In high school (granted I went to a Christian private school in Florida; graduated 2011), you had the band/choir kids (a decided minority)—and then you had everyone else [sports kids (jocks)/cheerleaders/“preppy” girls]. I was a member of the former.

It almost goes without saying that the sports/not-band kids were the “cool”, popular ones. The band kids weren’t really bullied much, but we just weren’t in the same social circles as everyone else. You could tell we didn’t really fit in with them and vice versa—not that they would have ever wanted to fit in with us.

Well, come 2017, and the only people from my high school back then who are now what one would call “SJWs” — who frequently post Social Justice PC statuses and articles online; who have countless tattoos, weird-colored hair, all sorts of piercings, etc. — are from the band/choir gang.

On the other hand, almost all of the pro-Trump/anti-Hillary/pro-common-sense posts I have seen from people I knew back then, are from the jocks, cheerleaders and preppy girls. And though many of them frat-partied, skipped class and slept their way through college, they nevertheless didn’t go the SJW route.

This is not a coincidence. In fact, I am starting to believe that the majority of SJWs are exactly those unpopular kids from high school, who have now turned to radical identity politics as a means to stand out. After feeling unpopular/weird/being bullied all throughout high school, they now choose (and make no mistake, it is a choice) to adopt these “identities” and multitudinous genders to help make up for it. To make them feel special and unique. And now, funnily enough, they have become the bullies.

That is not to say that all unpopular kids in high school go the way of the SJW; after all, I made it out alright, and I do know a few people from my high school circle of friends who are closet Trump supporters. But the level of insanity that many of the others have devolved to since then is nothing short of unbelievable. “Identifying” all sorts of different ways, shaming and cursing at people just for posting common sense or facts, getting 666 tattoos, etc. And I just never see any of that sort of thing from the other main social clique.

I suspect that many of these kids simply never came to terms with who they were in high school, and didn’t accept the fact that it was OK to not be in the popular clique. Now, they have to manufacture their own culture to feel special. Little do they know that the Cultural Marxists are manufacturing it for them.

That said, it’s pretty strange to be looking at my Facebook feed and finding more common ground with these people I was never friends with in high school, than with those who I used to spend hours hanging out with… Welcome to 2017, I guess.