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Social Justice Warrior is a bogeyman used to shut down people who challenge the status quo.
The explanation of "Tumblr terminology" in the OP(which contains terms that faaar predate tumblr) takes everything to a ridiculous extreme, and basically removes the ability of anyone to point out things like, "straight white dudes have it easier than us, on average, and should have more empathy". You literally can't point out things like this, or you're hurting your cause, you're MISANDRIST, all this sort of bullshit. You get people calling SJWs stupid, uneducated, when they clearly don't understand the terminology they're making fun of. It's like edgy as fuck 8 year olds learning big adult words and throwing them back at each other in world salads in an attempt to be clever. While there's a popular image of SJWs as basement dwellers, anti-SJWs are much more likely to meet this description. While you'll always get the odd trans or POC anti-SJW desperate to fit in, the fact is that most of these viewpoints are born from a very severe lack of perspective, and are generally spearheaded by individuals sheltered by privilege. And yes, privilege is a valid term. Tumblr did not invent it. If you think it did, you are a fucking idiot and shouldn't be talking about complicated sociological issues. Go back to yelling homophobic slurs at minors in Call of Duty or whatever it is you kids do these days.
I work with groups like the Roma. I know people are grandchildren of Holocaust victims. These people have been labelled as SJWs and attacked as such. The idea that oppression is playing a "victim card" shows a complete lack of perspective on everything. Perhaps if SJW actually held a useful, consistent definition and wasn't just a way to shame and silence people outside of the mainstream for challenging the status quo it might have a use. But it doesn't.
Feminism is often accused of shutting down discussion, but in reality there are many lengthy discussions to be had on the nature of oppression and privilege. ALL of the "definitions" in the OP post are designed to silence and shut down outsider groups who are critical of those of privilege. There are huge movements built around this, single out shaming and harassing people into silence, I've seen it happen to both myself and others. You'll get people who claim they're not transphobic but act in a way that is entirely conducive to silencing all transgender women.
There's plenty of flaws to be found with tumblr Social Justice, but these aren't them. These are just entirely anti-critical thinking and just want to bring us back to a point where people get to be racist, sexist, homo/transphobic scumbags without being called on it. It's embarrassing.
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