It seems like over the past few months the pushback against social justice ideals has exponentially intensified. I've been reading through quite a number of articles recently where people have been accusing the social justice movement of silencing academics or disregarding women's agency and usually many of these articles are written by women or academics themselves (I'm sure you all know the articles I'm talking about, they feature often in truereddit).

For instance, in my college a SAWCSM professor wrote a relatively similar article (about another field of expertise though) to this . After several of us saw him at a popular bar, we heard him overusing slurs and complaining about feminist professors inside the college. We weren't able to record him due to the loud nature of the bar, but it was clear that the views he presented in his article in the college newsletter were a complete fabrication and he was just a bigot and the whole situation infuriated me. It feels eerily similar to this where a certain group will almost pretend to be an oppressed group to justify their views.

A while ago 4chan attempted to do something similar here

Many of my friends have had similar experiences in different colleges across the US (particularly the wealthy east coast colleges). White dude professors will criticize the current movements in feminism, social justice etc whilst claiming to be a part of the movement itself; they get caught out saying something shitty halfway through the semester.

Many of you participated in another thread recently about this article. The author specifically states she is a feminist and a sociology professor but her views clearly state othewise; she victim blames, etc.

What can we as a movement do about accusations where people with credibility distort and sabotage the movement? It feels like if you proclaim yourself as a feminist or academic, it gives you a free reign to write bullshit to cover your own bigotry.