Why is 'Social Justice Warrior' considered a pejorative, by the 'right'?

[Siwsan]

I had someone tag me with the 'SJW' label, the other day, and being someone who is acronym challenged, I had to look it up. Then I became confused. Fighting for social justice seems to be a fine and noble activity, IMHO. Am I missing something?

[lagomorph777]

1. Because they support INjustice.

So anybody fighting for justice is an enemy.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?

[marylandblue]

3. It's sort of like calling you a busybody

[phleshdef]

4. I love how they always use the acronym, I have fun with it.

"Did you just call me a single jewish woman?" or anything else I can think of that works with SJW.

Its asshole alt-right speak. They have their own lexicon. "Snowflake", "SJW", "Safe space", "White knight". etc. Anyone who uses such terms needs a good punch to the throat honestly.

[RhodeIslandOne]

7. It's even funnier when you throw "snowflake" back at them....

....especially when they cry about people disrespecting Trump.

I literally had, what I assume a person over the age of ten, tell me "YOU CAN'T SAY THAT TO ME! LIBERALS ARE THE SNOWFLAKES!!!" online.

[phleshdef]

14. I called one a Bro-flake one time and he got mad at me for appropriating and mocking their fav word.

[Ken Burch]

21. "Did you just call me a Swinging Jehovah's Witness?"

"Did you just call me a Studly Jersey Wearer?"

"Did you just call me a Stonewall Jackson Whisperer"?

"Did you just call me a Sour Jamaican Waffle?"

"Did you just call me a Successful Jingle Writer?"

"Did you just call me a Supremely Jocular Wombat?"

[Leith]

5. They Are Just Admitting That They Are Against Justice

Is there any other way of looking at it?

[maxsolomon]

6. Hypocrisy. Bible Thumpers seeking to impose their religion on the rest of us

Are SJWs.

Ditto for Clinic-blocking RTLers, 2nd Am. Absolutists, etc. They all want social justice for THEMSELVES.

The right belittles anything that makes them experience pangs of guilt.

[Aristus]

8. Yeah, I never could figure out why that was a bad thing.

Shows you how twisted these motherfuckers are...

[ck4829]

9. Scientology has Suppressive Persons or SPs. The right has Social Justice Warriors or SJWs

[Orrex]

10. Every time someone calls me an SJW...

I respond by calling that person an IRF. When they ask what IRF stands for, I ignore them, but it's quicker than typing Idiot Racist Fuckhead.

[TDale313]

11. I take it as a badge of honor.

Damn straight I’m a fighter for Social Justice. We all should be.

[Caliman73]

12. For the same reason that "PC"is a slur to them.

Right wingers argue that the culture has become too sensitive and that everyone always has hurt feelings so that no one can have a conversation anymore without offending someone. They see people who try to stand up for showing respect and treating others with dignity as impeding their ability to speak their minds. In truth, it is. People who promote speaking to others with respect and dignity are by nature, telling people who do not, to stop, think, and reframe their approach to others.

Jerks just want to be jerks, so instead of changing their own approach, the attack those who call them out as taking away their liberty to be jerks.

[Garrett78]

13. Translation: You're an anti-racist, anti-sexist/misogynist, anti-xenophobe, anti-heterosexist jerk.

Except they would end with "pussy" instead of jerk without realizing they're being sexist.

[Baconator]

15. On the internet at least...

... the term got associated with some fringe types demanding outrageous things and now it gets applied much more broadly.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. The same reason "Bleeding Heart", "Liberal" or "Do-Gooder" are

They reach a point where they stop trying to pretend they care about other people, and go all Ayn Rand, social Darwinist "survival of the fittest".

[boston bean]

17. I've been called one, pejoratively, here on too many occasions to count.

[SaschaHM]

18. I was just about to comment that SJW has started to appear more frequently on the left too.

[LanternWaste]

19. Yeah... I've seen it used a few times on DU as well.

Yeah... I've seen it used a few times on DU as well.

But let's be honest, the users are dullards, and far too timid to admit to its usage in the here and now. Which illustrates the true lack of courage of their convictions.

[NewJeffCT]

20. The term Feminist is a positive term to me as well

but, MRA types and anti-feminist types have made Feminist into a negative term for many.

[Iggo]

22. They hate people who care. (n/t)

[DBoon]

34. they just hate people

Inflicting pain and humiliation is their joy

[Ken Burch]

23. I've heard it used to imply that the person they're calling an "SJW"

doesn't actually care about any of the issues that person is speaking out(or calling the people who use the term out ABOUT), but only says what they say as a form of attention-getting behavior.

They are calling others SJWs to make it sound like the people being called that are not only insincere, but pathetic.

In other words, because the people who call others "SJW"s don't feel any empathy, they can't accept that anyone else would feel it.

-or, as a collolary, because any increase in empath would defeat the trolls, they are terrified that there might be more people who care about others than who don't, and see it as a survival mechanism to try to shame and intimidate everyone else out of any displays of empathy.

As these guys see it, if they don't care, it's either not possible that others could-or it's VERY possible and has to be stopped at all cost.

[jalan48]

24. Sounds like an updated version of "Community Organizer" which Sarah Palin threw at Obama

in the 2008 election. I guess the thought is that if you work to help people it's a bad thing.

[workinclasszero]

25. Because they are nazi pigs

who would roast Jewish/PoC babies in ovens again if given the chance.

SJW should be a badge of honor coming from those subhuman apes IMO.

[whathehell]

31. Hmm..

That's a really extreme accusation...I'm not sure most are murderous monsters.

[workinclasszero]

33. Really?

You do know what the nazi flag represents right? How about the deaths head nazi SS symbol these filth were wearing at Cville right before they murdered Heather?

Some people need to wake the fuck up in this country before its too late.

[pnwmom]

26. They think "social justice" communism. n/t

[Lisa0825]

27. It's so "Hopey-Changey."

I don't understand the right. They think positive things are bad and to be ridiculed.

[mitch96]

28. I think the right does not like the people who call them on their Bull shizer

So to retaliate they will call you a SJW. They have to put you in a little box that they can identify and complain about with their buddies...
Don't like guns? SJW
Don't like peace? SJW
Don't like equal rights? SJW
Don't like Nazis? SJW
Don't like (fill in the blank) SJW..

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[Adrahil]

29. Because they consider fighting for equality a sign of weakness.

They want a dog-eat-dog world. Even though many of them have been destroyed by it. Go figure.

[Initech]

30. The Alt Right free speech brigade (Milo, Cernovich, etc) loves to use this term as an insult.

Because they think anyone who advocates for a cause is being against free speech. But really, the free speech brigade is about as anti-free speech as you can possibly get.

[romanic]

32. I think its a term used more broadly nowadays.

It used to be a strictly right-wing insult from the cesspool of 4chan towards tumblr profiles focused on social justice and activism. Now its used in many different ways by different kinds of people. I know on places like instagram, SJW is used towards people overacting towards something vaguely politically incorrect or towards someone pretending to be "woke".

Of course its a term still used by alt-righters that think treating people with respect is a SJW thing. I wouldnt take it seriously tbh.