"Many people have come to identify a necessary disambiguating idea for this recognition as that of postmodernism." Yes, that would be me. "I believe a deeper understanding — the more essential, yet particular and activating difference — can be found in “logocentrism.”" Do go on.
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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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Interesting. Peterson's advice is to fix things on the inside and the outer environment harmonises
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>Social justice Why not call it justice? Enough of these unnecessary pejoratives. Time to call spade a spade.
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