sc94597 said:
Many people who rail against SJW's are not "right-wing", but moderates, liberals, and even progressives who realize that SJW's are akin to the religious right in the way they tolerate (or don't) others.
I'm gonna need citations showing that "SJWs" are by and large some intolerant anti-freedom scourge and not just a bunch of nitwits who take political correctness a bit too far.
They include very prominent liberals/social democrats like Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris.
Ah, yes. The "New Atheists," a movement defined by its intolerance and seething hatred of anything remotely religious in nature. Not content to simply not believe in God, they are actively, vocally, viruently anti-religion. What makes them "anti-SJW" instead of "SJW" is that their ire isn't simply reserved for the dominant religion of their own country, but for all religion everywhere regardless of what form it takes. According to many, an American or European railing against Christianity is being "politically correct," while one that is railing against Islam is being "politically incorrect," but the New Atheists do both. I guess their overall offensive attitude towards the religious, their belief that those who believe in a god of some kind are not just stupid but also dangerous, makes them un-PC. Ironically enough, militant atheists, despite their lack of religious beliefs, resemble religious fundamentalists in their fervor, their belief that those who don't share their beliefs are dangerous, an attitude towards more inclusive nonbelievers that reeks of "Heretic! Heretic!", and the rabid fanaticism of many of their own followers. People like them have no place in the social discourse, because their beliefs and attitudes are inherently uncivil and their stance on religion wouldn't have been too far out of place in the Soviet Union. They're simply the atheist counterparts to the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons of the world. They're all men who made careers out of hating others.
I generally agree though that a subset of the people against SJW's (within what is called the alt-right) are doing so because they have more malicious intentions (they are actual neo-nazis and fascists.)
Most of the people I see on the internet who rail the loudest against "SJWs" tend to come from alt-right, MRA, neoreactionary, and other far-right internet-centric groups, and even in more "mainstream" conservative circles, such as hardcore Trump supporters and people who spend too much time listening to right-wing talk radio (esp. Limbaugh). And in my experience, there is a very dark underbelly to the segment of the population that is the most vocally anti-PC. The "right" to make off-color jokes without being rebuked by someone is hardly their biggest concern, and it touches on issues a lot more serious than that.
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