Social justice requires taking different points of view and seeing subjective truth. Modernity must learn that from postmodernism.
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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
'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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Replying to @HPluckrose @NAChristakis and
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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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @NAChristakis and
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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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
That doesn't disagree. It doesn't even relate. You keep doing that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @NAChristakis and
You said: "apply your own values to your own life..." This is exactly what opponents of progress (e.g., MLK's white moderates) have said.
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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
That doesn't make any sense. The right to live as you see fit underlies religious freedom, LGBT rights and reproductive freedom.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @stevenjshirley and
Were white moderates pushing for these things as well as the right for PoC to live their lives as they saw fit with access to everything?
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They weren't. MLK was not criticising people who wanted everyone to have the freedom to live their own lives with access to everything.
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