14/Marriage equality was an example of this. In fact, this moral power is still strong - see companies' response to Charlottesville.
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15/The Left's moral power can be used to do many good things - push companies and universities to try to be more diverse, for example.
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16/But I worry that this moral power can be weakened through over-application. A bit like antibiotics.
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17/If all white people get used to being morally condemned, all the time, just for being who they are, they'll just learn to live with it.
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18/Same with all men, all straight people, all cis people, or whatever. Eventually being condemned just becomes a reason to shrug.
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19/And if the Left loses its moral power, I fear for this country. I fear a Right unshackled by fear of moral condemnation.
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20/Because if moral power goes away, only physical power remains. And the Right has all of the physical power. http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/you-and-whose-army.html …
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21/Therefore, for the good of the country's most vulnerable, I recommend that we of the Left be more judicious in our condemnations. (end)
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The problem with this discussion, every time, is that we only ever analyze language for its effect on white racists. (1/x)
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I have a very very very very very good reason for centering white people in this discussion. It is because they have the guns.
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But you understand why "you should be more afraid of racists" is a tough sell, no? Why not make the argument as the tough sell it is?
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It's a tough sell, sure. But that was exactly the argument I was trying to make with this thread.
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Basically: "Want white people to be much much much worse? Make the 'racist' label unconditional, and they will get much much much worse."
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