I have previously written a couple of blog posts about the difference in rhetoric and tone in social media between typical SJWs and typical anti-SJWs. (You can see those blog posts here and here.)
As you might guess from this blog, I quite often watch YouTube videos that are critical of SJWs and their policies and actions. While I'm not all that interested in watching videos from the other side (I have too little time to waste my life watching them, really), I sometimes stumble across them.
As you might guess, I have noticed a drastic difference in the average tone and rhetoric in the comment sections of these videos.
On anti-SJW videos you get semi-regularly your archetypal American conservative comments, typically about the 2nd Amendment (as if guns solved every problem, which just isn't true), and some comments may be outright mockery of the people or person being talked about in the video (if it's talking about a group of people, entity, organization, or a particular person), but in general the majority of the comments are either reasonable, rational, or just making light fun of the target of the criticism.
I very, very rarely see outright anger, hatred, calls for violence, insulting, demeaning comments (if there are demeaning comments they tend to not be very severe and nasty to the extreme), racism, sexism, or anything like that. Rather peculiarly, if the video is, for example, about some woman, I surprisingly rarely see any sexist comments, or if it's about a black person, any racist comments. (It could of course be that YouTube either automatically removes those comments, or puts them so far down in the list of comments that you would only encounter on page 20 or such.)
Overall, the amount of outright hate and nasty comments is very small.
As you might guess, the exact opposite is the case with SJW videos. The more the video is riling up its viewers against something, the nastier the comment section tends to be, right from the beginning (and most upvoted).
Namecalling, using the worst insults in the book you can imagine, calls for violence, and oozing the most toxic and vile pure unadultered hatred you can imagine. If the video has anything to do with Donald Trump, expect lots and lots of comments (even on the very first page of comments) to be about people wishing he was murdered. Conservatives, all of them, will be called nazis, fascists, and accused of all kinds of things. The comments are extremely hateful, using expressions and rhetoric that express pure anger, blind rage and hatred, and usually call for violence (sometimes even lethal violence).
I just don't see this kind of rhetoric in the comment sections of anti-SJW videos. Once in a blue moon you might stumble across one comment that's a bit like that, but that's about it. I can't even remember if I have ever seen one single comment calling on direct violence against somebody. There may well be, but according to my experience they are exceedingly rare. On SJW videos, however, it's very commonplace.
And then they say that they oppose "hate", and that it's them who have "empathy".
As you might guess from this blog, I quite often watch YouTube videos that are critical of SJWs and their policies and actions. While I'm not all that interested in watching videos from the other side (I have too little time to waste my life watching them, really), I sometimes stumble across them.
As you might guess, I have noticed a drastic difference in the average tone and rhetoric in the comment sections of these videos.
On anti-SJW videos you get semi-regularly your archetypal American conservative comments, typically about the 2nd Amendment (as if guns solved every problem, which just isn't true), and some comments may be outright mockery of the people or person being talked about in the video (if it's talking about a group of people, entity, organization, or a particular person), but in general the majority of the comments are either reasonable, rational, or just making light fun of the target of the criticism.
I very, very rarely see outright anger, hatred, calls for violence, insulting, demeaning comments (if there are demeaning comments they tend to not be very severe and nasty to the extreme), racism, sexism, or anything like that. Rather peculiarly, if the video is, for example, about some woman, I surprisingly rarely see any sexist comments, or if it's about a black person, any racist comments. (It could of course be that YouTube either automatically removes those comments, or puts them so far down in the list of comments that you would only encounter on page 20 or such.)
Overall, the amount of outright hate and nasty comments is very small.
As you might guess, the exact opposite is the case with SJW videos. The more the video is riling up its viewers against something, the nastier the comment section tends to be, right from the beginning (and most upvoted).
Namecalling, using the worst insults in the book you can imagine, calls for violence, and oozing the most toxic and vile pure unadultered hatred you can imagine. If the video has anything to do with Donald Trump, expect lots and lots of comments (even on the very first page of comments) to be about people wishing he was murdered. Conservatives, all of them, will be called nazis, fascists, and accused of all kinds of things. The comments are extremely hateful, using expressions and rhetoric that express pure anger, blind rage and hatred, and usually call for violence (sometimes even lethal violence).
I just don't see this kind of rhetoric in the comment sections of anti-SJW videos. Once in a blue moon you might stumble across one comment that's a bit like that, but that's about it. I can't even remember if I have ever seen one single comment calling on direct violence against somebody. There may well be, but according to my experience they are exceedingly rare. On SJW videos, however, it's very commonplace.
And then they say that they oppose "hate", and that it's them who have "empathy".
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