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| "'''Social justice warrior'''" (commonly abbreviated '''SJW''') is a ] term for an individual promoting ] views,<ref name=WashingtonPost /> including ],<ref name=WashingtonPost /><ref name="Eric Johnson 2016"/> ],<ref name=WashingtonPost /> ],<ref name=WashingtonPost /> and ].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/billy-corgan-compares-social-justice-warriors-to-cults-maoists-kkk-20160419 | title=Billy Corgan Compares 'Social Justice Warriors' to Cults, Maoists, KKK | work=Rolling Stone | date=April 19, 2016 | author=Blistein, Jon | accessdate=May 29, 2016 }}</ref> The accusation of being an SJW carries implications of pursuing personal validation rather than any deep-seated conviction,<ref name=heronbelford/> and being engaged in disingenuous social justice arguments or ] to raise personal reputation.<ref name=ViceAllegra /> | |||
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| The phrase originated in the late 20th century as a neutral or positive term for people engaged in ] activism.<ref name=WashingtonPost /> In 2011 when the term first appeared on ] it changed from a primarily positive term to an overwhelmingly negative one.<ref name=WashingtonPost /> During the ], the negative connotation gained increased use, and was particularly aimed at those espousing views adhering to ], cultural inclusiveness, or feminism, as well as views deemed to be ].<ref name=WashingtonPost /><ref name="Eric Johnson 2016"/> | |||
| The term has entered ], including a ] ] released in 2014 titled ''Social Justice Warriors''.<ref name="parreno" /><ref name="technologytell" /><ref name="breiner" /> | |||
| ==Origin== | |||
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| Dating back to 1824, the term "social justice" refers to justice on a societal level.<ref>{{citation|work=]|date=September 2005|subscription=yes|title=social justice|url=http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=social+justice|edition=3rd|author=]}}</ref> Abby Ohlheiser wrote in '']'' that "social-justice warrior" or variations thereof had been used as a laudatory phrase in the past, and provided an example dating to 1991.<ref name=WashingtonPost>{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/07/why-social-justice-warrior-a-gamergate-insult-is-now-a-dictionary-entry|title=Why 'social justice warrior,' a Gamergate insult, is now a dictionary entry |first=Abby|last=Ohlheiser|date=October 7, 2015|work=] |accessdate=March 22, 2016}}</ref> She quoted Katherine Martin, the head of U.S. dictionaries at ], who said, "All of the examples I've seen until quite recently are lionizing the person."<ref name=WashingtonPost/> According to ''The Washington Post'', use of the phrase in a positive manner continued from the 1990s through the 2000s.<ref name=WashingtonPost /> At the time of the article's publication in October 2015, Martin said "lexicographers there haven't done a full search for its earliest citation" of the term.<ref name=WashingtonPost /> Kristina Marusic of ] pointed out that prior to its usage in a negative fashion, "social justice warrior" had been used to refer to ] and ] describing their efforts on behalf of social justice.<ref name="marusic">{{citation|first=Kristina|last=Marusic |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2087859/trolls-sjw-laci-green/|publisher=MTV|title=Sorry Trolls, You're Not Going to Win the Battle Against Social Justice Warriors|date=February 23, 2015 |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archivedate=March 18, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318121441/http://www.mtv.com/news/2087859/trolls-sjw-laci-green/|dead-url=no}}</ref> | |||
| ==Pejorative use== | |||
| Katherine Martin says that the term switched from primarily positive to overwhelmingly negative around 2011, when it was first used as an insult on ].<ref name=WashingtonPost /> The same year an ] entry for the term also appeared.<ref name=WashingtonPost /> The term's negative use became mainstream due to the ],<ref name="sarahjeong">{{citation|first=Sarah|last=Jeong|author-link=Sarah Jeong|year=2015|title=The Internet of Garbage|publisher=]}}</ref> emerging as the favoured term of Gamergate proponents to describe their ideological opponents.<ref name=WashingtonPost /> In ] and ] the phrase is broadly associated with the Gamergate controversy and wider ] fallout, including the 2015 ] campaign that affected the ]s.<ref name="Eric Johnson 2016">{{citation|quote=A Social Justice Warrior, or SJW, is any person, female or male, who argues online for political correctness or feminism. 'Social justice' may sound like a good thing to many of our readers, but the people who use this term only use it pejoratively.|url=http://recode.net/2014/10/10/understanding-the-jargon-of-gamergate/|title=Understanding the Jargon of Gamergate|date=October 10, 2014|work=Re/code |last=Johnson |first=Eric |accessdate=April 22, 2015 |archivedate=January 2, 2016|dead-url=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102031743/http://recode.net/2014/10/10/understanding-the-jargon-of-gamergate/}}</ref><ref name=ViceAllegra>{{citation|title=Meet the Female Gamer Mascot Born of Anti-Feminist Internet Drama|date=August 28, 2014|last=Ringo|first=Allegra|work=]|url=http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-female-gamer-mascot-created-by-anti-feminists-828|accessdate=March 22, 2016|archivedate=January 14, 2016|dead-url=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114083321/http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-female-gamer-mascot-created-by-anti-feminists-828|quote=In 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—and often those people are feminists. It's awfully convenient to have a term at the ready to dismiss women who bring up sexism, as in, 'You don't really care. As an SJW, you're just taking up this cause to make yourself look good!'}}</ref><ref>{{citation|first=Donald|last=Clarke|accessdate=March 22, 2016|archivedate=January 2, 2016|dead-url=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102031743/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/technology/game-reviews/are-gamers-misogynistic-some-certainly-are-1.1968159|work=]|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/technology/game-reviews/are-gamers-misogynistic-some-certainly-are-1.1968159|date=October 18, 2014|title=Gamers Misogynistic? Some Certainly Are|quote=The term "social justice warrior" GamerGate: A Closer Look At The Controversy Sweeping Video Games (surely a good thing) has been used pejoratively to describe those writers who choose to examine the social and political subtexts of contemporary video games}}</ref><ref name="WaPoGamergate">{{citation|first=Caitlin|last=Dewey|work=]|title=The Only Guide to Gamergate You Will Ever Need to Read|date=October 14, 2014|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/14/the-only-guide-to-gamergate-you-will-ever-need-to-read/|quote=...'SJW,' for social justice warrior—a kind of shorthand insult for liberals and progressives.|accessdate=April 22, 2015}}</ref><ref name=SlateWaldman>{{citation|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/04/08/_2015_hugo_awards_how_the_sad_and_rabid_puppies_took_over_the_sci_fi_nominations.html|title=2015 Hugo Awards: How the sad and rabid puppies took over the sci-fi nominations|first=Katy |last=Waldman|date=April 8, 2015|work=]|accessdate=March 22, 2016|archivedate=January 14, 2016|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114234926/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/04/08/_2015_hugo_awards_how_the_sad_and_rabid_puppies_took_over_the_sci_fi_nominations.html}}</ref> Usage of the term as a pejorative was popularized on websites ] and ].<ref name="maxhill">{{citation|last=Hill|first=Max|date=November 17, 2014|url=http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/11/in-defence-of-social-justice-warriors/ |title=In defence of 'social justice warriors' |work=The Peak |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |dead-url=no|archivedate=March 17, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317005411/http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/11/in-defence-of-social-justice-warriors/}}</ref> | |||
| 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."<ref name="heronbelford">{{cite journal |last1=Heron|first1=Michael James|first2=Pauline |last2=Belford|first3=Ayse|last3=Goker|title=Sexism in the circuitry: female participation in male-dominated popular computer culture |journal=ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society |year=2014 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=18–29 |doi=10.1145/2695577.2695582 <!--|accessdate=March 22, 2016-->}}</ref> | |||
| The negative connotation was particularly aimed at those espousing views adhering to ], cultural inclusiveness, or ].<ref name=WashingtonPost /><ref name="Eric Johnson 2016"/> According to '']'', the accusation of being an SJW implies that a person is engaging in disingenuous social justice arguments or activism to raise his or her personal reputation.<ref name=ViceAllegra /> ''Vice'' observed: "It's awfully convenient to have a term at the ready to dismiss women who bring up sexism."<ref name=ViceAllegra /> The magazine assessed the use of the term: "The problem is, that's not a real category of people. It's simply a way to dismiss anyone who brings up social justice—and often those people are feminists."<ref name=ViceAllegra /> According to ], the aims of social justice warriors are opposed to those of ].<ref>French, David. . ''National Review''. November 23, 2015.</ref> | |||
| {{quote box |width=25em | bgcolor=#c6dbf7 |align=right |halig=left | salign=right|quote="the 'social justice warrior,' i.e., the stereotype of the feminist as unreasonable, sanctimonious, biased, and self-aggrandizing."|source= —'']''<ref name="selisker" />}} | |||
| The term is commonly used by participants in online discussion in ].<ref name="selisker">{{citation|issn=0028-6087|oclc=1296558|doi=10.1353/nlh.2015.0024|last=Selisker|first=Scott|title=The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks|publisher=]|journal=] |volume=46|issue=3|year=2015|pages=505–523}}</ref> An article in '']'' described their behavior patterns on the Internet: "they 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."<ref name="selisker" /> | |||
| In August 2015, the derogatory term "Social Justice Warrior" was one of several new words and phrases added to Oxford Dictionaries.<ref name=WashingtonPost/><ref name="canyouusethat">{{cite web |url=http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/27/435232388/can-you-use-that-in-a-sentence-dictionary-adds-new-words |publisher=] |title=Can You Use That In A Sentence? Dictionary Adds New Words |date=August 27, 2015 |first=Laura |last=Wagner |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archivedate=March 20, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320210735/http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/27/435232388/can-you-use-that-in-a-sentence-dictionary-adds-new-words|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref name="timeoxford">{{citation|url=http://time.com/4010748/oxford-dictionary-update-2015/ |work=Time |title=Oxford Dictionaries Adds 'Fat-Shame,' 'Butthurt' and 'Redditor' |first=Katy |last=Steinmetz |date=August 26, 2015 |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archivedate=January 20, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120185422/http://time.com/4010748/oxford-dictionary-update-2015/|dead-url=no}}</ref> In discussing the term's origin, Martin outlined the similarity with the pejorative use of "political correctness" to denigrate something, stating that "the perceived orthodoxy has prompted a backlash among people who feel their speech is being policed."<ref name=WashingtonPost/> | |||
| Some conservative outlets have described ]'s actions and policies as social justice of the right. Stephen L. Miller, in an article for the '']'', wrote that Donald Trump is in fact the most politically correct candidate running for the presidency in 2016 and that his followers are "neo-nationalist culture warriors."<ref name="miller">{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Stephen|title=Donald Trump: Social-Justice Warrior|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432848/donald-trump-opposes-free-speech-pc-left |work=National Review|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> Daniel Payne writing for ] website listed three general attributes of a social justice warrior and noted that they are attributes of Donald Trump, who has proven to be "the platonic social justice warrior candidate."<ref name="payne">{{cite web|last1=Payne|first1=Daniel|title=3 Reasons Donald Trump Is A Social Justice Warrior|url=http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/10/3-reasons-donald-trump-is-a-social-justice-warrior/|publisher=The Federalist|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> In an article for '']'' magazine, Elizabeth Nolan Brown compared social justice on the left and right and found many similarities such as victimhood, outrage and portraying the other side as bullying and evil and their side as the truly oppressed.<ref name="brown">{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Elizabeth|title=Trump Fans and 'Social Justice Warriors,' Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin|url=http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/12/trump-fans-and-social-justice-warriors |publisher=Reason|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> ] quipped in '']'' about Trump being the first social justice warrior presidential candidate: "Trump is also a man who constantly paints himself as a victim...So I wonder: Is Trump the first Social Justice Warrior presidential candidate, in the sense of weaponizing grievance in a way similar to that done by left-wing campus protesters?"<ref name="dreher">{{cite web|last1=Dreher|first1=Rod |authorlink=Rod Dreher |title=Donald Trump, Social Justice Warrior?|url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/donald-trump-social-justice-warrior/ |work=The American Conservative|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> Jay Caruso wrote an article for ] focusing on "Trump's social justice army" and how Trump "takes to Twitter to air his grievances, knowing millions of his adoring fans will RT him and cheer him on".<ref name="caruso">{{cite web|last1=Caruso|first1=Jay|title=Brad Thor/Glenn Beck Flap Reveals Trump Supporters To Be Social Justice Warriors|url=http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/06/02/trump-supporters-are-social-justice-warriors/ |publisher=Redstate|accessdate=August 16, 2016}}</ref> | |||
| ==In popular culture== | |||
| In May 2014, the concept was incorporated into a ] ] titled ''Social Justice Warriors''.<ref name="parreno">{{citation|first=Ryan|last=Parreno |url=http://gameranx.com/updates/id/24055/article/social-justice-warriors-now-have-their-own-rpg/ |title=Social Justice Warriors Now Have Their Own RPG |date=September 9, 2014 |work=Gameranx |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archivedate=January 3, 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103021359/http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/24055/article/social-justice-warriors-now-have-their-own-rpg|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref name="technologytell">{{citation|url=http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/144852/social-justice-warrior-review-meh/ |title=Social Justice Warrior Review |first=Elf |last=Princess |work=Technology Tell |date=March 30, 2015 |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archivedate=January 3, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160103130249/http://www.technologytell.com/gaming/144852/social-justice-warrior-review-meh/|dead-url=no}}</ref> Developed by Nonadecimal Creative, ''Social Justice Warriors'' involved the concept of debating online against ]s who make ] 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."<ref name="technologytell" /> Users were able to select a ]; and gameplay involved changes to user meters of ''Sanity'' and ''Reputation''.<ref name="technologytell" /> The game became available on the computer platform ] in February 2015.<ref name="breiner">{{citation|first=Andrew|last=Breiner |url=http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/03/13/3632998/game-fight-off-internet-trolls/|title=Don't Feed The Trolls, Fight Them|date=March 13, 2015|work=]|accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archivedate=March 1, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301193351/http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/03/13/3632998/game-fight-off-internet-trolls/|dead-url=no}}</ref> Game creator Eric Ford explained that the game was designed to foster ] 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."<ref name="breiner" /> He commented: "Once you've embarked down the path of correcting every incorrect statement an anonymous stranger is making online, the only inevitable outcomes are that your patience is exhausted by frustration, your reputation is obliterated by the trolls' defamation or your own actions, or you give up in disgust."<ref name="breiner" /> | |||
| Actress Caitlin Barlow described her character on the 2016 U.S. comedy television series '']'' as a social justice warrior.<ref name="ninametz" /> Barlow explained: "I play Cecilia Cannon, who is a super-crunchy hippie social justice warrior who is always trying to save the world, whether people care or not. And she's always pushing her left-wing agenda on her students."<ref name="ninametz">{{citation|first=Nina|last=Metz |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-katydids-teachers-tv-land-ent-0127-20160126-column.html|work=]|date=January 26, 2016|title=Stars of twisted new sitcom 'Teachers' bring laughs home from school |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312113127/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-katydids-teachers-tv-land-ent-0127-20160126-column.html|archivedate=March 12, 2016|dead-url=no}}</ref> | |||
| '']'' journalists Lesley Goldberg and Kate Stanhope noted in March 2016 that actress Isabella Gomez was cast in the ] remake of '']'' and portrayed Elena, a character content to self-identify as a social justice warrior.<ref name="hollywoodreporter" /> Goldberg and Stanhope wrote: "A proud nerd, idealist and social justice warrior, Elena is opinionated and not afraid to speak her mind."<ref name="hollywoodreporter">{{citation|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflixs-one-day-at-a-876502 |work=]|first1=Lesley|last1=Goldberg|first2=Kate|last2=Stanhope|date=March 17, 2016|title=Netflix's 'One Day at a Time' Remake Adds 'Matador' Actress |accessdate=March 22, 2016 |dead-url=no|archivedate=March 22, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322010955/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflixs-one-day-at-a-876502}}</ref> | |||
| While promoting his film '']'', ] said "I wanted to write a movie that was about modern activism. I see that a lot of people want to care and want to help, but in general I feel like people don't really want to inconvenience their own lives. And I saw a lot of people just reacting to things on social media. These social justice warriors. 'This is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong.' And they're just tweeting and retweeting. They're not actually doing anything. Or you see people get involved in a cause that they don't really know a lot about and they go crazy about it. I wanted to make a movie about kids like that."<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-eli-roth-green-inferno-sjw-20150709-story.html|title=Eli Roth's 'Green inferno' devours the Internet's 'social justice warriors'|first=Meredith|last=Woerner|date=July 9, 2015|work=]}}</ref> | |||
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