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Acevil on 19 April 2017
the_dark_lewd said:
SJW was clearly designed to be the mirror image of "bigot".

It's supposed to a 1 word dismissal with which you stigmatize certain position without having to offer an actual rebuttal to them on the grounds that "that position upsets me so much that I just don't have to respond to it".

I fully agree, and I think it is basically an attempt to treat anything different as a negative. It is basically a way to dismiss something, I seen it in this thread and I say this generally from anti-social justice stand point (with that said, I am also very much against the opposite side as well). Most people abuse the word without merit and with that present no real conversation. 



 

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mjk45 on 19 April 2017
LivingMetal said:
Slarvax said:
Since Trump became president, everything has to be labeled. You're either a SJW or a Nazi. No buts.

This offends me since I happen to like butts (but I like boobs more).

He may have been refering to cigarette  buts but then again so might you , so i'll but out.



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haxxiy on 19 April 2017

"Racism" and related terms probably take the cake.



 

 

 

 

 

A_C_E on 19 April 2017
Lawlight said:

Sure - all the important good, new characters are non-white males. We all know that white males are evil. And it's the same thing in Rogue One. That's a lot of new characters introduced when you think about it. Were it not for the old characters, there would no white male - the Solos and Luke.

They made the female lead better than anyone else at everything. I'm pretty sure she'll be teachig Luke about the force in The Last Jedi.


This may not be clear to you but you are calculating a correlation of variables and assuming causation between those variables. Correlation does not equal causation.

Let me get this straight... Because the villain just so happened to be white and the "new" good characters weren't white this movie is an SJW movie? Your example does not show that SJW practices are at play at all, only that it just so happens that different ethinicities are in different roles, which is fine btw.

As for the female lead... The female lead was hardly perfect and was faced with adversity in TFA but you say the female lead was better than anyone else at everything? You mean, just like most movies with a male protagonist? *gasp* How dare Hollywood follow previous films of the past without gender bias!!!



numberwang on 19 April 2017

Everything is Sexist!
Everything is Racist!
Everything is Homophobic!
And you have to point it all out!

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VGPolyglot on 19 April 2017

Am I considered an SJW? I have no idea.



TruckOSaurus on 19 April 2017
VGPolyglot said:
Am I considered an SJW? I have no idea.

Well Chun Li was only added to Street Fighter II to satisfy those damned feminists! So yeah... big time SJW!



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LadyJasmine on 19 April 2017

SJW is not a mockery of progressive ideals.

It is someone so attached to their ideals they have become detached from reality or perhaps from actual or real injustices of the world.

If a black women complains of racism, people wont call her a SJW.

When a white women who comes from a privileged household throws a fit that Yoga is cultural appropriation, that is a SJW in a negative sense.



Super_Boom on 20 April 2017
pokoko said:
I vote "misogynist".

I think it's to the point now that simply disagreeing with a female can earn you that label.

Sounds to me like you hate women. Why else would you disagree with them.

Why do you hate women?



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monocle_layton on 20 April 2017
shikamaru317 said:

It is indeed overused, though not as much as terms like nazi and racist. Also, in case anyone is wondering, Cosmic Star Heroine is not an SJW game. I'm anti-SJW myself, and having just completed Cosmic Star Heroine yesterday, I can honestly say there is no SJW pandering of the sort you can see in recent Bioware games. A female lead does not automatically equal SJW pandering, I don't know why some people seem to think it does. You can have a game with a strong female lead that doesn't pander to SJW's and feminists, the Tomb Raider reboot is a perfect example. 

unlike you, some people are so bigoted to the point where anything with a woman or non-white person is suddenly SJW pandering by an evil, leftist company. 

While some games do pander to SJW's, gamers have a tendency to overreact as well.