Social Justice Warrior?

[rowyn]

grrm has been writing about the Hugos lately, and one of his side issues has been that he finds the term "SJW" very offensive, and wants "his side" to be called "liberals" or "progressives" instead.

I am fascinated by this, for a couple of reasons. One: I rather like the term "Social Justice Warrior". I prefer "social justice cleric" for myself, but I'm fine with SJW. I find it a convenient term for distinguishing those with a keen interest in social justice and tolerance of diversity in many and varied forms. I know SJW was originally a conservative jab at us, but I thought it had been reclaimed, like "gay" or "queer". The other is that I think of myself as an SJW, but not a liberal or a progressive. So the substitution doesn't work for me. I suppose SJWs could claim "egalitarian" instead, but who would claim to be anti-egalitarian?

Then again, who wants to come out as antisocial injustice pacifists? As insults go, SJW has never had a lot of sting. n_n

EDIT: I've locked comments to this entry, 'cause I'm not enjoying some of the conversation the topic is generating. Y'all feel free to carry on in your own journals if you've more to say. :)

Comments

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

No more than you should care about the anger of the whites who are being called racist. After all, they committed the same atrocities against the Native Americans and are still committing atrocities against their former slaves.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I was not aware that any of the slaveowning whites or former slaves were still alive! Since slavery ended everywhere in the United States of America in 1863 and the Confederacy was conqured in 1865, , if one was born just before the surrender of the last Confederate forces he would have to be 150 (!) years old, which exceeds the known maximum human lifespan by about 25%!!

This is very welcome news! Are research scientists investigating this longevity factor? Perhaps one day it can be applied to the betterment of the human race as a whole!

And ... what atrocities? The city of Baltimore has a mostly-black government and a large black component to its police force. Are you saying that the whites of Baltimore ordered the black police officers to be cruel to black people beause they were black people?