For the sake of solidarity: Trigger Warning.
Navigating through the marshes and minefields of varying opinions, ideas, ideologies, interpretations and intentions of numerous SJW's, be they self-proclaimed or otherwise, has left me with a conflicting image of who/what you people are.
Time and time again, I am told one thing, then I witness the opposite. I've gone out of my way to seek the writings of journalists, bloggers, Tumblrites and Twittards, from which I have gained nothing of noticeable value no matter how much I seem to read.
I hear talk of “freedom of expression for all, regardless of race, sex, gender, identity, views or religion,” followed by “hate speech must be banned.”
As many others have articulated before me, SJWs seem to have an objectively skewed view on Freedom of Speech.
A bit of my history before I proceed.
I am half black and half white. Up until I was about twelve, my family lived in a rather backwoods area in Kentucky, flanked on all sides with very southern, very white families. My father was the only black man living in at least a thirty mile radius.
In school, I was called a half-nigger, a mongrel, a mutt, a halfrican, a mistake and so on. I vividly remember our bus driver meticulously telling all of us where to sit, and she always ensured that I sat alone.
Then we moved to Memphis. A very, very black city. My initial impressions of all-black areas was far from flattering, and made even less so when trying to understand the oddity that is the Memphis-hood accent (saying “man” like either “main” or “mang,” for example.) It was then when I was introduced to the term “cracka nigga,” which meant me. In my new school, I became acutely aware of how literate I was. When reading aloud, I breezed through the paragraphs. When others read aloud, many had to sound out words as simple as “because.” This was around the age of fourteen.
Needless to say, I'm much older now. From what I have been told by many SJW types, I was exposed to hate speech when living in a white area. In the black area, however, I have been told that I was “coping with a new environment,” or “adjusting to a new community” as the community “adjusted” to me.
Looking back at my life, I prefer the white southerners for one key difference.
In the “hate-filled,” “racist,” white “redneck” community… No one hit me. Ever. Not one person spat as I walked by, not one incident of a stolen backpack, and not one threat of violence. But in the black school, all of that happened in the same day.
And once again, I have had SJWs try their hardest to explain the xenophobic violence coming from this black school. Everything from how African-Americans are under-served in the classroom, or that it was all due to poverty caused by white political figures, or big white businesses. The mere allusion to any African-American parents having raised horrid African-American kids seems to always send the SJWs I've spoken with spiraling down a path to blame whitey.
Some have gone so far as to suggest that I am “privileged” to prefer a white area over a black one, regardless of getting hit.
And finally, this brings me to my questions on language.
With regards to SJW ideals:
1: When is it appropriate to judge a RACE as a whole?
2: When is it appropriate to judge a SEX as a whole?
3: If neither are appropriate, why do I so often read SJWs lambasting white(RACE) men(SEX)?
4: Does Freedom of Speech extend to non-violent racists?
5: Should hate-speech (when not inciting violence/exclusion/disenfranchisement) be banned, and for what reason?
For every SJW speaking out against ableism, there's another calling me an autist.