social-justice warrior

See also: social justice warrior

English

Noun

social-justice warrior (plural social-justice warriors)

1. Alternative form of social justice warrior.
   • 1995 October 19, Clara Oleson, “Welcome, Mary Sue Coleman”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Ia., page 14A:

     For 30 years, this web of struggle spun and created by wave upon wave of, well, feminists and other social-justice warriors who consciously and unconsciously, but never inevitably, changed the weather in Iowa City and the state, creating: a climate that transformed expectations and made it possible for a woman to be seen, by enough, as “qualified” to be president of the University of Iowa.

   • 2014 December 21, Ross Douthat, “N. Korea and the Speech Police”, in The Herald, volume 143, number 355, Rock Hill, S.C., page 2D:

     The common thread in all these cases, whether the angry parties are Hermit Kingdom satraps or random social-justice warriors on Twitter, is a belief that the most important power is the power to silence, and that the perfect community is one in which nothing uncongenial to your own worldview is ever tweeted, stated, supported or screened.

   • 2023 May 20, W. Nelson Craft, “There can be no pacifists on the St. Louis crime battlefield”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 145, number 140, page A5:

     First thing we need to do is stop this nonsense mentality of “defund the police” and “cops are minority killers.” It was propagated by social-justice warriors and extreme left politicians.