A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ … via @AreoMagazine @goddoesnt @radiofreetom
Not sure how that sentence fragment relates to what u are reading as our claim we can either have Enlightenment values or social progress
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I don't rule out loud, uncomfortable protests. They are one way of drawing attention to a problem but we also need to change people's ideas.
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Women could chain themselves to railings & throw themselves under horses but unless people cared abt women's rights, doesn't matter much.
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Here is the first part of the sentence: "Those who support Modernity should do so unabashedly and without reference to relatively minor..."
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Social justice requires taking different points of view and seeing subjective truth. Modernity must learn that from postmodernism.
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'Subjective truth' doesn't mean anything. More important is giving people the right to apply their own values to their own lives.
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You are arguing for simple pluralism, many perspectives. Social justice has never progressed on a platform of "all perspectives are equal."
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No, it's progressed on a platform of 'apply your own values to your own life & leave other people alone' accompanied by the right to do that
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MLK would disagree. He called out "the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace..."
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