What's the most SJW city in America?

[m4567]

This term has been overused and lost its meaning.

[cinyc]

It's probably a liberal, student-dominated college town, like Berkeley or Boulder.  Some college towns like Cambridge are too diverse for the students to dominate.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Madison, WI?

[Thunderbird is the word]

Amherst, MA or Ann Arbor Michigan also possibly. EDIT: Also, can't forget Oberlin Ohio.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This term has been overused and lost its meaning.

How can a term that has only existed for five seconds and was only ever one of generic mild abuse lose its meaning?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Amherst, MA or Ann Arbor Michigan also possibly. EDIT: Also, can't forget Oberlin Ohio.

Amherst isn't a city.

[TJ in Oregon]

Madison, WI?

Nah. It's up there but there's no way it's No. 1. Someplace like Berkeley or Boulder is definitely more liberal than Madison. Madison overall votes close to 80-20 Dem. It's hard to even find precincts in Boulder that are under 80% Dem.

[Mr. Illini]

Amherst, MA or Ann Arbor Michigan also possibly. EDIT: Also, can't forget Oberlin Ohio.

I might have to go with this one. It is more dominated by the school than the other college towns listed and the college is liberal arts with a large music dominance - an extremely liberal school. Oberlin it is IMO.

[Crumpets]

It has to be Seattle, Washington.

Seattle probably doesn't have the most SJWs or the most SJWs per capita, but we certainly have very loud and powerful ones. We have three or four on the City Council (Nick Licata, Kshama Sawant, and arguably Mike O'Brien and Bruce Harrell as well) and one elected to the State Senate (Pramila Jayapal). You could probably even make the case that Mayor Ed Murray is an SJW in the de Blasio mold.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Isn't Oberlin too small to count? (Pop.  8300, 5 sq mi )

[traininthedistance]

First thing, lolBRTD.  I've been to New Brunswick, dude, and just no.

Second thing, what Sibboleth said. Though I realize that some folks are trying to reclaim the term.

Third, if there has to be a third thing (and really there doesn't, but okay I'll play along)... presumably some college town like Northampton or Ithaca.  If they're too small, then meh, whatever, don't care.

[Ebsy]

Madison, Wisconsin?

[Simfan34]

The funny thing is that "social justice warrior", despite BRTD's embrace of it, is usually considered to be a pejorative term.

[Famous Mortimer]

The funny thing is that "social justice warrior", despite BRTD's embrace of it, is usually considered to be a pejorative term.

It started off as an ironic insult. A lot of people have since embraced it. It's probably still more commonly used as an insult but BRTD's use of it is not odd at all.

[Citizen Hats]

While I have little to no time for the proclivities of our stereotypical 'SJW', the use of the term, in long or short form, has always struck me as a quick and easy way of sorting out the willfully ignorant.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

SJWs ought not be confused with neo-hippies or affluent liberal professionals; I think the correct answer is probably Cambridge, which is filled with undergraduate and graduate students of a more "elite" persuasion, which are typically the types who love "cultural appropriation" and other niche political issues that are of no moral significance to normal people.

"SJW" is such a stupid term but it probably makes sense to describe a particular niche of student leftists who primarily concerned with the "politics of identity" and approach that from a pretty "New Left" standpoint.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The straight, non-student denizens of Northampton tend to be a bit more conservative than is commonly realized, certainly more conservative than their counterparts in Amherst (which, again, isn't a city). Cambridge is almost certainly the most 'SJW' city in New England, very possibly in the country as a whole, and is definitely the best answer in this thread so far.

[Cryptic]

An internet term doesn't describe any real world cities.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Simfan has never heard of an appropriated derogatory term before? "Queer" started off as anti-gay slur after all.

Hell it's been happening since the American Revolution ("Yankee" started as a term by British soldiers to mock Americans).

[Comrade Funk]

Wherever the University of Missouri is

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Simfan has never heard of an appropriated derogatory term before? "Queer" started off as anti-gay slur after all.

Hell it's been happening since the American Revolution ("Yankee" started as a term by British soldiers to mock Americans).

I think it's more that appropriating a really stupid-sounding term like 'SJW' is a confusing thing to do.

[H. Ross Peron]

The straight, non-student denizens of Northampton tend to be a bit more conservative than is commonly realized, certainly more conservative than their counterparts in Amherst (which, again, isn't a city). Cambridge is almost certainly the most 'SJW' city in New England, very possibly in the country as a whole, and is definitely the best answer in this thread so far.

I think it a colloquial sense, a place technically classified as a town with 38,000 inhabitants may reasonably be called a city.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The straight, non-student denizens of Northampton tend to be a bit more conservative than is commonly realized, certainly more conservative than their counterparts in Amherst (which, again, isn't a city). Cambridge is almost certainly the most 'SJW' city in New England, very possibly in the country as a whole, and is definitely the best answer in this thread so far.

I think it a colloquial sense, a place technically classified as a town with 38,000 inhabitants may reasonably be called a city.

The vast majority of those inhabitants are seasonal, though. Amherst's actual number of 'townies' is roughly half Northampton's.