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Aella
@Aella_Girl
The SJW mind virus is really scary because it's spreading - and it's spreading because it's evolved to a point where it's become immune the standard antibiotic arguments. Its success is due to its adaption to pressures - empathy and reason - that killed what preceded it.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
e.g., I once tried to put myself on the same side of a SJW, thus trying to defeat her 'you are an enemy' defenses. I argued we both meant to do good. But her mindvirus was ready - built into it was the pattern of resistance to identifying with me under any conditions.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
The SJW mindvirus is loaded with a handy "Power = wrong" trick, which among other things, neutralizes the need to actually grapple with any arguments made from someone with power. All the previous iterations of SJW that didn't include this facet, died out.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Our continual sanitation of the SJW's ancestors has given rise to this super resilient form. But we sanitize a lot of damaging ideas - why was this the one to evolve into a supervirus? Did we fail to sanitize all the way? Does it have high mutation rate?
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Sam Altersitz
@UncleThursday
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@Aella_Girl
The rise of the internet, and especially social media, coupled with college indoctrination into SJW culture, and the general apathy of most normal people until it affects them is the reason it's been able to end itself so deeply over the past few years.
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Fatuous Pauper
@basedc1
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@Aella_Girl
You aren't the first to notice this. Moldbug's theory is that SJWism and related thought systems are forms of Christianity. But yes, not being bound to logical consistency means you can construct amazingly robust memeplexes.
A. S.
@LoCtrl
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@Aella_Girl
Since the claim that "this semi-religious ideology is a mind virus" is not a novel observation/hypothesis, it might be helpful to 1) compile a list of the best arguments against this hypothesis, 2) think about ways (if there are any) how religion is different from ideology
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BornInANoose
@BornInANoose
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@Aella_Girl
SJW's, alt-righter's, & other extremists generally have the position of "I'm right, you're wrong, end of story" & think screaming louder than your opponent while ignoring anything they say is debate. It's a type of willful ignorance. Hard as hell to defeat that kind of ignorance.
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