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by cpalone 3912 days ago
"Social Justice Warrior"

Really? That's the level of discourse the author is gonna set the bar at? At least I know that I'm not missing any substance by having just skimmed the post.

Seems like a cheap scramble for pageviews with an incredibly biased article, starting with the title.

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Loaded language is extremely common, and you doubtlessly use plenty of snarl words without even realizing it: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Snarl_word#Snarl_words

Though, much of a word's snarl comes from its tone and context. Where SJW is indeed a pejorative, it should not be construed as an intrinsic thought-terminating cliche. It's merely a shorthand to describe a certain flavor of people subscribing to academic ideologies that interpret the world as an identity struggle.

Yeah, I don't doubt that I do.

But presenting an entire post full of loaded language that also rails against "Social Justice Warrior Sarah Sharp's crusade" while claiming to be just "looking at the facts" is disingenuous at best.