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  Praise for Vox Day

  “Vox Day is one sick puppy.”

  —Dr. P.Z. Myers, PhD

  “Vox Day is a fascist mega-dickbag and less a human being than one long sequence of junk DNA.”

  —Dr. Phil Sandifer, PhD

  “I consider Vox Day one step, either direction, from certifiable.”

  —Mike Resnick, science fiction author, 38-time Hugo Award nominee

  “I think I have made my disgust with Vox Day and his Rabid Puppies clear.”

  —George R. R. Martin, fantasy author, 19-time Hugo Award nominee

  “Vox Day rises all the way to 'downright evil'. ”

  —Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Manager of Science Fiction, Tor Books, 15-time Hugo Award nominee

  “Vox Day is a real bigoted shithole of a human being.”

  —John Scalzi, three-time SFWA President and science fiction author, 9-time Hugo nominee

  “Vox Day and his followers made it impossible for me to remain silent, keep calm, and carry on.”

  —Connie Willis, science fiction author, 24-time Hugo Award nominee

  “Vox Day set out to hurt the SF genre by damaging our award system.”

  —David Gerrold, science fiction author, 4-time Hugo Award nominee

  “The real burning question is, 'what will Vox Day attack next?'”

  —Charles Stross, science fiction author, 15-time Hugo Award nominee

  SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police

  by Vox Day

  Published by Castalia House

  Kouvola, Finland

  www.castaliahouse.com

  This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by Finnish copyright law.

  Copyright © 2015 by Vox Day

  All rights reserved

  Cover Design: JartStar

  Foreword: Milo Yiannopoulos

  Interior Cartoons: Red Meat

  Version 001

  “Vivian and the Sad Puppy” appears courtesy of Kukuruyo.

  “What is GamerGate?” appears courtesy of Dr. Ethics.

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Praise for Vox Day

  Dedication

  Foreword

  Prologue

  Chapter 1: An Introduction to the SJW

  Chapter 2. The Three Laws of SJW

  Chapter 3: When SJWs Attack

  Chapter 5: Counterattack

  Chapter 5: Release the Hounds

  Chapter 6: The SJW Next Door

  Chapter 7: What to Do When SJWs Attack

  Chapter 8: Striking Back at the Thought Police

  Chapter 9: Winning the Social Justice War

  Chapter 10: How to Talk to SJWs

  Postscript

  Appendix A

  Appendix B

  Appendix C

  Castalia House

  DEDICATION

  This book is for all the gamers around the world who simply wanted to be left alone to play their games in peace. You didn't go looking to fight a cultural war, the social justice warriors in game journalism brought their war to you.

  This book is for Adam Baldwin and Internet Aristocrat, for Sargon of Akkad and RogueStar and The Ralph Retort, for Ultra (who exposed the GameJournoPros), for Draginol and Grummz and all the devs of GG, for Christina Hoff Summers and Mercedes Carrera, for Yuji Nakajima and Oliver Campbell and Kukuruyo, for A Girl in Vermillion and A Mage in Black and MegaSpacePanda, for Doctor Ethics and Alejandro Argandona and Thurin and my man Daddy Warpig, for Paolo Munoz and Deep Freeze and Otter Jesus, for Shauna and Spacebunny, for Allum Bokhari and Mike Cernovich, and, of course, for the literally indefatigable Milo Yiannopoulos.

  We'll always have Paris, Milo.

  This book is for the thousands of sealions whose names I don't know, who sent emails and created memes, who persisted and leveled up, and who, in doing so, shattered the SJW Narrative.

  This book is for #GamerGate.

  FOREWORD

  Social justice divides the world into good and evil. It is a starkly Manichean view of the moral universe: one that pits heroic LGBT campaigners, feminists, transgender activists and #BlackLivesMatter protesters against the jackbooted fascists of the patriarchal, capitalist Establishment.

  Yet dig a little deeper, and you realise that the social justice view of the world is horribly patronising, two-dimensional and depressing. It suggests that our aspirations and opinions are necessarily bound by our circumstances of birth: that homosexuals must support grotesquely engorged public sectors to pay for “homophobia awareness” organisations whether they are needed or not; that women are always and in every circumstance victims; that blacks cannot succeed in life without special treatment.

  This tendency never survives contact with reality because it never sees the exceptions coming. Social justice warriors don’t understand that life, and people, are messy and complicated: that a gay person might, for entirely rational reasons and without a shred of self-loathing, object to the idea of gay marriage.

  SJWs Always Lie is a truism because you cannot make social justice arguments without purposefully omitting crucial facts. You cannot, in other words, be a social justice warrior in good faith.

  SJWs see no irony in judging people according to their orientation, skin colour and gender, particularly if they are “straight”, “white” and “male.” But even those of us on the fringes struggle to escape censure. I was born a conservative, but I chose to be homosexual. According to the most fashionable thinking in American media and the academy, I should not exist.

  The fact that I am gay yet refuse to acquiesce to third-wave feminism or grievance politics of any other kind strikes my ideological opponents as one of the great unexplained mysteries of the universe. (It’s why they can’t beat me in television debates.) Believing that a person’s sex, race and orientation defines the acceptable limits of the opinions they may hold is called “identity politics.” It’s a bizarre but flourishing cult in America today that makes fools of its supporters by presenting an insultingly reductionist view of human nature.

  We’re familiar with the attitude from stereotypical, sadistic preachers of popular fiction, but not for a hundred years here in the West have so many people from so many pedestals insisted on dictating to the rest of us how we shall live.

  From the dishonest critics of GamerGate to the bigoted and insulting #KillAllMen and #GiveYourMoneyToWomen hashtags, the social justice tendency is a narrow, bossy and often prurient prism from which to view humanity, and one that has acquired, as this book ably demonstrates, an especially poisonous self-righteousness in the last few years.

  Of course, authoritarians are not restricted to one side of the political divide. Nevertheless, it is an ironic and remarkable feature of the American Left that there is no longer space for liberals within American liberalism. That will be a disaster for Left-wing politicians and thinkers in future years because the great battle of the next decade won’t be between left- and right-wing visions of how society ought to be organised, but between the control freaks at Vice and Buzzfeed and the classical liberals of reddit, Twitter and the various image boards. The Left will be relegated to spectator status while the conflict plays out.

  Thanks to the intellectual fragility of social justice, its adherents have become rightly notorious for their cruel, hysterical and sociopathic modus operandi. But while the public is turning its back on lunatics in new media who claim that how men sit on the subway expresses something profound about the relationship between men and women, the zealots still occupy positions of influence in our society.

>   Fortunately, there is a powerful weapon in our arsenal against the hand-wringers, pearl-clutchers, guilt-mongers and professional panickers—ridicule. You don’t have to agree with everything Vox Day writes on his popular blog to recognise that he is a master of the art of needling social justice warriors and one of the loudest and most persistent voices of the resistance. For writing this book he deserves our thanks.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Miami, Florida

  August 2015

  PROLOGUE

  Social justice does not belong to the category of error but to that of nonsense, like the term 'a moral stone'.

  —F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice, 1976

  One cannot truly understand the depths of total dishonesty to which Social Justice Warriors are willing to descend until one has experienced being a direct target of their unrestrained use of the politics of personal destruction.

  In December 2012, I announced my candidacy for the presidency of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, because it seemed obvious to me at the time that the organization was hopelessly out of date after years of being run by amateurs. Here was a science fiction association that in the second decade of the 21st century still snail-mailed a print publication to its members. It was an organization that couldn't even get its own acronym right. And even though self-published writers were already selling tens of millions of ebooks on Amazon, and many of them were actually outselling most of the Active and Associate members of SFWA, a writer couldn't join the association unless he'd published three short stories in the increasingly small number of approved publications or published a novel with one of the approved publishers.

  Their own legal adviser repeatedly commented on how insane it was that the association farmed out the responsibility for deciding who could become a member or not to the very publishers whose interests SFWA had been founded to oppose.

  In addition to those idiosyncracies, the previous administration had been dumb enough to publicly take on Amazon, then Random House, which was rather like a one-winged mosquito announcing to the world that it was going to drain an elephant dry before sucking all the blood out of a hippopotamus. My fellow members also had a disturbingly snobbish tendency to sneer at media tie-in books despite the fact that four of the ten best-selling novels published by the largest science fiction publisher, Tor Books, were Star Wars and HALO tie-in novels.

  So, being a professional game designer and a published fantasy novelist who had been a Life Member of the organization for more than a decade, I thought I might be able to help SFWA come to terms with the post-Gutenberg world of ebooks, smartphones, and virtual goods that had so many of its members reeling in confusion and disarray. Furthermore, unlike most of its past presidents, I had a fair amount of corporate executive experience. I even thought that due to my personal connections to various executives at tech companies like Amazon and Google, I might be able to help the association avoid some of the clumsier PR debacles it was in the habit of creating for itself. And while I wasn't popular in certain SF circles due to my having previously been a nationally syndicated opinion writer for Universal Press Syndicate, SFWA was an apolitical professional authors association, right?

  I could not have been more wrong.

  I posted my candidacy on the members-only SFWA Forum along with my presidential platform. I hadn't been particularly active in the organization over the years, but I did serve on three Nebula Award juries without incident, so this wasn't the first time I'd gotten involved in some capacity. Here are a few of the ideas I put forth in my 12-point platform, none of which had anything whatsoever to do with politics or ideology.

  SPLIT THE NEBULA AWARDS: Science fiction is not fantasy. Fantasy is not science fiction. I propose doubling the number of Nebula Awards and presenting awards for Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, Best Short Story, and Best Script in two categories, Science Fiction and Fantasy.

  AWARD A CASH PRIZE FOR BOTH BEST NOVEL AWARDS: A $5,000 prize will be awarded to the winner of Best Novel: Science Fiction as well as to the winner of Best Novel: Fantasy. The long term goal will be to work towards making the winning of a Nebula a more prestigious and financially valuable event than winning the Man Booker Prize.

  EXPAND THE MEMBERSHIP: The right to SFWA membership will be granted to all self-published and small press-published authors who have sold more than a specified number of ebooks to be determined, eligibility number to be confirmed via official Amazon report. It will also be granted to all SF/F-related computer game lead designers, senior designers, and writers with primary credits on two or more SF/F-related games.

  ELIMINATE THE APPEARANCE OF CORRUPTION IN THE AWARD PROCESS: Closing the nomination process to the membership and the public made the appearance of corruption worse, not better. Reducing the number of recommendations to reduce logrolling was a good idea; hiding the results from the membership created more harm than good.

  Much to my surprise, very few of the association's members were even remotely interested in discussing these or any of the other new ideas I'd put forward. Instead, I was subjected to amateur ad-hoc psychoanalysis, asked a series of increasingly bizarre and irrelevant questions, and forced to put up with nonsensical grandstanding by those who opposed my candidacy. Consider just a few of the strange statements made by the members when given the opportunity to ask questions of the candidates.

  Are there examples in your personal history where you worked for others without any gain for yourself?

  I've seen your blogs, and as a woman I am BEYOND offended by them. If, by some weird fluke you were to win the election, I would immediately resign from the organization. In fact, I'm more than a little appalled and disgusted that you are a member of it, and as such have access to my address and phone number. What can you say to change my mind?

  It seems to me that your obvious contempt for women writers, should you be elected, will redefine the nature of the organization in a way that models your ideology—an ideology which entirely devalues women writers, not to mention a great percentage of certain kinds of writing within the genre. So your public statements concerning publishing and writing and women indicate that you cannot represent a significant portion of the membership. Because you simply do not value those writers, you will be unable to do those things that would support our careers.

  As much as one might think that your preferences don't apply, your personal views do inform your position and platform, though. I find it extremely hard to believe that you can keep the two separate, and going by your posts on your personal blog, you seem to publicly delight in attacking women, the Nebula Awards, our current officers, or whatever strikes your fancy. It doesn't fill me with any great hope that you can rein in those impulses, and I think your Presidency probably would be the worst thing that could ever happen to SFWA.

  In light of the uniformly negative response by the members, it will probably not come as a surprise to the reader to learn that I lost the election in a landslide, 444 to 46, to a non-entity who subsequently served a single term that was chiefly notable for his decision to publicly take sides with the publishing giant Hachette against Amazon. Losing the election was not a surprise to me either. In fact, on the very day that I announced my candidacy, I observed the chances of my winning were highly improbable.

  It is unlikely that I will win the election; even if I win it is unlikely that I can do anything to salvage the situation. The myopic Neo-Luddism and anti-intellectual ideology in the organization appears to be both deep and wide. But I will present my platform to the membership on February 1st so that at least no one will be able to say that things could not have been different if the organization, and the literary genre, continues its downward spiral.

  However, I did expect that after running for office and meeting with overwhelming rejection, such a conclusive result would put an end to the affair and I could go back to being a largely anonymous member of the association. What I didn't real
ize was that by running for office, I had put a fright into the social justice warriors of SFWA, and they were absolutely determined to put an end to this potential threat to their continued dominance of the organization by any means necessary.

  On May 3, 2013, I lost the election. Barely three months later, I received the following email from the successful candidate who had defeated me.

  The SFWA Board has unanimously voted for your expulsion from the organization, effective immediately. This has been a difficult decision, but thorough examination of the evidence and the situation makes it clear that this action is necessary to best serve the interests of the organization and its members.

  Sincerely,

  Steven Gould

  President

  Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

  And that's how I came to consciously recognize the First Law of SJW: SJWs always lie. And more importantly, in the process of being subjected to one of their patented swarmings, I learned how to survive and even to thrive in the face of their lies and false accusations.

  The goal of this book is to show you how SJWs operate, teach you how to see through their words, explain how to correctly anticipate their actions, and give you the weapons you need to successfully thwart their inevitable attempts to disqualify you, discredit you, and destroy your reputation.

  CHAPTER ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR

  The new world order of social justice and comradeship, the rational and classless state, is no wild idealistic dream, but a logical extrapolation from the whole course of evolution, having no less authority than that behind it, and therefore of all faiths the most rational.