The Great Awokening: How the social justice faith produces miserable manipulators
John SextonPosted at 8:31 pm on December 15, 2018
Andrew Sullivan wrote a piece last week expanding on his previously expressed view that intersectionality and social justice are a substitute religion, one currently undergoing substantial growth or as he calls it “the Great Awokening.â€
For many, especially the young, discovering a new meaning in the midst of the fallen world is thrilling. And social-justice ideology does everything a religion should. It offers an account of the whole: that human life and society and any kind of truth must be seen entirely as a function of social power structures, in which various groups have spent all of human existence oppressing other groups. And it provides a set of practices to resist and reverse this interlocking web of oppression — from regulating the workplace and policing the classroom to checking your own sin and even seeking to control language itself. I think of non-PC gaffes as the equivalent of old swear words. Like the puritans who were agape when someone said “goddamn,†the new faithful are scandalized when someone says something “problematic.†Another commonality of the zealot then and now: humorlessness.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/15/great-awokening-faith-social-justice-produces-miserable-moralists/
