Books: The Geometry of Genocide (https://t.co/KyKHIU560Z), The Rise of Victimhood Culture (https://t.co/m4fA3m0rpV), How to Think Better About Social Justice (https://t.co/ruZvWTDLxI)
Oct 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
With @glukianoff, @JonHaidt was 1 of the first to notice campus activists had reduced morality to an oppressor-victim framework, & that this was leading to psychological harms.
Another harm, noted here, is that it can be used to justify genocide, rape, & other moral horrors.
It may be surprising that those who are so sensitive to the harms of speech that they equate speech with violence would be then be willing to defend actual violence, even extreme violence. But it's the oppressor-victim framework that makes this possible.
