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“SJW” has become somewhat of a term that’s used pejoratively by a certain group of people. But if it aligns with wanting women to be able to exist and enjoy chess without being harassed, it’s probably a good thing.

By using it in the pejorative sense here you’re on the wrong side of history, which is your prerogative.

Seriously? Wanting women to be able to enjoy chess without sexually assaulted is SJW stuff now? Get a load of this!

That’s neither what I said nor meant.

It's difficult to interpret your comment as having any other meaning.

You can want women to feel welcome and be safe in chess without being a social justice warrior. In fact im not even sure a social justice warrior even wants that.

Im not saying Lichess is SJW because they want women to feel and be safe in chess. Im saying they are a bit SJW because they infused ideaology with their totally idealogical site. Communism, atheism, feminism,etc. Of the developers own admission.

Lichess is in the convenient position of having a lot of negotiating power over other organizations because of its ascendancy, which means that since it apparently has a sense of ethics it can assert those ethics on the more-despicable organizations that don't. We are lucky to have them in that position.

I agree that they are obviously championing a social justice cause.

Weird way to phrase it. Most people, even the ones who rail against social justice, would not categorize "actually doing something about sexual abuse" as a social justice cause -- a phrasing which is obviously intended to politicize it and disable your need to care about it, anyway. Is your preferred alternative "don't do something about sexual abuse"? Good luck with that.

Lichess is doing something because (a) they can and (b) the people who could, won't. That's pretty much how progress happens. c.f. every labor movement ever.

But thats what social justice is. Im not sure why you have a negative connotation with it when you describe it as a positive.

> Lichess is in the convenient position of having a lot of negotiating power over other organizations because of its ascendancy, which means that since it apparently has a sense of ethics it can assert those ethics on the more-despicable organizations that don't.

It seemed like you were using it as a slur, which I disagreed with. Usually people who call "just being good" by a phrase like "a social justice cause" are, in my experience, doing that for nefarious reasons.

SJW is primarily used as an insult. It's not synonymous with someone who just does things that are socially just. It's used to describe people/organizations who are unreasonable or even fraudulent in their actions.

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