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
Philip K. Dick, who said that ‘the basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words’.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
To impose one’s beliefs on others by force is the very definition of illiberalism.
Andrew Doyle • 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.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
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.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
The road to tyranny, then, is circuitous and often navigated at a glacial pace.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
democracy is founded on the negotiation of diverging viewpoints, ideology is sustained through intolerance of dissent.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
the religion of Critical Social Justice is fundamentally identitarian in nature and sees people less for their individual qualities and more for the demographic they happen to represent.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
citizens executed on the basis of ‘spectral evidence’ alone, what we might today refer to as ‘lived experience’.
Andrew Doyle • The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
it is remarkable that class, the most direct source of social privilege, is usually overlooked.