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There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs). They engage in activities that they claim are in support of race, gender and
by Veratyr 11y ago
There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs). They engage in activities that they claim are in support of race, gender and class equality but are in fact often racist or sexist. In general they seem to be hateful people damaging the causes they claim to fight for.
The #KillAllMen, #KillAllWhiteMen hashtags on Twitter are good examples of some of their activities.
Their backwards activism is often self-branded as "feminism", giving birth to things like #WomenAgainstFeminism. The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it.
I have a feeling it's their backwards "feminism" your parent commenter was referring to.
- Aoyagi 11y agoA group? To my understanding, "SJW" is a pejorative naming from the other side of the scale.
- Veratyr 11y agoApparently you're right. I have seen instances of members of this group self labelling as an "SJW" though.
- fenomas 11y agoIn practice, when someone refers to themselves as an SJW they mean they are the sort of person who's likely to be labeled that way. Similar to "bleeding heart liberal" a generation ago, I guess.
- ossreality 11y agoLMAO. I've never seen someone call themselves a SJW. SJW is used by MRA types to put down anyone who wants to have an educated discussion about feminism, rape culture, privilege or any other trigger word that seems to send a bunch of straight white dudes into a frothing mad rage.
- fleitz 11y agoPerhaps we should not take hashtags as a serious form of debate. There are idiots on the internet. They have opinions. It's alright. Like any other -ism people are always debating what TRUE -ismists believe. eg. Is Rand Paul a libertarian? eg. Is Obama a liberal? In general most people have opinions that don't fit into neat little boxes.
- __z 11y ago> The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it. The concept of feminism becoming discredited started happening way before the term "SJW" existed. Both from outside the movement (See: the straw feminist trope) and within the movement (from a small minority of crazies).
- _kst_ 11y ago> There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs). No, there isn't. "SJW" is an insult used by their opponents. (Some of them might choose to adopt it, but most as far as I know do not.) > The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it. I've seen that claim, but I'm extremely skeptical that it's a significant phenomenon.