Why do a lot of people hate Social Justice Warriors?
Well, I can't speak for everyone but from what I can gather from interactions I've both had and witnessed, it might be down to the fact that many of them (#notall) are fucking deplorable human beings (or non binary pony kin, I must watch my triggering language!)
This is something I've been thinking about for quite a while now. Are all Social Justice Warriors complete and total dickheads? Does that just come with the job of defending those poor innocent blacks, women, special snowflakes?
I looked up the definition of 'Social Justice' firstly and it was pretty much what I expected. But the discussion around the words are far more detailed than I thought possible. People have written bloody essays discussing the nuisance I mean nuance of social justice.
Anyway the very first definition I saw was this :
justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
"individuality gives way to the struggle for social justice"
Buuut that didn't quite do it for me and so I scrolled down to the good old Urban Dictionary and found the way more accurate and amusing:
Promoting tolerance, freedom, and equality for all people regardless of race, sex, orietntation, national origin, handicap, etc... except for white, straight, cisgendered males. Fuck those guys, they're overprivileged no matter what.
"In the name of social justice, check your privilege."
And although this definition is the perfect and funny description of the loudest proudest most obnoxious social justice warriors, I still thought it could be bumped up just a notch and so I have my own to add.
Social Justice: Promoting equality by lowering standards and condescending to who they see as the oppressed and incapable groups of society, stripping them of their agency all the while virtue signalling about how noble and accepting they are, die white cis het male scum. (And anyone who disagrees with us is the following, Racist, Homophobic, Transphobic, Abelist and just overall human waste.)
I think these two definitions combined create a more pristine picture of a modern day social justice warrior. And now we move on to that three word slur.
Social Justice Warrior.
I wonder if actual Social Justice warriors are aware of how most people see them? I would hazard a guess that if they are even slightly aware, it only emboldens them in their stance.
But on to the question of whether an SJW can really be a 'good person' or even 'better' than a non SJW.
I say it depends on the person. All of the ones I have encountered happen to come under the category of total arsehat. You know the kind? They go on and on about how this and that group is oppressed without ever showing any actual evidence in fact most of the time just by virtue of being able to complain about being oppressed on an open forum like uh I don't know THE INTERNET, it is blatantly obvious that they or the group they are shielding for are not oppressed. Now this is all part and parcel of the SJW life, but what does my head in, is when I encounter a SJW who tries to tell me that I'm oppressed and when I disagree with them, they do one of two things (both make me want to smash them in the face with a table in equal measure, see equality!)
1. 'You don't speak for all black people and yes you do live in a systematically racist society its just that you have somehow managed to climb a bit higher. It doesn't matter though because you're still oppressed.
My translation of this?
I think of you as a sub human incapable of holding an opinion of your own without the use of group thinkers like me. In order for you to matter, I have to be here to call attention to you and hold your hand otherwise, who will care? You are not capable of social mobility like everyone else because the colour of your skin means that not only do I see you as lesser but so does everyone else. Why? Oh because of shit that happened 100's of years ago before any of our fucking grandparents were a twinkle in their parent's ball sacks. How do I know everyone else thinks this way? Well because they're white you dummy, they're automatically racist and at the same time better than you but I'm not racist for thinking this despite this being the very definition of racism because I'm just looking out for you.
I can't stress it enough. Fuck you if you think you can speak for an entire group of people. You can't and attempting to makes you look an absolute tool.You might not engage in 'typical racism' but your condescension is still, racist. At least typical racism is honest.This applies to all areas of social justice these morons touch. Feminism, BLM, Gaming. Just everything, fucking leave people alone.
2. 'Oh you're just a (coon, Aunt Jemima, house coon, self hating black, oreo, coconut, malteser, you just want to be white)'
This one happens mostly from other black SJW (black lives matter right?) And its no great shock that these types of people's only defence in the face of descenting opinion, reason and logic is to call names. It's this type of childish behaviour that makes it impossible for me to take people who call themselves Social Justice Warriors seriously.
It seems to me that most of these social justice fuckwits couldn't give two shits about the people their championing for, so long as the world sees them as 'good people' it doesn't matter that they are causing way more harm than good with their political correctness and race baiting. Ironically enough they too often ignore the voices of the so call 'oppresses' groups because they don't fit into their narrative, they're too successful, too willing to accept personal responsibility. This is why I hate Social Justice Warriors. I think if you care enough about social justice then you act on it but being an SJW is not so much about action, as it is about going with the tide despite the harm and using all the bullshit rhetoric (cultural appropriation, transphobic, triggered, fat activist, check your privilege.)
And I don't know maybe the 'good' SJWs are getting a raw deal here but I honestly doubt that shit. When there is nothing left to strive for in social equality, they reach for privliage, they seek to elevate one group above another. And the consequences of this? BLM's calling for fucking segregation! We're moving backwards! And they call this progress? No its regressive.
The average SJW is not a 'good' person but an attention seeking tumblr snowflake begging to be on the right side of history. What is worse, is that these people represent the left how the fuck did that happen? Its gotten to the point where I'm not even sure I want to call myself liberal anymore, I don't know what it means.
If you or anyone you know is suffering from regressive-ism, log off tumblr, put down your pronouns and take a fucking look outside. You may be surprised when you don't immediately get raped or triggered by the white guy with the dreadlocks minding his own business.
Make like that man, for heaven sake make like that man.
Love,
The Girl in Blue
xoxo
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