The religion of Social Justice doesn’t want justice. Impartial justice would get in the way of their true aims: vengeance, preferential treatment, tribal dominance, and unaccountable power. They say “no justice, no peace” but their labors show they want neither justice nor peace.
The religion of Social Justice is appealing because in this religion there’s no higher authority than you. Your “lived experienced” is the ultimate transcendent - the unquestionable uber-reality. No more deference to a God who might challenge your preferences or perspective.
The religion of Social Justice produces the most zealous Pharisees. Some of the most religious, puritanical prigs you’ll ever meet, though many of them would say they’re “non-religious.” They get to beat you over the head with their beliefs while claiming neutrality & “science.”
The religion of Social Justice relies on complex rhetoric and ever-evolving rules to keep people feeling they’re wrong. There’s no being right, only unending work to understand your wrongness. Self-designated gnostic guides will let you know if you pass muster or deserve censure.
People love the religion of Social Justice because it makes people the ultimate arbiters of justice. In this religion, humans get to judge others’ motivations, intentions, and hidden thoughts. They get to pronounce condemnation or offer a path to absolution. They get to play god.
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“Conflating slavery with capitalism may appear to possess some surface-level logic upon first glance. There is a record of institutions exploiting their labor force for the sake of profit and there is no more blatant example of the exploitation of labor than slavery. …
That is where the similarities begin to fray, however, as the history of liberal capitalism also includes slave apologists who attacked both capitalism and natural rights, while figures like Frederick Douglass—who experienced slavery first-hand—defended natural rights, …
the Constitution, and the role free labor and property rights played in empowering free people. The new history of capitalism is an argument well-suited for the kind of shallow-thinking activist who reads nothing more than headlines and can’t be bothered with the details. …
I’ve wondered if it’s worth sharing “my story.” I’m a pretty private person so it feels weird to share. But I think it’s worth it bc we all need encouragement that ordinary ppl can do something about what’s happening to our country. So, why do I talk about Woke stuff?
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The Woke Mob: my survival story
My husband and I co-founded a justice-oriented non-profit org 11 years ago. At the time, we knew nothing about Critical Social Justice or Critical Theory. Our motivation was to address disparities in mental health care. 1/
We’d learned that lay people (ppl without clinical training) made up the majority of trauma care providers around the world working with vulnerable populations (refugees, human trafficking survivors, etc). We wanted to help equip those lay people with good resources. 2/