Who Social Justice Warriors used to be:
Luigi Taparelli who coined the term Social Justice in the 1840s trying to get the Catholic Church to help poor people instead of hording all their money.
Mary Harris Jones labeling herself a Social Justice Activist while protecting the working people by using her political power and organization skills to stop the striking Industrial Workers from being slaughtered by the Pinkertons.
Louis Brandeis calling for more Social Justice in his attempt to bring world peace while helping create the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI.
Martin Luther King leading the Civil Rights Movement and writing an essay about the need for Social Justice in society in relations to the War in Vietnam.
Who Social Justice Warriors are now:
White women in their 20s working at buzzfeed making news articles on that complain about how air conditioners are sexist. And people on tumblr who threaten to kill or Dox anyone that has a different opinion then them.
I am so confused that anti-SJ has decided the air conditioner article is Quintessential SJ. The article argues that most office buildings are over air-conditioned in the summer, and suggests approximately eight reasons: humidity control, badly placed thermostats, air conditioning units designed for full occupancy when buildings are usually at less than full occupancy, offices built in times when buildings were mostly lit with incandescent bulbs (which produce a ton of heat), systems with so much overcapacity that they don’t run well on low settings, better sealing and insulation that mean the AC has to run on full blast to get sufficient air circulation.
And ‘most managers are men who wear a suit and probably prefer the colder temperatures’.
Mentioning, as one of eight hypotheses about why office buildings are too cold, that most managers are men who wear suits, is apparently Where SJ Went Off The Ledge?
Guys, in the last week I have seen SJ blogs argue that Emmett Till had it coming because he catcalled a woman, that the Holocaust was justified because Hitler was trying to prevent the creation of colonial power Israel, that it was okay to use slurs about disabled people against abled people because if they weren’t disabled they couldn’t be oppressed by them, and that the only reason to like history is because you are racist.
You have better targets.
they might be referring to like this vox dot com article which pretty much does say explicitly that air conditioners are sexist
but yes, anti-SJ holding this up as an example of the terribleness of SJ is crazy! this is probably one of the best things SJ is doing! as a Woman in STEM I have never faced any setbacks due to microaggressions that I can recall but I have spent years in freezing cold workplaces and classrooms, shivering while wearing my warmest fleece sweatshirts. I actually told an HR person at my job this summer that I thought air conditioning was the #1 issue faced by women in the workforce today (she seemed skeptical).
also, the environment