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 @NAChristakis and
You act like ideals work in a vacuum. People "living their own values" can also mean discrimination and slavery.
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Replying to @stevenjshirley @NAChristakis and
No, it can't because the other part of that is 'not impacting anybody else's'. That prevents others living their own values, doesn't it?
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eg, You can believe gay sex is wrong because you're Christian or Muslim. You can't ban other people from having it.
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