Doing A Digital Ethnography Project On The Term "SJW"

[Silvanus]

Wait if we agree that social justice is a meaningless term then sarcastically calling someone a social justice warrior does mean something. It means they go on self righteous crusades for a very ill-defined set of goals.

The term is often applied to people who talk about representation regardless of their goals and behaviour, and I've seen it applied to people who were just talking about a minority, not even advocating anything. Mostly, though, it's just used as a boogie-man. As far as I can tell, there are far more threads decrying "SJWs" than there are people who actually fit that definition.

And I wasn't trying to say that social justice is meaningless, I just could never figure out what it meant and I was just curious. Sorry if I sounded hostile in asking for a definition.

Not at all, I didn't mean to sound dismissive either.

As far as I can tell, the term sounds a lot more noble in a political sense, talking about political issues. Applying it to video gamers implies that they think they're being more noble than they really are, and that issues of representation in video games aren't particularly important.

 

[WhiteNachos]

Wait if we agree that social justice is a meaningless term then sarcastically calling someone a social justice warrior does mean something. It means they go on self righteous crusades for a very ill-defined set of goals.

The term is often applied to people who talk about representation regardless of their goals and behaviour, and I've seen it applied to people who were just talking about a minority, not even advocating anything. Mostly, though, it's just used as a boogie-man. As far as I can tell, there are far more threads decrying "SJWs" than there are people who actually fit that definition.

For the record, I was saying that would be the definition if we agreed social justice was a meaningless term. My definition is further up.