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> It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors more than they're turning out folks who are prepared to enter the workfor
by thosakwe 8y ago
> It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors more than they're turning out folks who are prepared to enter the workforce.
They’re not mutually exclusive. You can be a skilled worker, who also advocates for social justice... I don’t even see how one would obstruct the other.
I’m also wondering how this means that “the quality of education seems to be on the decline.”
- bzbarsky 8y agoThere's a difference between advocating for social justice and being a "social justice warrior", as the term is generally understood today (the meaning has shifted a good bit in the last 20 years). As far as I can tell, at this point when people hear "social justice warrior", they hear: (1) the person's interaction with the world is all about status signaling, not achieving actual justice and (2) the "warrior" part is taken seriously, in the sense of perceiving anyone not perfectly aligned with you as an enemy to be destroyed, by any means necessary. It's obviously still possible to be a skilled worker with a mindset leaning in that direction; I've met some. But it can make someone very hard to work with, for sure. Obviously the pure form of "social justice warrior" as described above is a caricature that one encounters rarely in practice. Most people grow out of point (2) once they get old enough, for example.