• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I mean my comment was not only making fun of the outdated phraseology, but also the idea that social justice isn’t a legitimate branch of sociological and legal change that persisted ~10-20 years ago has been far blown out of the water

    “social justice warriors” - who were considered risible in 2010 have since achieved

    • criminal justice reforms for youth jails
    • minimum pay raises and unionization of global corps (eg Starbucks) as a direct result of Occupy, to which the entire world now talks about Bank bail outs, billionaire taxes/wealth tax, borrow-die schemes, income inequality over the breakfast table
    • legal weed
    • BLM instrumental in making politicians renounce stop and frisk, to the extent Bloomberg had to renounce all his policies in his presidential run
    • #metoo leading to the conviction if Weinstein, and massive revolutions in the use of intimacy and consent coordinators and supervisors in entertainments Productions
    • DREAM act to DACA
    • rent reform in Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Long Beach, Orlando etc
    • no solutions as yet but everyone is mad about gerrymandering and voter suppression every election cycle now
    • New Green Deal
    • Slow but incremental advances in protecting children (and indeed adults) from gun violence and the slip of power from the NRA’s influence over elected politicians
    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      This is perfectly fair, I realize I should have used a better word/phrase to better describe my point.

      Thank you for taking the time and breaking it down.