Posted on 04/14/2015 12:17:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I was reading a post-mortem on the delicious Sad Puppies/Hugo nominations imbroglio last week when an interesting point came up. George R.R. Martin, the "Game of Thrones" chappie, wrote on his Not a Blog that Sad Puppies commenters on his blog should lose the Social Justice Warrior, or SJW moniker. Because courtesy.
>>>Let's not throw around insults, or charges of misogyny and racism, please. And Puppies, sad or happy, if any of you feel inclined to reply, please avoid the term "Social Justice Warriors" or SJWs. I am happy to call you Sad Puppies since you named yourself that, but I know of no one, be they writer or fan, who calls themselves a social justice warrior. Offending or insulting posts will be deleted.<<<
But Larry Correia, who's having his name dragged through the mud for daring to nominate pod-people for the Kool Kids Ball, had this to say.
>>>We do not however like being called racists, sexists, misogynists, homophobes, fascists, hate mongers, the KKK, or wife beaters. Especially in major media outlets like Entertainment Weekly, Salon, Slate, the Telegraph, and io9.<<<
Really, what's not to like about “social justice warrior?” Does it come within a country mile of the mainstream Democratic talking point about a Republican “war on women?”
While the “war on women” is a lie, “social justice warrior” describes the average leftie exactly, and it deftly exposes their most egregious conceit, that they are all non-violent activists that just want peace and justice.....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
FReeper GeronL added the link to Larry Correia's verbal blast (long but good) at that thread.
The Left's assault (sneaky and in our faces) needs to keep being exposed for what it is. Correia's success in confronting their lies is instructive.
fyi
From your link:
“As Fr. John Zuhlsdorf explains in his Apr. 2 blog post, “It’s time for everyone to calm down. We need a new approach. Think about this. When some homosexual couple comes to your Christian business for services at their immoral event, don’t panic. Go ahead and take their business!”
“Then explain what is going to happen next,” says Fr. Z on his popular blog page.
“Tell them that the food and services will be just fine. And then inform them that all of the money that they pay for the services will be donated to a traditional pro-family lobby.”........
Is ‘Social Justice Warrior’ a Pejorative?
In the Greater Sodom it’s pretty logical..
Where Sodomy is a virtue..
The term the write is looking for is, simply, "bullies." Because "injustice bullies" are, quite simply, bullies.
June 2000, David Horowitz: “.....Ever since abandoning the utopian illusions of the progressive cause, I have been struck by how little the world outside the left seems to actually understand it. How little those who have not inhabited the progressive mind are able to grasp the ruthless cynicism behind its idealistic mask or the fervent malice that drives its hypocritical passion for “social justice.”
No matter how great the crimes progressives commit, no matter how terrible the future they labor to create, no matter how devastating the catastrophes they leave behind, the world outside the faith seems ever ready to forgive them their “mistakes” and to grant them the grace of “good intentions.”......
New Left progressives—including Hillary Clinton and her comrade, Acting Deputy Attorney General Bill Lann Lee—were involved in supporting, or protecting or making excuses for violent anti-American radicals abroad like the Vietcong and anti-American criminals at home like the Black Panthers.* We did this then—just as progressives still do now—in the name of “social justice” and a dialectical world-view that made this deception appear ethical and the fantasy seem possible.
As a student of the left, Jamie Glazov, has observed in an article about the middle-class defenders of recently captured Seventies terrorist Kathy Soliah: “if you can successfully camouflage your own pathology and hatred with a concern for the ‘poor’ and the ‘downtrodden,’ then there will always be a ‘progressive’ milieu to support and defend you.”* Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bernadine Dohrn, Sylvia Baraldini, Rubin Carter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rigoberta Menchu and innumerable others have all discovered this principle in the course of their criminal careers......
...For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal—”social justice”—is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. “Social Justice” for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.....
...No matter how opportunistically the left’s agendas have been modified, however, no matter how circumspectly its goals have been set, no matter how generous its concessions to political reality, the faithful have not given up their self-justifying belief that they can bring about a social redemption. In other words, a world in which human consciousness is changed, human relations refashioned, social institutions transformed, and in which “social justice” prevails..........
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24376
You’re correct... amazing..
To this day very few conservatives are upset that a known democrat appeaser/collaborator(Romney) was chosen at the 2012 republican convention... while rejecting harshly several well known actual conservatives..
Not to speak of few conservatives are upset about massive known continuing VOTER FRAUD...
For many decades a known very serious threat to the republic (communism) was tolerated even IGNORED....
Seems it’s extremely hard to piss off a “conservative”..
These days I know of few in any party that can describe to me what communism actually IS..
The brain wash is extensive.. actually most have no idea DEMOCRACY is a nasty thing..
It is Mob Rule by mobsters.. and this animates few..
NO democracy has even been democratic..
Climate change has been their disguise and vehicle to infiltrate and set their hooks in education, religion, government, business and journalism.
More accurately, environmentalism is their cover.
I actually do not care in the slightest if it is.
It’s also happened with the game industry ‘journalism’- where ugly truths were exposed despite harassment and coordinated suppression across multiple forums.
Perhaps individuals that use the SJW platform (think Chelsea van Valkenberg, Ellen Pao, and the people complaining about the sci-fi awards) might want to step back and look at the results of their actions. It won’t be pleasant for them, but denying reality only gets worse with time.
I am thankful that reality is winning over the attempts to enforce a narrative.
It is for me.
I can just hear the liberal whine: "What's wrong with 'social justice'? How can you be against justice of any kind?"
Yes--It's another term for "abject coward."
Depends.
If one is an advocate of Begeronian egalitarianism, I suppose it would be a compliment.
ARTIST: Tom Lehrer
TITLE: The Folk Song Army
We are the Folk Song Army
Everyone of us cares
We all hate poverty, war and injustice
Unlike the rest of you squares
There are innocuous folk songs
Yeah, but we regard 'em with scorn
The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience
Why they don't even care if Jimmy crack corn
If you feel dissatisfaction
Strum your frustrations away
Some people may prefer action
But give me a folk song any old day
The tune doesn't have to be clever
And it don't matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English
And it don't even gotta rhyme - excuse me - rhyne
Remember the war against Franco
That's the kind where each of us belongs
Though he may have won all the battles
We had all the good songs
So join in the Folk Song Army
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice
Ready, aim, sing!
Nice to see our side of this gaining traction.
Admission: I’m a minor Minion of the Evil Legion of Evil, the joke organization behind the Sad Puppies campaign.
Especially as we lost a small battle yesterday, John C. Wright (who was over for BBQ on Sunday) just lost his nomination for best novella, because he posted a PORTION of the work online, on his blog, in 2013, prior to formal publication in 2014. But, SJW darling John Scalzi had published his “Old Man’s War” online THREE years prior, and was still eligible to be nominated for a Hugo in 2006. . .
How about that. Those who have chosen to break down order and tradition use (and abuse) rules to their advantage.
Rules for Radicals:
#4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.”
Great stuff!
bttt!
William Shetterly is probably a Marxist, but he’s unique in being far left and criticizing the social justice warriors. They make the mistake of assuming “we call you out on unorthodoxy - bash you into silence or submission ..... somehow, magically, racism and sexism go away”.
He is also the first person I’ve seen bring up the longer history of SJW in science fiction, like silencing a Chinese Thai writer who criticized the mostly liberal white left’s preoccupations and Elizabeth Moon, a female war veteran and sci-fi author, for criticizing the 9-11 mosque, asking why we should allow one near 9-11 when Saudi Arabia won’t even allow churches in their nation. Ms. Moon was drummed out of a place of honor at a convention after 9-11-01 for that stance, so the Sad Puppies and Hugo Awards are only the big public breakout of something that has been building for a decade.
“How to Make a Social Justice Warrior” by William Shetterly - a Review
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Review-of-the-eBook-How-to-Make-a-Social-Justice-Warrior-by-William-Shetterly
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