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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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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Logocentrism is usually associated with analytic philosophy. Conties and CTs avoid it.
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