Only addressing human rights abuses perpretated by your own culture might feel noble but is actually self-indulgent, narcissistic masochism
I think they end up this way due to the identitarian, academic leftist ideas of cultural relativity, privileged & oppressed groups
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I don't think anyone gets to this stage via a reasonable route of acknolwedging all problems but focusing more on own group.
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I think that some at least are motivated by such reasonable considerations but become corrupted by the ideologists you mention
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It is the ideologues I am talking abt tho.The postmodern left. Those concerned w identity politics & privilege & intersectionality
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I think perhaps this has become influential because academic authority is mistaken for moral authority.
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academics tho, even in social/humanist disciplines rarely seem to be motivated by genuine concern for how to live a moral life.
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In the same way moral infants like
@robertcaruso#DavidBrock can become influential in media/politics with zero moral integrity.
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what is the appeal of these ideas? How do they serve them and their objectives?
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The academic shift towards postmodernism & the way this seeped into the Left is quite complicated for Tweets.
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.@dwpandme I wrote a bit abt how postmodernism in feminism here: http://helensatheistblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/why-i-no-longer-identify-as-feminist.html … More info in intro of this: http://helenpluckrose.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1 …
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Best accessible summary of shift in academic leftism I found is in Peter Boghossian's Manual for Creating Atheists.
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I especially appreciated: "Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue"
@peterboghossian
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Much reform in West was appeasement cuz status quo untenable. Concessions made to islam maybe for similarly pragmatic reasons
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