SJWs Have Been Around a Long Time
I was watching a movie from the 1970s (Fritz the Cat) and it looks like history really does repeat itself. This scene looks like it came straight out of one of our college campuses:
This was a great movie, very relevant for our times.
What a lot of people don't understand is SJWs and CRT were boiling under the surface in academia for decades. What's different now is that it is becoming mainstream and turning into policy? People didn't pay attention much when it wasn't negatively affecting their lives.
but nowadays they are backed by big tech oligarchs who have access to all of your data and your attention 24/7
This applies to a lot more than just SJWs. Political movements that win go on to write the history of their movements, and they usually portray themselves as bigger underdogs than they actually were- by the end, at least. That's true of the civil rights movement of the '60s. By the late 1960s the activists had nearly all of the elite media, academia, the federal government, and the professional-managerial class on their side, and they were up against some heavily outgunned state and local officials in the South. But the average high school kid today thinks that most white people supported Jim Crow until MLK and Rosa Parks showed up.
The more you study history, the more you realize that things have been a lot more progressive for a lot longer than the average person realizes.
The average white person didn’t support Jim Crow. The average white Southerner did, so did the politicians that they elected. Southern Democrats formed an integral part of the New Deal coalition, which passed tons of important legislation, and Civil Rights was swept under the rug to keep it together. Eventually the pressure grew too strong and Johnson signed the bill and blew up the coalition, and created the fault lines in politics that exist today.
Southern Democrats were the wealthy southern elites/plantation owners who actually had influence. Stuff like poll taxes/grandfather clause/literacy tests etc. prevented poor rural workers (white or black) from voting, so it's not accurate to say "the average white Southerner" supported segregation. Moreso, the elite white Southerner did.
This is fundamentally true. You can easily peel back the moralist sticker on most social movements and see the motivation behind them has been the low-level class war that's been raging in America for several decades.
Broadly speaking, the coalitions are as follows:
Historically this has been the right side vs. the left side, but it's been shifting to the top vs. the bottom.
On my phone, this showed as just two gold bars without any of the words, and I was wondering if everything was right with your head.
Don’t you mean it’s traditionally been top v. bottom but is becoming left v. right? Professional bourgeois used to be sided with small business people in the heartland and would be vaguely “pro business”.
Now you are seeing them openly show contempt for a small business owner from flyover county and forming strong coalitions with urban working classes.
"Professional Managerial Class"
are you a Marxist or a right winger with a fondness for anti-liberal /r/stupidpol types? Doubt anyone else would use that phrase, though they should. I'm in the latter group but I think the right has quite a bit to learn from the Old Left / Dirtbag Left / renowned Marxist scholar Nick Mullen. The pivot towards populism has been a welcome change on the right, but the Old Left has made similar arguments for decades. They bring a great descriptive understanding of the world even if their proscriptive solutions are usually a disaster.
Never heard of /r/stupidpol. Got it from James Burnham, who was an ex-Marxist. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/02/james-burnhams-managerial-elite/
2015 was 6 years ago dude. People are now whining about CRT or whatever the latest culture war garbage is about. Get with the times
Yeah and why are they whining, smartass? Maybe because this stuff still exists?
Cry harder
+1 Fritz the Cat is a great movie
But the type of moral busybody extremist mentality of SJWs can be traced all the way back to colonial days. Quakers and Puritans were considered to be extremist little shits back in their day.
PCU also hits the SJW theme pretty hard. Entertaining movie starring Piven, Favreau and Spade.
This movie doesn’t seem appealing to watch.
I remember watching videos of those SJW’s in the 60’s. Civil rights and all that crap. God I hate those kinda people.
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