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April 29, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Social Justice is Uncool
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Intersectional social justice and all of the ideologies contained within it are not cool.
And that's because all of the cultural output it produces is preachy, cringy, moralizing shit.
Pick any genre you like and you will find progressive cultural items that are just the worst.
Take, for example, feminist slam poetry.
Knock knock!
Great joke!
Great joke!
And don't forget to follow that up with a bit of feminist scream singing.
But you might be thinking, okay, well that's low-hanging fruit.
That's fringe nonsense that nobody likes.
That's not popular.
Why are you showing me that?
And you're right, it's total nonsense.
So let's have a look at intersectional social justice webcomics.
One of the more popular ones is Assigned Male Comics, which has more than 100,000 followers on Facebook.
This is the cast.
Hi, my friends call me CL.
I am a gender non-conforming seventh grader.
I like acting, tap dancing and dogs.
People use they when talking about me, but I also like being called she.
This is Stephanie.
She's my best friend in the world.
We're both 13.
Like me, the doctors thought that she was a boy when she was born.
She's intelligent, has a weird sense of humor and often gets us in trouble.
Here's a recent one.
Let's go to the mall.
I want to see if GameZone has the new Blitz Blaster.
Okay.
Oh wait, they don't have gender neutral bathrooms there.
Do you need to go now?
No, but at some point, if I was wearing more typically masculine clothes, I could have gone to the men's room with you.
I don't feel safe going in the women's room alone.
I hate constantly needing to take this into account.
I wish people understood how alienating this is.
This isn't a story, this is the author having a self-indulgent wine.
Another popular webcomic creator is Sarah Anderson, who makes comics like this.
Intelligence?
Pretty good.
Memory?
Also good.
Creativity?
Good too.
Time management?
Oh, where is it?
Again, self-indulgent nonsense.
Every comic that Sarah Anderson makes can be just summed up in the words, I'm neurotic, ha ha ha.
But as with the assigned male ones, they're all infused with the preachy, quasi-religious rhetoric of social justice.
Which is why the white nationalists have such a good time parodying these comics.
And these versions of these comics are being widely shared because they are offensive and funny.
And they got so widely shared that Sarah Anderson had to come out and say, look, some people have been editing my comics to display white supremacist texts.
I am blocking and reporting as I see them.
Please do the same.
But the thing is, Sarah Anderson and Assigned Mail are by far the worst of it.
They are basically stock SJW webcomics.
There are some truly progressive ones out there, like this ode to cuckoldry, actively encouraging the reader to try it.
And it goes on and on and on, expounding the virtues of letting some other guy fuck your wife.
And it's totally unironic.
It's just...
The way it ends is just the best thing in the world as well.
Just, fuck yeah, I'm proud to be a car cush, you're distracting me.
Some other guy gets his dick sucked by the guy's wife.
This is basically a day in the life of a verified Twitter journalist.
Jesus.
And you can imagine what dealing with the people who create this kind of content are like.
They are fucking awful.
In fact, they're fucking embarrassing, which is why YouTube is filled with SJW and feminist cringe compilations.
And these have millions of views.
They are red pilling the public as to how awful social justice warriors are.
Because social justice warriors are terrible at creating their own cultural output, and nobody likes it because it's fucking lame, they have to try and co-opt other people's cultural products, which they manage with an alarming amount of skill.
And after the co-option has taken place, the progressive media halo will insist that these things did well because they were diverse.
Diverse films perform better at global box office study says.
The study, which hails from a university center for African American studies, examined 63 films released in 2014 and discovered that the median global sales product of productions with a 41 to 50% non-white cast was 122 million, compared to the 53 million for films with a non-white cast of less than 10%.
Well, it must be diversity that's responsible for that.
I mean, there could be no other explanation.
Let's just ignore the fact that 8 out of 10 of these films are part of an existing franchise, and therefore were practically guaranteed to make huge amounts of money at the box office, and the fact that you are classifying diverse films as films that aren't exclusively white.
And note, these are films that are not promoting a particular agenda, they have their own stories to tell.
But okay, you know what?
Let's just say that diversity is doing great in the film industry, and everyone loves it, it's just the reason people go to see these films.
How's it doing in other culturally significant industries, like the gaming industry?
Oh, that's right.
The future of the culture wars is here and it's Gamergate.
In 2014, after the SJWs had spent five years culturally appropriating video games journalism, they decided that with one voice they would push feminism and social justice on the gaming industry, where nobody wanted it and nobody needed it.
And despite Gamergate, they'd put out articles like, diversity in gaming is happening, so let's rejoice.
And then when it turned out that diversity in gaming doesn't sell, the problem isn't with them and their ideology, it's that everyone's a misogynist.
And still in 2017, they're saying, the video game industry has a diversity problem, but it can be fixed.
All you need to do is convert to the church of social justice.
But the thing is, the information they needed to know to know that this was going to be a failure before it even started was already in existence.
For example, this study from Helen Wu in 2014.
Video game sales, does diversity pay?
And the answer is broadly no.
Especially not in the largest genres in video gaming.
For example, shooter and adventure games are very negatively impacted.
Although in some genres, such as role-playing games, it does actually have a positive effect.
But the one thing that really positively impacted the whole industry was the idea of personal customization.
If you give people the ability to customize a character to their liking, people prefer it, rather than being dictated to by some bloody ideologue.
What a surprise.
But the industry that has suffered the most stark decline after adopting social justice is the comic book industry.
The cringe-worthy challenge is being led by Marvel, who decided to include Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in their Marvel Civil War comic book, where he is apparently the sparring partner of Iron Man.
Not to be outdone, DC Comics decided to include Hillary Clinton in one of their most recent issues of Watchmen, and we've got to go through this because this is just the worst thing you've ever seen in your life.
To start with, you see Hillary Clinton at some sort of press conference, where she's being heckled and asked questions she doesn't want to answer.
So suddenly, in a flash of light, Hillary vanishes.
But where does she go?
Suddenly she's out in the woods again, looking for Bigfoot.
A place without Trump, without Bernie, without the emails.
And then she begins to rise into the air, like some sort of corrupt version of Buddha.
And to finish our enlightenment.
And for some reason, Hillary's logo begins to sideways raise up out of the earth, pointing at the heavens.
I mean, what the fuck is this?
Do you think this is resonating with the kids?
Do you think they're thinking, wow, Hillary's so cool and hip?
And God knows why DC is jumping on this bandwagon.
If anything, you'd think they'd be making comics about Pepe, because Marvel Comics and their promotion of social justice and feminism has been a fucking catastrophe.
I won't go through the entire list of well-established characters who have been subverted by social justice, because frankly it would take too long.
I'll just focus on a couple of the most prominent ones, such as Marvel's feminist Thor.
And I'm not joking, this is full-on feminist propaganda.
Not only has Thor now become a woman rather than a man, she also has become a feminist and unsurprisingly finds herself battling misogynists.
Look at these captions.
Thor, are you kidding me?
I'm supposed to call you Thor.
Damn feminists are ruining everything.
You want to be a chick superhero?
Fine, but who the hell cares?
Get your own identity.
Thor's a dude, one of the last manly dudes still left.
What do you do?
Send him sensitivity training so he'd stop calling Earth Girls wenches?
By giving Thorina's opponents this kind of dialogue, they are making a direct statement that this comic is an act of cultural conquest.
But the most ridiculous one, and the one that pissed off so many people, was making Captain America a fucking Nazi.
I don't even read comic books.
I just don't, I've got other things to do that I prefer to do.
I don't give a shit about comic books, I don't read them, I don't give a fuck, but even I know that Captain America's entire comic book career was fighting Nazis!
This kind of open subversion of the source material is a direct statement of contempt for the source material, and that's what people are getting pissed off about.
They don't want you to take a shit on their favourite heroes, and that's what you're doing.
But worse, these arrogant elitists are attacking the fans themselves.
Look at this from this article.
And just like that, white Captain America was back, because they had previously made him black, just so you know.
And to make Steve Rogers a Nazi was an excellent commentary not only on the fandom, but on the country itself.
Captain America fans aren't Nazis, you fucking idiots.
This is actually the cover of a Marvel magazine.
Civil War 2.
Ask me about my feminist agenda.
That is a demonstration that the ideological conquest of Marvel is complete.
It wasn't done by Nazis, it wasn't done by communists, it was done by feminists.
Marvel is now feminist territory.
Feminism is the hegemonic ideology that they kowtow to.
And if you want to enjoy Marvel comics, you'd better enjoy feminism as well, because you're going to get a lot of it.
And after fully embracing it in 2015, the progressive media halo were bigging it up.
Oh, look how successful Marvel's been because of their diversity.
Marvel controls around 40% of the comic book market share in the US.
Therefore, diversity's paying off.
We've co-opted Marvel, we've made them do feminist diversity shit and fuck with their characters.
This is surely going to pay off.
This surely isn't going to start crippling Marvel to the point where they have to publicly renounce diversity.
Oh wait, no, that's exactly what happened.
Marvel VP of Sales blames diversity for failing comic book sales.
People didn't want any more diversity.
They didn't want female characters out there.
Bam, right on the nose, isn't it?
What we heard was that people didn't want any more diversity.
They didn't want female characters out there.
That's what we heard whether we believe it or not.
I don't know if that's really true, but that's what we saw in sales.
We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against.
Since Marvel appears to have absolutely no idea what's going on here, or at least they're pretending that they don't, here's some free advice.
It's not that they're female, it's not that they're ethnic minorities, it's that they are social justice characters.
These characters weren't either created or modified because it would tell an interesting story or it'd be interesting for the character.
They were created with the goal of promoting that ideology.
That's why people don't want it.
Because it doesn't tell a story.
It doesn't speak to people.
It doesn't resonate with them.
It doesn't do anything for them other than propagandize them.
And people don't want to just be propagandized by their entertainment.
But worse than that, it shows a fundamental level of disrespect for intellectual properties that people love.
But if you are pissed off at Marvel getting screwed up because of a bunch of annoying whiny SJWs, prepare yourself for non-stop autistic screeching.
Marvel fans in uproar after boss says diversity is killing comic book sales.
But you know what, Marvel?
You're wrong.
You're all wrong.
You don't know anything about your own company.
Diversity didn't kill your comic book sales.
Let a bunch of progressive bloggers explain the comic book industry to you.
Just because your sales are slumping, don't blame diversity.
Anything but diversity.
Because diversity isn't the real problem for Marvel comics.
Let us tell you what the real problem is.
You know what we need to do?
We need to start rationalizing this.
Let's talk about Marvel Comics and the diversity doesn't sell myth.
In fact, now we think about it, this is all your fault.
Don't blame us for making your comics political.
Your comics have always been political.
After all of this autistic screeching, the VP had to retract his statement blaming sales on Slumpin Diverse comic books.
It doesn't matter that it's true.
It doesn't matter that this was the literal feedback from the audience.
Reality is offensive to these people.
And they simply don't want to hear it.
And it's not just the cultural products themselves that are being infected with social justice and then rejected by the public.
You can listen to any of your favourite celebrities embarrass themselves on a stage spouting social justice rhetoric.
I am a nasty woman.
Ugh, my spine is about to cringe out of my back.
What about Madonna's Revolution?
Welcome to the revolution of love!
To the rebellion!
refusal as women to accept this new age of tyranny yes women under a new age of tyranny But the worst one of these was what I thought was a parody from Team America World Police, when the cast of Stranger Things got up and accepted an award and made a speech that basically sounded the same as the speech from the Film Actors Guild.
And I would just like to say that in light of all that's going on in the world today, it's difficult to celebrate the already celebrated Stranger Things.
But this award from you, who take your craft seriously and earnestly believe, like me, that great acting can change the world is a call to arms from our fellow craftsmen and women to go deeper and through our art to battle against fear, self-centeredness,
and exclusivity of our predominantly narcissistic culture and through our craft to cultivate a more empathetic and understanding society by revealing intimate truths that serve as a forceful reminder to folks that when they feel broken and afraid and tired, they are not alone.
We are united in that we are all human beings and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting and mysterious ride that is being alive.
Now, as we act in the continuing narrative of Stranger Things, we 1983 Midwesterns will repel bullies.
We will shelter freaks and outcasts, those who have no homes.
We will get past the lies.
We will hunt monsters.
And when we are at a loss amidst the hypocrisy and the casual violence of certain individuals and institutions, we will, as per Chief Jim Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the least expensive franchise and the marginalized.
And we will do it all with soul, with heart, and with joy.
We thank you for this responsibility.
Thank you.
Good God, have you ever seen anything more pompous and self-aggrandizing than a room full of millionaires applauding themselves because they think they're going to save the world with their fucking acting?
It's this kind of self-congratulatory, self-indulgent bullshit that people are looking at in horror.
These people think that they are something special.
They think that they are above other people.
And that has put them into a bubble that other people can no longer relate to and they seem to have lost all sense of perspective.
And the thing is, being wildly out of touch with what the average person thinks isn't a crime in and of itself.
It's not even the worst thing in the world in and of itself.
It doesn't engender hatred or any kind of resentment if they weren't also the most preachy, self-righteous bunch of shitheads you've ever seen.
Have you ever tried to watch social justice comedy?
It is the fucking worst.
I dare you to sit through an entire video of Samantha B. Our democracy just hoiked up a marmalade hairball with the whole world watching.
What we did was the democratic equivalent of installing an above-ground pool.
Even if we're lucky and it doesn't seep into our foundations, the neighbors will never look at us the same way again.
That is the most bourgeois joke I have ever heard in my life.
Russo would be pointing and shrieking that that's exactly what he meant when he said that they want to be looked at and look at others in turn.
This is embarrassing.
It's so out of touch.
Holy shit, I would love to have an above-ground pool and fuck what the neighbors think.
In the coming days, people will be looking for someone to blame.
The pollsters, the strident feminists, the Democratic Party, a vengeful god.
But once you dust for fingerprints, it's pretty clear who ruined America.
White people.
I guess ruining Brooklyn was just a dry run.
The European nation showed up in droves to vote for Trump.
So I don't want to hear a goddamn word about black voter turnout.
How many times do we expect black people to build our country for us?
White people!
This is the worst thing we've ever- No, I'm sorry, that's a very high bar, but holy shit!
And don't try to distance yourself from the bad apples and say it's not my fault I didn't vote for him.
Hashtag not all white people.
Shush shush.
Shush.
If mudvins have to take responsibility for every member of their community, so do we.
Fucking hell.
I just can't.
She is insufferable in every single way that you can possibly imagine.
I don't know how anyone can stand to watch her.
But everything that has come so far is just leading up to the brow of the hill.
Now that we've reached the top, we can see over the other side.
And this is what we're going to get.
Yo, I'm going to kick a verse.
It's dope and amazing about the history of cultural appropriation.
But I could use assistance to make my case.
Holy cow, it's MC Surge from Third Base.
Appropriation happens when oppressed culture gets co-opted by a dominant other.
So settle back for this quick recap by two white dudes in a wrap.
Okay.
And it's at this point that social justice becomes evangelical Christianity desperately trying to reach out and be cool and down with the kids.
Well, I wrote this song for the Christian youth.
I want to teach kids the Christian truth.
If you want to reach those kids on the street, then you gotta do a rap, do a hip-hop beat.
So I gave my sermon an urban kick.
My rhymes are flying, my beats are sick.
My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger.
That's cause Jesus Christ is my nigga.
There is literally no difference between you now.
You have a moralizing, normative view of the world that you're trying to push on everyone else, and you will do it in the most cringy, uncool fucking way possible.
Cornrows rocked by Kardashians and Jennifers and Rachel Domasar!
Oi Vey, I remember.
Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift working.
Do you think this is bringing people in, do you?
Do you think people are looking at this and going, yeah, this was cool and funny?
This isn't gonna age terribly, is it?
Jesus.
And then we were given a gift from the gods of cringe.
This is a clip from Bill Nye Saves the World, his latest show on Netflix.
That's nuts.
No offense, nuts.
Come on, Vanilla.
Nobody wants just one flavor of ice cream.
I do.
Haven't you ever wanted to be in a Neapolitan?
I can't.
I can't.
Come on.
It's natural.
All natural cocoa.
And strawberry fresh from the field.
It's so creamy and delicious.
Big ice cream in the sky, help me.
It's good.
Give you.
Meet you at the bull.
This is on.
Oh, yes.
It's like.
Yeah, get it.
Woo!
I don't like using the word degeneracy much, Bill, but you just had a cartoon of ice creams having an orgy, and promoting that to the people watching, presumably.
That was cool, wasn't it?
That was cool!
No, it fucking wasn't, Bill.
That was the antithesis of cool.
That was cringe.
But it doesn't stop there.
We are not done yet.
So, you guys, seriously, this next thing I feel is very special.
This is a cool little segment.
You know this woman from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Please give it up for Rachael Bloom.
The world of ours is full of choice.
But must I choose between only John or Joyce?
All my options only, hard or moist.
My vagina has its own voice.
Not vocal cords, a metaphorical voice.
Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina.
Please don't tell me I'm not a woman who doesn't.
Cause my sex junk is for uh oh oh much more than either.
Oh power bottle or a top off.
Versatile love may have some butt stuff.
It's evolution ain't nothing new.
There's nothing taboo about sex too.
Just add salt or Girardev French treasure.
Cause my sex junk is for oh oh oh much more than either.
Oh oh oh if they're alive I'll date them channing or genitate them.
I'm down for anything.
Don't box in my box.
Give someone new a handy then give yourself props.
Oh you think you're so smart.
Did you learn A in college?
Share with all of that while I drop some knowledge.
Sexuality's a spectrum.
Everyone who sits up on it.
Drag queen, drag king.
Just do what feels right.
You're tall, pansexual, flirty wood strike.
Who enjoys a fleshlight in the cold moonlight?
With the sad clown, skyping via satellite.
Dance, skippy, home, slice, singing with me all night.
That's how you want.
It's your goddamn right.
Cause my sex junk is so oh oh oh much more than either.
Oh oh oh get off your soapbox, get off your soapbox.
My sex junk's better than bagels with lox, with lots of schmier.
Is there anyone watching who thinks this is going to age well?
Do you think in 10 years time people are going to look back on this in the same way that people look at big hair and shoulder pads in the 80s?
Do you think that people in the future are going to be like, yeah, that was cool?
They're going to think this is lame as shit.
Some kind of narcissistic twat running around talking about her own vagina and trying to push this bullshit on everyone else is not cool.
It is the opposite of cool.
This is embarrassing.
This is the sort of thing that people are rapidly disassociating themselves from.
And with good reason.
It's exactly the right message, Rachel.
Nice job.
Whoa, Rachel, whoa, Melanie Boyer.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly the right message because all of this was, was propaganda.
It was just to indoctrinate people into what you believe for God only knows whatever reason.
This is not going to fly.
I mean, there is, there is actually a clip from a young lady from Antifar who will lay it out exactly as I have described.
Okay, so this shit is corny.
Like, this isn't going to work.
You want to come here with good intentions and you have a side that you're fighting on.
Satire is a really, really powerful tool.
And right now, the right is fucking killing you guys.
They're way, way funnier than you.
like by miles and it's a really really good recruitment tool like it makes people want to join them like I'm not gonna I'm gonna be as apolitical as I can but when I come here like I want to join like the red hat kids like bad because this shit is whack it's not cool like this isn't funny uh you gotta do something better like when the shit gets real and it starts to hit the fan like you won't be able to hug a bullet and like tell them Oh,
it's all about love.
Like these people are coming here talking about how, you know, it's all about love and like we're all one, but people here don't like each other.
Like there's people that come here and there's immediate like tension between people.
So it's not really about that.
It's more of a virtue signaling like, look at how good I am.
Let's take a selfie in front of the camera type deal.
Like it's not, it's not about love at the end of it.
Like there's obviously a culture war here.
And if you want to win it, you can't be corny because it's fucking whack.
You look like herbs.
Like this sucks.
It fucking sucks.
You've got to be better.
You're fighting like this underground internet subculture that has been doing this for a really long time.
And now they're starting to choose a side.
And people on the other side who know what they're fighting against need to come out and fight against them in the way that the other side is fighting.
Because this isn't going to happen.
Like going out on the street with a sign with a pussy on it isn't going to happen.
Like this isn't.
It's so boring.
Like it's so boring and not funny.
And it's embarrassing.
Like it makes you look like idiots.
So maybe like do something better.
Okay.
Namaste.
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