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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by austincheney on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:43PM (#17015833)
I phrased it in such a way to specifically avoid a statement of attack by calling it my personal feeling and further more I did not direct that description at any person but in response to the written article. In this regard I am thinking it is the label that people find offensive rather than the context to which that label is used.

Please correct me if I am wrong here. If every use of the term social justice warrior is immediately offensive then I won't use it again.

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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by tathougies on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:56PM (#17023029)
> If every use of the term social justice warrior is immediately offensive then I won't use it again.

It's not offensive at all.

> I phrased it in such a way to specifically avoid a statement of attack by calling it my personal feeling and further more I did not direct that description at any person but in response to the written article.

Ah, I see. you meant it as a compliment! In that case, good on you! It is a wonderful thing when someone stands up to injustice, and I'm glad you see that in the author of this article.

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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by rhcom2 on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:58PM (#17017915)
It's a pejorative.

> Social justice warrior (commonly abbreviated SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism,[1][2] as well as identity politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior

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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by austincheney on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:19PM (#17018054)
Pejorative is exactly what most people think when somebody introduces personal politics into technology, education, or business. Appropriate venues would be politics and law. People have lost their jobs for this.

There is nothing wrong with stating an opinion, but everything to its appropriate context.

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Re:MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy by rhcom2 on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:33PM (#17018612)
I don't know what you're talking about. No one is criticizing you for stating an opinion, but for using a pejorative. You asked if it was offensive, I told you.
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