Thought I'd leave it here given that I just googled the term: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=SJW

How have you managed to escape it for this long? Seriously, what's your secret please for the love of God let me know

Not the person you replied to, but I personally avoided it for a long time by avoiding the comments on [political/news/gender]-focused forums and subreddits. It isn't exactly a mainstream term.

yes, sometimes stuff happens to "ordinary people" and their life is ruined. They have no choice but become participants rather than mere by standers that is how social change happens. ( edited for grammar)

Does that extend to how you actually had time to comment just for the sake of casting some pejorative insult at another random stranger on the internet?

Yes, how do you do it?

It's gotten to the point where the use of SJW is just shorthand for "I know I'm wrong, I just preferred it when people knew their place"

In my experience, SJW is a term for people who are not actually working to improve the state of affairs of the world in terms of 'social justice', but rather people who have bought into a very specific, irrational, and blatantly hypocritical ideology.

This distasteful subculture really exists, and - as with anti-vaxxers, birthers, the chemtrail people, white supremacists and other irrational movements - it poses a fundamental threat to the values on which reasonable discourse is built. People who are immersed in SJW culture (as with those other subcultures just mentioned) become increasing comfortable rejecting reason and facts. Imo all thinking people ought to be at least as concerned about today's SJWs as they are about those other movements.

SJW is a pejorative, plain and simple. It means "shut up and stay in your place". In this particular case, the post I was replying to[0] was referring to a post[1] that I'm pretty sure was referring to racism against white people. Take that as you will.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431762

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431107

> SJW is a pejorative

So? 'Racist' is also pejorative. Racists exist and we ought to be able to discuss their existence and harms. SJWs exists and we ought to discuss their existence and their harms as well.

> It means "shut up and stay in your place"

I literally laughed out loud on reading this. Of course SJW doesn't mean anyone should stay in their place. Where do you get this outrageous idea? And what is that place, to you?

> In this particular case, the post I was replying t

I can't speak to the motives and thoughts of this particular speaker, but it seemed to me you were making a generalization about what 'SJW' really means, and making unwarranted claims about what we should be able to reliably infer from the mere use of the term.

> So? 'Racist' is also pejorative. Racists exist and we ought to be able to discuss their existence and harms. SJWs exists and we ought to discuss their existence and their harms as well.

What is a SJW?

> I literally laughed out loud on reading this. Of course SJW doesn't mean anyone should stay in their place. Where do you get this outrageous idea? And what is that place, to you?

I literally hope you enjoyed laughing out loud. What does SJW mean to you?

> I can't speak to the motives and thoughts of this particular speaker, but it seemed to me you were making a generalization about what 'SJW' really means, and making unwarranted claims about what we should be able to reliably infer from the mere use of the term.

You can't speak to this particular speaker's motives, but you can to mine? What does SJW mean to you?

I've already stated what SJW means to me, namely, the person using it is stating "I know I'm wrong, I just preferred it when people knew their place"

If you'd like me to expand upon that, I'd be glad to. I just don't understand where you're coming from.