifesto, though, is an incisive and compact assault on capitalism, which is good, but followed by an absolutely unworkable revolutionary model that leads to mass murder and disaster whenever anyone tries to implement it.

While it does hit on some actual problems with capitalism, it doesn't answer what's a more important question, that is, how do you produce and distribute goods in a better way? Currently, capitalism is our best and most efficient way of doing that while actually getting people what they both need and want.

 

[Gone_Fission]

Considering how horrific 19th century working conditions were, the thought of bloody revolution probably wasn't much worse than the sheer oppreasive awfulness of daily life in an industrial slum. Still, it's utterly retarded to be a first world college kid in 2018 clamoring for armed revolution, this isn't 1917 Russia or some hellish third world colony fighting for independence. Just stick to shit like single payer, unions, UBI, jobs programs, and renewable energy.

 

[GreenJacket]

This probably won't surprise people, but it's worth noting that I know very few leftists who have actually read The Communist Manifesto, lmao.

I once went out with a handful of people from a radical leftist organization and after a few drinks, they all started joking about how they've never actually read any of Marx's full texts because they found them too boring and/or confusing. Swear to god.

This goes to show how smart these people are. They think that since they fall on the same side on the left-right dichotomism as Communism that they can link themselves too it.

In reality, SJWs are a corporate psyop to create controversy for attention and profits.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Considering how horrific 19th century working conditions were, the thought of bloody revolution probably wasn't much worse than the sheer oppreasive awfulness of daily life in an industrial slum. Still, it's utterly exceptional to be a first world college kid in 2018 clamoring for armed revolution, this isn't 1917 Russia or some hellish third world colony fighting for independence. Just stick to shit like single payer, unions, UBI, jobs programs, and renewable energy.

That's the thing. The communist manifesto was a great indictment of capitalism. Early 20th century capitalism. The problem that Marx had was that workers basically had absolutely no protections and were regularly killed and mutilated in their industrial jobs with little to no compensation, even from kinder hearted CEOs. Workers were viewed as expendable, could be denied jobs or wages at a whim. Chimmney Sweeps typically got testicular cancer and died young. Child labor was prevalent and families were becoming completely destitute and destroyed by the complete and utter horror of working conditions. He disliked religion because he thought it anesthetized the populous to all this suffering. He wanted them to abandon religion to see the extent of the horror that was the early 20th century. Marx didn't see this changing through anything but revolutionary action. Also, there was no protection for renters in cities either. You could be made homeless for any reason whatsoever. Which is why he wanted to abolish private property. You had no protections, so why even bother with it? Another thing that's overlooked is that the manifesto aims to make everyone poor. It does not hide this. The reason was that everyone was poor anyway so it wouldn't matter.


The problem is that the Manifesto only applies to the early 20th century industrial revolution period and its economic conditions. Marx today would be fine with the conditions of capitalism because it allows for worker protections and industrial workers make more sometimes than even white-collar ones. Worker death and mutilation is compensated for. While he still would be for the worker, he would be far, far, far less revolutionary.

 

[QB 290]

That's the thing. The communist manifesto was a great indictment of capitalism. Early 20th century capitalism. The problem that Marx had was that workers basically had absolutely no protections and were regularly killed and mutilated in their industrial jobs with little to no compensation, even from kinder hearted CEOs. Workers were viewed as expendable, could be denied jobs or wages at a whim. Chimmney Sweeps typically got testicular cancer and died young. Child labor was prevalent and families were becoming completely destitute and destroyed by the complete and utter horror of working conditions. He disliked religion because he thought it anesthetized the populous to all this suffering. He wanted them to abandon religion to see the extent of the horror that was the early 20th century. Marx didn't see this changing through anything but revolutionary action. Also, there was no protection for renters in cities either. You could be made homeless for any reason whatsoever. Which is why he wanted to abolish private property. You had no protections, so why even bother with it? Another thing that's overlooked is that the manifesto aims to make everyone poor. It does not hide this. The reason was that everyone was poor anyway so it wouldn't matter.


The problem is that the Manifesto only applies to the early 20th century industrial revolution period and its economic conditions. Marx today would be fine with the conditions of capitalism because it allows for worker protections and industrial workers make more sometimes than even white-collar ones. Worker death and mutilation is compensated for. While he still would be for the worker, he would be far, far, far less revolutionary.

I like to think that if marx lived today, he'd be well in favour of capitalism, workers get rights, contracts and safety and there is always an opportunity to pick yourself up and try again if things don't go well the first time.
Communism and socialism was a drastic solution to a drastic problem, but that problem has faded and his once propaganda has now become literature.
Anyone who would willingly think that his historical propaganda from a very different age in a very different country could apply in the brightest age in history is au.tistic and deserves the ridicule they'll get, marx would probably agree.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I never was but I've got a few semi-SJWs in my life. Not really the lolcow variety, just that their opinions seem to follow the SJW hivemind.

I'm trying to turn them into ex-SJWs, but hey, they are people too, I'm not trying to force anything on them, so long as they return the favor. If they start saying ridiculous stuff, I'll correct them, it'll get uncomfortable for a minute, then we're on a different topic. So definitely not full blown SJWs or they would have just disowned me for wrong opinions.

 

[feedtheoctopus]

My beliefs haven't changed, my attitude towards them has.
These days? Politics in general just seems like a meaningless pissing contest to me. Because it is. Fact is none of this shit really matters in the cosmic scheme of things, and no matter who gets into office, what happens in the economy, etc etc the content of our daily lives is going to remain much as it always has been. We get up, we go to work, we come home and fuck the missus, sleep, wake up the next day and do it again.

If you don't believe me go get yourself a copy of Plato's Republic, or The Prince, or any of a million and one other works of political or moral philosophy. Why? Because one thing that becomes apparent is that human beings have been having the exact same arguments since we crawled out of the primordial ooze. The language changes, but it's all the same shit. If you went back and time and listened to a couple of Romans talking about the latest scandal in the senate you could be forgiven for assuming you were still in the present.

I like to think people can create a better world, a kinder one, sure. But that ultimately comes down to how we treat each other in our daily lives. The more we try to thrust our ideals and beliefs on the world using politics the more that world seems to end up divided and miserable, you'll notice. Ultimately I think people, everybody, is just trying to be happy. They think that if the government does this, or if they get this job, or if people do this, then they'll be free of the pain of being alive. All they ever end up getting out of the deal is anger and hatred.

So I wake up, I go to work, I come home, I fuck the missus, and if the world wants to tear itself apart it can go right ahead.

 

[superscript]

While he still would be for the worker, he would be far, far, far less revolutionary.

Marx was a NEET who wrote awful fiction, boring nonfiction, was obsessed with Jews and Negros, had a bastard with his maid, and convinced Engels to claim to be the dad, for the Revolution, until Engels confessed the truth on his deathbed. He absolutely would believe his own bullshit today, read Salon, REEEEE at Musk on Twitter and probably have his own thread here.

 

[AnOminous]

Marx was a NEET who wrote awful fiction, boring nonfiction, was obsessed with Jews and Negros, had a bastard with his maid, and convinced Engels to claim to be the dad, for the Revolution, until Engels confessed the truth on his deathbed. He absolutely would believe his own bullshit today, read Salon, REEEEE at Musk on Twitter and probably have his own thread here.

He also had horrible personal hygiene, was covered in boils including his nads, treated his kids like shit, and for that matter treated pretty much everyone else like shit, including Engels.