ooh i guess i gotta come in early on this one
DokiDokiTsuna:
What is an SJW?
it is essentially an insult, but as a pejorative it refers to people who are really into identity politics, and has come to carry connotations of cancel culture, individualism, and identity reductionism - while also carrying connotations of just living while female, a poc, or lgbt.
DokiDokiTsuna:
Have you ever actually met one...?
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there was a brief period on tumblr where ppl identified as SJWs unironically, around 2013-14, but quickly it became only smth the right used against us them. the SJW is a stereotype through and through, so people dont exist at that level of unnuanced bad faith exaggeration, but ive certainly met the fire that caused the smoke. tumblr around 2015 was a very very strange place where even small slights were acts of war and people used their marginalised identities and social capital to get away with literally abusing other marginalised people. it was a pretty horrific place - tumblr is really not that anymore, for the record. theres still exciteable wankers, but its way chiller than twitter.
the issue is of course at its core a lot of arguments dubbed 'SJW' are right, and very important. black lives do matter. trans rights are human rights. but it gets diluted in a tonne of infighting and losing the forest for the trees among mostly sheltered young people online who havent yet developed a foundation of real world experience to back up their ideology. and also lack class consciousness.
you cant end white supremacy without ending capitalism, folks.
