Instances of Social Justice you are actually supportive of..

[Firefly]

I get that we are rugged, quasi AnCap Libertarian types but what are some examples where you just saw that societal intervention needed to happen, that the status quo was unjust, and the oppressed among us were simply not getting their due?

Like you just said "HELL NO!" and "We're Not Gonna Take It" started playing in the back of your mind.


I think for me it was when the cereal rabbit finally got some Trix. That was the OJ Trial for 80s kids. I personally mailed 20 proofs of purchase with a vote of YES.

It was a day when the sun shone a little brighter. When we had one less soul with a dream deferred.

Please share your stories.

[jpmuscle]

This should be interesting since despite 2A loyalists being shaded as a freedom loving crowd time and time again some have shown themselves to be particularly intolerant of individual liberty they find objectionable.


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[26 Inf]

Brown v. Board of Education - gave light to the lie of 'separate but equal.'

Civil rights movement.

LBJ's Great Society, not so much.

Coming soon - women required to register for selective service.

[Firefly]

Brown v. Board of Education - gave light to the lie of 'separate but equal.'

Civil rights movement.

LBJ's Great Society, not so much.

Coming soon - women required to register for selective service.

This is why I legit love you

[Diamondback]

Just once I'd like to see the devoted, loyal, steadfast, always-there guy friend get out of the Friend Box Trap and get the girl. I will never understand why women insist on whining to such guys about "why can't I find a guy like you" when that which they seek is right under their noses...

[Hulkstr8]

Social justice is a bullshit term. There's right and there's wrong. Justice or injustice. That's how I see it.

[Firefly]

Just once I'd like to see the devoted, loyal, steadfast, always-there guy friend get out of the Friend Box Trap and get the girl. I will never understand why women insist on whining to such guys about "why can't I find a guy like you" when that which they seek is right under their noses...

Tell your buddy Pondo that I says "Hound dog gonna get dat puddy" and that maybe this is Karma, that in a previous life he was a,jackrabbit and got too much so the good Lord said "That's it, you cant have no more"

Its cosmic

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Anytime the underdog is getting beaten or just basic unfairness. The problem with nowadays is the unfairness pales in comparison with yester years. Racism? Please. You have to be over the age of 50 to have been on the end of widespread, institutional, ass-whopping racism. It's hard to get some SJ brewing when cauliflour in the community garden, or microaggressions are the new bar.

I totally get (from what I understand) the Pashtunwali concepts of Melmastia and Nanwatai. Melmastia to me is kind of like deference on personal credit- until you act like an ass, I go out of my way to help strangers- and I do it a lot since I travel alot and I've been on the giving and receiving end. On the nanawatai, I don't cotton to people screwing with people in my sphere of influence. Don't know if it was genetic or learned from my parents, because I see the same traits in my kids- and my son in his age group is definitively sized quash non-compliars.

THe thing with SJWs isn't that their grievances aren't unfounded, though they are usually exaggerated- it's their prescription for the problem where we majorly part ways. Currently, asset seizures and pretty much any checkpoint. How upper echelon kids can spend the time and money to get test accommodations that lower income people can't afford is something that I can appreciate- and how that leads to the things like the "Varsity Blues" shenanigans. The whole labor versus capital - especially when you are talking about highly differentiated skilled and educated labor is really interesting. The amount of regulations and how that stifles people's ability to start companies to address the labor-capital issue is another.

How people self destruct and hurt themselves and others is something that I think can be better addressed sometimes than just locking people up or making them unemployable. People get a lot of head-trash swirling around in their noggins.

[Circle_10]

Not quite the same thing, but I frequently find myself able to at least identify with school shooters. Not sympathize with their actions but at least understand where they are coming from.
I was a shy, quiet introvert of a kid who wasn't into sports, an outsider, and so I was savagely bullied throughout school up until probably my sophomore year in high school (still sporadically after that but nowhere near as badly) so I know first-hand what that experience can do to a kid. Fearing going to school every day, wondering what's going to happen this time....day after day. And honestly, most days nothing happens, but sometimes it does and it's the not knowing when it's coming, you have to try and be ready all the time, even though being "ready" is futile, because it doesn't matter..it warps you.
Controversial disclosure here: my experience is probably what initially attracted me to guns as a kid. I don't come from a shooting family, I developed my interest in weaponry in middle/high school spontaneously, and thinking back I believe it originated from a desire to never be unable to protect myself. Obviously my interest in firearms became more multi-dimensional with time but early on, the appeal was in fact that they were something I could theoretically use to kill my tormentors. I don't know as I ever would have actually shot up my school had I actually had access to guns, I don't really think so, (not because I had an ethical objection, but because I feared the consequences I might face). But having been there I understand how some kids can reach their breaking point.
My extreme paranoia and mistrust of others probably has it's origins with my childhood bullying as well. And I firmly believe those experiences, and some others that would come later, permanently changed me and turned me into a darker, much crueler person than I would have become otherwise.
The flip side is the person I am now is much better suited to surviving in this shithole we call "the real world" than I might have been otherwise. A version of me who was not taught as a child that everyone really is out to get you would have been eaten alive as an adult.... and rightly so perhaps.
So in a strange conflicted dichotomy, I both pity my younger self for the experiences he had to endure and yet also despise him for being a weak piece of shit, whose weakness earned him his fate.

[AndyLate]

Integrating the military was an indescribably good thing that led to Civil Rights change and the world we live in now.

On a personal level, I fought tooth and nail (figuratively speaking) against school uniforms. Kids have to be able to express their individuality and creativity.

Andy