SJW's War on Sanity

I'm forever trying to make sense of the Social Justice Warriors. It certainly feels like an exercise in futility, since it feels like they are waging a war on sanity as such. There's not always any visible point to the kinds of things they claim to want. And it's ever so frustrating to try to make sense of such irrational people.

It does seem at times that they don't want us to believe our own judgment, like some burly guy that suddenly decides he wants to use your little girl's bathroom, because he "identifies as female." What kind of crap is this? And they have gone to such elaborate detail in justifying their delusions that you run the risk of buying into the same delusions yourself if you try to sympathize with their cause. It's crazy town.

The thing is, they do need us to be gullible for their tactics to work on us. You have to actually believe what they are saying when they saying something so obviously stupid for it to have any effect on you. They say crap like "all whites are racist," when it's so obviously itself a racist statement that you start to wonder if your own judgment is going berserk. No really, you're not the one that going insane. They are. And they expect all of the rest of us to adopt their insanity as our own.

There's a book used by mental health professionals, at least here in the United States, called, "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," used not only to diagnose patients but also used for the purpose of writing grant proposals so new research can be funded. That's right, if it's not in the DSM, it doesn't exist. Like the Gender Identity Disorder that got removed from that manual. It's not a mental disease because their holy bible doesn't say that it exists... anymore.

The cultural and moral relativists have convinced themselves that there is no objective moral truths due to the fact there do indeed exist a myriad number of cultures in the world, and because they have not arrived at any single standard by which to judge the merit of a given culture, there must not be one, not now, not ever. Because that would be racist. It's pretty clear they are working from some professional guilt given the Christian missionaries trying to export their religion all over the world. And now the pendulum as swung to the opposite extreme. Now we are expected to believe that every culture is just as good as every other culture. Never mind the fact that some of these cultures are strapping on suicide vests. We're supposed to overlook that fact. Or even blame ourselves for their behavior.

Oh thinking about these fools is so tiring. It's just so much insanity it wears a person down.

Online Anonymity

Some people react negatively to the idea of anonymity and its effects for online culture. There are at least a couple of reasons for this. One reason has to do with the idea that some will get online with their fake accounts and just go out trolling, which does happen, and they never have to pay for the trouble they cause. The other reason is that some people feel that if you believe in what you are saying, you should have the courage to sign your name to it. And both of these reasons have some merit.

On the other hand, some people will take offense to what you say and take real action against you. Sometimes it is fairly innocuous, just troll you for a bit and they forget about it. Then some will actually try to get you fired from your job, and even the best and most loyal employers have their limits, soon enough you will be too much trouble to keep you on. They've got actual business to attend to, so they don't want to spend all of their time reading hate mail about you. Maybe the company's public image is at stake, and of course they will take action at that point. The worst cases are when people you offend start campaigns to get you beat up, raped, or even killed. And obviously the instigators of these campaigns are not as guilty as those who actually pull the trigger. But there is a potential danger to be mindful of.

So do people have the right to feel offended? Of course. But do they have the right to not be offended? I think not. We as a society still have to work out the details of what would constitute hate speech if it actually were to be made illegal. Being offended at this point is so arbitrary. It could be anything. We can't always know what people will take offense to. Sometimes you do, and usually people of conscience will refrain on their own from saying needless things. Yet other times the offense really does need to be made in order to protect freedom of speech, and effectively freedom of thought. We should have the right to publicly critique bad ideas. And when somebody hides their bad ideas behind political correctness policies, offense does need to be given.
So protect yourself. Sooner or later you will say something that will offend someone, and it's better to take a few steps to avoid some of that if you can. Besides, if you believe that no one knows who you are, there is no reason not to tell the truth.

(for now we won't think about the fact that there is no such thing as real anonymity online)