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Which begs the question, what should one do if they genuinely desire social justice and don't want to play games? It sometimes sounds as if the nay-sayers think this is an impossibility.

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Actually physically go and affect change, rather than talking emptily on the internet?

Seems a silly question to even ask such a thing.

That prognosis strikes me as odd since so much social change occurs form organizing, communicating, writing and debating. All activities that benefit tremendously - incomparably! - from the internet.

The problem in my opinion is that some of this social change erodes the very foundation of society and us as a species. I'm not talking about who rules or by what means we select them by but rather things that even define us as a species, what's the norm for humankind is under constant attack with the excuse of inclusiveness.

If find yourself shaking your fist at something the kids are doing and pontificating about how its the moral downfall of the species you should probably stop to consider whether you might have just gotten old. I'm sure every generation that's ever existed could have typed that post with a few madlibs and it all turned out fine.

I'm not talking about kids, I'm talking about adults.

"Social Justice Warrior" is emphasize on "Warrior". They are people who want to fight and harass others, and figured that the best way to get lots of people to harass and fight without many consequences is to fight for social justice. Their goal isn't social justice, rather their goal is to make lots of enemies which hurts the cause of social justice.

But of course social justice is a great thing, but social justice WARRIOR isn't.

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