The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
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The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Pluckrose’s distinction of ‘Critical Social Justice’ and ‘Liberal Social Justice’. The latter is the belief that inequalities and injustices in society are best addressed through civil discourse, the free exchange of views, and evidence-based analysis. The former is the belief that society is irredeemably unequal and unjust, that these structures a
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This strategy of destabilising language and its meaning enables the well-versed to befuddle the layman with jargon, thereby giving vacuous theories the impression of substance.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
When most of us say ‘social justice’, we mean the concept of equality under the law, opposition to prejudice and discrimination, and equal opportunities for all. When social justice activists say ‘social justice’, they mean an emphasis on group identity over the rights of the individual, a rejection of social liberalism, and the assumption that une
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this obsession with niche identities advances the idea that at the heart of gender and sexuality is the notion of choice. This works directly against the ‘born this way’ mantra of the various gay liberation movements of the twentieth century.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
There is little point in attempting to reason with zealots who have abandoned reason in favour of insults and mindless platitudes, and who only assume the worst of anyone who dares to disagree.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
When ‘anti-racists’ say they are ‘anti-racist’, they mean they are in favour of a rehabilitated form of racial thinking that makes judgements first and foremost on the basis of skin colour, and on the unsubstantiated supposition that our entire society and all human interactions are undergirded by white supremacy.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
The worst possible way to tackle prejudice is to reanimate the racial divisions of yesteryear through a heightened emphasis on group identity.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
‘Lived experience’, in other words, only carries weight if it is of the sanctioned type.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
The rainbow flag and all its tawdry spin-offs are a marker of virtue for companies that wish to sell products to the gullible and declare their commitment to ‘diversity and inclusion’.