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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by simonebrunozzi on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:04PM (#20646936)
I didn't know what "SJW" meant.

Looked it up, it means "social justice warrior", defined by Wikipedia as "a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism, as well as identity politics".

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by burfog on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:43AM (#20653047)
A funny thing is that "SJW" wasn't at all a pejorative. It is a self-selected name. The early usage was people proudly calling themselves SJWs.

To now say that SJW is a perjorative is weird. Sure, many of the people using the term happen to really dislike SJWs, but how can a self-selected name ever be a perjorative?

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