I consider myself a fighter for social justice, but I don't call myself a "social justice warrior." If I called myself a warrior, I'd sound so stuck-up and arrogant, which a lot of SJWs are. That's another reason why I don't call myself an SJW: I don't want to be associated with all of the feminazis and people with blue hair. They turn into the exact same thing that they are fighting to get rid of: sexists and racists.
So, what do I fight for?
I want equality in all things. I want women to be respected by women and men to be respected by women. Black people should be respected, as does every race. Nobody is any better than anyone else in terms of humanity, anyways. I am not the kind of person who is so liberal and so feminist that they hate Straight White Men. No. I don't hate them, but I just won't support anyone or anything that try to push Straight White Men higher up on the social ladder, like conservatives and the GOP. I want people to one day look at someone and not think of them as a certain race, sex, gender, or sexuality, but rather as a human being. I would support minorities any day just to try to push them up on the social ladder and make them equal to everyone else. It's not that I hate majorities. I don't hate anyone. I just want to try to make them equal.
Even though I'm not a social justice warrior, I think you should, at the very least, respect them. If you hate them, you're just egging them on and making them feel even more victimized and it will trigger them to keep on going because people don't accept them as who they are. Many of them are just attention hogs, but there's many people who actually do care about what they're talking about. People purposely insult them just to make them mad, and then they'll insult them further when they get mad. A lot of the issues that they talk about are real issues, but they just blow them way out of proportion. Yes, there is a wage gap between genders, but after watching a bunch of feminist videos on YouTube, you'd think men would be millionaires and women are all homeless and impoverished! Yes, there is racism in the world, but after a few minutes of watching SJWs, you'd think that all whites are genocidal maniacs!
All in all, I want equality. I am not a social justice warrior. You probably are not one, but you still should respect them. If you call them whiny bitches, you're just proving them right; that people don't like them. I don't like how they exaggerate all the time about very real topics and problems and how selfish and arrogant a lot of them are, among many other things about them, but either you respect them or ignore them. With me, it's kind of half-and-half. There are some that you can tell are just attention hoarders, but there are some that are legit.
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