If I had a nickel for every time some SJW ranted about the “history” of some word or usage or practice and how insensitive and hurtful that thing is to some marginalized intersectional othered vulnerable hothouse flower, I would be a wealthy man. “Social Justice” made my grandparents’ lives harder than they needed to be.
Speaking of a sensitive vulnerable hothouse flower, it seems to get quickly and deeply under your skin when someone merely brings up the history of a term — no, not “rants,” just mentions it. Then the big irony is how you follow this up with the hurt it caused your grandparents. Were your grandparents sensitive vulnerable hothouse flowers about this subject, too? Or are you just being a presumptuous ass to those that aren’t as politically aligned with you?
If today’s kids knew the history, they’d have found a different term — labels are a dime a dozen. But they don’t know the history, and that’s what’s sad.
You clearly and painfully don’t know what you’re talking about here or else you’d be familiar with how much younger generations are focused on ‘taking back’ terminology that has been hurtful. This is a direct contradiction to your claim that they don’t know the history. I’m sure plenty of younger people don’t know the history of the term “social justice” specifically, but I’m also sure plenty of older folks, even in your own generation, don’t know it either.
No word, phrase, or concept is frozen in meaning forever based on how people used it decades ago. Meaning of even mundane words will change over time through usage. Some words stay offensive because they still pack marginalization and hurt behind them today. When there are literally dozens to hundreds of Jewish social justice groups and Jewish social justice leaders around today that feel no discomfort describing themselves in this way, I’d say it’s far more likely that you are in the extreme minority on this than you may realize.
It’s like you’ve adopted this argument of yours for convenience to hit back at “SJWs” rather than out of any authentic or genuine pain or desire to reflect on the issue. I hope I’m wrong, but you’re not instilling confidence.
