content: Sort of. They're used like a distraction sometimes, because in a few critical ways, they are very easy to manipulate. The problem is that if you don't oppose the SJWs, they get what they want, which is to destroy free speech and free thought, and turn all education, media and entertainment into  their cult indoctrination. But if you DO oppose them, then a whole nother set of problems come about, like you mentioned above. It's a fork, of two unpalatable choices, made easier by the political dichotimization that has been standardized for years. Government (corporate, religious, etc) power, once taken, is almost never given up voluntarily, even if it was first taken by someone's ideological enemies. My only disagreement is the idea they have always been present. Movements like SJWs have always been around(cultlike political ideologies that indoctrinate people and feed on outrage), but the level of saturation they have gotten in modern media and education is something that hasn't been seen at this level, this long, for quite some time. They're not the "real enemy" because there isn't any single "real enemy", per se. There's a lot of groups that have been working together, and separately, to subordinate everyone else. Each one inches along a different route, but in the same general direction.