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.

See also

• purity spiral
• virtue signalling
• reactionary