Celebrim
Legend
I'm the next thing to a Social Justice Warrior; more precisely, I am a Social Justice Cleric.
I've got no interest in discussing your banal little examples, which - if they are to be given any credit at all - amount to "Be considerate and respectful toward others". Well and good, but you don't need a wishy-washy vague and inaccurate term like "cultural appropriation" to express that idea, and you express that term better by saying, "Being considerate and respectful to others." Most importantly, where your arguments have any meaning at all, they address only what is not particularly controversial about showing respect and are not actually arguments against what I said however long winded that they may be - seeing as I also said "I'd generally object to making some cultural analogy, regardless of the culture involved, solely for the purposes of mocking, belittling, or denigrating some group." Likewise, the speaker I linked to also points out blackface is wrong, so we are in agreement on that - but not over whether the problem with blackface is that it's cultural appropriation, because it isn't. By going on and on and on and on about what there is no real argument about, you are simply prevacating and dissembling. SJW's are continually raising the red herring, continually lying to themselves and others that all they are saying is, "All we want is people to be respectful to others." But in all your long response you don't address any of my actual complaints, or really anyone's actual complaints against political correctness, and what you are really saying is, "If you don't agree with me, it must because you don't believe you need to respect people of other races." This is not to put too fine a point on it, horse dung. I hope you are simply unaware of your deceitfulness and are self-deceived, and that by your many words you are mostly confusing yourself.
But you did, quite inadvertently I'm sure, cut to the heart of the matter when you claimed to be a "Social Justice Cleric". This is the most truthful admission you made in the whole big pile of crap, because this is precisely the impulse that lies at the heart of "political correctness". The SJW's aren't really warriors, so much as a self-appointed priesthood. The reason that they prefer such vague terms as "cultural appropriation", and the reason that their arguments are filled with so many contradictions and double standards is that clear thinking is of no use whatsoever to a self-appointed priesthood. If the arguments were clear and understandable and free of double standards, what use would you have of a priesthood? If the rules were clear, anyone could follow them. The mendacity and sloppy thinking is a purposeful and critical feature of "Social Justice" and "Critical Theory", since it means that in order to be righteous in the eyes of the priesthood, regardless of your intention and your purposes and your actions, you must first go and beg of a blessing from the priesthood, who will then be empowered to order you to perform whatever absolutions and prostrations that they desire before your work is deemed sufficiently free of sin. And if you don't go and receive a blessing, then regardless of how you behave, some fault can always be found in what you do. It doesn't escape my notice that there is basically no difference between what SJW's are likely to approve of, and what they find fault with, beyond that the makers of one and not the other have prostated themselves in homage to the SJW's.
Not only does your sort promote a doctrine that leads only to racism and strife, not only is it filled with deceit, but it is motivated by a very special sort of arrogance. I no more will defer to your perfidy and hatred than I would set here and fail to denounce some member of the KKK spreading their hatred. You are not worthy of civil dialogue because you don't engage in it yourself, and because your doctrine is ultimately murderous, hateful and evil. No clearer proof of that is that in all your long essay, you never seemed to notice that all you reserved for yourself was the right to condemn others, but at no point could you put your finger firmly on how you ought to behave - and even repeatedly admitted you'd not follow your own dictates for which you accuse others of whatever ism furthers your own self-righteous sneering. You never fail to go around accusing others of being Nazi's when they disagree with you, but politically correct is just English for Gleichschaltung. We already have a word for 'politeness'. Political correctness is about as far from the impulse of being considerate as a thing may be. Social Justice Cleric, indeed. We have a word for that already though - it's commissar.