Another Question Of The Day

This is a bit more complicated, but I’m just curious.

The thing I get a lot now when people say they hate my guts is that I am a ‘social justice warrior,’ or something similar, and obviously, they don’t mean it in a good way. They mean it as an insult.

I am not sure why someone who fights for social justice should be insulted by this. I also don’t claim to be any wonderful fighter for social justice, I think I am barely learning a lot of this stuff and have a long ways to go, and more than that, I feel like that title should be reserved for people who have put rubber to the road, who did great deeds.

Maybe that’s unrealistic, I don’t know. But I hear it a lot, almost always as an insult, not just about me…it seems like people who actually ARE POC or LGBTQ or talk about disability activism, people who actually live those lives and have the temerity to, you know, TALK about it sometimes, those  people are almost always the targets of anonymous people calling them some mean variation of Social Justice Warriors.

Like I said, I don’t quite get why it’s insulting. I gather that because these anonymous people don’t think it’s important, they don’t believe anyone else does, either.

But let’s just ask everyone. Supporter of how these topics are discussed or detractor, just interested in hearing your opinions.

What do you think of the social justice movement as displayed on social media, like Tumblr, Facebook, and blogs?

Do you think it makes a difference?

Has it made you change your mind or position, ever?

What would you change about the way these topics are discussed, if you could?