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This is an interesting take, and I think it's not unreasonable to label the worst of the social justice warriors as assholes. However, most of them are well me
by esperent 2y ago
This is an interesting take, and I think it's not unreasonable to label the worst of the social justice warriors as assholes.
However, most of them are well meaning. They're misguided rather than assholes. They really do want to take action for social improvement. It's just that real change is too hard and requires messy things like protesting on the street or getting involved in politics and law. So, they fall back on things like policing words, or calling out perceived bad actors, which they can do from the comfort of their homes via the internet.
To be fair, some genuinely bad people have been "cancelled". The "me too" movement didn't happen without reason. It's just that it went too far, and started ignoring pesky things like evidence, or innocent until proven otherwise.