Current Events > I've noticed that SJWs aren't offended to be called an SJW

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It's like they know what they are and fully accept it. Call snowflakes a snowflake and they will get mad as fuck, though.

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I haven't noticed that. I've noticed a lot saying "why are people still saying SJW unironically," as if it was ever used ironically.

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Being called an SJW just means youre a good person.

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The term was meant to denote those who were overly ardent about justice to the point of picking fights over dumb things. "This tiny doll encourages sexist stereotypes. I demand it be removed from shelves."

But, because we live in a hyper-political era in which white male bigots have as loud a voice as everyone else, it quickly became a term used for anyone who wasn't a bigoted piece of trash.

*a black person appears in a movie*
"When did Hollywood become SJW?"

Unfortunately, this validates the people who fit the original definition of the term by making the opposition universally look like the alt right. Yes, you can get mad at a doll. Yes, you can have sexy women removed from movies. Yes, you can blogpost how sick you are of white people on TV. Yes, you can complain that a cereal box lacks diversity.

If you're complaining, you're complaining in the cause of justice and no one can fault you because the alternative is white supremacy.

Should I be?

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SJW is such a butthurt label. Like if someone comes up to you and earnestly calls you an SJW, no leftist is really gonna flinch. It's a pointless buzzword that's been thrown around for years, to the point that it's lost any of its power or meaning. Whenever some moron wanted to complain about something they viewed to be left-of-center to their core beliefs, they defaulted straight to SJW - now no-one gives a fuck about the label, because the people who actively use it are some of the most overdramatic bitches on earth.

Honestly, I think "snowflake" is gonna get to that level too. Now that people have stepped away from the SJW label, anyone talking about stuff that's left-of-center from a self-professed conservative's core beliefs is labelled a "snowflake". Snowflake this, snowflake that, Conservative Uncle Randy spent most of Thanksgiving talking about snowflakes like he was talking about last year's white Christmas. It's been an effective go-to for a lot of people because while it sums up the angry backlash to identity politics in its metaphor, it can also be used as a weak, demure term for groups that conservatives don't like. But it's getting old, and the more it features in conservative media, the weaker it's going to get.

Seriously, in 2 year's time, who's going to be upset about being called a snowflake? It'll be run into the ground to the point that its practitioners look absolutely ridiculous going red in the face using such an innocent, childish term. You can't define them by a single, united point, or you're too much of a pussy to say "the left" - it only makes you look stupid by clinging to it like a security blanket.

Meanwhile, there are two groups who have become so upset and offended over their labels that some people consider them to be a slur. You have TERFs, who think that being labelled a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist is akin to using homophobic slurs against the gay community, and you have Boomers - pretty much any stuffy old fart with access to the media instantly went on the defensive with that one, decrying the youth's discontent with a wasteful, entitled older class as ageism targeting society's most vulnerable members. Both subsets considered to be conservative in one way or another, both of them absolutely ass-blasted by the monikers ascribed to them by the lefties.

You're going to have hysteric people on both sides of politics, but I think left-leaning people are letting it roll off their back a lot better than they used to. Right-leaning people, however, continue to get ass blasted when the leftists touch a raw nerve. They fall straight into the same traps they accuse SJWs or snowflakes using, and they try to limit the damage to their brand by asserting that their poor treatment is an attack on their human rights. It's really pathetic.

At this point, it's really a "who cares" situation. You want to spend all your time telling off the SJWs, the NPCs and the snowflakes for their predictable leftist drivel? Everyone around you is just gonna associate those terms with the same static, boring group of assholes who use them, and they'll use them to weed out the assholes who use them. You're literally only hurting yourself at that point. And as people have demonstrated several times, the same sort who decry the left for "identity politics" clutch their pearls and go apeshit whenever a derogatory term for their beliefs begins picking up steam.

The internet shit flinging isn't that different depending on both sides, and I'm sure conservaturds are starting to feel a similar level of apathy and mockery towards "boomer" as leftists feel towards "SJW". No one gives a fuck, because they're just overused words on the internet that attack a broad group, which broadens more and more over time until it's stretched too thin and begins to mar the image of those using the term instead of the group they're trying to sledge.

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PrideOfLion posted...

I never really got how progressive turned into an insult. Like, progress is a good thing

I think it's used sarcastically when it's used as an insult.

It's like hipster.

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I thought it was a rule that you had to deny being a hipster to be a hipster.

PrideOfLion posted...

I never really got how progressive turned into an insult. Like, progress is a good thing

SJW isn't progressive.

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One reason why progressives arent fazed by the term is because we never resort to dismissive name calling. We are always willing to debate ideas rather than rely on labels.

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Wokebebe posted...

One reason why progressives arent fazed by the term is because we never resort to dismissive name calling. We are always willing to debate ideas rather than rely on labels.

No, it's just SJW that doesn't bother SJW. Calling them a snowflake will trigger them. Talking about trying to get laid is oppressive.

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Wokebebe posted...

One reason why progressives arent fazed by the term is because we never resort to dismissive name calling. We are always willing to debate ideas rather than rely on labels.

Progressives encourage discussion with the other side?

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Wokebebe posted...

Being called an SJW just means youre a good person.

using victims as a stepping stone to prop their own e image isnt being a good person


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ModLogic posted...

using victims as a stepping stone to prop their own e image isnt being a good person

Don't bother, their username is a dead giveaway.

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