There's a difference between advocating for social justice and being a "social justice warrior", as the term is generally understood today (the meaning has shif

There'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.