RE: The Social Justice Movement is Its Own Worst Enemy
Great post! I think you hit on a lot of the problems with the SJW movement. I would just add I believe many of these problems come from a basic disagreement over human nature. The social justice movement, as a product of its Marxist origins as you mention, is fundamentally opposed to freedom and individual rights. They believe people are evil in nature and have to be coerced into doing the right thing. Hence the bully tactics in arguing their point also come from their authority of knowing what's best for everyone else and their perceived moral highground. They don't want honest conversation, or liberty for all. With social justice (justice by group identity) individual justice is not desired because that may suggest we are actually responsible for our own actions. I was just recently writing about this too. https://steemit.com/politics/@daodesam/political-theories-on-human-nature-2017729t20123595z
"Marxist origins as you mention, is fundamentally opposed to freedom and individual rights. "
You said it. These people must be rooted out and destroyed, if necessary. They are cancer to the liberal west (that once existed).
Right on. I would also say that the Marxist origins have roots in an even older antihuman force that has always been the enemy of life, freedom, and creativity https://steemit.com/got/@daodesam/the-enemy-we-don-t-believe-in-2017730t234537712z
I've put up another one that might interest you: Horror on the Horizon - Cultural Misappropriation and The Politics of Oppression.
Interesting, I'll check that article out.
Thanks for the feedback and those are some really nice points you raised, I will definitely check out your blog.
As scholars of Marxism have pointed out, "Democracy presupposes the effectiveness of reason — that individuals can observe, think, and judge for themselves, that they can learn from experience, be open to argument, and change their minds. Marxism, however, rules that out on epistemological principle: knowledge is conditioning, not rational judgment."
Based on that, I am not sure SJWs believe people are so much predisposed to evil as incapable of thinking for themselves (oh, the irony!). Thus if people are raised inside a system that is structurally biased they have no choice but to biased themselves - how exactly the SJWs managed to break free from structural bias remains unaddressed, perhaps they believe themselves exceptional insofar as they were able exercise rational judgement whereas everyone else is conditioned into mental slavery? I think I smell doublethink, but maybe there is another explanation.
And I believe you are correct, the social justice movement does not appear to want justice or liberty for individuals, only for groups, which necessitates the subordination of the individual and thus eliminates the individual's potential for freedom.
I wholeheartedly agree. I don't think most individual SJW's believe people are evil; many adopt and espuse the philosophy because they love people and think it's the best way to give the most the fairest shot. I meant the ideology it's built on asserts that people ultimately can't be trusted to make their own decisions and have to be forced into a collective beneficial to them. It's like original sin: humans are impure in their natural state and have to be saved by an external force.