i'm was kind of under the impression that (prior to reactionary influx)
What reactionary "influx"? Most of the future Neoreactionaries were here pretty early. The NRx site MoreRight was a spin-off of LW.
LW just thought social justice issues were obviously true
Rather many of them at best considered the SJ mote obviously true.
I was on LW and overcoming bias for a fair amount of time without knowing they existed, and now it's impossible not to see them - sharp contrast to the present, when people who talk about almost nothing but nrx are disproportionately top contributors. (I don't know how long you were here, but if your username is a reference to what I think it is and marks your time of arrival, you arrived after the Nrx influx. I'm talking about back when Yudkowski was a top contributor.)
Of course, it's impossible to know whether or not NRx were quietly reading and comment...
Through LessWrong, I've discovered the no-reactionary movement. Servery says that there are some of you here.
I'm curious, what lead you to accept the basic premises of the movement? What is the story of your personal "conversion"? Was there some particular insight or information that was important in convincing you? Was it something that just "clicked" for you or that you had always felt in a vague way? Were any of you "raised in it"?
Feel free to forward my questions to others or direct me towards a better forum for asking this.
I hope that this is in no way demeaning or insulting. I'm genuinely curious and my questioning is value free. If you point me towards compelling evidence of the neo-reactionary premise, I'll update on it.