The right liberal’s one reflex besides tone-policing is to suggest that adopting any but liberal principles risks bringing about intolerable oppression: You have to start by disclaiming all sorts of past and potential future horrors that liberalism supposedly guards against. 1/x
It’s a form of intellectual blackmail, and we shouldn’t stand for it. And the best defense is to go on offense: to turn the tactic around: “No, you, Professor Christian Right Lib, have to account for your compromises and to own all the horrors of our actually existing dystopia.”
“What would happen to religious liberty and pluralism? We don’t all agree about the good!”
“What’s happening to those things now? Look around you. The Church feels more politically squeezed by the day. The ideology of pluralism in practice means the liberalism’s coercive reign.”
“What’s happening to those things now? Look around you. The Church feels more politically squeezed by the day. The ideology of pluralism in practice means the liberalism’s coercive reign.”
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