social justice warrior
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
noun
An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere.
Derogatory
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social justice, warrior; a social justice activist.
Example Sentences
- "Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me."
- "How will your upper class social justice warrior cope with men swearing and pushing each other? Will she faint at the first sight of blood from a split lip? Or will she hike up her skirts, grab a hot soup spoon, and brain the first aggressor she can find?"
- "But the partisan liberals in the Obama adminstration think that the rules don't apply to them. They are blind to the dragon's teeth of division and mistrust that their social justice politics sows in the body politic. They honor and celebrate the "activist," the "community organizer" and the social justice warrior, whose proud life purpose is to "raise consciousness" of injustice and marginalization."
- "Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection."
- "It's the time you realize your son's school has turned into Social Justice Warrior boot camp, where English is “Gender Studies” and History and Geography are “Global inequality and the failures of capitalism.”"
- "Scratch a critic of social justice warriors and a status quo warrior bleeds."