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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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 |
It's one of those terms that's lost its meaning because of how often racists and sexists apply it to dismiss instances of bigotry and injustice.