status quo warrior

English

Alternative forms

  • SQW (initialism)

Noun

status quo warrior (plural status quo warriors)

  1. (neologism, derogatory, politics) A person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.
    • 2019, Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems‎[1], Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence, page 159:
      The SJW approach seems to have inspired a reaction from an equally impassioned group, the so-called “Status Quo Warriors” or SQWs [...]
    • 2020, John Faithful Hamer, Social Distancing: Poems and Aphorisms‎[2], Likeville Books:
      Scratch a critic of social justice warriors and a status quo warrior bleeds.

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