So, You Want To Be a SJW! (Social Justice Warrior)

Advocacy is a grand thing! It can be the difference between a meager existence and a full life for many people. Advocacy, when done right can open doors to new opportunities for those who otherwise would be denied. Most who need an advocate simply want the means to succeed at their dreams. People in wheelchairs and who have mobility issues advocated for handicap accessibility and that that has been major benefit for people of all walks of life. Without such advocacy we would still be facing a world where people with mobility issues would be prevented from preforming daily tasks, shopping and going to work. 

Today's social justice warriors doesn't seem to understand what advocacy truly is and how it it can be effective. They seem to be at a loss when it comes to differentiating between what is a cause and what is a want. A cause has a legitimate core, like accessibility to the community for disabled. People must be able to access the community and society at large to function in society. Demanding everyone use non conforming pronouns for genders, demanding a tax payers fund special programs without the ability for tax payers to vote on those programs, demanding white people pay for slavery which ended 150 years ago and most whites did not even own slaves, demanding more government control over our lives and rights, demanding other watch what they say for it may hurt someone's feelings is frankly not advocacy. A war on words and thoughts in not advocacy. A demand that our election system is overturned because you do not like who was elected is not advocacy. Crying and screaming at someone because they disagree with you is not advocacy. Burning the national flag is not advocacy. Calling everyone names, punching people at political rallies, dressing up in black and covering your faces is not advocacy. 

No, what we have today is what can only be described as a conniption fit!! Advocacy has a clear stated goal and a plan to achieve the stated goal through legal courses and means that will ensure the support of the people. 

SJW are not advocates. There is no real goal, no true intent other than chaos. What will happen and is happening now is simple alienation and people will simply not support any goal no matter how noble and just it may be in your own opinion. To be an advocate is not the same as a SJW. You cannot pick and choose what part of your advocacy you will promote and what to deny. You cannot claim Black Lives Matter but only advocate when a police officer is in question of doing to aggression and criminal gangs who are responsible for more black deaths than officers are ignored. You cannot pick when a life matters! By doing so you undermine the lives of those you wish to protect. 

Advocacy is an old and proven means to get needed change for the better of society. But it fails if you feel the need to burn society down to achieve those goals. Riots and looting are the opposite of advocacy. Paying people to protest political events is also not advocacy for you have no true support and are forced to rely on paid actors to attempt to get a message across. Once you pay someone you are now employing them and free speech is not protected for employed protesters. 

So, SJW friends, please be advocates and put down your fist and raise your pen.