Bullying for social justice

It seems to have become a truism in certain corners of the internet that the Social Justice movement has gone bad because all they do is bully people in the name of vaguely pro-minority causes. This is a slippery sort of meme, I feel. It's hard to counter without appearing to argue in favour of bullying. I am going to attempt to push back against it, though, because what I see is that this social justice = bullying idea is being used as a rhetorical shield for some quite nasty stuff.

( thinky thoughts )

I don't want anyone to be bullied, and I most certainly don't want to contribute to bullying. But I also don't want the concept to be extended so much that it becomes meaningless, or worse, a way to let racists go completely unchallenged.