James Caruthers wrote:
Now you can say "no SJW can ever be reasonable because I define SJWs as unreasonable" but all you've done there is either invoke tribalism or (more charitably) defined all the reasonable extreme liberals out of the "SJW" camp.
Except I never said that. You said that. I said the exact-opposite: that to draw a distinction between "feminists" and "radfems" is to pretend there is a significant camp of "feminists" who aren't "radfems". I say no such camp exists.
Likewise, I think "SJW" is a red-herring term, if-- by drawing attention to the obvious clowns-- you give cover to the Orwellian design flaws among the-types-of-liberals who
you call "reasonable extreme liberals".
In other words: when someone like me tries to critique Social Justice, it's not sufficient for someone like you to say 'well, sure, the social justice WARRIORS are bad...' Saying-that isn't exculpatory of the SJ's who lack a W. Saying-that just fails to meet my criticism of Social Justice head-on.
James Caruthers wrote:
If an SJW is just an unreasonable liberal by definition, then basically none of the people I have touted as "reasonable SJWs" count as "SJW" under this definition. They're liberals or shitlibs or extreme libs.
SJW as a term is very poorly defined because it's a sort of mutation/mockery. Much like "feminazi" it has both valid and invalid applications. I believe Rush Limbaugh popularized the term "feminazi." Rush would call a woman fighting for her abortion rights a feminazi slut, but that doesn't mean that someone calling FEMEN "feminazis" is necessarily wrong to use that term.
Likewise, SJW has FREQUENTLY been used in the right-wing parts of the internet as a term for ANY liberal who says anything right-wingers find objectionable. That definition of an SJW is bullshit. But calling PZ an SJW would be very accurate, because he sees himself as some champion of the oppressed, while continually acting like a fucking asshole to everyone and jacking himself off over how tolerant he is.
I'm not trying to speak reasonable SJWs into existence. They already exist depending on how you define your terms.
If both you & Rush Limbaugh agree that "feminazi" can accurately be applied to FEMEN, then that-much is stipulated & we can stop talking about fucking FEMEN. If Rush then contends that "a woman fighting for her abortion rights" is also a feminazi... and you disagree... then the thing to do debate whether she's indeed a feminazi.
The thing NOT to do-- is what you do-- reiterate that the abortion-slut isn't a FEMEN, and end your defense of her there.
Your penchant for doing-that is especially-lame, given-that you choose the opposite tactic when it comes to MRAs. In that case, you're perfectly happy to point to Aurini the nazi... and use your broad brush to paint non-Aurini MRAs as essentially-the-same as Aurini. You draw no distinction, when it suits your agenda.