2 thoughts on “The Social Justice Warriors”

  1. Many will understand this term I used — millennial social justice advocates — as a synonym to the pejorative “social justice warriors.”

    Might be pejorative for some, but when others freely accept it, one might quibble. For a view of the latter, see the comments in George RR Martin’s post on Sad Puppies from last week.(Martin doesn’t like the term either, so it couldn’t have tasted very good when his own commenters weighed in saying “fine by me!”) Larry Correia’s reponse is here. Very long; here’s a clip:

    To be perfectly frank, some things changed between LonCon and SasQuan. I’d proved my point about the bias and attacks, and was ready to hang it up. They poked the bear, the bear mauled them, and now the bear just wanted to go back to his cave and be left alone. But Brad Torgersen is an idealist, Mr. Martin, I can’t accentuate this enough. He would be dead in Westeros in fifteen minutes. Brad is TruFan. That man waves his nerd flag high. He looks at the Hugo with adoration like it is some sort of religious icon with a halo around it. He prays to his altar of Saint Heinlein 3 times a day and lights candles for Frank Herbert.

    If I was naïve at first, Brad makes me look… hell… I don’t even have a good comparison. So when he grew up hearing that the Hugos represented the Best of the Best, bright shining light on the hill, he incorporated that into the very fiber of his being.

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