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status quo warrior

status quo warrior noun: a person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.

Noun

status quo warrior (plural status quo warriors)

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

Antonyms of status quo warrior

Forms of status quo warrior

pluralstatus quo warriors
alternative initialismSQW

Questions about status quo warrior

What does status quo warrior mean?
Status quo warrior means a person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.
What part of speech is status quo warrior?
Status quo warrior is a noun.
What is the plural of status quo warrior?
The plural of status quo warrior is status quo warriors.

Words near status quo warrior in the dictionary

  1. status offenses
  2. status quo
  3. status quo ante
  4. status quo ante bellum
  5. status quo antes
  6. status quo warrior
  7. status quo warriors
  8. status quoism
  9. status quoist
  10. status quoists
  11. status quos

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