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How many of you fell for the anti-SJW era pipeline from 2015-2021? And how did you escape?
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In around 2014 I was a loner and impressionable kid who was drawn towards edgy memes and "SJW Meltdown" compilations. Then when I entered highschool in 2017 and made new friends, my radicalization slowed down as I interacted less and less with far-right echo chambers, though I still had various right-wing views like anticommunism, supporting US intervention and supporting the Hong Kong protests.
And then the pandemic hit, and nationwide lockdowns occurred, leading to the replacement of face-to-face classes with online classes, which I struggled with due to shitty internet which, in my experience, was actively throttled by PLDT (one of the oligopolies in my country controlling internet and telecommunication services) to attempt to pressure us into paying them more. (Thankfully we use a different service now)
Long story short, I also observed that The Right was actively discrediting science and pushing anti-vaxx nonsense in favor of consuming literal horse dewormer (ivermectin) instead, which lead to me fully leaving The Right and becoming a centrist/socdem. By the middle of the pandemic (around early 2021) I got tinnitus (but no apparent hearing loss based on hearing tests I was given) which fucked my sleep cycle, and my (highly religious) family decided the solution was to pray, which I did, to no effect, leading me to become atheist.
I became disillusioned with liberal democracy's incompetence with dealing with the pandemic and fighting against the rampant misinformation and the cults that peddled them. Eventually I ran into Stalin's works (Specifically, Anarchism or Socialism and Dialectical and Historical Materialism) and later Lenin's, Marx's, etc. works, and by the middle to near end of 2021 I fully accepted Marxism-Leninism.
Funnily the thing that always stuck with me from my anti-SJW era to now is my skepticism towards so-called human rights and Rule of Law, but the big difference between then and now is why. Back then, I supported then-president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and extrajudicial killings (he's in The Hague for that now lol) and believed human rights only protected criminals from punishment for depriving their victims of those same rights (in other words I believed in "an eye for an eye") while nowadays, I find human rights in their current (Liberal) iteration to be deeply contradictory and hypocritical since Capitalism, by design, actively deprives the workers of their rights to their labor, and actively relies on constant exploitation to not simply collapse under its own weight, and only Communism can sufficiently guarantee these rights. And Rule of Law is just a tool by the imperial core to decry non-imperialist countries as "rogue states".