- 21 Sep 2019 08:51
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Apparently this is real.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trashing-unwoke-books-washington-township-nj-equity-learning/
In answer to your question regarding how can such people be considered liberal, I argue that they are not. The confusion comes due to progressives using rights to justify their beliefs.
Rights in liberalism are supposed to be about restricting the power of those who control the state. Negative rights are intended to prevent those in power from being able to unduly interfere in the lives of the people being ruled over. However, in the last 50 years or so, following on from the civil rights era, the idea of positive rights was introduced. The idea being to address inequities facing minorities, women, etc. In this view of rights, the state is supposed to interfere in peoples’ lives to protect the rights of designated disadvantaged identity groups for the sake of equality.
The result is of course the complete opposite of liberalism. This sort of interference can only result in a totalitarian and authoritarian society in which fanatics like the ones in the twits can engage in moral zealotry, such as destroying books and indoctrinating children in the ‘correct’ faith.
Liberalism is dying in the West. These moral zealots are only part of the story. The elites are thinking like aristocrats. The culture that is emerging is the very thing early liberalism was created in opposition to.
anasawad wrote:Made this post on TLTE, but just remembered this thread exists, so....again:
I just came across this on Instagram, many are sharing it. (Note, it's also in a twitter thread, that's where I got the pics' links)
So "Progressives" have entered the book burning phase.
Can someone explain to me how exactly are these people considered liberals?
I mean, for fuck's sake, Destroying books, historical revisionism, discrediting science based on feelings, extreme ideological purity standards, etc; How is this even being allowed to happen?
There should be a very clear line drawn between cultural and societal progress and destroying things you don't like and calling it progress.
Racism, sexism, etc are bad, but you don't combat it by destroying books from an era when it was the standard.
And you sure as hell don't combat them by enforcing racial or gender quotas and all these other bullshit ideas.
Everything seems to indicate that the far left has indeed taken a radical turn into becoming just another one of those discredited and outdated ideological movements that belong nowhere other than the trash can of history along with all other extreme movements of both the left and the right, right down there along with communism, fascism, Christian theocracy, and hopefully soon, Islamism, etc.
Apparently this is real.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trashing-unwoke-books-washington-township-nj-equity-learning/
In answer to your question regarding how can such people be considered liberal, I argue that they are not. The confusion comes due to progressives using rights to justify their beliefs.
Rights in liberalism are supposed to be about restricting the power of those who control the state. Negative rights are intended to prevent those in power from being able to unduly interfere in the lives of the people being ruled over. However, in the last 50 years or so, following on from the civil rights era, the idea of positive rights was introduced. The idea being to address inequities facing minorities, women, etc. In this view of rights, the state is supposed to interfere in peoples’ lives to protect the rights of designated disadvantaged identity groups for the sake of equality.
The result is of course the complete opposite of liberalism. This sort of interference can only result in a totalitarian and authoritarian society in which fanatics like the ones in the twits can engage in moral zealotry, such as destroying books and indoctrinating children in the ‘correct’ faith.
Liberalism is dying in the West. These moral zealots are only part of the story. The elites are thinking like aristocrats. The culture that is emerging is the very thing early liberalism was created in opposition to.