by Kody Fairfield
In today’s world, there are two schools of thought, the first being that educated discussion and honest debate encourage intellectual growth, leading to a silent majority. The second, being a school of pure emotional diatribes, full of fallacy and philosophical inconsistencies, which tends to lead to loud minorities.
The fallaciously loud and horribly ridiculous crowd that hangs out in the second school of thought can be separated into two different wings, the social justice warriors (SJWs) and right-wingers (RWs). The two sides are always at each other’s throats, never educating a single soul, or actually doing anything of real change.
As detailed by Liberty Laura of Liberty Viral, though these groups stand diametrically opposed, their tactics are all too similar. Here are 10 ways that the SJWs are just like their right-wing counterparts.
1. Shout Downs
Both the SJWs and RWs love a good shouting match. This tactic is used to silence anyone who they disagree with, but who they know they cannot defeat through coherent articulation of an argument. Louder and louder they’ll scream and repeat their position, never offering up an actual defense of their positions or even listening to what their opponents have to say.
2. Emotional Ploys
Both the SJWs and RWs love to use emotion to drive dialogue, ignoring reason and fact at any cost. The SJWs will try and tell you that you are not allowed to “offend” anyone, and if you do, you deserve to be punished for it. The RWs also love to use emotion to scare their crowds, whether it is using fear to convince people that immigrants are taking their jobs or that God will punish those who do not obey his moral legislation. Both groups love to manipulate emotion.
3. If You Don’t Like It… Move.
SJWs and RWs love to use the idea that they own the narrative, and that if you do not conform to their thoughts, you should leave the country. This is whether it is RWs and their inability to see the hypocrisy in their criticism of Colin Kaepernick not standing for the National Anthem and calling for him to leave the country, or the constant refrain of SJWs and progressives that libertarians and conservatives should move to Somalia.
4. Hate
One of the most controversial tactics capitalized upon by both SJWs and RWs is use of hate. While the SJWs will argue that they are all for fair and equal respect of everyone, the moment you don’t fit their paradigm, they will unleash a hate-filled lecture upon you. Claims of bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and any other epithet will be hurled to shut down their nemeses. For the RWs, they use hate in a much less passive aggressive manner. They will blanket statement an entire group of people as a threat to the RW “way of life.” Whether it’s Trump supporters’ comments on Muslims, or many social conservatives’ views on homosexuality, hate is a tactic rarely wasted.
5. Scapegoats
Scapegoats are a loved pastime of both SJWs and RWs, as they both use them as the antagonists to drive their agendas. Simply pick a person or group of people, state that this person or persons is the root cause of your problems, then relentlessly and without concern for factual debate, repeatedly blame that subset of people for all the world’s problems.
For SJWs, it’s often the “patriarchy,” or “cis white males” who are typically to blame for the oppression of any subset of people. For the RWs, it always tends to be racial or religious minorities or any other foreign people who are to blame for a negative change in their status quo.
6. Regressive Operations
While both the SJW and RW will tell you that they are fighting for the progression of society to a better place, they often times contradict themselves with the way they enact their ideas. For instance, at a Black Lives Matter rally, a protest leader (SJW) was heard on a bull horn telling white supporters to stand at the back of the protest: an odd way to fight for racial equality by going back to segregation.
For the RWs, it is a little more nuanced: you must have a literal understanding of the ideas they wish to see in social policy. While some of them want a return to a more Biblical time by legislating morality, there are others who are want to encamp or monitor an entire ethnicity like the US did to the Japanese-Americans during World War II.
7. Tantrums
What happens when you don’t assimilate to a SJW’s or RW’s demands? That’s right, they go completely nuts: crying and screaming about how wrong you are; sometimes using literal tears, or threats of violence to move your opinion. Classic cases of this can be seen in Donald Trump supporters who, when they run into people who don’t hate Mexicans, start to scream things such as “BUILD THE WALL!” or “DIRTY BEANERS.”
Then you have the SJWs who also love this tactful move, especially when they are challenged by people they believe should hold their same opinions, such as the case of “Trigglypuff” vs. Milo Yiannopoulos, Steven Crowder and Christina Hoff Sommers at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The events ironically started over a conversation about censorship and free speech on college campuses.
8. Self-Justified Moral High Ground
Many people may ask: how do the SJWs and RWs justify their tactics in pushing their agendas? That’s very easy to answer. They both pretend to have a monopoly on the moral high ground: an idea they see as a right to use any tactic needed to force society into their worldview. They set this premise by claiming that their worldview represents what is “just” and “righteous” for society. For SJWs, it tends to be what they see as a push for equality, fairness and progress of all peoples. The RWs see themselves as protecting traditions or culture that they deem to be moral. Oddly enough, each of the two groups uses this high ground to look down at one other with hate and intolerance, which they meanwhile claim to be against.
9. Tendency For Violence And Chaos
With all the rhetoric and emotion espoused by the SJW and RW movements, one can see how easy it is to be overrun by the cause. Passionate people can only take so much “oppression,” vitriol, and anger before their words turn into actions. As a result they all become ticking time bombs waiting for a catalyst to set them off. We have seen this from the SJWs, when “peaceful” protests become riots in the streets. People start to burn their own neighborhoods. Looters steal from their own friends and families because they see an opportunity to create mass chaos in the name of their cause. With the RWs, we see this happen when their rhetoric toward minorities or foreigners turns into aggression and physical contact with innocent people, or clashes with groups baiting them into violent action.
10. Polarizing Leaders
Not shockingly, both the SJW and RW movements are led by highly controversial people and organizations. The polarization of these leaders from the general public creates more instability from within their own movements. People like Donald Trump and leaders of organizations such as Black Lives Matter leave the general public with a sense of distrust in their causes simply due to the fact that, at times, they are willing to ignore the wrongdoing coming from within their own movements.