{"id":185421,"date":"2014-10-21T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/21\/ever-hear-the-term-sjw-it-means-social-justice\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:28:44","slug":"ever-hear-the-term-sjw-it-means-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/21\/ever-hear-the-term-sjw-it-means-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Ever hear the term \u201cSJW\u201d? It means \u201csocial justice warrior,\u201d and it refers specifically to people who point out racism or sexism in movies, video games, and other pop culture. Those people are considered worse than other types of critics because instead of just pointing out that a movie has flaws, they\u2019re accusing people who like it of being awful.<\/p>\n<p>Except they\u2019re not, of course. If someone points out that the alternator belt in your car is slipping, they\u2019re not accusing you of being some kind of mustache-twirling, white cat-stroking supervillain for having car problems. They\u2019re not accusing you of anything. They\u2019re talking about your fucking car.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>J. F. Sargent, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-human-flaws-that-prevent-progress-keep-us-dumb\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=fanpage&amp;utm_campaign=new+article&amp;wa_ibsrc=fanpage\" target=\"_blank\">5 Human Flaws That Prevent Progress and Keep Us Dumb<\/a>&ldquo; (<em>Cracked.com<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what\u2019s been happening over at Cracked lately, but <strong><em>damn<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thetrekkiehasthephonebox.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thetrekkiehasthephonebox<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Cracked has increasingly been getting better<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever hear the term \u201cSJW\u201d? It means \u201csocial justice warrior,\u201d and it refers specifically to people who point out racism or sexism in movies, video games, and other pop culture. Those people are considered worse than other types of critics because instead of just pointing out that a movie has flaws, they\u2019re accusing people who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/10\/21\/ever-hear-the-term-sjw-it-means-social-justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}