The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

How does one tackle a bully who bullies others in the name of love?

The worst possible way to tackle prejudice is to reanimate the racial divisions of yesteryear through a heightened emphasis on group identity.

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

democracy is founded on the negotiation of diverging viewpoints, ideology is sustained through intolerance of dissent.

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.

A great error of postmodernism is the assumption that tradition and innovation cannot co-exist.

The road to tyranny, then, is circuitous and often navigated at a glacial pace.

Children need to be taught that there are few instances in which serious discussions can be simplified to a matter of right or wrong, and fewer still in which one person’s rightness should be taken as proof of another’s wrongness.

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.