"SJWs"

[Blue_Tires]

i.e. "Social Justice Warriors"

Is another term we're about to lose completely to RW framing...I'm seeing it used in a pejorative sense almost daily...

How could someone who works for social justice ever be used as an epithet?? What could *EVER* be negative about working for social justice??

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I guess the RW has been taught to imagine that "social justice"

amounts to the libberuls coming & taking all your stuff & giving it to those people.

[romanic]

2. SJW

I've always noted the difference between SJWs and social justice activist as two different categories. social justice activists are the ones who pound the streets demanding change while promoting equality and getting things done or volunteering their time to race/LGBT/worker rights issues.

Social justice warriors however are mostly online slacktivists (think tumblr) who mostly care about academic semantics, made up groups of oppression ("otherkin", etc ), extreme radical far-left views on race/diversity/culture (cultural appropriation, race separatism) and/or American -centric issues that ignore issues faced by those outside of the U.S. Basically bored teenagers trying to "sound progressive" or indoctrinated college kids. :p

I definitely think right-wingers/bigots have merged both categories into one hodgepodge insult. I've seen reasonable articles on social issues that were smeared with the SJW label simply because bigots can't tell the difference between decent behavior and radical ideology.Sad and pathetic really.

[RedCappedBandit]

3. You're right. Anyone who thinks SJW is even an insult is wrong.

Internet trolls are upset that people challenge their privilege and lash out with terms like social justice warriors. It's ironic and their opinions are worthless. They offer no insight into social justice as a construct; they're ignorant, bored hobbyists who think preteens on tumblr represent activism.

[Brigid]

4. Easy response:

"You say that like it's a bad thing."

[NuclearDem]

5. Gamergaters use that insult all the time.

The proper response is to laugh in their faces.