Does becoming right wing basically make you retarded or what? I've been watching acquaintances get onto the Jordan Peterson train, then fall down the "Anti-SJW" rabbit hole and I've noticed that the more and more right wing and reactionary they become, the more absolutely fucking retarded they become in their ability to rationally think or process any sort of information or often even spell or string together coherent sentence structures or points. For example, I see them on social media like facebook talk about Climate Change and they're like "hur dur lefties are so dum if climite change is real why is it cold outside?", "how r fires linked to global warming lol? Its because lefties hate backburning", I've even literally had friends that went reactionary say to me "if evolution is real why do monkeys still exist?" and I just don't get it? like, these people were absolutely not retarded before, actually a few of these people, before I know were 100% pro-climate change action and would even argue with right wingers over it debunking the same stupid arguments they themselves are making now, but over a period of often just a few months, they become absolute drooling braindead dipshits.
I honestly cannot understand it. Is there some sort of brainwashing that goes on or what?
It's not the political right it's social media, I've seen liberals fall down the same path and socialists who spend their time in a corporate-cultivated echo chamber turn into… well, leftbook and r/socialism.
Also being anti-SJW is a good thing and the term SJW was coined by leftists to criticize idpolers, if it's leading people to the right then show them left critiques of it.
Brody Johnson
Short answer: No. Long answer:
If a bunch of annoying college dipshits make you embrace outright fascism and neoreactionary talking points, ala Sargon of a Cuck, you were never part of the left at all.
As a matter of fact, all these alt-right shits merely enjoyed the anti-SJW momentum from the 2013 onwards (remember Sarkeesian and gamergate?) to push for a white nationalist agenda. They took a legitimate concern of how terrible gaming journalism became and turned GG into the alt-right's pravda. All followed suit.
So no. Retards embrace the right but they are already fucked up in their brains (think incels). Dickheads like Gavin McInnes have been saying dumb shit well over a decade before the alt-right was even a thing. They just embraced the neoreactionary's mainstream popularity to become basically pop stars.
Also, identity politics, contrary to popular belief, is not even a millennial thing. Back in the day, I remember the same shit coming from the new left, back in the late 60s and well into the 70s. They were merely kept in check because the porkies didn't embrace diversity back then like they do now.
Ian Martin
identity politics, contrary to even more popular belief, is not exclusively leftist as even your post seems to suggest, it is in fact so ingrained into right-wing thought it isn't even recognised as such. It is also much older, starting at the latest in the Romantic late 19th century. identity politics, with its particularist, exclusionary and class-collaborationist qualities belongs in the Right, and it's time we draw the line.
I was mostly refering to the PC-type of identity politics. What you refer is mostly identitarianism, which is entirely different from political correctness and feminism.
Logan Kelly
It's almost as if there was some economic system that prioritizes something other than the human development and therefore decays it.
is it though? what you describe as PC is just the 'progressive' variant of identitarianism, it rests on many of the same principles as the 'regressive' variety. also let's not use ambiguous terms and throw the baby out with the bathwater. there are also gendered perspectives on society that advance universalism.
Sebastian Gomez
Alienation with hard observation of scientific data. We live in a age of Capitalism where only a few scientists could go through the scientific method while the rest of the world has to trust what the editor says from the scientific paper. From there it easily jumps into the realm of public relations, the people only believe in the guy who could string words more romantically than the other. The cult of scientism relies solely on this PR aspect and relish it as science itself. Then they wonder why they loose the battle to fascists and reactionaries. The fact is that they were the kings in esoteric language for a long time. Before people were less alienated from thier surroundings and could point out simple observations, now they will deny the observations right in front of them. The people are getting indoctrinated because metaphorically sitting in a cell with a TV blasting at you 24 7 causes one to become desensitized to reality.
Nathaniel Morgan
It's the result of the natural effects of echo chambers, the human need to conform to your wider social group, and an impressionability of youth that doesn't begin to disappear until your late 20s to early 30s. There also the fact that American conservatism is an inherently stupid worldview, so when people end up sucked into a conservative environment the aforementioned social and psychological phenomena take effect and produce what you're experiencing. Psychological compartmentalization also plays a big role is otherwise seemingly intelligent people holding astoundingly stupid views.
