Disassociate yourself from the SJW faith

In case you are not familiar with this term, Social Justice Warrior is a pejorative label applied to activists, bloggers and commentators on social media who are prone to engage in lengthy and hostile debates against others on a range of social and political issues concerning social injustice, gender identity politics and political correctness. A SJW is marked up by the use of overenthusiastic and self-righteous rhetoric, as well as inclining to emotions over logic and reason.

Now, where does this enthusiasm come from? Which psychological factors lie behind this impetus? The question itself is essential if you want to grasp the motives behind what people write, comment, post and the excessively debate on social media and in live discussions. When people fail to address an issue and compete with a social order, rule, tradition or personal fears that contradict their own attitudes and values, then they tend to overcompensate their reluctance through radical social ethos that embody the ideal and easiest medium to gain attention and recognition: how?

Progressive moral views tend to be idealistic and universal in its core: with sonorous concepts of equality and intolerance, one can easily gain conformity and acceptance by a larger group, especially in societies influenced by leftist progressive media/academia: the Cathedral. Remember, it is always easier to unwrap a complex idea than to examine its abstract nature; because morality is more about consensual values than about a priori naturally defined innate rights. You’ll often encounter SJW debate tactics trying to use consensus to subjugate you: “How can you think that.. when so many people think the opposite?” As you may already realize, consensus is a poor judgement of facts or morality. Consensus also used to believe that the earth was flat and that slavery was natural. Moreover, using a “privilege” hierarchy, SJWs calculate the value of a human being or a certain race based on perceived injustices that group has suffered since the dawn of history, using selective and narrow interpretations of history.

We have to bear in mind that people throughout history have based their

notion of moral rights upon their notion of their beliefs, a higher divine

authority or nature itself.

Consider the american declaration of independence: Thomas Jefferson developed some key ideas that have shaped the frame of modern liberal democracies until this day: "all men are created equal," "inalienable rights," "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And this was about 13 years before the French Revolution. So where did Jefferson get these ideas?

According to historians who have examined his views, Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment. This was the period during the 17th and 18th centuries when scholars turned to reason and science to explain both the physical universe and human behavior. They thought that by discovering the "laws of nature" humanity could be improved.

Now Jefferson thought exactly the same and was well acquainted with British history and political philosophy; and most historian and scholars today believe that Jefferson derived the most essential ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of the famous English philosopher John Locke. So now you can build the chain: Locke wrote his Second Treatise, which overthrew the rule of James II to pass the Bill of Rights 1689 ➔ Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" natural Rights. These Rights are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. So here you witness the divine nature of the moral authority ➔ Jefferson was inspired by Locke, which in turn influenced the core of the Declaration of Independence 1776 ➔ 1789 The French Revolution flared up. ➔ Liberté, égalité, fraternité

The conclusion we can draw from this, is that understanding the nature and the gradual historical development of Rights, especially from a simple to a more complex form, opens a maturer level of discourse. For instance, avoiding racial and cultural differences between societies, is often covered by a naive selfless altruistic attitude that not effectively translates these differences into an honest cultural coexistence. Why not effective? Simply, because you can't take people's naivety always for granted. In the modern world of social science, cultural differences are empirically examined by anthropologist and evolutionary biologists who repeatedly confirm the coding of cultural memes throughout history and along many generations, which often differentiate one from another. Differentiation is not segregation. The crucial question would be: what values and potentials are relevant to increase cooperation and sustain peaceful coexistence?

SJWs tend to postulate absolute moral imperatives that totally ignore the relative nature of Rights and its historical context. Because traditions, social values and accumulative information that form cultural heritages, are not merely an archaic order; they are also successful cultural memes that encode useful wisdom gained along generations.

As you can observe, their ultimate goal is to silence all speech that they don’t like or find offensive and even claim a "safe space" in case they can't stop you verbally. For instance, those who are high up on the privilege hierarchy – usually white men – have to speak through a careful filter if they don’t want to be policed by a Political Correct SJW. What drives them to overreaction?

As a result of our social, financial and cultural capital, we engage differently in the social world, which can be understood as an accumulated history of discontinuous series of instantaneous mechanical equilibria between individuals who are treated as interchangeable social units that constitute the social fabric: society. Now this Bourdieu'ish capital settles the rules of the social game. It generates the impact and influence to delineate people's interests and political views.

Most SJWs lack a social capital; and this has a huge impact in a world that breeds narcissism and individualism. In turn, young enthusiastic men and women thrive on gaining attention and wining easy moral battles to overcompensate the lack itself.

A miserable personal life can generates dissatisfaction and reflect it on society itself. So if you are really interested in changing the world, I think you can guess the next phrase: start with yourself.

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