Yup, shows the biggest problem with social justice. It is great when it is right, but a lot of times it's aimed at the wrong people or at the wrong amplitude.
A lot of times is a full on ass pull. I'd even say its pretty much the total opposite. Sure, some times it is levied unjustly, but oftentimes it actually doesn't do enough. See how long women have been trying to say "we're being preyed upon, and people think its a joke or say it was our own faults", only for people to now finally be going "yeah, there's something to this". After thousands of untested rape kits, the President admitting to sexual assault, accusers after accusers after accusers being needed to get people to even consider taking on serial assaulters. I mean, look at what it took for people to start going "WTF this is fucked up". Even still we have people trying to deny it or use the same old bullshit arguments.
Hell look at how people acted over Penn State. There are people that have nothing to do with the school defending that shit because they viewed it as a witch hunt.
If you go check out these two YouTube stars, they are doubling down on their stupid. Seriously. They're going full trump. And it seems their followers are backing them.
We've become a nation of cults. Seriously. We're more cultish than ever before. Cults of personality, which used to gain a mild allegiance has now seemed to reach religious level following. YouTube is a collection of cults. That's it. That's all it has become. From Trump worship to YouTube personalities like Cernovich or Molyneux or Alex Jones to people like this, it is a collection of Jim Jones level cults whose followers blindly worship at the altars of their engaging personalities while completely missing their illogical idiocy.
I think that's cyclical. Its not shocking that we're seeing a rise of cult mentality alongside fights for equality (hello 1960s). The thing is, that just because we had the Civil Rights Movement doesn't mean we dealt with racism/bigotry/sexism, we similarly didn't actually do anything about cultism. They were both still major issues, but they kinda took a backseat as people collectively couldn't sustain momentum about dealing with them. So we fall back into lulls of delusion/distraction as other issues become pressing.
I think the reality is that we're just seeing it dip in and out of public consciousness. Its perpetually there. Cultism has been an issue for about as long as man has existed, possibly longer (various animals have been making "tribes").
Another similarity with the 60s. There's a fervor for space flight. Weirdly, I'd say artistically though, society has been raging hard for the 80s.
"Social Justice Warriors" ... are people like Martin Luther King Jr. They are people who fight, and put their lives on the line, and sometimes, the die in the name of justice.
A group of morons on the internet is just a group of morons on the internet.
Yep. Really that group of morons is a lynch mob, since that's what it actually resembles better.
Great. So now you've decided to try to redefine what a social just warrior is and to connect the term to something noble?
Here's a hint. Words don't mean what you WANT them to mean. They mean whatever the widely accepted definition of them is. You've gravely insulted an individual like MLK Jr. calling him a social justice warrior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Social Justice Warrior
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior
Seriously.
Ah yes, UrbanDictionary, that bastion of legitimacy. I'm sure no way its a bunch of Gamergate dipshits posting "definitions" for that term on there.
Also, uh, did you bother to read your fucking links? Because they actually back up his claim. The term was originally descriptive and even positive.
The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in
social justice activism. In 2011, when the term first appeared on
Twitter, it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one.
Both of your other links state that.
What you're getting pissy about is your own fucking fault. Its recent assholes that started spouting it as a pejorative to try and insult people that believe in social justice that changed the definition. So if you want to get mad about people's definitions maybe take it up with the assholes that bastardized it in the first place. The reality is that assholes like Nazis, misogynists, racits, bigots, and the like tried to make it pejorative in the past, but because they were revealed for the vile pieces of scum they were, it didn't catch on. It wasn't until a bunch of neckbearded pimple faced man-children started meming it that it became "widely accepted in the negative" which happened in the last 10 years.
You've gravely insulted him by being a monumental idiot about this. He would have no fucking problem being called that and he'd look at you like "WTF that you think people fighting for social justice is something to skorn". You know that he absolutely viewed things under a marketing perspective? They had been doing bus sit-ins for a while before Rosa Parks. MLK knew they had to find someone to put a specific face to it, to win people's favor, in order to maximize the outrage so as to try to bring about positive change.
Kindly know what the fuck you're talking about before trying to take others to task over it. Super seriously.
So how do we use this on Trump?
We don't. There's no reason to involve that festering hemmorhoidal boil. I don't care if he's the living embodiment of this type of behavior. He's just the cyst, you can pop it but if you don't deal with the underlying cause more will pop up.