The answer to the title should seem obvious. Are Social Justice Studies and the Post-Modernism (Theory) that roots them more dangerous to liberty than the Coronavirus? There’s no easy vaccine for Theory (not even pretend one), so the answer is yes, it is.
Related: Some Social Justice Warriors Just Want to Bully Everyone
The fascist covidism can’t last forever unless post-modern social radicals complete the ranks of the political halls and make it so (where they have not already done that). Even the squishy Republicans can’t sustain this level of abridgment indefinitely.
As to what the Social Justice Threat represents and how bad it is, we turn to a reformed Social Justice Warrior, writing under a pseudonym to avoid the firey hell that would descend on her if these observations were she found out.
A few excerpts, then I’ll let you read the rest if you’re interested.
- I realized that Critical Social Justice was no longer a fringe intellectual field of study but a real force that was reshaping the university.
- I don’t think I fully understand the authoritarian aspects of woke ideology until after Trump won the 2016 election. In late 2016 and early 2017, I witnessed shocking behavior from my colleagues, who began attacking Republicans, white people, conservatives, and Christians as oppressors. They attacked free speech, saying that some people did not deserve a platform because they were engaging in “hate speech.”
- I realized that Critical Social Justice ideology is not only intellectually vacuous; it is downright dangerous, and that the reason it has captivated so many minds is not because of the strength of its ideas, but because it has succeeded in silencing more reasonable and time-tested principles.
- Those who are attempting to preserve an existing system—in this case, preserving the classical liberal principles of American society—have a natural disadvantage when they encounter people, even a small group, who seek, with fanatical devotion, to dismantle that system and replace it with another social order.
- Nassim Taleb makes this point well in his observation about minority rule: “It suffices for an intransigent minority…to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.” The good news is that it is still possible at this point that another faction of equally committed people actively resisting Critical Social Justice ideology—people who fervently defend the values upon which America was founded—can sustain the liberal social order.
The war is not lost, but the battle will not be easy. More here, including what we must do to win the hearts and minds of the young who continue to worship the false-gods of Social Justice.
