A Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology, 3rd Edition
The use of language by social justice warriors frequently departs from both the dictionary definitions and the common understanding of words by most of the general population. As such, a guide to social justice warrior speech may be helpful to the layperson, along with commentary about how their uses of words relate to reality. This will take the form of an informal and potentially humorous glossary, which will not be exhaustive due to some terms being understood in the same manner by social justice warriors and the layperson, and due to the continual invention of new terms. This glossary will focus on how such terms are used in practice rather than how social justice warriors might define them in theory whenever there is a conflict between the two. Whereas the first edition remains the most viewed post at Zeroth Position and the second edition has also done well, I now present the third edition of the Glossary of Social Justice Warrior Terminology to document another two years’ worth of leftist insanity.
Ableism (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects people with disabilities, regardless of validity.
Ablesplaining (verb): condesplaining by a able-bodied person to a disabled person. See Condesplaining
Active listening (verb): to understand by empathizing with speaker(s) and considering their perspective(s).
Adultism (noun): prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions by adults against minors. See Ageism
AFAB/AMAB (abbreviation): assigned female/male at birth. This tends to be a statement of biological reality concerning people whose brains do not conform to said reality.
Affirmative action (noun): action taken by a government or private institution to make up for past discrimination in education, work, or promotion on the basis of being part of a historically oppressed group. This often discriminates against others, which rarely concerns social justice warriors.
Ageism (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects young or old people, regardless of validity.
Agent (noun): a member of a dominant or majority group. The implication is that people who are not part of such a group cannot act independently and make free choices for themselves, which social justice warriors would denounce as bigoted if such a statement came from their opponents. Contrast Target
Agesplaining (verb): condesplaining to a person of a different age. See Condesplaining
Agender (adjective): a person who identifies with no gender. Usually (but not always) a denial of biological reality.
Ally (adjective): someone considered to be part of a privileged group who works with social justice warriors to achieve their goals.
Anti-Semitism (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects Jewish people, regardless of validity.
Appropriation (noun): the use of parts of a culture by someone who does not identify as a person from that culture. Although appropriation has been responsible for the spread of new and better ideas and technology throughout the world, social justice warriors view appropriation as problematic.
Asexual (noun): an identity term for people who do not feel sexual attraction and/or do not desire to have a sexual partner.
Bigender (adjective): a person who identifies as a mixture of two genders. Usually (but not always; see Intersex) a denial of biological reality.
Bigotry
1. (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects a group which is said to lack privilege, regardless of validity. See Ableism, Ageism, Anti-Semitism, Biphobia, Cissexism, Classism, Condesplaining, Heterosexism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Religionism, Sexism, Transphobia, Xenophobia
2. (noun): a combination of prejudice and power.
Biphobia (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects bisexuals, pansexuals, polysexuals, or genderfluid people, regardless of validity.
Birth-assigned sex (noun): see AFAB/AMABBody positivity(noun): the acceptance and advocacy of morbid obesity.
Brocialism (noun): the belief that socialism will result in gender equality.
CAFAB/CAMAB(abbreviation): coercively assigned female/male at birth. A term used by social justice warriors for an intersex child who is assigned a gender by parents and/or doctors.
Cancel (verb): to deplatform and exclude someone. See Deplatforming
Cisabled (adjective): a person who identifies with the ability/disability indicated by their externally observable features. This is a sign of a healthy mind.
Cisethnic (adjective): a person who identifies with the ethnicity indicated by their externally observable features. This is a sign of a healthy mind.
Cisgender (adjective): a person who identifies with the gender indicated by their externally observable features. This is a sign of a healthy mind.
Cisnormative (noun): the belief that cisgender is the only acceptable, natural, or normal gender identity. This is important for maintaining and defending traditional societies, so social justice warriors oppose it.
Cisplaining (verb): condesplaining by a cisgendered person to a transgendered person. See Condesplaining
Cissexism (noun): any system that does not cater to the whims of transgendered people.
Classism (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects people of lower social standing and/or little wealth, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of classism against wealthy people, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Classplaining (verb): See Econosplaining
Code-switching (verb): the conscious or unconscious act of switching between different languages, dialects, or intonations depending on the specific situation of to whom one is speaking, what is being discussed, and the relationship and power and/or community dynamics between those involved.
Collusion1. (verb): to support traditional and/or dominant power structures.2. (verb): to work against social justice warriors.
Color-blindness (noun): the disregard of racial characteristics. This is a topic of debate among social justice warriors. Proponents of color-blindness believe that treating people of different races equally will lead to a more equal society and/or that racism and race privilege no longer exercise the power they once did, while opponents of color-blindness believe that it allows those in power to disregard or ignore historical and current oppression.
Commonsense (adjective): a rhetorical device used to trick neutral parties into thinking that an idea is self-evident and needs no supporting argument.
Condesplaining (verb): the act of a person said to be privileged explaining something to a person said to be oppressed.
Consent (verb): to agree to participate in an activity, especially activity of a sexual nature. Consent cannot be given when someone is intoxicated, unconscious, or has been threatened or manipulated into compliance, but social justice warriors hardly ever recognize this if a male is in such a condition.
Content Warning (noun): an alternative to trigger warnings which was created because some people complained that a trigger warning is itself triggering. See Trigger Warning and Triggering
Cultural appropriation1. (verb): the act of adopting the cultural and/or religious symbols, dress, and ceremonies of another group.2. (noun): the idea that no person or group should be able to adopt the best practices of another culture in order to effect self-improvement. See Appropriation
Cultural competence (noun): the ability to effectively and empathetically work and engage with people of different cultural identities and backgrounds in order to provide safe and accountable spaces for dialogue and discourse.
Dangerous (adjective): See Problematic
Denial1. (verb): any doubt whatsoever in the truth of social justice.
2. (verb): any doubt whatsoever in the truth of any statement by a member of a victim class. See Victim class
Decolonize (verb): to act aggressively and obnoxiously in a space controlled by another person or group in the name of righting a perceived historical wrong.
Deplatforming (verb): to deny a venue for speaking, writing, and/or funding to a person or group.
Derail (verb): to divert a discussion from its intended topic. This is frequently done by social justice warriors through a variety of means, including accusations of bigotry, unchecked privilege, etc.
Discredited (adjective): scientific findings that disagree with the social justice narrative. This word is typically used as though it were a magic spell to repel uncomfortable truths.
Discrimination (noun): the expression of any less-than-favorable preference toward a person or group believed to be less privileged or more oppressed than oneself, regardless of validity.
Disenfranchise (verb): to deprive of power and/or access to rights, opportunities, and services.
Diversity (noun): the idea of hiring employees and accepting students for the purpose of achieving certain quotas of victim class members. This often reduces the quality of student bodies and workforces. See Victim class
Diversity of Tactics (noun): the use of both violent and nonviolent tactics in the same protest. This is best understood as a handful of hooligans committing crimes and hiding among the rest of the crowd to evade proper punishment.
Econosplaining (verb): condesplaining by a wealthier person to a poorer person. See Condesplaining
Edgelord (noun): a less extreme version of a shitlord. See Shitlord
Educate yourself (phrase): a claim that social justice warriors should not have to explain their own positions or arguments.
Enemy (adjective): any person or institution that is insufficiently leftist.
Equity (noun): a condition in which all people and/or groups are given access to resources such that results are equal. This word should be understood as a synonym for communist utopia.
Essentialism (noun): the idea that people, objects, and ideas can be identified based on externally observable features. Although this is empirically true, social justice warriors consider this idea to be problematic.
Ethnocentrism
1. (noun): the idea that one’s own culture is superior to others. This is viewed negatively by social justice warriors, even if it is factually justified.
2. (verb): to judge another culture by the standards and values of one’s own culture. This sort of eisegesis is usually an error.
FAAB (abbreviation): See AFAB
Fascist (adjective): anyone who opposes the social justice agenda. May or may not have anything to do with actual fascist ideology. See Enemy
Feminism (noun): the idea that women should have the same rights and privileges as men without having the same responsibilities and disadvantages.
Fundamental attribution error(noun): the practice of emphasizing nature over nurture to explain a person’s behavior. Not actually an error in many cases.
Gender (noun): the socially constructed roles for each biological sex.
Gender binary (noun): the idea that there are only two genders; male and female. This is viewed as problematic by social justice warriors, despite being based on biological facts.
Gender equality (noun): the belief that people should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against on the basis of gender. Frequently accompanied by a denial of inherent biological differences between the genders.
Gender expression (noun): a person’s external presentation of gender. This may or may not be in alignment with either biological reality or one’s gender identity.
Gender identity (noun): a person’s internal sense of gender. This may or may not be in alignment with biological reality.
Gender-neutral (noun): a synonym for anti-masculine or anti-male. However, using this term without giving special treatment to female or non-binary persons may be seen as problematic.
Genderfluid (noun): a gender identity that changes over time. No biological basis for such an identity exists in humans.
Genderqueer (noun): an umbrella term for gender identities other than male and female. See Third gender
Gentrification (noun): a demographic shift in which upper-middle class and/or racially privileged individuals and businesses move into historically working class, poor, and/or racially oppressed neighborhoods and communities. This concept is frequently used to forestall improvements in inner-city living conditions and property values. When combined with the social justice concept of racism, it is used to trap privileged individuals in a no-win scenario.
Hate crime (noun): a crime said to be motivated by bigotry against some aspect of the identity of the victim, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability. Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of hate crimes against people who are said to be privileged.
Hate speech (noun): See Problematic
Healthy at any size (phrase): the belief that being morbidly obese is a life choice with no negative consequences. In reality, obesity leads to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, chronic joint pain, and many other illnesses. See Body positive
Heteronormative (noun): the belief that heterosexuality is the only acceptable, natural, or normal sexual orientation. This is important for maintaining and defending traditional societies, so social justice warriors oppose it.
Heterosexism (noun): the individual and collective beliefs and practices that favor heterosexuality. This is said to cause unjust oppression of non-heterosexuals.
Heterosplaining (verb): Condesplaining by a heterosexual person to an LGBT person. See Condesplaining
Hijra (adjective): see Third gender
Homophobia (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects homosexuals, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of bigotry against heterosexuals, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Horizontal hostility1. (noun): the structural strategy to intentionally place two or more oppressed groups in competition with one another; a strategy that aims to divide and conquer.2. (noun): non-cooperative behavior between people of different groups considered to be oppressed.
Horizontal oppression (noun): the support of traditional and/or dominant power structures by members of victim classes, especially when it negatively affects other members of victim classes. See Collusion, Internalized oppression, and Victim class
Incel1. (noun): a person who is celibate and does not wish to be.2. (adjective): a general insult aimed at men opposed to social justice ideology.
Inclusivity (noun): the goal of removing all barriers to participation in society for members of victim classes. This is a primary goal of social justice. See Diversity and Victim class
Injustice (noun): any action that is in disagreement with social justice dogma.
Institutionalized oppression (noun): the systematic mistreatment and dehumanization of any individual. supported and enforced by society and its institutions, based solely on a social identity group with which they identify.
Internalized inferiority (noun): see Internalized oppression
Internalized oppression (noun): a term used to denounce a member of a group said to be oppressed who deviates from social justice ideology. Variants include internalized racism, internalized misogyny, internalized homophobia, etc. See Victim class
Internalized superiority (noun): a term used to denounce a member of a group said to be privileged who deviates from social justice ideology.
Intersectionality (noun): the social justice warrior method for analyzing the various privileges or oppressions that a person may experience. See Progressive stack
Intersex (adjective): a person who is born with genitals which are not male or female, but something in between. While a legitimate concern, social justice warriors spend relatively little time addressing it.
Islamophobia1. (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects Muslims, regardless of validity.2. (noun): any criticism of Islam, regardless of validity.
Its (insert current year)! (interjection): a frustrated declaration that one should agree with social justice warriors. Often used in place of a valid argument.
Kyriarchy (noun): see Intersectionality
LGBTQIAAPP+ (abbreviation): refers to the ever-expanding list of deviant sexual orientations. Using a smaller, less current version can be seen as problematic. See Problematic
MAAB (abbreviation): See AMAB
Manarchism (noun): the belief that social anarchism will result in gender equality.
Mansplaining (verb): condesplaining by a man to a woman. See Condesplaining
Marginalize (verb): to systematically disempower a person or group by denying access to necessary resources, enforcing prejudice through societal institutions, and/or working to silence that person’s or group’s voices. See Silencing
Men’s rights activist (MRA ) (noun): any man who rejects social justice dogma, especially of the feminist variety. See Enemy
Microaggression (noun): any activity that makes a social justice warrior uncomfortable. In reality, there is no such thing as a microaggression because the law of excluded middle requires that an act be either aggressive or non-aggressive.
Minor-attracted person (adjective): a term that pedophiles have begun using in an effort to re-brand themselves in a more socially acceptable manner.
Misogyny (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects females, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of sexism against men, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Mobility (noun): the ability to move through society, both physically and socioeconomically.
Move Up, Move Up (MUMU) (phrase): a phrase used to encourage individuals to be attentive in conversation, and to move up their listening or move up their speaking when appropriate.
Nazi (adjective): anyone who opposes the social justice agenda. May or may not have anything to do with support for national socialism. See Enemy
Neutrois (adjective): See Agender
NTsplaining (verb): condesplaining by a neurotypical person to a neurodivergent person. See Condesplaining
No platforming (verb): See Deplatforming
Open letter (phrase): a method by which social justice warriors publicly whine about whatever they find to be problematic at the moment. See Problematic
Oppression
1. (noun): discrimination at the group or societal level. See Discrimination
2. (noun): see Microaggression
Other
1. (noun): the idea that other people and groups are distinct beings different from oneself, even if they are not believed to be inferior.
2. (adjective): a person or group recognized as distinct from oneself.
3. (verb): to place another person or group into the position of an Other. This is generally a useful way of dealing with social justice warriors, as well as some of the more delusional types of people mentioned in this glossary.
Otherkin (noun): a person who self-identifies as a non-human. Otherkin are either one of the most delusional types of people given consideration in social justice ideology or trolls who are faking it to make fun of social justice warriors.
Oppression
1. (noun): systemically enforced social inequality embedded in individuals and institutions.
2. (noun): material and structural constraints that hinder a person’s opportunities.
3. (noun): any hierarchical relationship, regardless of validity.
4. (noun): any opposition to social justice dogma.
Pansexual (adjective): a synonym for bisexual used by people who reject the gender binary. See Bisexual and Gender binary
Passing
1. (noun): the phenomenon in which a member of a victim class appears to be a member of a privileged class, and can thus access some level of privilege that other members of the victim class cannot. Variants include white-passing, straight-passing, etc.
2. (verb): to appear to be a member of a privileged class when one is not
Patriarchy (noun): a system of male dominance that suppresses non-masculine traits and behaviors. This is considered to be problematic by social justice warriors, even if such a system is formed voluntarily and proves more successful than other forms of social organization.
Person of Color (noun): an umbrella term for any person considered by the society in which they live to be non-white. Frequently intended as a political banner for all non-whites to join forces against white people.
Policing (verb): to reprimand a person who is not acting in accordance with social justice ideology, regardless of validity.
Polysexual (adjective): see Pansexual
Power
1. (noun): a person’s perception of one’s ability to influence outcomes to meet one’s needs and wants.
2. (noun): the ability to make decisions that affect another person.
3. (noun): control of societal institutions.
Prejudice (noun): a pre-judgment of an individual or group, usually based on stereotypes.
Prejudice plus power (phrase): the social justice warrior standard for bigotry. This leads them to deny possibilities such as anti-white racism, misandry, heterophobia, cisphobia, and other bigotry against groups said to be privileged.
Pride (noun): the celebration of a non-cisgendered identity or non-heterosexual orientation, despite the fact that having such an identity or orientation is regarded as innate and therefore not an accomplishment.
Privilege (noun): the sum of the advantages (or lack of disadvantages) that a person or group has, regardless of whether those advantages are innate, legitimately earned, or illegitimately taken. Social justice warriors view privileged people as normative, and claim that privileged people view others as unnatural or deviant.
Privilege blindness (noun): a lack of awareness of one’s privilege.Privsplaining(verb): See Condesplaining
Problematic (adjective): that which is at odds with progressive or social justice ideology, regardless of truth value. This glossary would be considered highly problematic.
Progressive stack (noun): an arbitrary and capricious method used to decide how privileged a person is relative to others. Often referred to by non-SJWs as the Oppression Olympics. See Intersectionality
Pronouns (noun): invented words for other genders. Social justice warriors sometimes demand that other people call them by these words and become enraged when their fantasies are not indulged.
Pseudoscience (adjective): See Discredited
Queer
1. (noun): an umbrella term for all non-heterosexual, non-binary people.
2. (verb): to reject notions of predetermined gender and sexual identity based on biology.
Questioning (adjective): a person who is unsure of one’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
Race (noun): a distinct group based on physical characteristics and some cultural and historical commonalities. Social justice warriors regard race as a social construct rather than a biological reality.
Racism (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects minority racial groups, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of racism against white people, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Rape culture (noun): the belief that brutally victimizing women while they scream for help is socially acceptable.
Reactionary (adjective): See Enemy and Problematic
Reclaim (verb): See Decolonize
Refugee (noun): any person from a country in conflict, regardless of whether said person was actually in danger or is just migrating for economic reasons.
Religionism (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects minority religious groups, esp. Jews and Muslims, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of religionism against Christians, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power. See Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Religious oppression (verb): any criticism or negative sentiment based on religious beliefs and/or practices, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of religious oppression against Christians, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Right side of history (phrase): a trendy political position in the present that is highly detrimental to future generations.
Safe space (noun): a location where emotionally unstable and/or immature people who are upset may gather to receive comfort and counseling for the traumatic experience of being exposed to a mere difference of opinion.
Self-identification (noun): the idea that one can choose one’s identity, regardless of empirical facts.Sexism(noun): see Feminism. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of sexism against men, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Shaming (verb): to suggest that degenerate behavior has negative consequences and should therefore be discouraged. Social justice warriors consider this to be problematic.
Shitlord (noun): a person who engages in problematic speech and/or behavior. See Problematic
Silencing (verb): the conscious or unconscious act of excluding or inhibiting certain people, thus preventing their experiences, perspectives, and histories from being heard. Social justice warriors frequently do this to people they regard as oppressors.
Sizesplaining (verb): condesplaining by a “normal-sized” person to a person widely perceived to be too small or large. See Condesplaining
Social construct (noun): an idea created and developed in society. While a valid concept, social justice warriors misuse this concept to reject a priori truths.
Social justice (noun): the goal of equalizing participation in society, redistributing resources, and providing safety and security for all. In practice, this always results in advocacy of socialism or communism, and social justice warriors tend to be willing to commit injustices in the name of this greater good.
Stay Woke (phrase): an annoying phrase uttered by both social justice warriors and non-SJWs to advise other people to hold true to their beliefs.
Stereotype (noun): a fixed image about a person or group that collectivizes them and denies their individuality. Social justice warriors tend to reject these unless they concern people said to be privileged, but they tend to ignore the fact that stereotypes frequently have a basis in reality.
Stereotype threat (noun): the risk of internalizing and confirming others’ negative biases towards one’s social group.
Straightsplaining (verb): See Heterosplaining
SWERF (abbreviation): sex-worker exclusionary radical feminism. Some social justice warriors meet this description, while others find the concept to be problematic.
SWETERF (abbreviation): sex-worker exclusionary trans-exclusionary radical feminism. See SWERF and TERF
Target (noun): a member of an oppressed or minority group. The implication is that people who are part of such a group cannot act independently and make free choices for themselves, which social justice warriors would denounce as bigoted if such a statement came from their opponents. Contrast Agent
TERF (abbreviation): trans-exclusionary radical feminism. Some social justice warriors meet this description, while others find the concept to be problematic.
Thinsplaining (verb): See Sizesplaining
Third gender (adjective): a distinct gender that is neither male nor female. No biological basis for such an identity exists in humans.
Tolerance (noun): acceptance and open-mindedness to cultures, practices, and attitudes that are different from one’s own. This is typically not extended to people, groups, and ideas deemed oppressive by social justice ideology.
Transabled (adjective): a person who does not identify with the ability/disability indicated by their externally observable features. This is usually a sign of an unhealthy mind, and may lead a person to alter one’s externally observable features in an effort to make them resemble that of one’s ability identity. This may include self-harm.
Transethnic (adjective): a person who does not identify with the ethnicity indicated by their externally observable features. This is usually a sign of an unhealthy mind, and may lead a person to alter one’s externally observable features in an effort to make them resemble that of one’s ethnic identity.
Transgender (adjective): a person who does not identify with the gender indicated by their externally observable features. This is usually a sign of an unhealthy mind, and may lead a person to alter one’s externally observable features in an effort to make them resemble that of one’s gender identity.
Transphobia (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects transgender people, regardless of validity. Note: Most social justice warriors deny the possibility of bigotry against cisgendered people, due to their belief that bigotry is a combination of prejudice and power.
Transsexual (noun): a person who alters one’s presentation to express one’s gender identity. See Gender identity
Trigger Warning (noun): an advisory that following content may upset emotionally unstable and/or immature people.
Triggering
1. (adjective): content which may upset emotionally unstable and/or immature people.2. (verb): to engage in communication which may upset emotionally unstable and/or immature people.Troll1. (verb): to publicly disagree with, criticize, or debate a social justice warrior.
2. (adjective): a person who does the aforementioned.
Truscum (noun): a person who thinks that feeling bad about one’s gender makes one the other gender.
Tucute (noun): a person who thinks that one can decide one’s gender.
Two-spirit (noun): see Genderfluid
Unconscious bias (noun): negative stereotypes that affect a person or group without the knowledge of the person exhibiting it.
Upstander (noun): a person who advances social justice agendas. See Ally
Verbal violence (noun): the nonsensical idea that speaking words can inflict physical harm upon someone.Victim(noun): a member of a victim class. See Victim class
Victim blaming (verb): to suggest that people have some responsibility for their own well-being and self-defense.
Victim blindness (noun): a lack of awareness of one’s victim status.
Victim class (noun): a group of people said to be oppressed by dominant beliefs, practices, and institutions.
White guilt (noun): the individual or collective guilt felt by some white people for historical and current oppression experienced by non-white people.
White nationalism (noun): any effort by white people to form a group identity and advocate for the interest of their group.
White privilege (noun): the belief that white people have inherent advantages due to widespread racism.
Whiteness (noun): the characteristics commonly attributed to white people. Though social justice warriors regard race as a social construct, they frequently treat white people just as they accuse whites of treating non-whites.
Whitesplaining (verb): condesplaining by a white person to a non-white person. See Condesplaining
Xenophobia (noun): any criticism or negative sentiment that affects people who are different from oneself, regardless of validity.
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