‘Their Own View of How the World Works’

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Anita Sarkeesian (@femfreq) and Zoe Quinn (@TheQuinnspiracy) testify at the U.N.

In his new book SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day summarizes the habits of progressive “social justice warriors”:

1. SJWs always lie.
2. SJWs always double down.
3. SJWs always project.

Vox Day’s Third Law of SJWs, the role of psychological projection in social justice discourse, is interesting to observe in practice, as accusations made against #GamerGate must always reflect some wrong of which progressives are themselves guilty. If you don’t understand #GamerGate, Breitbart.com’s Allum Bokhari has described it as “an online uprising of gamers against poor journalistic standards, political correctness, and moral crusaders in the world of video games.”

This epic battle, which began by exposing unethical conflicts of interest among certain journalists and game developers, quickly metastasized into a much wider critique of how progressive activists were attempting to politicize this multibillion-dollar industry. There is “an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners” who have been “lying, bullying and manipulating their way around the internet for profit and attention,” as Milo Yiannopoulos said. #GamerGate is about calling bulls–t on this agenda and exposing the shady people pushing it.

Over and over, amid the confusing welter of arguments surrounding #GamerGate, SJWs made accusations of bad faith (mala fides) the central weapon in their rhetorical arsenal. If you did not like Zoe Quinn, if you would rather play Call of Duty than Depression Quest, if you thought Nathan Grayson was an unethical fraud, Sarah Nyberg was a dishonest totalitarian pervert and Anita Sarkeesian was a pretentious academic opportunist — well, if you held any of these opinions common to #GamerGate, then you were obviously a racist, transphobic, misogynist proponent of “rape culture.”

You thought Lara Croft Tomb Raider was just a fun pastime? Stop objectifying her with your male gaze, you heteronormative bigot!

This finger-pointing accusatory style — the SJW as Grand Inquisitor — is easy to mock, but SJWs take themselves quite seriously and therefore assume that their critics must be bad people. The anti-#GamerGate discourse thus takes a predictable rhetorical form, a circular argument loaded with the prejudice of confirmation bias, which if expressed as a formal syllogism would look like this:

Premise A: #GamerGate is bad;
Premise B: [Whatever];
  ergo
Conclusion: #GamerGate is bad.

Facts and logic are ultimately irrelevant to the SJW, who never wishes to debate critics, but instead seeks to silence them. In other words, if you do not share the ideological enthusiasms of these “social justice” crusaders — if you are not willing to parrot their politicized jargon and applaud their opinions — then you must be excluded from the ranks of those who are qualified to speak at their conferences, publish on their Web sites and be employed in the videogame industry. If your response to this attempt to monopolize control of gaming culture is to organize your own conferences and Web sites to influence the videogame industry, your efforts will result in you being blacklisted as part of a “hate group.” You will be accused of participating in or condoning illegal “harassment” and it will be assumed (rather than proven) that you are guilty of various intolerable Thought Crimes, e.g., homophobia.

It’s about who controls the narrative, as Andrew Breitbart would say. Protecting the Official Progressive Narrative from external criticism requires that only True Believers be allowed to speak from the institutional platforms through which progressives endeavor to exercise hegemonic control over the culture. At some point in the past few years, videogames were identified as a medium of cultural communication that was not exhibiting lockstep conformity to progressive ideology, and from this realization emerged an effort to subject the gaming industry to a relentless political attack. The object was to ensure that the videogame industry was controlled by progressives in the same way that journalism, Hollywood and academia are controlled by progressives, as part of a complete system of cultural totalitarianism that prohibits dissent by marginalizing (or even criminalizing) opposition.

Why do you think Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn were invited to testify to the United Nations last month? We may suspect they want to have Disagreeing With Feminists classified as a human rights violation. But remember, SJWs always project and, despite having a near-monopoly on the kind of media influence that can make someone like Zoe Quinn — a mentally ill ex-stripper with a notorious habit of lying about everything — appear to be a credible authority, feminists expect us to believe that they are victims of oppression. The actual balance of power is the exact opposite of what SJWs claim. They are the ones engaged in harassment, but they call their harassment “activism,” and when the targets of SJW harassment (e.g., male videogame programmers) attempt to defend themselves, the defense is called “harassment.” The liberal media have gone out of their way to depict the #GamerGate controversy in this prejudicial one-sided manner, which begins by assuming that (a) feminists are always right about everything, and also (b) anyone who criticizes feminism is a misogynist, so that (c) the question of what constitutes misogyny is always decided by feminists, and therefore (d) feminists authorize themselves with the power to instantly discredit anyone who dares talk back to them by labeling the critic as a misogynist.

Strange as it may seem, some males have bought into this mentality, and hasten to parrot whatever the feminists say, a form of behavior called virtue signalling, “indicating that you are kind, decent and virtuous.” The online spectacle of clever young men jumping up and down and shouting “misogyny” at other men has become sadly tedious.

There is something pathetic about the male SJW’s eagerness to prove that he is not one of those awful heteropatriarchal oppressors. And so, at a social-justice Tumblr blog, we encounter “Ral”:

A 22-year-old geek studying computer science, with a passing interest in philosophy and social justice. Political leanings are strongly to the left, with some anarchist sympathies. Lifelong gamer and vehemently opposed to GamerGate. Has had lifelong experience with Aspergers syndrome. Straight, white, cishet and male, yet always seeking to listen to the experiences of other demographics.

It is nowadays fashionable for awkward young men with poor social skills to claim a diagnosis of Asperger’s, in the same way it is fashionable for awkward young women with poor social skills to claim a diagnosis of depression or anxiety disorder. Having a psychiatric diagnosis to explain your problems is the difference between being a victim and being merely a loser. By a similar trick of rhetorical prestidigitation during the 1980s, liberals transformed winos, hobos and panhandlers into “the homeless,” so that any drug-addled lowlife moocher bumming spare change on the street corner was considered a Victim of Society, a symbol of America’s moral failure. Given the way this issue was promoted as an indictment of the Reagan administration’s economic policies, and considering the known political leanings of those who promoted it, anyone could see that the liberal solution to The Homeless Crisis was:

  1. More federal spending;
    and
  2. Vote Democrat!

This is really the answer to every problem, according to American liberals. As long as Democrats get elected and federal spending increases, we are on the Road to Liberal Utopia. Now that we have ObamaCare to guarantee treatment for the mentally ill, and a generous policy of disability payments to these suffering victims, it is possible that every awkward young person could collect a government check for doing what they would be doing anyway, i.e., living in Mom’s basement and playing Xbox all day. Federal disability payments have skyrocketed in recent years, and America is said to be experiencing an “epidemic” of mental illness, proving that when you subsidize something, you get more of it. Taxpayer-subsidized craziness has become a growth industry, throwing federal money at every kook and weirdo who can get his personal problems diagnosed as a “disorder” or a “syndrome.”

Now that nutjobs and neurotics are Victims of Society, publicly proclaiming your psychiatric diagnosis is just about the only way for a heterosexual white male to exempt himself from the category of Privileged Oppressor. Thus we return to the 22-year-old geek “Ral” and his Tumblr exercise in “virtual signalling”:

It’s important to remember that the real reason why antifeminists and anti-SJW bloggers are so quick to paint every act of media criticism that doesn’t fall in line with their own view of how the world works as “censorship” or “subjective nonsense” is that villainizing cultural criticism protects their own worldview. . . .
I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that nearly everyone I’ve ever seen react so harshly to feminist criticism also holds extremely regressive ideas . . .
Denying the wage gap exists despite the fact that every peer-reviewed study that has ever been done on it confirms that there is still a gap even if you account for everything that they can measure . . .
Related to the above, denying the slightest possibility that unconscious gender bias is an issue despite consistent evidence supporting its existence, and that said biases stem from backlash against deviation from expected social roles.
Denying the existence of rape culture . . .

You can read the rest of his indictment of the “extremely regressive ideas” that he attributes to others, and the point here is not to argue about any of these specific accusations, but rather to ask: What is the basis of moral authority by which this person deems himself fit to condemn the “worldview” of anyone who does not share his own left-wing anarchist political biases? What has “Ral” accomplished — what record of achievement does he have, what duties has he responsibly exercised — that he can expect anyone to defer to his judgment of these matters? How easy it is for a college student to sit as his laptop and type in a sequence of phrases — “wage gap . . . gender bias . . . rape culture” — as if these rhetorical flourishes prove him to be a virtuous person.

Talk is cheap, boy.

Responsible adults cannot surrender moral authority to 22-year-old anarchists, nor can we permit a dishonest ex-stripper like Zoe Quinn to make herself an official arbiter of online civility, simply by calling herself a “feminist” and portraying herself as a victim of misogyny.

My suspicion is that all male SJWs actually hate women, and that their advocacy of feminism is a psychological defense mechanism against subconscious guilt over their rage toward their domineering mothers. The male SJW is always Mama’s Precious Boy, a creepy introverted weirdo, a Norman Bates type whose professed enthusiasm for “social justice” is an attempt to get women to provide him a substitute for the unconditional maternal affection he craves. One can find many case studies in abnormal psychology of such warped males, emotionally crippled by deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Their sex lives are always profoundly abnormal, typified by furtive voyeurism, habitual masturbation, and frustrated rage at their predictable impotence in whatever intimate interactions they may actually have with women (which are usually few or non-existent, due to the social awkwardness of the male introvert’s personality). “Ral” is probably a dangerous sexual deviant with a massive cache of violent BDSM porn that appeals to his own bizarre fantasies. Police investigating the disappearance of hookers could probably find them tied up and gagged in an SJW’s basement rape dungeon, if they haven’t already been tortured to death, their bodies dismembered and buried in his backyard.

That’s only a hunch, of course. I’m just a blogger, not the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico, but really: Go look at the cartoon superhero character “Ral” uses as his avatar, the grandiose conception of himself as a powerful figure. This is a common online behavior of introverted narcissistic misfits, displaying a heroic self-image to emotionally compensates for their lack of real-life success.

These SJWs are all sick freaks, I’m telling you. A guy whose ambition in life is to earn the approval of Zoe Quinn? Yeah. He’s profiling as the “unsub” in an episode of Criminal Minds.





 

85 comments

  3. Our esteemed host wrote:

    My suspicion is that all male SJWs actually hate women, and that their advocacy of feminism is a psychological defense mechanism against subconscious guilt over their rage toward their domineering mothers.

    I’d suspect something far different: I’d say that they probably love women, or think that they love women, but have no flaming idea how to actually attract a woman. If they’re inclined toward the left, moving into SJW territory increases their contact with women, and thus might, just might, result in an SJW woman, who is, we all know, sexually aggressive to make up for all of the men who are, propositioning them. Given that that’s the only way they’ll ever get into a woman’s pants, it kind of makes sense.

    When you have no game, play someone else’s game.

  4. “Thou shalt not dissent.”

    It’s a personal hot button. I’ve never seen it turn out well.

    If your argument can’t withstand questioning and debate, it’s a failure.

  6. Our esteemed host wrote:

    My suspicion is that all male SJWs actually hate women, and that their advocacy of feminism is a psychological defense mechanism against subconscious guilt over their rage toward their domineering mothers.

    Which begs the question: are male social justice warriors more likely than others to have come from families in which the father is absent?

  7. Perhaps my satirical purpose was too subtle?

    Look: If SJWs can begin their arguments by assuming that everyone who disagrees with them is motivated by sexism, homophobia or other “regressive” tendencies, why can’t we just play armchair psychoanalyst with these pompous idiots?

    Therefore — “Ral” having self-diagnosed himself, thus making his neurological impairment fair game — I took the ball and ran with it, doing an “investigative” analysis that led to my hunch that he’s a dangerous perverted weirdo.

    Maybe I’m wrong, but if he’s going to accuse me of being “regressive” based on nothing, there are no rules limiting what I’ll call him in reply.

  8. I could have been one of them, but I went through firearms safety and took AP Microeconomics with in a year. I also have a mom who’s a Church Lady. I think that did it. (Grins)

    Also, I figure the art work those clowns use as avatars is copyrighted. The title alone is liberally borrowing from certain FRPG materials.

  10. “Regressive” is a value judgement, and thus you can tell other people that he’s wrong, but you can never convince him. The problem is that the antonym of regressive isn’t progressive, but idiot.

  13. Calling society by the slanderous misnomer “rape culture,” and reflexively upbraiding anyone attempting to defend any aspect of society as pro-rape, is akin to calling lasagna “genocide,” and then reacting with outrage when your Aunt Lydia says she’s looking forward to the “genocide” at the Brick Oven Restaurant next Tuesday night, and hopes you are too.

    It’s stupid, manipulative, dishonest, & back around to being stupid again. It achieves the infamous state of double-stupidity.

  15. I’ve often told “progressives” they are anything but. I normally call them regressives since that’s what they are. What they push is in no way progressive.

  18. Straight, white, cishet and male,

    What does “cashed” mean? I can’t keep all these terms-for sake of a better term-“Straight,” nor do i really want to.

  20. I don’t know what that came up as “cashed” The word iI wanted is typed in the quote above-“Straight, white _____ and male

  23. The regressive left want censorship. Let them have it. They will self destruct. Why are we protecting them from themselves?

    It is not us that will suffer.

  24. Cishet = cisnormative heterosexual. IOW, a straight male who identifies as, well, a male.

    My son keeps me up on all this GamerGate stuff. Otherwise I wouldn’t know a cishet from a hepcat.

  25. Absolutely, this stands for all doctrines everywhere, all the time.

    SJWs work on keeping their doctrine pure by ignoring arguments from “evil” people.
    Whos an evil person?
    Anyone arguing against their doctrine.
    So a self reinforcing feedback loop of insanity where every person pointing out valid flaws in their ideas becomes evil further isolating them from reality.

    Capitalism for instance is probably the most criticised (for its flaws) theory on earth, yet somehow its the default for every human society that has been successful in the modern age.
    Communism has nothing but slavish lickspittles still kowtowing to the desiccated corpse of a serial failure, where every time his theory has been put into practice stuffs people up.

  26. It means that either he doesn’t know what it means, or he’s insecure in his sexuality, or he’s kind of dumb and can’t catch redundancies.

    Cishet = cis-het = cis-gendered heterosexual, so he’s a straight white straight male-born-male. He could’ve said “straight white cis-male,” and should’ve said “straight white man” (if he were actually, y’know, a man and not a pajama boy).

  29. Yes, I agree we’re on a way to a massive cultural and possibly social disruption.

    But I won’t let them have censorship. It completely blows their minds when I won’t comply.

  30. You might want to stick to the topic.

    You do have some good ideas. We can agree to disagree on some things, or you can continue in your futile attempts to “discredit me” and “take me down.” Your choice.

    I remind you that every time you’ve tried to make a thread about me instead of the topic, it’s blown up in your face.

  31. You’re more blunt than I would be.

    I do think we need to stop calling it capitalism. Currently it’s “crony capitalism” and it shifts power to the government and money to the big corporations.

    I support the free market. Mutual trade between consenting adults and WITHOUT government.

  32. “I also have a mom who’s a Church Lady.”

    I married the Church Lady’s daughter, and this legacy is of course carried on by successive generations. Being the son-in-law and husband of Church Ladies means your sons are raised with a respect for God and Mom, not necessarily in that order. One of the reasons I am so opposed to feminist, really, is that it is an atheistic belief system that justifies immorality and thereby undermines the kind of respect for women that the Church Lady upholds. Women’s Studies majors can rattle off all the egalitarian ideology they want, but nothing so ensures the well-being of women as the influence a godly mother has on her sons, and the influence a godly wife has on her husband.

    Feminists hate God. Bad things happen to people who hate God. Count on it.

  35. The Lesbian Liberation Ideology at the heart of what we today call “SJWs” is the ultimate expression of fixing something not broken. In their case it is heteronormativity – the feared “compulsory heterosexuality” which can only be cured by “genderblindness.” Saying mating pairs of Scarlet Macaws are out of touch with this great truth is of course insanity and so it is no surprise comics, gaming and SFF are awash in racist man-hating sociopaths and the mentally ill who have suddenly seen their usual stock of Failure, Inc. unexpectedly rise. In this scenario sane people in favor of equal protection and due process become mad women-hating racists and transphobes. All the while, no one seems to question why entire genres and hobbies have been suddenly thrown over to politicized, racialized lesbian daydreams, because it’s perfectly natural to go to rodeos and golf events and cry out where’s the people of color and lesbians. Why should anyone be surprised these nuts think the new heroes should be our society’s traditionally least productive members, including people who literally cannot reproduce? Everyone who wants to live in a Third World country ruled by lesbians raise their hands. We already have a name for such places; “deserted islands.”

  37. How does this guy figure he’s hard left with anarchist tendancies? What the heck is that, anyway? Are you hard left or hard right boy, make up your mind.

  40. And this is why he’ll never have a girlfriend who’s not mental: he’s too whiney.

    Plus he falsely thinks he knows stuff. I remember when I was 22 and I thought I knew stuff. Then life knocked on my door and bitch-slapped me back to reality.

  41. Every day I an hit with more evidence of how far from the mainstream I am. And I am grateful for that, as the evidence mounts.

    I have recently retired from a profession devoid of SJWs and PajamaBoys. I live in rural America, which is a no-go zone for them (even the gays out here drive pickups with gun racks in them, and probably still have a “Romney” sticker on them). When the zombie apocalypse hits the cities are toast, which means these people are gone. Not that I’m hoping for the end of civilization, but if it does come it will have been ushered in by these deranged nutcases. If they expect me to stand off the jihadis intent on hacking off their necks or tossing them from buildings they’re out of luck. The tough guys at Slate and the MYT will have to step up.

  42. The older I get, the less I know. Not that I was any great shakes to begin with.

    If I’m lucky I’ll hold onto sight alignment and trigger discipline until the end.

  46. I would like to add one thing to this very sound analysis: the copycat phenomenon in international students.

    I teach at a university–adjunct. (Full timers are almost invariably very liberal.) The SJW language has spread to international students coming in to study in US. Now, if a foreign student is getting a bad grade–due to his own poor behavior–he can yell “racist” (or other SJW epithet) at a professor and stop the clock.

    Full timers have tenure and support, but the poor adjuncts can often lose their jobs for a single false accusation. The onus is on the adjunct to prove that he or she is not racist–an impossibility if you follow SJW logic. Therefore, the adjunct is guilty with no possibility of being proven innocent and, with no protections, will simply not be offered a job the following semester. The adjunct will be told, “We just don’t have a need for your particular course right now,” or some other lie. In effect, because of one spoiled student who picks up copycat SJW language, the adjunct can no longer pay rent or health insurance. (Yes, we pay our own. Obama KILLED us in the individual market.)

    As a result, many adjuncts will pass completely unqualified students just to avoid being unfairly fired. After all, with monied international students and SJW rhetoric, the innocence of the adjunct is completely unimportant.

  47. Only a narcissist would think I tried to make anything about you. I simply let you discredit yourself. I have never had to make any effort.

    Blew up in my face? perhaps in the universe you constructed in that infinite space between your ears, but no where else.

  48. I fully agree with you on the current corrupted sate of capitalism. With the tar baby of regulation being used by big companies to stop the one thing that actually does worry them, competition.

  49. He is what the “Occupy” idiots were rightly tagged as: “Anarchists for Big Government.”

    If it’s something Christians would call “sinful,” then it needs to be allowed absolute liberty. If it’s righteous and represents self-control, then it needs a government jackboot stomping on it.

  50. Funny how they can name actual video games that have characters with big boobs…

    …but they can never name a company that’s paying women less than men for the same work. The wage gap is just “out there,” like the boogeyman. “Trust us! It’s all over the place!”

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