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HylianSwordsman on 27 November 2019
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tsogud said:
Mnementh said:

Uh, I always had a somewhat cloudy understanding of what I understand being a SJW. But this is clear and simple and very much helps me with a definition: Someone who cares more about the question if a man holding the door open for a women is sexist than about a homeless starving in the streets.

EDIT: I realize that puts it very harshly. To make clear: I think social injustice issues are important and should be addressed. I only think that people which I refer to as SJW have their priorities mixed up. But probably not out of malice or something, but naivite and that they most likely grew up in an environment without poverty. Which is why they don't really emotionally connect to people that are suffering through poverty.

I always found it interesting how the term sjw is being used as an insult nowadays, like pursuing social justice is somehow bad or something.

Technically an sjw is just someone who promotes socially progressive views, so most of us would be put in that category.

Colloquially, it's seen as a pejorative now because it's been co-opted by socially conservative individuals and more often then not it's used by them to undermine substantive socially progressive claims/arguments. I've seen it almost always used by the socially conservative against feminists to discredit feminism entirely as just a vapid, self-aggrandizing ideology.

Don't throw fuel to the conservative fire, imo being a sjw ain't really a bad thing.

I always viewed it like this. Social justice is a good thing. People who are committed to social justice causes are properly called social justice activists. Warrior is a tongue in cheek term added to the end by conservatives to mock people for supposedly taking it too seriously or too far. It's like the term "feminazi" in that way, except that conservatives have mostly stopped using feminazi altogether from what I've seen and started using SJW to mean all social justice activists. I choose to throw the warrior term right back at them. They're status quo warriors, because if you notice, they're not just using SJW to mean people who think that white people should be excluded from things to teach them how oppression feels (real thing that happened at a college in Washington state, btw), but rather using the term SJW against anyone who dares allow any piece of media to feature a non-"cisgendered straight white male Christian" at all ("A lesbian protagonist?! These SJWs shove their politics down our throats!!!!11!!one!!).