• stoy@lemmy.zip
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      8 months ago

      Fair, I tried to find a better word for it, but drew a blank.

      Reading this made me realize that I haven’t heard that term for a long time and that I probably missused it.

      I am sorry for the misstake

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        8 months ago

        I mean my comment was not only making fun of the outdated phraseology, but also the idea that social justice isn’t a legitimate branch of sociological and legal change that persisted ~10-20 years ago has been far blown out of the water

        “social justice warriors” - who were considered risible in 2010 have since achieved

        • criminal justice reforms for youth jails
        • minimum pay raises and unionization of global corps (eg Starbucks) as a direct result of Occupy, to which the entire world now talks about Bank bail outs, billionaire taxes/wealth tax, borrow-die schemes, income inequality over the breakfast table
        • legal weed
        • BLM instrumental in making politicians renounce stop and frisk, to the extent Bloomberg had to renounce all his policies in his presidential run
        • #metoo leading to the conviction if Weinstein, and massive revolutions in the use of intimacy and consent coordinators and supervisors in entertainments Productions
        • DREAM act to DACA
        • rent reform in Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Long Beach, Orlando etc
        • no solutions as yet but everyone is mad about gerrymandering and voter suppression every election cycle now
        • New Green Deal
        • Slow but incremental advances in protecting children (and indeed adults) from gun violence and the slip of power from the NRA’s influence over elected politicians
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          8 months ago

          This is perfectly fair, I realize I should have used a better word/phrase to better describe my point.

          Thank you for taking the time and breaking it down.