[Occupy Wall Street] let itself be co-opted into caring about social justice at the cost of their other goals.
When discussing OWS and similar political movements, the term “social justice” gets quite ambiguous. OWS has always been about social justice, by any reasonable meaning of the term. To be clear, you obviously mean identity politics, the notion that self-styled “minority” groups are more equal than everyone else.
Yeah, I’m talking about the more narrow definition that gets made fun of in /r/tumblrinaction. As opposed to what I think of as “economic justice”, which involves things like banking reform, fairness in income distribution, taking care of the poor and homeless, etc.
When discussing OWS and similar political movements, the term “social justice” gets quite ambiguous. OWS has always been about social justice, by any reasonable meaning of the term. To be clear, you obviously mean identity politics, the notion that self-styled “minority” groups are more equal than everyone else.
Yeah, I’m talking about the more narrow definition that gets made fun of in /r/tumblrinaction. As opposed to what I think of as “economic justice”, which involves things like banking reform, fairness in income distribution, taking care of the poor and homeless, etc.
Using words like this to describe ideas you don’t like seems distasteful, and in fact similar to what the blogger was originally complaining about.