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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-03-19 06:47 pm

[ SECRET POST #2268 ]


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(Anonymous) 2013-03-20 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
There is, its called just being a decent person. You are polite when the subjects arise in your life. Email/Write your local electoral representative whenever an issue of social justice arises, maybe donate a little cash or time to a relevant charity. And just get on living your life without hectoring people when they say something you don't like.

(Anonymous) 2013-03-20 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Don't see why people shouldn't be called out for saying something sexist/racist/homophobic. That is an issue of social justice.

I mean, there's a line between getting wide-eyed and frothy because someone used the word "niggardly" and between saying, "Hey, that's not cool" to someone using the actual n-word, or calling someone a "he-she" or making about rape being funny.

Social justice isn't really just about Big Causes that involve elected officials and charities. It's about the everyday attitudes of people. It's far more about what's considered casually acceptable, the sort of thing you just accept in a movie, comic, or conversation without even blinking, even though when you look at it, hey, yeah, it is kind of weird that almost ever Asian superhero is specifically a martial artists of some kind, or hey, it's kind of annoying how the most generic answer for "why is that female character crazy" is "a man done her wrong."
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[personal profile] nyxelestia 2013-03-20 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
You are polite when the subjects arise in your life. Email/Write your local electoral representative whenever an issue of social justice arises, maybe donate a little cash or time to a relevant charity. And just get on living your life without hectoring people when they say something you don't like.

And that's the difference between a social justice activist and a social justice warrior. Guess which one actually does those things and which one just rants about social justice issues on a hair trigger without any thought to practical application or context?
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[personal profile] diet_poison 2013-03-20 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Heckling people? Not cool. But keeping my mouth shut all the time, and never saying anything? If someone makes a sexist remark to me I'm going to call them out on it, sorry. If I see something blatantly problematic I'm going to say so.

That doesn't mean I'm going to yell and kick and scream and always fail to get context. But if you (general you) think people who respond to SJ issues are always SJWs then that is your problem.

I'm not sure which you are, but saying "being polite" and then implying that behind-closed-doors activism is the only legitimate way to go about things kind of makes me wonder.

This is becoming a real problem. The phrase "SJW" is losing its value. Someone who cares about social issues and annoys you because you don't isn't automatically an SJW, and it's your (again, general your) problem if you're annoyed because I don't like (for example) sexist things or people being sexist.