I watched some anti-SJW garbage for a couple months when I was around 14. I didn't go that far down the pipeline, I watched stuff like h3h3 and Amazing Atheist. I had literally no idea what they were talking about, I was 14 and had no context for politics, but I just saw other people saying they were good and funny and absorbed that opinion. Then I guess I realised pretty quickly that I didn't agree with any of it

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Same kind of. I thought people were making fun of actual extreme examples of SJW and agreed that accusing random people of wrongdoing based on their identity (like saying all men are evil) is weird and sometimes funny. But when I was old enough to critically think about these videos I realised that they were hyped up maliciously and actually not very representative of any social movement. It did make me very cynical for a few years because I was made to think that every social movement was somehow malicious and that progress was therefore impossible.