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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do Some Social Justice Advocates Go Too Far? [View all]
This is from an article from medium.com posted by Aristotelis Orginos. More at the link:
https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3
Let me finally be abundantly, abundantly clear. Social justice and social justice advocacy is a good thing. To utilize ones education to solve social ills is an admirable goal.
However,
in attempting to solve pressing and important social issues, millennial social justice advocates are violently sabotaging genuine opportunities for progress by infecting a liberal political narrative with, ironically, hate.
The version of millennial social justice advocacy one that uses Identity Politics to balkanize groups of people, engenders hatred between groups, willingly lies to push agendas, manipulates language to provide immunity from criticism, and that publicly shames anyone who remotely speaks some sort of dissent from the overarching narrative of the orthodoxy is not admirable. It is deplorable. It appeals to the basest of human instincts: fear and hatred. It is not an enlightened or educated position to take. History will not look kindly on this Orwellian, authoritarian pervision of social justice that has taken social media and millennials by storm over the past few years.
But the fact of the matter is anyone unwilling to engage in productive, open, mutually critical conversations with people they disagree with under the moral protection of liberalism and social justice are not liberals, are not social justice advocates, and are not social justice warriors; they are social justice bullies.
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I think it's more than that. I think it's used to promote an agenda. The liberal agenda is
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
#9
Some people try to separate social justice from economic justice. This is wrong.
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
#5
The reason for that is obvious. It is in the interests of those in power to keep the people divided
sabrina 1
Jun 2015
#8
I don't know specifically about racism in the Third Way, but I believe the Plutocratic-Oligarchs
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
#14
But: It is harder to have social injustice in the face of economic justice, but it's NOT impossible.
merrily
Aug 2015
#24