"social justice warrior" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "social justice warriors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "social justice warrior"
      },
      "expansion": "social justice warrior (plural social justice warriors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English neologisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 30 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 28 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 21 32",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Leftism",
          "orig": "en:Leftism",
          "parents": [
            "Ideologies",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 29 31",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 27 37",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Social justice",
          "orig": "en:Social justice",
          "parents": [
            "Leftism",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Sociology",
            "Ideologies",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Liat Kaplan, “I Was Your Fave Is Problematic”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice."
      ],
      "id": "en-social_justice_warrior-en-noun-Q~xjgWJE",
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neologism, politics) A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neologism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English neologisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 30 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 28 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 27 37",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Social justice",
          "orig": "en:Social justice",
          "parents": [
            "Leftism",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Sociology",
            "Ideologies",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Krista D. Ball, Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes: A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide, Tyche Books Ltd.",
          "text": "How will your upper class social justice warrior cope with men swearing and pushing each other? Will she faint at the first sight of blood from a split lip? Or will she hike up her skirts, grab a hot soup spoon, and brain the first aggressor she can find?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joe Cooper, “It's Not 'Unwisdom', It's Hubris -- Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality.”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet)",
          "text": "But the partisan liberals in the Obama adminstration think that the rules don't apply to them. They are blind to the dragon's teeth of division and mistrust that their social justice politics sows in the body politic. They honor and celebrate the \"activist,\" the \"community organizer\" and the social justice warrior, whose proud life purpose is to \"raise consciousness\" of injustice and marginalization.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2014, Thejendra B.S., Digital Wildfires: How to Become a Social Justice Warrior, Createspace Independent Pub, →ISBN:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Peggy Noonan, “The Trigger-Happy Generation”, in The Wall Street Journal, volume CCLXV, number 120",
          "text": "Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Nick Adams, Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness",
          "text": "It's the time you realize your son's school has turned into Social Justice Warrior boot camp, where English is “Gender Studies” and History and Geography are “Global inequality and the failures of capitalism.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere."
      ],
      "id": "en-social_justice_warrior-en-noun--ToVumWQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neologism, derogatory, politics) An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "neologism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 31 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 30 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 28 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 27 37",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Social justice",
          "orig": "en:Social justice",
          "parents": [
            "Leftism",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Sociology",
            "Ideologies",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Tim Dugdale, I Couldn't Care Less: A Novel, Black Moss Press, page 33",
          "text": "Conny was a local painter who had achieved modest fame in the Canadian art scene with his experiments in New Age macho realism: the sensitive male writ large as compassionate lover, social justice warrior and loyal son to Mother Earth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Daniel J. Faber, The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States, Guilford Press",
          "text": "This book is dedicated to the memory of a great environmental and social justice warrior, mother, labor organizer, singer-songwriter, Earth Firstler activist, and much, much more Judi Bari (1949-1977)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Con Job, Æclipse Press, page 101",
          "text": "Daniel raised an eyebrow. “Do you happen to have an expert handy on toxic pesticides in the food supply?” Jacob blew out his breath. “No, but — hold on, yes, I might.” He drew out his phone. “Let me text my favorite social justice warrior.” Jessica might not know much about arsenic and pesticides, but she would certainly know who would.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social justice, warrior; a social justice activist."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "Tumblrina"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "wokeling"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "wokescold"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "wokester"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "woketard"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "wokie"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-social_justice_warrior-en-noun-ZoVNXbj5",
      "links": [
        [
          "social justice",
          "social justice#English"
        ],
        [
          "warrior",
          "warrior#English"
        ],
        [
          "social justice",
          "social justice"
        ],
        [
          "activist",
          "activist"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "culture warrior"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "purity spiral"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "29 29 41",
          "word": "virtue signalling"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "30 29 41",
          "word": "social-justice warrior"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "30 29 41",
          "tags": [
            "initialism"
          ],
          "word": "SJW"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "社會正義戰士"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shèhuì zhèngyì zhànshì",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "社会正义战士"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "báizuǒ",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "白左"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "suvakki"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "social justice warrior"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "ka",
      "english": "non-derogatory",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "socialuri samartlianobistvis mebrʒoli",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "სოციალური სამართლიანობისთვის მებრძოლი"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "socialuri samartlianobis akṭivisṭi",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "სოციალური სამართლიანობის აქტივისტი"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "not perfect but close match",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "Gutmensch"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "Gesinnungskrieger"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "social justice warrior"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sōsharu jasutisu woriā",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "ソーシャル・ジャスティス・ウォリアー"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "porikore yakuza",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "ポリコレヤクザ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "progre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "batikhäxa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "sosyal adalet savaşçısı"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "32 29 39",
      "code": "yi",
      "english": "tsadek in pelts",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "note": "not left-specific or Internet-specific",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "צדיק אין פּעלץ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "social justice warrior"
  ],
  "word": "social justice warrior"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "en:Leftism",
    "en:People",
    "en:Social justice"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "social justice warriors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "social justice warrior"
      },
      "expansion": "social justice warrior (plural social justice warriors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "Tumblrina"
    },
    {
      "word": "wokeling"
    },
    {
      "word": "wokescold"
    },
    {
      "word": "wokester"
    },
    {
      "word": "woketard"
    },
    {
      "word": "wokie"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "culture warrior"
    },
    {
      "word": "purity spiral"
    },
    {
      "word": "virtue signalling"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English neologisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Liat Kaplan, “I Was Your Fave Is Problematic”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neologism, politics) A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neologism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English neologisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Krista D. Ball, Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes: A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide, Tyche Books Ltd.",
          "text": "How will your upper class social justice warrior cope with men swearing and pushing each other? Will she faint at the first sight of blood from a split lip? Or will she hike up her skirts, grab a hot soup spoon, and brain the first aggressor she can find?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joe Cooper, “It's Not 'Unwisdom', It's Hubris -- Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality.”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet)",
          "text": "But the partisan liberals in the Obama adminstration think that the rules don't apply to them. They are blind to the dragon's teeth of division and mistrust that their social justice politics sows in the body politic. They honor and celebrate the \"activist,\" the \"community organizer\" and the social justice warrior, whose proud life purpose is to \"raise consciousness\" of injustice and marginalization.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2014, Thejendra B.S., Digital Wildfires: How to Become a Social Justice Warrior, Createspace Independent Pub, →ISBN:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Peggy Noonan, “The Trigger-Happy Generation”, in The Wall Street Journal, volume CCLXV, number 120",
          "text": "Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Nick Adams, Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness",
          "text": "It's the time you realize your son's school has turned into Social Justice Warrior boot camp, where English is “Gender Studies” and History and Geography are “Global inequality and the failures of capitalism.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neologism, derogatory, politics) An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "neologism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Tim Dugdale, I Couldn't Care Less: A Novel, Black Moss Press, page 33",
          "text": "Conny was a local painter who had achieved modest fame in the Canadian art scene with his experiments in New Age macho realism: the sensitive male writ large as compassionate lover, social justice warrior and loyal son to Mother Earth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Daniel J. Faber, The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States, Guilford Press",
          "text": "This book is dedicated to the memory of a great environmental and social justice warrior, mother, labor organizer, singer-songwriter, Earth Firstler activist, and much, much more Judi Bari (1949-1977)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Con Job, Æclipse Press, page 101",
          "text": "Daniel raised an eyebrow. “Do you happen to have an expert handy on toxic pesticides in the food supply?” Jacob blew out his breath. “No, but — hold on, yes, I might.” He drew out his phone. “Let me text my favorite social justice warrior.” Jessica might not know much about arsenic and pesticides, but she would certainly know who would.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social justice, warrior; a social justice activist."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "social justice",
          "social justice#English"
        ],
        [
          "warrior",
          "warrior#English"
        ],
        [
          "social justice",
          "social justice"
        ],
        [
          "activist",
          "activist"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "social-justice warrior"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "initialism"
      ],
      "word": "SJW"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "社會正義戰士"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shèhuì zhèngyì zhànshì",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "社会正义战士"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "báizuǒ",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "白左"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "suvakki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "social justice warrior"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "english": "non-derogatory",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "socialuri samartlianobistvis mebrʒoli",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "სოციალური სამართლიანობისთვის მებრძოლი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "socialuri samartlianobis akṭivisṭi",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "სოციალური სამართლიანობის აქტივისტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "not perfect but close match",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "Gutmensch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "Gesinnungskrieger"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "social justice warrior"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sōsharu jasutisu woriā",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "ソーシャル・ジャスティス・ウォリアー"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "porikore yakuza",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "ポリコレヤクザ"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "progre"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "batikhäxa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "word": "sosyal adalet savaşçısı"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "english": "tsadek in pelts",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "note": "not left-specific or Internet-specific",
      "sense": "online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "צדיק אין פּעלץ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "social justice warrior"
  ],
  "word": "social justice warrior"
}