Adler argues that a better understanding of 'logocentrism' is a more literal breakdown of the word. Making language the centre and reality secondary to that. He says that this is what the New New left is doing & understanding this makes so much else clear.
"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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