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I did not know he was a Casque and Gauntlet character. Probably would not be now - it's shifted ridiculously to the SJW types, and is incestuous to a degree unimaginable.

I still cannot believe that the incredible teaching hospital there is now the Dr. Seuss Medical school.




Are you from a Tom Sharpe novel?


I find it difficult to believe that anybody still says ‘SJW’ and expects anyone to take them seriously.


I guess I could say insufferable self-important activist busybody, but at the time, Social Justice was a hot buzzword that people would claim to be embracing unironically. This was before GamerGate and the general escalation of nastiness on the internet.


Why not? It's an apt, succinct description of a very specific type of person with a very specific agenda, which lends credible context to the reasoning behind the situations in which they're involved. I find it difficult to believe that anyone still takes SJWs seriously.




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