The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Andrew Doyleamazon.com
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
Culture warriors threaten to divide us even as they claim to be healing division.
The ideology of Critical Social Justice has never caught on in poorer communities, because those who are facing authentic hardship have little patience for the exaggerated, manufactured or imagined grievances of the privileged.
How does one tackle a bully who bullies others in the name of love?
There is nothing healthy about a society that no longer believes in redemption,
belief and disbelief are simply two forms of the same flippant attitude to the task of criminal investigation.
The worst possible way to tackle prejudice is to reanimate the racial divisions of yesteryear through a heightened emphasis on group identity.
those who refuse to engage in debate often do so because they know they will lose.
Cancel culture, then, is often a form of vengeance against those who have dared to stray from the permitted ideological pathway.
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.