Summary: The revolution will not be polite: The Issue of Nice Versus Good. (Posted on the blog Social Justice League)

Author Rachael tries to clarify in this text that nice and good do not correspond to the same thing. Rachael first talks about an imperfect post on Tumblr that lists non-oppressive insults, and states that many people actually appreciated this post. On the other hand many people disagreed with this post saying that it did was not being consistent with the concept of social justice. Rachael points that these people are wrong and that social justice doesn’t have to be nice. Social justice is then defined saying that it basically is about eradicating privileges and marginalization, and is not synonym to niceness. As well, it is being said that niceness doesn’t equate to good as some people can be doing offensive things but in a polite and nice manner. Additionally, niceness can be used by one as a tool to perform really bad things on another, as people have been taught that niceness indicates goodness and therefore signs of niceness definitely implicate something good. Niceness of acts is therefore not reliable to judge whether an act is good or not. Rachael adds that misapprehension of privilege is the cause of people thinking that social justice should be nice, defining both privilege (Exclusive advantages given to a specific social group) and marginalization (deprivation of many sides of the exterior life). She points that TV shows boost social roles, and therefore are a social justice issue. Manners, being established by dominant classes according to what they perceive as nice (which isn’t so nice to people that they oppress), indicate why conflation of nice and good creates some kind of domination towards the less privileged people. As well, meanness and oppression do not indicate the same thing. Taking away the rights of someone because of the minority group he belongs to (oppression) is not the same as simply cursing someone (meanness). The text is wrapped up by saying that it is needed to separate nice from good because each term means something, and if we do not, then oppressors are still going to dominate over others. Social justice is finally about giving equal rights and opportunities to everybody.