The term ‘SJW’ (Social Justice Warrior) is usually deployed by people on the Right to stop themselves and other people from thinking.
After all, how many ordinary people actively support Social Injustice?
How many people demand that the wealthy should control all politics, that any taxpayer support for pensioners or people with severe illness should be shut down, that all health and safety provisions at work should be abolished (so workers can be injured and executed for profit), that racial discrimination should be compulsory, that some people should be free to rape anyone they want, that their local environment should be completely destroyed, that they have to drink poisoned water, that they can eat poisoned food, that their house will fall down (because that makes it cheaper to build and the market knows best), that their property should be taken from them so that some business can increase its profit cheaply,that they are unable to act freely as long as it does not hurt others, that they should not be able to read scientific data on government websites because it contradicts political ideology, and so on.
I’d say the number of people completely opposed to ‘social justice’ is small. That is not to say that some of the people labelled SJW might not be discomforting or crazy; that’s life and not limited to any particular group of people.
So are we headed towards what SJW would call dystopia, which features all of these repressions and suppressions, and the practical end of public liberty for anyone except wealthy corporate executives? I would suggest this is highly probable.
It has seemed to be the main result of US politics since the rise of neoliberalism and the dominance of talk of free markets in the late 1970s. There has been a gradual removal of liberty and social justice from political consideration. Everything has been organized to support corporate power, and to pretend that whatever repressions arise are just rather than unjust. Ordinary people have been told to support this decline in their wages, standards of living, freedom and security, in return for the promise of some future utopia of capitalist liberty, which never seems to arise. People have been divided into conflicting social categories, so they cannot mutually support each other in arguing for the social justice they want.
So yes the dystopia that SJW appear to fear may well be coming about.
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