I Don't Know What To, You Guys - Excessive Tone Policing, and Hostility Within the Left

Not real social justice. I mean this Social Justice(TM). I mean the kind that turns communities into insular little cysts of hatred and backstabbing and oneupspersonship. The kind that does nothing to help anyone, but gives immature, cruel people licence to say and do awful things to others and feel noble about it. The kind that looks at power and privilege and sees, not a complex vector or a set of equations that we don't even fully understand yet, but yet another primitive, moralistic us/them narrative that somehow always gets wielded by self-interested bourgeois to oppress those beneath them.

You say you're a Marxist. I'm going to assume that's the truth. I'm guessing by your icon that you're also a feminist, or at least consider yourself one. I'm also a Marxist--or at least a socialist, in the same way that I'm more comfortable calling myself an evolutionist than a Darwinist. And I was until very recently a feminist--now I consider the two irreconcilable.

I don't make this judgment lightly. I was raised feminist; throughout most of my life, I considered it the only possible moral stance. If you weren't a feminist, you didn't like women, or you wanted them to be second-class citizens. This was the narrative that led me into the arms of the SJWs, and it's one I'm only just beginning to see isn't the case. To me, feminism and socialism have always been about equality, about removing the scummy residue of the old order and building a better, smarter, freer, more equal society for everyone. I value kindness and empathy and understanding, and all my life I thought that, alone, made me a feminist. It also helped that I'm nice enough that women open up to me, so unlike most men, I actually know how many of the girls in my life have been raped or abused.

But in the last four or five years, I've seen people I used to consider my peers become... twisted. I've watched the face of contemporary feminism become more and more shrill, insular and clannish. I've come to terms with my own sexuality, and in the process discovered entire schools of feminism devoted to asserting that I, as a Dom, am a latent rapist who secretly fears female power, and that some of people I love most in the entire world, as transwomen, are secret male infiltrators trying to colonize the concept of womanhood.

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