SJW, WSJ and Objectivism: an exchange
NH:
The
‘SJW’s talk a lot about racial and gender privilege; economic privilege, not so much. I wondered why. Then I noticed
that SJW, for ‘Social Justice Worrier’, is an anagram of WSJ, for ‘Wall Street
Journal’. Is this a sign of divide-and-conquer, or am I reading too much into
this?
BJ:
I’d
have to say that the SJWs talk an awful lot about economic privilege also. WSJs these days are so deluded that they don’t
believe ANY privilege exists. Dinesh D’Souza
talks about “The End of Racism” and so forth.
So maybe WSJs and SJWs really are opposites of each other, at least in
terms of what they CLAIM they believe.
NH:
You’re
right about the WSJ. The SJWs do mention class privilege, but long after gender
and race privilege; a matter of emphasis. Also lots of SJWs are trust-fund
babies.
I
worry about SJW, but mostly as the latest folly of the youth. I think that SJW
is like Objectivism; a mental flu mostly infecting undergraduates, curable by
critical thinking. They are both closed systems of moral judgement,
structurally favoring fellow cultists. Both preach stultifying dogma in raucous
shibboleths. Both claim a rational maturity that neither possesses.
Other
than that, Objectivists and SJWs are completely different.
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