/lit/ - Literature

>>7781020
Only idiots think he's a single person and not a collective of already famous authors writing under the pseudonym of Thomas Pynchon.

“To one who has feelings, no explanation is necessary. To one without feelings, no explanation is possible.”

>>6292424
How unfortunate. I guess there are no perfect women.

>>5903952

OP here.

My original interest was in academic critiques of this modern SJW phenomenon.

I am left of center and some of my main concerns with the SJW types are the following:

1. They are anti freedom of expression. They promote censorship of anything that personally "offends" them. They are politically correct and attempt to censor what anyone can say, often on the pretenses of being "offended" or attempting to label something racist or sexist to cast a stigma on it, etc. Rarely will they ascribe to the (better) idea of open debate and survival of the fittest ideas, or allowing others to express themselves even if you vehemently disagree with them.

2. SJW's attempt to dictate what is right and wrong based on what race, gender, ability, or the social class someone is rather than having a universal even standard, which leads to them to using double standards everywhere (reverse racism, etc)

3. Their attempts to blame anyone but themselves for their problems in 2014 America. Whoever has it better off in society is to blame. This includes trying to transfer guilt of all things to whites and straight people.

4. Cultural appropriation, and the SJW's racist attempts to say that certain cultures own certain ideas. Or that people of certain races/cultures are not allowed to do x, y, or z.

5. I think what it may come down to is that SJW's are more authoritarian left, whereas I am more libertarian left.

SJW's want to control speech instead of making it free, they want equal outcomes rather than equal opportunities, they try to prioritize safety over freedom, and in their attempts to change inequality they over-correct and prescribe racism and sexism.

I wanted literature on the topic because perhaps other writers have covered this topic before but in a way that is more elegant, thorough, and well thought out. And perhaps those writers could introduce nuance into my thought. I've read plenty of SJW literature and I'm not impressed, but rarely have I seen anti-SJW lit.