social justice warrior

noun social justice warriors · social-justice warrior · SJW

1. neologism A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice. Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me.
2. derogatory, neologism An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere. 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?
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social justice, warrior; a social justice activist. 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.