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==Origin and meaning== |
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In August 2015, the derogatory noun Social Justice Warrior was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries.<ref name=WashingtonPost/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/social-justice-warrior|title=social justice warrior: definition of social justice warrior in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)|publisher=}}</ref> Discussing the new addition, Abby Ohlheiser wrote in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' that the term "social-justice warrior" or variations thereof had been used as a positive phrase in the past, and provided an example dating to 1991. She quoted Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, who said, "All of the examples I’ve seen until quite recently are lionizing the person".<ref name=WashingtonPost/> Olheiser wrote that the negatively charged phrase had "emerged as the preferred term among the Gamergate movement for the people they believed to be their greatest enemies."<ref name=WashingtonPost/> In discussing the term's origin, Martin outlined the similarity with the negative use of "[[political correctness]]" to denigrate something, stating that "the perceived orthodoxy [of progressive politics] has prompted a backlash among people who feel their speech is being policed."<ref name=WashingtonPost/> |
In August 2015, the derogatory noun Social Justice Warrior was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries.<ref name=WashingtonPost/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/social-justice-warrior|title=social justice warrior: definition of social justice warrior in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)|publisher=}}</ref> Discussing the new addition, Abby Ohlheiser wrote in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' that the term "social-justice warrior" or variations thereof had been used as a positive phrase in the past, and provided an example dating to 1991. She quoted Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, who said, "All of the examples I’ve seen until quite recently are lionizing the person".<ref name=WashingtonPost/> Olheiser wrote that the negatively charged phrase had "emerged as the preferred term among the Gamergate movement for the people they believed to be their greatest enemies."<ref name=WashingtonPost/> In discussing the term's origin, Martin outlined the similarity with the negative use of "[[political correctness]]" to denigrate something, stating that "the perceived orthodoxy [of progressive politics] has prompted a backlash among people who feel their speech is being policed."<ref name=WashingtonPost/> |
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==Use== |
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Commentators have described university students engaged in cultural conflicts as social justice warriors on multiple occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/social-justice-warriors-are-waging-an-increasingly-nasty-culture-war-and-its-making-america-mad/news-story/bb45a7ce75f727bdde0a77ea113ff0fa | first=Nick | last=Whigham | title=Yale protests, social justice warriors waging culture war | work=NewsComAu | date=November 27, 2015 | accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/04/social-justice-warriors-at-oberlin-dont-know-anything-about-ethnic-food/ | title=Social Justice Warriors At Oberlin Don’t Know Anything About Ethnic Food | first= Mitchell | last=Blatt | work=[[The Federalist]] | date=January 4, 2016 | accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thecrimson.com/column/words-words-words/article/2015/3/12/simplistic-social-justice-warrior/ | first=Idrees M. | last=Kahloon | title=The Social Justice Warrior | work=[[The Harvard Crimson]] | date=March 12, 2015 | accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref> In a piece for ''[[The Observer]]'', [[Cathy Young]] wrote, "Much of SJW's passion goes into speech and culture policing directed at [[victimless crime]]s that violate their moral taboos."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.observer.com/2016/02/the-totalitarian-doctrine-of-social-justice-warriors | first=Cathy | last=Young | authorlink=Cathy Young | title=The Totalitarian Doctrine of Social Justice Warriors | work=[[The Observer]] | date=February 2, 2016 | accessdate=February 3, 2016}}</ref> |
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Matthew Rosza, writing for The Daily Dot, argued that liberals should embrace the term.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/2015-social-justice-warrior/|title=5 reasons why 2015 was the year of the social justice warrior|date=December 26, 2015|work=The Daily Dot|author=Rozsa, Matthew}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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"Social Justice Warrior", commonly abbreviated as "SJW", is a pejorative term for a person expressing or promoting socially progressive views, particularly relating to social liberalism, political correctness or feminism.[1][2] The accusation of being an SJW implies that a person is engaging in putatively disingenuous social justice arguments or activism to raise their personal reputation.[3] In internet and video game culture the phrase is broadly associated with the Gamergate controversy and wider culture war fallout, including the 2015 Sad Puppies campaign that impacted the Hugo Awards.[3][4][5][6][7]
Origin and meaning
In August 2015, the derogatory noun Social Justice Warrior was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries.[2][8] Discussing the new addition, Abby Ohlheiser wrote in The Washington Post that the term "social-justice warrior" or variations thereof had been used as a positive phrase in the past, and provided an example dating to 1991. She quoted Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, who said, "All of the examples I’ve seen until quite recently are lionizing the person".[2] Olheiser wrote that the negatively charged phrase had "emerged as the preferred term among the Gamergate movement for the people they believed to be their greatest enemies."[2] In discussing the term's origin, Martin outlined the similarity with the negative use of "political correctness" to denigrate something, stating that "the perceived orthodoxy [of progressive politics] has prompted a backlash among people who feel their speech is being policed."[2]
See also
References
- ^ Matthew Rozsa. "5 reasons 2015 was the year of the social justice warrior (and why progressives should embrace the term)". Salon.
- ^ a b c d e Abby Ohlheiser (7 October 2015). "Why 'social justice warrior,' a Gamergate insult, is now a dictionary entry". Washington Post.
- ^ a b Ringo, Allegra (28 August 2014). "Meet the Female Gamer Mascot Born of Anti-Feminist Internet Drama". Vice.
In other words, SJWs don't hold strong principles, but they pretend to. The problem is, that's not a real category of people. It's simply a way to dismiss anyone who brings up social justice—and often those people are feminists. It's awfully convenient to have a term at the ready to dismiss women who bring up sexism, as in, 'You don't really care. As an SJW, you're just taking up this cause to make yourself look good!'
- ^ "Gamers Misogynistic? Some Certainly Are". Irish Times. 18 October 2014.
The term "social justice warrior" GamerGate: A Closer Look At The Controversy Sweeping Video Games (surely a good thing) has been used pejoratively to describe those writers who choose to examine the social and political subtexts of contemporary video games
- ^ "The Only Guide to Gamergate You Will Ever Need to Read". The Washington Post. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
...'SJW,' for social justice warrior—a kind of shorthand insult for liberals and progressives.
- ^ Johnson, Eric (10 October 2014). "Understanding the Jargon of Gamergate". Re/code. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
A Social Justice Warrior, or SJW, is any person, female or male, who argues online for political correctness or feminism. 'Social justice' may sound like a good thing to many of our readers, but the people who use this term only use it pejoratively.
- ^ Katy Waldman (8 April 2015). "2015 Hugo Awards: How the sad and rabid puppies took over the sci-fi nominations". Slate Magazine.
- ^ "social justice warrior: definition of social justice warrior in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)".
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