Doctor Who : S.J.W.

Social Justice Warrior? Is that what it stands for?
I had to look it up as I had no clue, maybe this isn't meant for my generation?

Jesus Christ Posing or J.C.P would be a better term, but that would offend some people.

It's just one of those words made up by Millennials to make themselves feel validated by their nonsense opinions.

ah, understood. thanks

Like a lot of words they have on the internets now it probably had a meaning once but overuse has rendered it meaningless (c.f. 'Stan', 'snowflake' etc)

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It's just one of those words made up by Millennials to make themselves feel validated by their nonsense opinions.

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It's a pretentious name but fairly accurate yes.

It's often used as a pejorative, which is odd when you think about it, as the alternative is to say that you're in favour of social injustice.

or anti-social justice

Or perhaps someone that uses the term SJW is against identity politics and just believes in justice by treating everyone equally under the law?

Perhaps they have grown tired of the control freaks that use violence when they don't get their own way?

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It's the same as political correctness. Nothing wrong with PC, it's when it gets abused that's when those people get called an SJW.

Actually I think there is a lot wrong with political correctness. It's the practice of declaring that an arbitrary way of labelling a group of people is correct, often without consulting that group. It's the practice of replacing short adjectives with awkward, polysyllabic phrases.

For instance, I used to have a girlfriend who was blind. She was quite happy with that description, and didn't feel that people needed to say "visually impaired" or "visually handicapped".

PCness fails to recognise the euphemism treadmill. That is to say, if a term is invented or reintroduced because the old one has become offensive, then it's not the term that's at fault. Witness how "special" has recently become an insult.

Some well-meaning older people find it hard to keep up. I remember a time when it was polite to say "coloured people" - we were in fact taught to say it in school. Then we got lectured about how it was bad and it went away. Now we've got "people of colour" - effectively the same thing but with an extra syllable and more awkwardly phrased (based on the bogus argument that "people first" is better).

So all PCness has really done is highlight differences and make people more afraid of causing offense.

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It's so pleasant being drowned