A Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology, 3rd Edition
The use of language by social justice warriors frequently departs from both the dictionary definitions and the common understanding of words by most of the general population. As such, a guide to social justice warrior speech may be helpful to the layperson, along with commentary about how their uses of words relate to reality. This will take the form of an informal and potentially humorous glossary, which will not be exhaustive due to some terms being understood in the same manner by social justice warriors and the layperson, and due to the continual invention of new terms. This glossary will focus on how such terms are used in practice rather than how social justice warriors might define them in theory whenever there is a conflict between the two. Whereas the first edition remains the most viewed post at Zeroth Position and the second edition has also done well, I now present the third edition of the Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology to document another two years' worth of leftist insanity.
Ableism
(noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects people with disabilities, regardless of validity.
Ablesplaining
(verb): condesplaining by a able-bodied person to a disabled person. See Condesplaining
Active listening
(verb): to understand by empathizing with speaker(s) and considering their perspective(s).
Adultism
(noun): prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions by adults against minors. See Ageism
AFAB/AMAB
(abbreviation): assigned female/male at birth. This tends to be a statement of biological reality concerning people whose brains do not conform to said reality.
Affirmative action
(noun): action taken by a government or private institution to make up for past discrimination in education, work, or promotion on the basis of being part of a historically oppressed group. This often discriminates against others, which rarely concerns social justice warriors.
Ageism
(noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects young or old people, regardless of validity.
Agent
(noun): a member of a dominant or majority group. The implication is that people who are not part of such a group cannot act independently and make free choices for themselves, which social justice warriors would denounce as bigoted if such a statement came from their opponents. Contrast Target
Agesplaining
(verb): condesplaining to a person of a different age. See Condesplaining
Agender
(adjective): a person who identifies with no gender. Usually (but not always) a denial of biological reality.
Ally
(adjective): someone considered to be part of a privileged group who works with social justice warriors to achieve their goals.
Anti-Semitism
(noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects Jewish people, regardless of validity.
Appropriation
(noun): the use of parts of a culture by someone who does not identify as a person from that culture. Although appropriation has been responsible for the spread of new and better ideas and technology throughout the world, social justice warriors view appropriation as problematic.
Asexual
(noun): an identity term for people who do not feel sexual attraction and/or do not desire to have a sexual partner.
Bigender
(adjective): a person who identifies as a mixture of two genders. Usually (but not always; see Intersex) a denial of biological reality.
Bigotry
- (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects a group which is said to lack privilege, regardless of validity. See Ableism, Ageism, Anti-Semitism, Biphobia, Cissexism, Classism, Condesplaining, Heterosexism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Religionism, Sexism, Transphobia, Xenophobia
- (noun): a combination of prejudice and power.
Biphobia
(noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects bisexuals, pansexuals, polysexuals, or genderfluid people, regardless of validity.
Birth-assigned sex
(noun): see AFAB/AMAB
Body positivity
(noun): the acceptance and advocacy of morbid obesity.
Brocialism
(noun): the belief that socialism will result in gender equality.
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