SJW, I assume that stands for Social Justice Warrior, often used in negative terms. But isn't social justice a good thing? And wouldn't be a warrior for it be something of a virtue?
Hm.
Righting social wrongs and mistreatment is a good thing. But a warrior is somebody who faces death and fights back. It's a sarcastic term when used to describe somebody who blogs anonymously on Tumblr ( unless they're a targeted minority under an oppressive government ). The point is to call out the hypocrisy of people who demand others change their behavior from the safety of their computer screens while offering nothing but petulant outrage in return.
And yet changing minds and opinions is a huge part of social justice and change, and the internet is an excellent platform for the dissemination of ideas...
Nope.
They are not about the exchange of ideas. There is no give and take or right to disagree. Difference of opinion is described as "hate speech" and "triggering". The person sharing that difference of opinion is described as a bigot (racist, homophobe, xenophobe, misogynist, sexist, transphobic, whatever). There can never be a situation in which this person is afforded the right to disagree or the right to an opinion. The person if not buckling to the right ideological view or parroting the same line, will be dogpiled, shouted down, banned, censored, mocked and often outed to employers & friends and sometimes fired. Why? Because the holding of a different viewpoint than the established one is too great a crime.
In addition, there is great efforts for these outrage warriors to try to continually out-do each other in their efforts to virtue signal ideologically pure talking points and gain more victim points.
Its not empowering nor constructive. Its rather dangerous and removes agency and disempowers the SJWs as it hurts those they choose to target.