Originally Posted by
osan
I find the term "social justice warrior" objectionable in that to date, not a single individual identifying as such appears to come anywhere near to qualifying as a "warrior".
Having trained in the warrior arts for forty seven years to date, I see no indication that the so-called "SJWs" have anything to do with warrior culture, but rather that the use of the term in the moniker is naught but an instance of auto-stroking.
I must therefore suggest a more appropriate substitute term that, while still overly generous to the vast majority of those in question, nevertheless comes closer to a truer connotation without waxing openly hostile. It does, in fact, carry a note of sarcastic, condescending humor about it.
May I introduce, the Social Justice Crusader. Given the less-than-flattering connotations that the notion of a crusade has accreted over the last several decades, it is my opinion that this term tracks far more tightly with the truth than does "warrior".
In more modern vernaculars, "crusaders" have come to be associated with a great raft of negatively-valued traits including but not limited to narrow-mindedness, extreme parochialism, no consideration of the wishes of others, blindness to facts and reality, extreme self-absorption and -importance, a will to stupidity, and so on down a rather long and dreary litany of depressingly unattractive individual traits.
Warriors are men of valor, courage, strong sense, honor, rationality, logic, integrity, generosity, and trustworthiness. The word of a warrior is his bond. Of how many SJWs can these traits be credibly posited?
Therefore, I propose we re-label them to far more greatly comport with reality. The additional benefit is that this re-branding stands to drive those people absolutely silly with rage, given as that is their only stock in trade.
Social justice warriors?
SOCIAL JUSTICE CRUSADERS!!
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