Social Justice Bard

Once upon a time a bunch of white suprema­cist men (and even a few sta­tus-quo lov­ing ) tried to insult peo­ple who cared about social jus­tice by call­ing them “Social Jus­tice War­riors.”

It did not have the effect that was intend­ed.

Real­iz­ing that not only was “social jus­tice war­rior” not a par­tic­u­lar­ly insult­ing insult but, in fact, it was basi­cal­ly made us sound like absolute fuck­ing bad ass­es. Our eyes lit up more than Han when Leia called him a scoundrel.

In fact, the whole range of social jus­tice class­es soon came in demand. Social jus­tice war­riors were only the begin­ning. Some peo­ple soothe the hearts of those on the front line. Some peo­ple hold their tongue until the per­fect moment to say some­thing real­ly, real­ly back­stab­bing­ly snarky. Some peo­ple work their crit­i­cal think­ing mag­ic to get folks around them to under­stand things from a dif­fer­ent point of view. Soon the cry came up for social jus­tice cler­ics, social jus­tice mages, and social jus­tice rogues.

Of course, I don’t have enough hit points or sheer strik­ing pow­er to be a war­rior. I can scrap with dill­holes a lit­tle, but not as much as some of the true fight­ers around me. I can occa­sion­al­ly work some logi­cians magic–though noth­ing like what the true social jus­tice mages are capa­ble of. I employ a host of less rep­utable skills to get what I want but I’m not a rogue. I’m a vibrant artist type who is very very inter­est­ed in telling sto­ries and ana­lyz­ing “the nar­ra­tive.” I’ve even been known to sing a lit­tle.

That’s right. I’m a social jus­tice bard.

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