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
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.
those who refuse to engage in debate often do so because they know they will lose.
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 unequal outcomes are always evidence of structural inequalities.
How does one tackle a bully who bullies others in the name of love?
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.
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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belief and disbelief are simply two forms of the same flippant attitude to the task of criminal investigation.
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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