Defining social justice warrior

mikenmild (23,207 comments) says: 
July 11th, 2016 at 5:30 pm

I don’t believe terms like ‘social justice warrior’ or ‘political correctness’ have any accuracy I describing an ideology at all, any more than bland words like liberal or conservative get us very close to describing a coherent set of beliefs.
Zombie muncher is a snarl word, I agree, but is also very useful for a short hand explanation of the miracle of transubstantiation.

Kimbo (6,501 comments) says: 
July 11th, 2016 at 5:44 pm

Um, but those are immediate pejoratives and imposed by others (i.e, hegemonic oppression), whereas “political correctness” and “SJW” were self-descriptions and terms from those who actually initiated developed them as favourable descriptors.

Fletch (8,958 comments) says: 
July 11th, 2016 at 5:44 pm

Social Justice Warriors, the SJWs, the self-appointed thought police who have been running amok throughout the West since the dawn of the politically correct era in the 1990s. Their defining characteristics:

* a philosophy of activism for activism’s sake
* a dedication to rooting out behavior they deem problematic, offensive, or unacceptable in others
* a custom of primarily identifying individuals by their sex, race, and sexual orientation
* a hierarchy of intrinsic morality based on the identity politics of sex, race, and sexual orientation
* a quasi-religious belief in equality, diversity, and the inevitability of progress
* an assumption of bad faith on the part of all non-social justice warriors
* an opinion that motivation matters more than consequences
* a certainty that they are the only true and valid defenders of the oppressed
* a habit of demanding that their opinions be enshrined as social customs and law
* a tendency to possess a left-wing political identity
* a willingness to deny science, history, logic, their past words, or any other aspect of reality that contradicts their current Narrative.

But there is no need to take my word for it when you can simply read how the SJWs describe themselves, in their own words. This is how one proud, self-declared SJW explained what it means to be a social justice warrior.

Being a social justice warrior means taking on a role in this unjust society in which you don’t ask for equality but instead, you demand it—and others see that as the “wrong tone.” People who think they are doing nothing wrong are going to be upset that we are telling them to change. People are not going to think these problems of inequality are significant because they have the privilege of it not affecting them. They will write us off as radical, overdramatic, and insignificant hypocrites. But social justice warriors must not change their “tone” to appease the oppressor. Oppressors must change, not the oppressed. Being an activist for justice—or a “social justice warrior” if they want to call us that—is about standing up to oppressors…The “wrong” tone is our tone. The wrong tone is the social justice warrior’s tone. —“On Being A ‘Social Justice Warrior’”, Austin Bryan, June 10, 2015

Vox Day (2015-08-29T22:00:00+00:00). SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police (Kindle Locations 212-228). Castalia House. Kindle Edition.