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When Political correctness becomes conformity and control.<\/p>\n

To begin, I do again have a bias on this subject. I really, really, have a problem with SJWs, I will remain factual and cite my sources; however. Sources are cited by number and located at the bottom of the text.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s nothing new, linguistic policing has plagued the last few years, with third wave feminism smashing the ideas of binary genders to pieces. Or, you know, so they think. To fully understand the article I\u2019m about to breakdown, one must first delve into the backlog that is the disastrous \u2018progressive\u2019 left wing, or as they are commonly called nowadays: \u2018Social Justice Warriors, or SJWs.\u2019<\/p>\n

It really began with a woman called Anita Sarkeesian, you\u2019ve likely heard of her. She\u2019s that poor poor woman who received so much hate for doing absolutely nothing, right? Well\u2026 Not really. Anita Sarkeesian sparked internet outrage with her series \u2018Tropes Vs Women.\u2019 But nothing to the extent of what you\u2019ve likely seen on the news. Just a few internet videos laughing at her ridiculous arguments, but it\u2019s literally too much to go through, so I can direct you to an argument against her that will largely sum up her ideas [1]. What span things up though, were death and bomb threats through her twitter which stopped her giving a speech at a university. Now I cannot defend this, how could I? No matter the perspective, no one deserves to be de-platformed, even those wishing to de-platform others. Ideas stand on their own feet, and are either scrutinised or accepted, that is in of itself free speech. There are two huge problems with this story, and I\u2019ll quickly go over them now if you haven\u2019t a clue. If you know what I\u2019m on about, skip the next two paragraphs.<\/p>\n

First problem, whilst the death threats were unacceptable and certainly scary, they were cleared by the FBI as invalid. Many public speakers get similar threats, and whilst I of course do not condone it, it is a common occurrence. In addition to that, it has also been proven that she sends death threats to herself in an attempt to up the drama. She is a con-woman, in that she manipulates the media to her narrative, and pretty much ignores the promises in her crowd-funding. The media lapped it up though \u2018Poor woman sent death threats over speech\u2019, it was consistent and constant from media both well-known and more obscure [2] [3].<\/p>\n

Second problem, the media connected these threats to something entirely unrelated, and through Anita\u2019s narrative demonised a group working for a very righteous cause. Gamergate. I hesitate to say group, it was more a movement, but the movement was against bad journalistic ethics in video games, pertaining to one review of the \u2018depression quest\u2019 by Zoey Quinn, in which she slept with the reviewer who reviewed her game, to which he reviewed it very positively even though the general consensus was that it was awful. The response to this criticism of Kotaku\u2019s review was to call the whole debacle \u2018The end of gamers\u2019 and insult the Gamergate activists directly, creating a situation that never needed to be. What resulted was the media pushing a narrative of Gamergate\u2019s racism, misogyny, and bigotry, even though it was only ever about Journalistic ethics. Oddly, there are no articles on the other side of gamergate, as it was a simple collection of people, not a group of journalists, but there are videos: [6], [7] (understandable if you don\u2019t wanna watch them, but it\u2019s there if you don\u2019t want to take my word for it).<\/p>\n

Okay, so back to Sarkeesian. This created a split. Feminism vs logic, as I like to call it. But all sorts of pop culture became sexist, from movies to games to books to words. Words.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next wave was gender, the idea that there existed more than male and female, and that there are now over 50+ genders [8], hence the acronym LGBTQ+ for the movement of this whole feminism and Social Justice idea. There are plenty of stories I can dig into on just ow stupid this movement is, but I\u2019m going to focus on one very recent one, and if you\u2019re interested, trust me, you\u2019ll find plenty. From Cultural appropriation to Status quos to the falsehood of the wage gap, you\u2019ll be digging through articles and videos for weeks on end. The biggest problem I have with them, as an overarching thing, is the disregard for free speech. No one can be offended, and every word must pertain to them as an individual. Everything is offensive, and if you\u2019re white, straight and male you\u2019re automatically evil [9]. The best way to see how bad it all is, is to switch the race. Change the word \u2018white\u2019 to black and see how much worse it is. \u201921 things black people ruined in 2015\u2019 sounds a whole lot worse now doesn\u2019t it? Yet it\u2019s okay if it\u2019s white people. Double standards across the board.<\/p>\n

This article is one such \u2018SJW\u2019 narrative, focused on language policing in British Universities. [10]<\/p>\n