You basically beat me to it.

I'm one of the most left-leaning and progressive-esque people on this site these days. I'm pretty much the typical SJW bogeyman. But more and more I feel like the fringe of the progressive movement (it's largely not the left, incidentally; these people don't give a shit about labor) is becoming a caricature of itself.

I spent the last two weeks arguing with multiple people on Facebook that using violence as a political tool could only end badly for the progressive cause.

For all of the screeching about "not needing allies" that these people do, they're going to find themselves really lonely at the barricades if they keep this up.