Social Justice Warrior

The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 7 Apr 2026  · 342pp  · 129,097 words

long way to constructing a new identitarian regime in the university and corporate worlds. Universities employed a large class of DEI bureaucrats, provided billets for social justice warriors in critical studies departments, demanded that academics fill out identity statements and organized students along racial lines. In 2018, the University of California, Berkeley, weeded

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

by Jess Zimmerman  · 9 Mar 2021  · 224pp  · 74,019 words

Introduction: Sister Monsters How to Turn a Man to Stone Voracious Dogs Below the Waist Singing for Bread The Snatchers That’s What You Think Social Justice Warriors Deep Houses Shark, Snake, Swarm Come Back Twice as Hard Epilogue: Mother of Monsters Acknowledgments Resources Credits A NOTE TO THE READER THIS BOOK IS

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, so if challenged, they can always win. They’ll expect to see the Sphinx dash herself on the rocks. They’ll forget she has wings. SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS ONE OF MY FAVORITE pieces of writing in the world is the appendix of the book The Sting of the Wild by entomologist Justin Schmidt

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care about most.” This same instinct—to fear and denigrate women’s anger specifically when it comes from principle—is behind the absurd online insult “Social Justice Warrior.” This supposed taunt, levied not exclusively but especially at women who stand up for progressive principles, accidentally sounds cool as hell. It’s not the

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start. I don’t think anyone has ever been hurt by being described as a fierce and tireless fighter for justice. In truth, so-called social justice warriors are often fighting more for courtesy. The behavior most likely to get you called an SJW is suggesting that it’s worthwhile not to cavalierly

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work of making sure people are comfortable, considered, and not unduly put out. We go not into battle but into buttle. But the Furies are social justice warriors, make no mistake: literal warriors for actual justice. They’re the ones who show up when it’s too late to keep someone from getting

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is justice, a warrior is the kindest thing you can be. In the last few years—not by coincidence, the years in which the term “Social Justice Warrior” was created, weaponized, and reclaimed—we’ve seen a brief, white-hot heyday of female rage. Several books on women’s anger came out in

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Vultures Completely Take Over Couple’s Luxury Vacation Home.” HuffPost, August 16, 2019. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vomiting-vultures-florida-vacation-home_n_5d56fc6ee4b056fafd0ba527. SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS Sting pain scale: Schmidt, Justin O. The Sting of the Wild. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Chthonic symbolism: Felton, Debbie. “Rejecting and Embracing

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Me,” published in Hazlitt, July 7, 2016. “The Snatchers” is adapted from “The Monstrous Female Ambition of the Harpy,” published in Catapult, April 24, 2017. “Social Justice Warriors” is adapted from “Anger That Can Save the World: On Justice, Feminism, and the Furies,” published in Catapult, August 30, 2017. “Deep Houses” is adapted

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

by Noa Tishby  · 5 Apr 2021  · 338pp  · 101,967 words

why is BDS still such a big deal? PR. And good PR can cost a lot of money. FOLLOW THE MONEY There is nothing a social justice warrior loves more than being heard. It’s a unique new human breed created and amplified by social media, where everyone has an opinion and facts

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to decimate you. The fact of Israel’s existential vulnerability shapes many of its policies and actions, and unfortunately they are all woefully disregarded by social justice warriors spewing anger from their couches. With that in mind, here are some of their favorite arguments against Israel: Colonialism. The most popular anti-Israel argument

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peace, and was quick to condemn him when she found out, like the rest of the world, how vile he was. She is a true social justice warrior, not a keyboard one, an old-school one who doesn’t just speak but yells truth to power. Her commitment to liberalism, to Israel’s

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay  · 14 Jul 2020  · 378pp  · 107,957 words

/the-article-that-made-16000-profs-go-wild/. 24.Ben Cohen, “The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors,” James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, January 3, 2019, www.jamesgmartin.center/2018/11/the-rise-of-engineerings-social-justice-warriors/. 25.Donna Riley, Engineering and Social Justice (San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008), 109

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

by Elle Reeve  · 9 Jul 2024

. Cringe propaganda is video or screenshots of someone who is advocating for equality being provoked into a big emotional outburst—as in the YouTube genre “social justice warrior gets destroyed,” or the epic Twitter dunk. The message is that the subjects’ political ideals are based on feelings, not facts. Do you, a smart

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exchange came just six years after I had listened to a racist podcaster ridicule the idea that “diversity is our strength.” Alt-right trolls provoked “social justice warriors,” while mainstream Republicans complain about “wokeness,” but the script is nearly the same—that an irrational, emotional contingent of young people see bigotry when it

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-public-statement-from-joshua-goldberg-8bb061aa56a0 “I have been on the Internet”: Joshua Goldberg, “How Social Justice Warriors Are Creating an Entire Generation of Fascists,” Thought Catalog, December 5, 2014. https://thoughtcatalog.com/joshua-goldberg/2014/12/when-social-justice-warriors-attack-one-tumblr-users-experience/ If there was anything:v Joshua Goldberg, “Why Censoring Speech

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

by Hawon Jung  · 21 Mar 2023  · 401pp  · 112,589 words

working after an individual, and thus is more junior—is a hubae. CHAPTER 2 People who imagine Seo Ji-Hyun to be a tough, rebellious social justice warrior are often surprised to see her in person—a petite, fragile-looking woman with a shy smile and a whispery voice who easily bursts into

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

long ago the left was sympathetic to nationalism when it was fused with Marxist liberation movements. And many on the left encourage identity politicians and social justice warriors who downplay individual rights in favor of equalizing the standing of races, classes, and genders, which they see as being pitted in zero-sum competition

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’t diversify with idiots”).62 And a faction of academic culture composed of hard-left faculty, student activists, and an autonomous diversity bureaucracy (pejoratively called social justice warriors) has become aggressively illiberal. Anyone who disagrees with the assumption that racism is the cause of all problems is called a racist.63 Non-leftist

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W. Bush to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump.73 On the other side, the capture of the left by identity politicians, political correctness police, and social justice warriors creates an opening for loudmouths who brag of “telling it like it is.” A challenge of our era is how to foster an intellectual and

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Spot,” New York Times, May 28, 2016. 63. J. McWhorter, “Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion,” Daily Beast, July 27, 2015. 64. Illiberalism on campus and social justice warriors: Lukianoff 2012, 2014; G. Lukianoff & J. Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” The Atlantic, Sept. 2015; L. Jussim, “Mostly Leftist Threats to Mostly Campus

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, 99–100, 263 social contract, 12, 27–8, 31, 412, 413 Social Darwinism, 388, 398–9, 486nn36–37 social isolation. See social support vs. isolation “social justice warriors,” 31, 373, 375 social media as boon to human closeness, 256–7 and dematerialization, 135 and leisure/family time, 255, 256 and loneliness, 274, 275

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro  · 26 Jul 2021  · 309pp  · 81,243 words

surely receiving a boatload of nasty notes privately, Mark quickly deleted his tweet, and then replaced it with a Maoist struggle session of hot-button social justice warrior thoughtvomit: So that tweet was a disaster on many levels. I want to be clear that I in no way endorse hatred, racism, homophobia, xenophobia

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on Facebook to a pseudo-journalist activist can result in a worldwide scandal. Your boss cares what you say. So do your friends. Cross the social justice warriors, and you will be canceled. It’s not a matter of if. Only when. The only safety from the mob is to become a part

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inside). The NFL followed suit, with Roger Goodell admitting he was “wrong” by not overtly siding with Kaepernick in 2016,65 and the league painting social justice warrior slogans in the end zones during games—phrases like “It Takes All of Us” and “End Racism.”66 Racism, as it turns out, was not

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson  · 15 Nov 2021  · 458pp  · 132,912 words

the United States, poor whites are the largest impoverished ethnic group and usually larger than all other poor minority groups combined. In short, today’s social justice warrior apparently would not wish to empathize with a West Virginian coal miner but prefers instead CNN anchor Don Lemon or billionaire rapper Jay-Z. Consequently

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

by Steven Pinker  · 14 Oct 2021  · 533pp  · 125,495 words

the strength of the prosecutor’s case. It was the evidential interpretation that made it rational to judge that Linda, having been presented as a social justice warrior, was likelier to be a feminist bank teller than a bank teller. Finally there is the frequentist interpretation: if you did toss the die many

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in one ear and out the other.9 (This is also why people fall for the conjunction fallacy from chapter 1, in which Linda the social justice warrior is likelier to be a feminist bank teller than a bank teller. She’s representative of a feminist, and people forget about the relative base

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt  · 14 Jun 2018  · 531pp  · 125,069 words

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

by Laura Bates  · 2 Sep 2020  · 364pp  · 119,398 words

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

by Linsey McGoey  · 14 Sep 2019

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

by Cary McClelland  · 8 Oct 2018  · 225pp  · 70,241 words

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

New York 2140

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 14 Mar 2017  · 693pp  · 204,042 words

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin  · 1 Oct 2018

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 23 Feb 2016  · 487pp  · 147,238 words

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 May 2020  · 393pp  · 91,257 words

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

by Andy Greenberg  · 15 Nov 2022  · 494pp  · 121,217 words

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

by Madhumita Murgia  · 20 Mar 2024  · 336pp  · 91,806 words

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 20 Feb 2018  · 306pp  · 82,765 words

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

by Julia Ebner  · 20 Feb 2020  · 309pp  · 79,414 words

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist

by Michael Shermer  · 8 Apr 2020  · 677pp  · 121,255 words

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words

Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

by Ed West  · 19 Mar 2020  · 530pp  · 147,851 words

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson  · 14 Apr 2020  · 491pp  · 141,690 words

Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

by George Packer  · 14 Jun 2021  · 173pp  · 55,328 words

The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

by Richard Wrangham  · 29 Jan 2019  · 473pp  · 130,141 words

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

by Rodrigo Aguilera  · 10 Mar 2020  · 356pp  · 106,161 words

The New Snobbery

by David Skelton  · 28 Jun 2021  · 226pp  · 58,341 words

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

by Dave Rubin  · 27 Apr 2020  · 239pp  · 62,005 words

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger  · 26 Nov 2020  · 371pp  · 109,320 words

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil  · 25 Feb 2020  · 239pp  · 80,319 words

Radicalized

by Cory Doctorow  · 19 Mar 2019  · 444pp  · 84,486 words

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro  · 30 Aug 2021  · 345pp  · 92,063 words

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies  · 26 Feb 2019  · 349pp  · 98,868 words

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

by Mark Bergen  · 5 Sep 2022  · 642pp  · 141,888 words

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

by Darren McGarvey  · 2 Nov 2017  · 224pp  · 73,737 words

The Twittering Machine

by Richard Seymour  · 20 Aug 2019  · 297pp  · 83,651 words

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

by Ross Douthat  · 25 Feb 2020  · 324pp  · 80,217 words

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

by Rachel Slade  · 9 Jan 2024  · 392pp  · 106,044 words

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

by Talia Lavin  · 14 Jul 2020  · 231pp  · 71,299 words

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

by Mark Lilla  · 14 Aug 2017  · 91pp  · 24,469 words

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities

by Eric Kaufmann  · 24 Oct 2018  · 691pp  · 203,236 words

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

by Charles Murray  · 28 Jan 2020  · 741pp  · 199,502 words

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 20 Nov 2018  · 211pp  · 57,759 words

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

by Amanda Montell  · 14 Jun 2021  · 244pp  · 73,700 words

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

by Matt Alt  · 14 Apr 2020

The Internet of Garbage

by Sarah Jeong  · 14 Jul 2015  · 81pp  · 24,626 words

March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016–2019

by Stewart Lee  · 2 Sep 2019  · 382pp  · 117,536 words

How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong

by James O'Brien  · 2 Nov 2018  · 173pp  · 52,725 words

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

by Angela Nagle  · 6 Jun 2017  · 122pp  · 38,022 words

HWFG: Here We F**king Go

by Chris McQueer  · 8 Nov 2018  · 252pp  · 65,990 words

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words