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Labels, archetypes, stereotypes. All can be useful devices, but of course are very easily abused. The term SJW is useful. Like all labels, it lacks precision. It is not a term of art. But what it does allow is, for instance, for someone to post here to make a particular point or points without having to include an almost certainly lengthy definition. Yes, it does carry a pejorative taint but I think many posters here use it chiefly for convenience (or out of laziness if you must). And let's face it, all sides of the Hugo debate use labels, many more offensive and inaccurate than SJW. Am I the only one who finds it a little ironic that SJW has been singled out when labels like racist, misogynist, sexist, homophobe and stereotypes like old straight white men are being bandied around. And other collective smears like haters of diversity and change. Social Justice itself is hardly a term of art.
SJW is here to stay, like it or not. Wear it with pride if you like, though like the other terms I have quoted here, it is not usually used as praise. Only for denoting a class of people (without real precision) or in a pejorative sense or both.
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