- Day, Vox [Theodore Beale].
SJWs Always Double Down.
Kouvola, Finland: Castalia House, 2017.
ISBN 978-952-7065-19-8.
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In SJWs Always Lie (October 2015)
Vox Day
introduced a wide audience to the contemporary phenomenon of
Social Justice Warriors (SJWs), collectivists and radical conformists
burning with the fierce ardour of ignorance who, flowing out
of the academic jackal bins where they are manufactured, are
infiltrating the culture: science fiction and fantasy,
comic books, video games; and industry: technology companies,
open source software development, and more established and
conventional firms whose managements have often already
largely bought into the social justice agenda.
The present volume updates the status of the Cold Civil War
a couple of years on, recounts some key battles,
surveys changes in the landscape, and provides
concrete and practical advice to those who wish to avoid
SJW penetration of their organisations or excise an infiltration
already under way.
Two major things have changed since 2015. The first, and most
obvious, is the election of Donald Trump as President of the
United States in November, 2016. It is impossible to overstate
the significance of this. Up until the evening of Election
Day, the social justice warriors were absolutely confident
they had won on every front and that all that remained was
to patrol the battlefield and bayonet the wounded. They were
ascendant across the culture, in virtually total control of
academia and the media, and with the coronation of Hillary
Clinton, positioned to tilt the Supreme Court to discover
the remainder of their agenda emanating from penumbras in
the living Constitution. And then—disaster!
The deplorables who inhabit the heartland of the country,
those knuckle-walking, Bible-thumping, gun-waving bitter
clingers who produce just about every tangible thing still made
in the United States up and elected somebody who said he'd
put them—not the coastal élites, ivory tower
professors and think tankers, “refugees” and the
racket that imports them, “undocumented migrants”
and the businesses that exploit their cheap labour, and all
the rest of the parasitic ball and chain a once-great and
productive nation has been dragging behind it for decades—first.
The shock of this event seems to have jolted a large
fraction of the social justice warriors loose from their
(already tenuous) moorings to reality. “What
could have happened?”, they shrieked, “It
must have been the Russians!” Overnight, there was
the “resistance”, the rampage of masked violent
street mobs, while at the same time SJW leaders in the
public eye increasingly dropped the masks behind which
they'd concealed their actual agenda. Now we have
candidates for national office from the Democrat party,
such as bug-eyed SJW
Alexandria
Occasional-Cortex openly
calling themselves socialists, while others chant “no
borders” and advocate
abolishing
the federal immigration
and customs enforcement agency. What's the response to
deranged leftists trying to
gun
down Republican legislators
at a baseball practice and
assaulting
a U.S. Senator while
mowing the lawn of his home? The Democrat candidate who lost
to Trump in 2016 says,
“You
cannot be civil with a political
party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you
care about.”, and the attorney general, the chief law
enforcement officer of the administration which preceded
Trump in office said,
“When
they go low, we kick
them. That's what this new Democratic party is about.”
In parallel with this, the SJW convergence of the major
technology and communication companies which increasingly
dominate the flow of news and information and the public
discourse: Google (and its YouTube), Facebook, Twitter, Amazon,
and the rest, previously covert, has now become explicit. They
no longer feign neutrality to content, or position themselves
as common carriers. Now, they overtly put their thumb on the
scale of public discourse, pushing down conservative and
nationalist voices in search rankings, de-monetising or
banning videos that oppose the slaver agenda, “shadow
banning” dissenting voices or terminating their
accounts entirely. Payment platforms and crowd-funding
sites enforce an ideological agenda and cut off access to
those they consider insufficiently on board with the
collectivist, globalist party line. The high tech industry,
purporting to cherish “diversity”, has become openly
hostile to anybody who dares dissent: firing them and blacklisting
them from employment at other similarly converged firms.
It would seem a dark time for champions of liberty, believers in
reward for individual merit rather than grievance group
membership, and other forms of sanity which are now considered
unthinkable among the unthinking. This book provides a breath of
fresh air, a sense of hope, and practical information to
navigate a landscape populated by all too many non-playable
characters who imbibe, repeat, and enforce the
Narrative without
questioning or investigating how it is created, disseminated in
a co-ordinated manner across all media, and adjusted (including
Stalinist party-line overnight turns on a dime) to advance the
slaver agenda.
Vox Day walks through the eight stages of SJW convergence
of an organisation from infiltration through evading the
blame for the inevitable failure of the organisation once
fully converged, illustrating the process with real-world
examples and quotes from SJWs and companies infested with
them. But the progression of the disease is not irreversible,
and even if it is not arrested, there is still hope for the
industry and society as a whole (not to minimise the injury
and suffering inflicted on innocent and productive individuals
in the affected organisations).
An organisation, whether a company, government agency, or
open source software project, only comes onto the radar of
the SJWs once it grows to a certain size and achieves a
degree of success carrying out the mission for which it was
created. It is at this point that SJWs will seek to penetrate
the organisation, often through the human resources department,
and then reinforce their ranks by hiring more of their kind.
SJWs flock to positions in which there is no objective measure
of their performance, but instead evaluations performed, as
their ranks grow, more and more by one another. They are
not only uninterested in the organisation's mission (developing
a product, providing a service, etc.), but unqualified and
incapable of carrying it out. In the words of
Jerry Pournelle's
Iron
Law of Bureaucracy, they are not “those who are
devoted to the goals of the organization” (founders,
productive mission-oriented members), but “those dedicated
to the organization itself”. “The Iron Law states
that in every case the second group will gain and keep control
of the organization. It will write the rules, and control
promotions within the organization.”
Now, Dr Pournelle was describing a natural process of evolution in
all bureaucratic organisations. SJW infection simply accelerates
the process and intensifies the damage, because SJWs are not just
focused on the organisation as opposed to its mission, but have
their own independent agenda and may not care about damage to the
institution as long as they can advance the Narrative.
But this is a good thing. It means that, in a
competitive market, SJW afflicted organisations will be at a
disadvantage compared to those which have resisted the corruption
or thrown it off. It makes inflexible, slow-moving players
with a heavy load of SJW parasites
vulnerable to insurgent competitors, often with their founders
still in charge, mission-focused and customer-oriented, who
hire, promote, and reward contributors solely based on merit
and not “diversity”, “inclusion”, or
any of the other SJW shibboleths mouthed by the management of
converged organisations. (I remember, when asked about
my hiring policy in the 1980s, saying “I don't care if
they hang upside down from trees and drink blood. If they're great
programmers, I'll hire them.”)
A detailed history of GamerGate provides a worked example of
how apparent SJW hegemony within a community can be attacked
by “weaponised autism” (as
Milo Yiannopoulos
said, “it's really not wise to take on a collection of
individuals whose idea of entertainment is to spend hundreds of
hours at a highly repetitive task, especially when their core
philosophy is founded on the principle that if you are running
into enemies and taking fire, you must be going the right
way”). Further examples show how these techniques have
been applied within the world of science fiction and fantasy
fandom, comic books, and software development. The key
take-away is that any SJW converged organisation or community is
vulnerable to concerted attack because SJWs are a parasite that
ultimately kills its host. Create an alternative and
relentlessly attack the converged competition, and victory is
possible. And remember, “Victory is not positive PR.
Victory is when your opponent quits.”
This is a valuable guide, building upon
SJWs Always Lie (which you should
read first), and is essential for managers, project leaders,
and people responsible for volunteer organisations who want to
keep them focused on the goals for which they were founded and
protected from co-optation by destructive parasites. You
will learn how seemingly innocent initiatives such as adoption
of an ambiguously-worded Code of Conduct or a Community
Committee can be the wedge by which an organisation can be
subverted and its most productive members forced out or induced
to walk away in disgust. Learning the lessons presented here
can make the difference between success and, some dismal day,
gazing across the cubicles at a sea of pinkhairs and soybeards
and asking yourself, “Where did we go wrong?”
The very fact that SJW behaviour is so predictable makes them
vulnerable. Because they always double down,
they can be manipulated into marginalising themselves, and it's
often child's play to set traps into which they'll walk. Much
of their success to date has been due to the absence of the kind
of hard-edged opposition, willing to employ their own tactics
against them, that you'll see in action here and learn to use
yourself. This is not a game for the “defeat with
dignity” crowd who were, and are, appalled by Donald
Trump's plain speaking, or those who fail to realise that
proclaiming “I won't stoop to their level”
inevitably ends up with “Bend over”. The battles,
and the war can be won, but to do so, you have to fight. Here
is a guide to closing with the enemy and destroying them
before they ruin everything we hold sacred.
October 2018 