It makes me wonder if the critics of online SJ have ever met activists before
LJ activists were the first left wing activists I had ever met and they came as a very, very unpleasant shock. I've heard things about RL left-wing politics that make me ready to accept your judgement that the LJ mob are actually better, but in terms of first time experience it was not a pleasant one and it has taken me years to roll back and be able to view them with anything like a tolerant eye. (Good, tolerant folk like sqbr have helped a lot in that by allowing me to get close enough to see a real person rather than a ranting troll.)
And at the risk of sounding like I'm boasting, I have to say the right wing activism I am involved with has nothing like the culture of aggression and internal warfare that left wingers seem to have.
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LJ activists were the first left wing activists I had ever met and they came as a very, very unpleasant shock. I've heard things about RL left-wing politics that make me ready to accept your judgement that the LJ mob are actually better, but in terms of first time experience it was not a pleasant one and it has taken me years to roll back and be able to view them with anything like a tolerant eye. (Good, tolerant folk like sqbr have helped a lot in that by allowing me to get close enough to see a real person rather than a ranting troll.)
And at the risk of sounding like I'm boasting, I have to say the right wing activism I am involved with has nothing like the culture of aggression and internal warfare that left wingers seem to have.