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What exactly is an Ess Jay Double-you?
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ItWasMeantToBe19
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Anyone to the left of "Anti-racist means anti-white"/"Catcalling is a complement!"
wanderingprostheyltite
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This will be a happy thread.
real_slime
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It's a phrase used by people who are more pissed off that there are people online who are a bit obnoxious in putting forth their anti-discriminatory opinions than they are about all the discrimination in the world.
SolicitorPirate
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PeakPointMatrix
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Gonzo The Great
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Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Silver Arrows
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Over under on how many pages this goes before it gets nasty and the mods lock it? I say over 10.
Hipster Cthulhu
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An overused term used to attack anyone you disagree with.
Jimquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je72mH9OmuU
Jimquisition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je72mH9OmuU
Other way around.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
xKilltheMx
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A term used to lessen somebody's mostly righteous outrage.
krypt0nian
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Anyone who uses it seriously is an asshole.
Basically, it is an asshole test.
Basically, it is an asshole test.
ActuallyHulk
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They're the kind of people who send death threats to directors over Twitter because they thought a character was handled in a sexist manner.
BUNTING1243
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^lol
A strawman projection for assholes who don't want to know they are assholes.
A strawman projection for assholes who don't want to know they are assholes.
Ganzlinger
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The name sounds awesome, though
John Kowalski
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iirc its modern use is a corruption of its earlier meaning as used in the something awful forums quite a long while back, where "slacktivists" would be accused of only participating because they only liked to argue with other people, so they were called social justice warriors by those who wanted to actually discuss those issues but still distancing themselves from those only searching for drama
in modern times it just seems like an empty buzzword for those annoyed with giving matters of social concern any real gravitas
in modern times it just seems like an empty buzzword for those annoyed with giving matters of social concern any real gravitas
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=social justice warrior
Calling someone an "SJW" is basically an ad hominem attack: questioning their motives instead of the actual arguments they're presenting.
Calling someone an "SJW" is basically an ad hominem attack: questioning their motives instead of the actual arguments they're presenting.
BUNTING1243
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ugh you're being so racist
Admiral Woofington
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A part of the holy team of the round table of the internet. They are
White Knight
Fedorian M'lady
Social Justice Warrior
Twitter Mobius
Sir Slacktivist
And together they call captain planet.
White Knight
Fedorian M'lady
Social Justice Warrior
Twitter Mobius
Sir Slacktivist
And together they call captain planet.
Blargonaut
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Berserkers in service to Crom the Uncaring
TouchMyBox
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It means you're speaking to a gamergate person.
bananafactory
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So then what do we call people who are actually calling out and criticizing legitimate social and moral issues, in a positive way?
JJDinomite
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It's a secret knitting club.
pharmx
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Oh, I'm sure it will get even better...the term seems to have different meanings for different people.
Good fucking question.
Back in 2011-2012, "social justice warrior" was a phrase used on Tumblr by social justice bloggers, to distinguish themselves from people who used violent rhetoric in discussions of equality. Tumblr user "crackerhell" is probably the best example, as he openly told white people to kill themselves for appropriating other cultures (which included wearing a kimono) and claimed to be happy that "27 white kids died" after Sandy Hook. These people were very real, but there were only a few thousand of them. They spent much of their time arguing with less violent social justice bloggers who generally had the same end-goal: equality and an end to oppression.
Around 2013, the term became increasingly proliferated across the internet, mostly through reddit. Pretty quickly, the term became synonymous with all radically progressive bloggers, even those who didn't advocate for violence or bully others. /r/tumblrinaction can be hilarious, but pretty often it involves mocking people for their appearance or gender identity, two things that aren't hurting anyone and honestly should not be fair-game for criticism. SJWs became associated with a preference for non-binary pronouns, and then for any serious activism for change.
These days, after the shit-flinging that is Gamergate, an "SJW" is really any kind of advocate for social justice. All feminists in the media will be described with that acronym, even incredibly harmless people like Tina Fey. Hell, edgy racists on 4chan would insist that Abraham Lincoln was an SJW. The term has really lost its meaning, due to major overuse by more conservative parts of the internet.
Back in 2011-2012, "social justice warrior" was a phrase used on Tumblr by social justice bloggers, to distinguish themselves from people who used violent rhetoric in discussions of equality. Tumblr user "crackerhell" is probably the best example, as he openly told white people to kill themselves for appropriating other cultures (which included wearing a kimono) and claimed to be happy that "27 white kids died" after Sandy Hook. These people were very real, but there were only a few thousand of them. They spent much of their time arguing with less violent social justice bloggers who generally had the same end-goal: equality and an end to oppression.
Around 2013, the term became increasingly proliferated across the internet, mostly through reddit. Pretty quickly, the term became synonymous with all radically progressive bloggers, even those who didn't advocate for violence or bully others. /r/tumblrinaction can be hilarious, but pretty often it involves mocking people for their appearance or gender identity, two things that aren't hurting anyone and honestly should not be fair-game for criticism. SJWs became associated with a preference for non-binary pronouns, and then for any serious activism for change.
These days, after the shit-flinging that is Gamergate, an "SJW" is really any kind of advocate for social justice. All feminists in the media will be described with that acronym, even incredibly harmless people like Tina Fey. Hell, edgy racists on 4chan would insist that Abraham Lincoln was an SJW. The term has really lost its meaning, due to major overuse by more conservative parts of the internet.
Silver Arrows
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m-muh ethics in women hating
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Tell me this isn't real. This is parody. Right?
Aaron-Lagann
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I thought it was for people who take their beliefs too far and became as much of assholes as the people they're lambasting, but now it's used anytime anyone says anything remotely forward thinking or gets upset over anything at any point ever.
There used to be a way to call a spade a spade and call out those who didn't understand social issues. SJW was the type that responded to anything with faux outrage and condemn others. These days the word has gained traction to generalize anyone who is concerned over social issues who has knowledge about these issues or not.
The term social justice warrior is used to belittle and condemn anyone who wants the betterment of people and better rights for everyone.
OK, but then what do you call people that use insulting sweeping generalizations?
Kind of makes your definition a bit ironic.
It's definitely real, but isn't really representative of anything. There are an enormous amount of radical, naive, and often overreactive social justice bloggers on tumblr, but tumblr is an enormous site. The amount of users is staggering, and only an extremely small minority are like the person in that image.
Thanks
Angry Puppy
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A hipster
Silver Arrows
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Doesn't help that the vast majority of people decide to paint Tumblr with that brush, but what can you do.
Why is half of this in hashtags that aren't real hashtags?
well you certainly see the same people using the two terms
entremet
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It's a parody.
A derogatory term often used to describe people who call out bigotry or inequality as overzealous or self-righteous. Often its used to shout-down those with feminist values, etc. Granted some people can be extremely excessive and arrogant about what they find offensive, but there is nothing negative about striving for equality for underrepresented or disenfranchised individuals.
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