"A double challenge to liberal democrats is both to reject the right in full voice, yet make clear their profound separateness from the far left... They must fully recognize how their progressivism differs from the ever-accumulating transformative regimes of the far left"
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Identity politics emerge. "It has produced a particular nexus of anti-free speech linguistic correctness aimed at protecting interior lives — human subjective experience — politically represented on the level of group identity."
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Social justice becomes personal justice. "A phenomenon of these contentions is that a whole range of proscribed and advised behaviors (including speech) are so constituted in order to engender the conditions of what I will label personal justice."
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This is another reversal. Traditionally, in liberalism, it has been understood that improving social justice - equal rights, opportunities, freedoms - will result in personal wellbeing which Adler calls 'harmony.' Fix things from the outside and people get happier inside.
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Also more harmony in society. Adler: Greater social justice, then, preceded more complete harmony, both public and private, neither of which — King and all who followed and worked with him were at pains, literally, to demonstrate — could prevail in the absence of justice.
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"Social justice speech codes originating in what has come to be called identity politics seek to reverse this relationship between justice and harmony." Take people's subjective experiences and use them to change society. Society becomes more just when feelings protected
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"In this rearrangement of the relationship...the experience of injustice is neither institutionally supported or behaviorally imposed; rather it is in the individual’s inner sense of feeling “unsafe,” of being “triggered” in disturbing memory or troubling emotion" Spot on, no?
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"Inner disharmony now prevails, and subjective disharmony by such cause is averred to be personal injustice."
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"The offended party claims a right to have this harmony restored, & the basis for its restoration is to be sought in some external correction of the corresponding disharmony between the individual’s interior experience and the exterior conditions that disrupted that experience."
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In other words: The offended person feels they have been harmed by certain words and they have a right not be. This 'inner disharmony' - hurt feelings - is a form of injustice & preventing this from happening is making society just - social justice.
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This is a turn to spiritual thinking (placing subjective experience at high importance in your worldview) without any of the balancing structures of useful religions. Critical theory is the tradition and autoethnography is the scripture.
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