Types of SJWs
Types of SJWs
worse than others. Here's a guide on them. See if you can spot different subspecies
of them in the wild!
Brianna Wu said:
This is our culture, not yours. Get the hell out.
Cultural Hegemonists are often defined by their massive egos. They will claim they
are wholly deserving of accolades and influence, but often they've accomplished
little of actual note and almost always are raging weals of inadequacy right below
the surface. Ironically, despite the species with the most overall influence, many
of them are completely incapable of defending themselves in anything remotely
resembling a fair fight in the public arena. Some, like Anita Sarkeesian and
Coraline Ada, go to ridiculous degrees to avoid any attempt to debate them and will
go to great lengths to silence critics. The ones who do make public showings, like
Brianna Wu, are often completely inept and wind up falling apart the second anyone
goes off-script.
The very nature of the Type 1s means that they are inevitably incapable of ever
ceding their position to common sense - their egos will not allow them. If they
have to drag everyone else into the abyss with them, so be it. Almost without
exception, they are incapable of the sort of empathy necessary to genuinely devote
themselves to something. It's a cynical ploy to pay lip-service, and nothing more.
Vade said:
I'M THE GOD OF THIS FANDOM
One of the more humorous tendencies of Type 2s is that they are often, due to their
reliance on their cult for their main offense, laughably inept at actual internet
combat. While very good at applying pressure to a single isolated target, they are
fundamentally powerless if the intended victim weathers the storm, and if the Type
2 can be lured off of a platform they're used to, they will, more often than not,
get absolutely torn to pieces. While some Type 2s are quite skilled in the arena of
Internet War, the majority of them are hilariously bad enough for it to be an
observable trend. The smarter ones will go out of their way to avoid any combat
where they don't have the home-field advantage.
Note that not all Type 2s are successful. For every Type 2 that successfully
insulates itself in a cult of personality, there's a hundred failures who were
neither charistmatic, intelligent, or skilled enough to pull it off. Many times, an
aspiring Type 2 only blossoms into a full-blown Type 2 due to the involvement of
another Social Justice Warrior who helps give them clout in their formative years,
as happened with Vade. Other times, they are in a doomed pursuit of power, always
demanding more than their limited circle can provide and damned to never extend
beyond it, like Nora Reed.
TYPE 3: Extremist
One would be hard-pressed to find a more hated example of Social Justice ideology
than the Type 3.
They are often deluded, angry, and with visible emotional problems. But that's not
how they see themselves.
The Type 3 is an SJW with dedication. She considers herself one of the faithful and
loyal who have never questioned the righteousness of the cause. She sees herself as
a champion of all that is good and right, seeking out and punishing the wicked and
those who have offended her morality, often at the behest of others above her.
Others loyal to the cause view her as an ugly necessity - a hero who "gets shit
done" through threats and intimidation. There is rarely, however, anything
admirable about the Type 3 under the surface; they are the sorts who become
convinced that their opponents are ultimately less than human and frequently will
justify their offensives using that very paradigm.
Type 3s are virtually never leaders - instead, they serve as the dedicated attack-
dogs of more influential breeds. Their very tendency to engage in ideological
extremism turns away all but the most desperate and hateful of online activists,
and this means they are very rarely in any position of authority. The so-called
Stochastic Terrorists of the Social Justice Warriors, the Type 3s cheerfully attack
the targets of their patrons' ire, and at the same time, grant them plausible
deniability when the Type 3s go off the rails, as happened with Geordie Tait. When
this happens, they'll be disavowed - not because the Type 3 said or did anything
their masters disagreed with, but because they did something that was impossible to
spin as a positive or inadvertently tipped their hand as to what the real problem
was in ways even the Normies could understand.
Type 3s are often completely unrepentant, and many are irredeemable - but not all
are. Some can realize the weight of what they've done and come around. Others,
tragically, are not willing participants. Many are lied into it, or intentionally
misled by other Types. Probably one of the most infamous examples of this in action
was a young girl during Gamergate, who was told that in order to be a good
feminist, she had to attack and dox some GG rando.
TYPE 4: Profiteer
Whereas the Type 2 prefers to remain in the shadows, the Type 4 survives and even
thrives in public. The Type 4 often only directly influences a relatively small
number of people compared to the Type 2, but has chosen them specifically because
they're either useful somehow or because they have a position of authority that the
Type 4 can exploit. The Type 4 influences these people, and through them,
influences many others down the line - the Spider at the center of the web.
Multiple Type 4s can even operate together in concert in this fashion, but they
tend to fall apart quite often; the victim market is a capitalist market, after
all. Type 4s also differ in that they tend to use people's own fears and desires
against them, rather than using sheer force of will or charisma like a Type 2. They
can often can wield absolutely ridiculous amounts of authority indirectly; at the
height of her own influence, for example, Zoe Quinn was able to get basically every
social media platform and also 4chan to completely redact coverage of her sexual
indiscretions. More alarmingly, many of the people the Type 4 influences don't even
realize the level of control they've given her; many believe at all times that the
ideas are entirely their own.
Like the Type 2, the Type 4 has a bad tendency to flex her muscle in order to show
off, and her doing this is often the first opportunity for the Normies to get a
grasp of what she's actually like. Unlike the Type 2, however, the Type 4 also
enjoys indirect control of others who in turn are under the thumb of her pawns. She
will almost invariably use her influence to strike out at anyone who begins to see
what she is, or who might have dirt on her; because of this, those who dare run
afoul of her are often attacked by a much larger group than they would had they run
afoul of a Type 1 or 2. What makes this breed especially dangerous to Normies,
however, is that it thrives in areas where power is abundant. The Type 4 is thus
more likely, for example, to try to involve herself with the politics of a large
community than she is of a small one. Her main skills are deception and diplomacy
(of a sort) rather than anything else. Because the Type 4 has very powerful people
connected to, she can easily manipulate people into covering her ass. If she's
close to discovery, for example, she is not above organizing an online lynchmob to
create a timely diversion, relying on the power of her pawns to keep her safely
ensconced within the halls of power.
However, the Utopian is inexorably tied to a related subspecies that lacks its
counterpart's intelligence or capacity for empathy - a subspecies I will henceforth
call the Superior Futurist. This particular version of the Utopian is the sort that
has a moral belief that they are better than those around them, and hold everyone
who believes even tangentially differently than them in sneering fucking comempt.
They will argue, unironically, that those who do not meet their vigorous (and often
ever-changing) social standard must be purged: first from Social Media, then the
internet, then society, and finally, life entirely. They may talk openly about how
they'd love to engage in eugenics with a lack of self-awareness that would get a
Type 3 to tell them to tone shit down. Very often, the kind of people who argue for
such policies are the very same people who would be lined up against the wall the
second the glorious revolution they've been clamoring for happened, adding further
surreality to this breed.
NPC said:
Orange Man Bad...?
Premier Example: Pretty much everyone in SocJus not in the first five categories or
the following ones.
These people are not given this title out of lack of respect from me, but rather
how the other types see them.
They are useful idiots, asses to fill seats, people to act as placeholders, sheep
to be fleeced and patreon clients to be milked. They are expendable assets, in the
eyes of the above. They have no real authority - they're one screaming voice in the
echo-chamber, individually meaningless but when paired with others they form the
bulk of a SocJus offensive.
These are the SJWs most-likely to "wake up" eventually to bullshit, since they have
the least personal investment and are the ones with the least vested interest in
remaining exploited, but they can be surprisingly recalcitrant.
The smarter ones will leave the nanosecond they realize they can do better.
TrigglyPuff said:
*Autistic Screeching*
Correspondingly, Type 8s are virtually harmless alone - but they become devastating
in groups, as they become more and more aggressive and direct the more their
numbers wax. Essentially bringing their Echo Chamber with them, they descend upon
something they wish to co-opt, and, through the tactics of a lynchmob, take it
over. Any opposition, be it Law Enforcement, simple physical barriers, or other
attendees, will be treated as an accomplice to the target's crimes and treated as
such. Siezing the mic and dominating the discussion is the objective, and fuck
anyone who gets in the way.
The Harridan's tactics vary, but will always focus on stealing away attention; they
will do so in every fashion from simply making asses of themselves for attention en
masse, to getting literally into people's face and screaming, humiliating their
hated targets in public events. The law and the target's possible innocence are
irrelevant to the Harriden; to her, there is no justice like angry mob justice.
Fittingly, as is the case for most SJWs, they will claim oppression if in any way
opposed.
HannibalTheVictor13 said:
I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
But this is not the case for all of them, and by far the most horrid and dangerous
versions of this subspecies are the ones who've actually done things wrong - to the
point of extensive and disturbing criminal records. Perhaps there is no better
example of this particular sub-type than HannibalTheVictor13, a notoriously
aggressive SJW who repeatedly threatened Thunderf00t's life for criticizing Anita
Sarkeesian, and, fittingly enough, is a convicted sex offender and abuser. He's far
from the only example of this, and you can effectively make a rule of logic that
the more aggressive the male feminist, the more likely it is that they are secretly
harboring a past that they are in no way proud of.
In all cases, this category of SJW fights for their conscience, or because they
believe their conscience mandates it. All-too-often,this means that to mitigate
their sins - real and imagined - and to simply appease those that they care about,
they have become a sad shell of the people they once were, now serving only as one
more vector of attack.
They have some overlap with the Type 8 and Type 3, but they aren't about the
broader objective; for them, being a pain in everyone's ass is the objective, and
the media attention they get (and subsequent coverage on Social Media) is their
raison d'etre. The rare case of a Social Justice Warrior that even type 1s, 2s, and
4, noted for their scummier behavior, can claim moral superiority to, because those
at least pretend to give a shit about what they espouse. This said, they're also
hilariously quick to become unhinged if they encounter a target they can't really
effect, and have a shockingly high self-destruction rate.
The Movement Egomaniac is in it solely for the quick reaction. They don't want
opponents who can effectively fight back and they don't want the ability for a
confrontation to be able to turn against them, so they generally lack bite against
their targets, doing little more than exploratory prods in an attempt to provoke a
reaction - either by the target (who they will then demonize), or more commonly by
other Social Justice Warriors, (especially the Type 8s) who they will then use for
pressuring purposes. If successful, they'll ride the controversy with smug self-
satisfaction about how they did good whilst everyone else sees them as a boil on
the ass of discourse. Thankfully, as a whole, Movement Egomaniacs are, like most
bullies, quick to run away if confronted, and notoriously have glass jaws; probably
the best example of these is Jerelyn Luther's infamous ragequit. Their ego provides
the key to defeating them in battle; they can't tolerate indifference, so if their
thrusts are simply ignored they will rage, accuse, condemn, plead, and finally,
fuck off.
Moral Justice Warriors flat-out do not care about Social Justice in the slightest,
but are absolutely willing to piggyback onto their causes for their own ends and
own objectives. At a cursory glance, their mimicry is extremely hard to spot
because they tend to couch their arguments in the exact same language and go after
the exact same targets, using the same behavior. It's only on a closer examination
that you start to notice the differences, and it's those differences that define
this type. To surmise the major differences, let's start with a scenario of moral
outrage, such as a girl with big boobs in a video game:
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A Social Justice Warrior who hates the above will try to argue from a standpoint of
intersectionalism and inclusion. They will argue that the character in question is
offensive because no woman would dress like that when fighting, or that a build
like hers is completely unrealistic. They will cheerfully ignore that there are
people who actually have builds like this, that there are people who fight that
have builds and outfits like that, and will ignore any in-game context that exists.
They will ignore historical accuracy (when available), authorial intent, and even
simple character-based reasons. If all their other arguments are shrugged off,
they'll eventually sperg about "male gaze" and complain how it's specifically
designed to appeal to men (even if the character was created by a woman and is a
female power fantasy).
A Moral Justice Warrior who hates this character will instead argue from the
standpoint of traditionalism. They will argue that the character in question is
offensive because she has big tits and dresses provocatively, even if they had no
choice in the latter reason and the former in no way impacts who they are as a
person. They will instead imply that the character is morally deficient, based on
their appearance. If such a character is in a work they otherwise enjoy, they will
argue unironically that the character deserves to suffer based on their appearance
and snap-judgment of their character therefrom, even if other aspects of their
character completely contradict their viewpoint. What's very interesting about this
is that it's not limited to mere appearances. Moral Justice Warriors will often
take a very negative view of characters that are promiscuous, abuse drugs, or are
abusive parents.
Interestingly, Moral Justice Warriors may be religious, but very often aren't, just
strongly in support of traditionalism. One might think that this would make them a
natural enemy of the SJWs, but in practice, they often exist in the same social
circles for protracted periods of time with little or even no conflict. Why this
happens is because at the core of it, MJWs often hate the same things as SJWs, and
may lend weight of numbers to an offensive. MJWs aren't anywhere near as numerous
as SJWs, so it often behooves them to play things coy - at least until the MJW
objects to something the SJW doesn't, or vice-versa. When these happens, some
amazing circular firing squad behavior tends to happen, and the very nature of
their beliefs means the MJWis often driven out - unless they claim to be Muslims,
in which case they can sometimes get away with some minor mutinies.
Critical Closing Notes: Under no circumstances, make the mistake of thinking that
the SJWs are all inherently corrupt, stupid, or zealous. Yes - a great number of
their leadership are, but that doesn't mean that there's not a lot of people who
aren't genuinely wanting to help, to be useful or to help contribute to something
greater. Being an SJW is not a sign of lower intellect; they have often people who
are otherwise completely rational and have become convinced they are doing the
right thing, misled by the corrupt and the power-hungry, who hope to exploit their
hard work and sacrifice.