The reason “social justice warrior” has become a pejorative is not because people are opposed to social justice — well, at least not most people.

It’s because a large part of the movement has become a thug-like goon squad, ignorant of history, or standards of evidence, of basically anything but their feelings. Which feelings can’t be wrong. But, well, they sure can be stupid.

As a former preschool teacher… it is hard for me to give credence to a claim that there is something objectionably “appropriative” about a blonde ­haired child’s wanting to be Mulan for a day. Pretend play is the foundation of most cognitive tasks, and it seems to me that we want to be in the business of encouraging the exercise of imagination, not constraining it.

A kid wanting to emulate Mulan actually increases the possibility of cultural understanding. At the worst, it’s merely harmless.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say that a large, shadowy right-wing organization was pretending to be these rabid SJWs to discredit the whole project of secular humanism. I wish I could believe that. But in reality, it’s just that these people are truly this obtuse and oafish.