Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26516813-20190711012913/@comment-33165688-20190720025316

Gilgameshkun wrote: Social justice is an important good in society, and the term you speak of did originally have a positive connotation, not a negative one as you think, though fell out of use and has become overwhelmingly negative and derogatory today. And if someone seeks social justice using counterproductive methods, then they are worthy of criticism for that. But itself is no vice&mdash;trying to achieve a more just world for all is one of the highest virtues there is, as it is intrinsically tied to the protection of civil and human rights and equality. I didn't deny that it had an originally positive meaning, but the use of it to criticize has been around for more than a few years.

And I didn't criticize the concept of social justice. I merely feel that the people who claim to be devoted to it are pretty uniformly awful, to the point where I have literally only seen a handful of social justice people who are capable of not attacking others or denigrating them for their religion, race, gender, etc.

Like I said, it's become a dogma rather than an ideal, and dogmatic people do not debate, they do not listen, and they seek out "sinners" to punish.