Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by Veratyr on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:56AM (#9697679)

There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs). They engage in activities that they claim are in support of race, gender and class equality but are in fact often racist or sexist. In general they seem to be hateful people damaging the causes they claim to fight for.

The #KillAllMen, #KillAllWhiteMen hashtags on Twitter are good examples of some of their activities.

Their backwards activism is often self-branded as "feminism", giving birth to things like #WomenAgainstFeminism. The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it.

I have a feeling it's their backwards "feminism" your parent commenter was referring to.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by _kst_ on Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:42AM (#9700357)

> There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs).

No, there isn't. "SJW" is an insult used by their opponents. (Some of them might choose to adopt it, but most as far as I know do not.)

> The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it.

I've seen that claim, but I'm extremely skeptical that it's a significant phenomenon.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by fleitz on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:31AM (#9697791)

Perhaps we should not take hashtags as a serious form of debate.

There are idiots on the internet. They have opinions. It's alright.

Like any other -ism people are always debating what TRUE -ismists believe. eg. Is Rand Paul a libertarian? eg. Is Obama a liberal? In general most people have opinions that don't fit into neat little boxes.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by Aoyagi on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:23AM (#9697758)

A group? To my understanding, "SJW" is a pejorative naming from the other side of the scale.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by Veratyr on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:28AM (#9697780)

Apparently you're right. I have seen instances of members of this group self labelling as an "SJW" though.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by fenomas on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:19AM (#9698386)

In practice, when someone refers to themselves as an SJW they mean they are the sort of person who's likely to be labeled that way. Similar to "bleeding heart liberal" a generation ago, I guess.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by __z on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:52AM (#9700039)

> The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it.

The concept of feminism becoming discredited started happening way before the term "SJW" existed. Both from outside the movement (See: the straw feminist trope) and within the movement (from a small minority of crazies).

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