Regarding SJWs and Their Origins.

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You know, some of the comments I've seen regarding #GamerGate, especially from non-Americans, have really made me think about the origins of Social Justice Warriors and whatnot. You know that stereotype that rich and/or white people in America are incapable of understanding anything outside their personal bubble? I think that Radical SJWs are the result of their children trying and failing to do just that as a way of coping with the culture of negativity that formed in America post-9/11.

I read once that some independent survey group tried to do a psychoanalysis on why the "brony" phenomenon exploded like it did. Their hypothesis was essentially that, during the War on Terror, American media and entertainment pretty much descended into a big storm of negativity and fear-mongering, and that as a result, we have an entire generation that has lived in fear. They concluded that MLP exploded due to a large portion of this generation latching onto something that managed to combine childhood nostalgia with legitimate quality and legitimate positivity - no anti-heroes presenting merely a lighter shade of grey on the morality spectrum, no picking at topical issues for ratings, just a comforting and well-made kids' show.

The Social Justice crowd is sort of the opposite, IMO. Whereas the explosion of MLP comes from younger people understanding that the world doesn't completely suck and that they just need to focus on something positive, SJWs are young people who have "internalized" (see, we can use that word too!) the negativity to such a degree that they're convinced that the world is in constant, neverending crisis and that they absolutely must do something about it or they'll fall into despair. For an example, I read recently that someone did some digging and found that Literally Apples is so dedicated to his madness because he had a serious mental breakdown around the time the War on Terror kicked off, and discovered feminism in the midst of it.

Feels like the same principle, really - they discovered something that seemed positive, say, feminism or racial equality, and latched onto it. Not bad on paper, but, as we can see with Johnny Appleseed, a whole lot of these dudes are rich white people with untreated anxiety/depression and anger issues, who thusly believe that the only reason anyone would disagree with them is because they "don't understand" and are morally wrong. They try to distance themselves from their backgrounds, sure, but once again they've "internalized" those issues - no changing that.

And of course, that leads into the biggest thing they've "internalized" - the desire for an echo chamber. Nobody - not even the SJW crowd - will deny that America's wealthiest cliques would like nothing more than to seal themselves in a soundproof glass dome with like-minded others for the rest of their lives, so that the dying moans of the destitute can no longer trouble their guilty consciences. And while the Social Justice crowd may do its best to distance themselves from their hated origins in the Rich and White parts of America, they'll always have that thought process imprinted in their minds, a constant desire to exist only alongside their fellow "enlightened" people and shut out all criticism.