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Template:Pp Template:Redirect Template:Use mdy dates Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism,Template:RefnTemplate:Refn as well as identity politics.[1] The accusation that somebody is an SJW carries implications that they are pursuing personal validation rather than any deep-seated conviction,Template:Refn and engaging in disingenuous arguments.Template:Refn

The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in social justice activism.Template:Refn In 2011, when the term first appeared on Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one.Template:Refn During the Gamergate controversy, the negative connotation gained increased use, and was particularly aimed at those espousing views adhering to social liberalism, cultural inclusivity, or feminism, as well as views deemed to be politically correct.Template:RefnTemplate:Refn

The term has entered popular culture, including a parody role-playing video game, Social Justice Warriors, released in 2014.Template:RefnTemplate:Refn[2]

Origin

Template:Details Dating back to 1824, the term social justice refers to justice on a societal level.[3] From the early 1990s to the early 2000s, social-justice warrior was used as a neutral or complimentary phrase.Template:Refn An example from the Montreal Gazette in 1991 about a local music festival reads:

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Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at Oxford University Press, said in 2015 that "[a]ll of the examples I've seen until quite recently are lionizing the person".Template:Refn Template:As of, the Oxford English Dictionary had not done a full search for the earliest usage.Template:Refn

Pejorative use

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According to Martin, the term switched from primarily positive to overwhelmingly negative around 2011, when it was first used as an insult on Twitter.Template:Refn The same year, an Urban Dictionary entry for the term also appeared.Template:Refn The term's negative use became mainstream due to the 2014 Gamergate controversy,[4] emerging as the favoured term of Gamergate proponents to describe their ideological opponents.Template:Refn 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 affected the Hugo Awards.[5][6][7][8][9] Usage of the term as a pejorative was popularized on websites such as Reddit,Template:Refn 4chan,[10] and YouTube.Template:Cn

Use of the term has been described as attempting to degrade the motivations of the person accused of being an SJW, implying that their motives are "for personal validation rather than out of any deep-seated conviction".[11]

The negative connotation has primarily been aimed at those espousing views adhering to social progressivism, cultural inclusivity, or feminism.Template:RefnTemplate:Refn This usage implies that a person is engaging in disingenuous social justice arguments or activism to raise his or her personal reputation.Template:Refn Allegra Ringo writes for Vice that "[i]n 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."Template:Refn

The term has been used by Rita Panahi to criticize what she perceives as double standards in social justice.[12]

Vice reporter Clinton Nguyen quoted the term during a report which analyzed the aggressive behavior behind 'social justice'-oriented Tumblr users, citing to an example in which Tumblr users initially harassed an artist on the site over the content of the artist's work, which lead to police reports, and to at least one arrest of a harasser. The subsequent harassment was so vicious that the artist attempted suicide.[13]

According to David A. French, the aims of social justice warriors are opposed to those of the Christian right.[14]Template:Explain

The term is commonly used by participants in online discussion in criticism of feminism.[15] Scott Selisker, writes in New Literary History, "[Forum participants] often make personal criticisms of what they see as a type: the 'social justice warrior,' i.e., the stereotype of the feminist as unreasonable, sanctimonious, biased, and self-aggrandizing".Template:Refn

In August 2015, social justice warrior was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries.Template:Refn[16][17] Martin states that "the perceived orthodoxy [of progressive politics] has prompted a backlash among people who feel their speech is being policed".Template:Refn

Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes on Reason that proponents of "social justice" on both the left and the right share similarities such as outrage, claims of victimhood, and portraying opponents as bullying and evil and their side as the truly oppressed.[18]

In May 2014, the concept was incorporated into a parody role-playing video game titled Social Justice Warriors.[19][20] Developed by Nonadecimal Creative, Social Justice Warriors involved the concept of debating online against Internet trolls who make racist and other provocative comments by choosing from different responses such as "'dismember their claims with your logic,' rebroadcast their message to be attacked by others, or go for the personal attack."Template:Refn Users were able to select a character class; and gameplay involved changes to user meters of Sanity and Reputation.Template:Refn Game creator Eric Ford explained that the game was designed to foster critical thinking and was not "intended to suggest that racist, sexist, or other offensive comments shouldn't be confronted online. The goal is to encourage critical thinking on how it can be done more effectively, and at less cost to the real-world social justice warriors."Template:Refn

See also

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