free thoughtpolice wrote: ↑You forgot to add pseudo-liberalism to your list. That is a person that isn't really a liberal, for example an authoritarian radical leftist.
It's not even the "left" as a whole which is the source of the SocJus stupidity. It's a very limited, but incredibly vocal subset of academics, journalists, online loons, opinion leaders and other Critical Theory fans, including many social media mogul and other "champagne socialists". Most people who vote for social democratic parties don't really understand the SocJus beyond the buzzwords, and are usually more concerned with things like healthcare reform, or stopping tax cuts for the ultra-rich, or dealing with wage issues, etc. Even most leftist college students are more concerned with student debt then with the 440995 artificial genders, or with the idea that everything is "sexist, racist and you have to point it all out".
Hell, even Noam Chomsky, for all his flaws, isn't particularly enamored with the SocJus.
The strength of the SocJus is that it appeals to the "latte liberals"/"champagne socialists"/"radical chic", people who often are FAR more privileged than those they criticize (just think about Brianna Wu or Zoe Quinn, trust fund kids, or the son of a millionaire who shouted "we have nothing to lose but our chains"). These people can afford to get college degrees in bullshit subjects like Queer Theory or Post-Colonial Studies, and then to be hired by media like the New York Times (think about Sarah Jeong), leveraging their largely constructed victimhood narratives. OR they stay in academia and education and try to indoctrinate others while pretending that watching trashy movies and reading trashy books is academic work (think Melissa Click). OR they get hired in the Human Resources at Google or Patreon and start making noises about "muh Diversity".
They may call themselves liberal, or progressive, or social democrats, but more often than not they're VERY privileged and pampered spoiled brats with no clear political and social plans beyond what their equally privileged and spoiled tenured professors told them.
They're the leftist counterpart to the creationist morons or the Religious Right: there aren't loads of them, but they're vocal, obnoxious, useless virtue-signallers, and they're in positions of relative power within the educational and political system. They're unlikely to accomplish anything beyond mass outrage and whining.