"...we might claim that the far left bookoisie cannot think without continually revising the means of thinking, the instruments of knowledge production. Epistemology is ontology. To know is to be, and how you know is how you be."
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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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"In this retributive or restorative correction pursued as some kind of sanction against the offender, or amendment to the rules of social exchange, including reeducation via workplace and campus workshops lies the justice, a new form of social justice: personal identity justice"
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Feelings matter. We can discuss this "But it is vital, too, to recognize that these debates are proceeding now, at 1 extreme, from the inside out, making absolute claims on the external social order based on what are offered as unassailable affirmations of subjective experience."
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People see the authoritarian responses to speech, They see them as a form of extremism and intuit that this" seems extreme from more than just a general sense of absurdity, of “going too far”" but they don't always understood what underlies this extremism.
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Which is this belief that language constructs reality. What Adler is calling 'logocentric leftism.' "It seems extreme precisely because the contention over language, this logocentric battle, originates in a reconceived relationship between language and the world."
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Adler goes on to show how this has affected our understanding of 'violence', the role of provocation in activism and the 'flattening' of distinctions in terminology which we need to discuss things. I shall return & break these sections down later.
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