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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by visarga on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:51PM (#27915149)
> whether the current "ultra-PC/SJW-ism" trend actually started as a joke that got taken too far and adopted as truth by the gullible

It started with a few German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School in the interwar period.

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Re:A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech by kbelder on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:53AM (#27915513)
> Deep SJW lore

I think you're actually correct, although the roots go back further. People don't understand the historical academic context of modern intolerance.

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