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Originally Posted by chemgear
Sometimes I wonder why "social justice warriors" is treated as such a pejorative.
If you were going to be a warrior (or wizard, or druid, or paladin, etc.) about anything . . . wouldn't social justice be a damn good cause to support?
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Nominally, yeah, but what it's meant to represent is outrage hobbyists whose reaction to social justice issues, regardless of their severity, is to assemble the PC equivalent of a lynch mob to attempt to crucify the offender and ruin them to the greatest degree possible.
In other words, it's meant to describe people taking the right basic sentiment to an absurd extreme and without any sense of proportion, for entirely the wrong reasons.
People were discussing it in this thread:
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...stice+warriors
With respect to this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/ma...life.html?_r=0