Social Justice Warrior

Institute History

Description

Harper Penzig is 19 years-old, white, straight, middle-class and knows exactly how to fix society. After getting woke during her freshman year writing seminar, Harper embarks on a crusade for social justice. During a class lecture, Professor Susan Brodbeck uses the word "ugly," which Harper finds sexist, cissexist, racist, patriarchal, privileged and misogynistic. Susan, despite being a bleeding-heart liberal, disagrees and their debate over what is and isn't offensive language escalates until it engulfs the entire campus. Harper organizes the students against Susan and the school's administration. Susan, on the brink of losing tenure, turns to conservative media to help her fight back. As the students and the administration choose sides, Harper and Susan's lives fall apart in an ideological war fought on campus and online over the right way to stop sexism, cissexism, racism, the patriarchy, privilege and misogyny.

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