Religions have enemies (e.g the devil) For SJ, this Enemy becomes “Hate,” and Hate is everywhere and never-ending—racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, transphobia, and on and on and on—and it is expressed in Hate speech, which perpetuates and legitimizes it
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"The biggest lessons learned over the last two thousand years is the lesson that a free society depends upon preventing the institutional power of a moral tribe (to generalize a bit) from gaining state power—this is of the utmost importance to any free society."
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"This is because moral tribes are often punitive where it comes to policing their tribes’ moral norms and expectations—that is, they’re inherently bent toward the totalitarian"
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“Specifically, we call the resistance to the intertwining of religious institutions and state institutions secularism, which is a point we will return to at the end of this essay, when we might what to do with regard to Social Justice going forward”
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"Ultimately, to put it formally, these efforts make various unwarranted metaphysical claims (specifically, ontological ones such as that God exists or that our total potential understanding of reality is ultimately subjective & constructed by language used in service to power)"
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"Religions have used "tricks" to avoid scientific scrutiny: The premodern tricks for this are to assert that “skeptical faith” is still faith and to insist that all knowledge is, itself, rooted in the Deity, & thus to speak of knowledge at all is to acknowledge God's existence"
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The postmodern trick for doing this is to claim that what we consider knowledge is just one knowledge amongst many and particularly one that is culturally situated within white, masculine, Western, and other “dominant” ways of knowing, which actively exclude other ways.
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Ultimately, to put it another way, for premodernists all knowledge is rooted in God, and for postmodernists all knowledge is intrinsically tied up with the Matrix of Domination.
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So much of it is tied to identity--and who gets to call the shots. The the privileged possess only the perspective of the privileged while the oppressed perceive both the perspectives of the privileged and of the oppressed, which gives them an epistemological advantage.
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It becomes impossible for a critic with any dominant identity to prove that his criticisms aren’t blinded by his identity-limited perspective. Just like your sin prevents you from accessing the special knowledge of the faith, your power and privilege in society do the same.
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"Astute readers will recognize that Karl Marx picked up and ran with the same idea in an economic context, which creates certain parallels between Marxism and Social Justice"
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Religions form antibodies to criticism. In Reformed Epistemology, if you doubt the existence of this alleged God sensor, it is posited that yours merely fails to work because of your sin or, somewhat less cheerfully, your depravity—i.e. because you subconsciously want to sin.
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It should go without saying that the vast majority of priests (& scholars) are sincere. Indeed, most are among the most painfully sincere ppl one could potentially meet & are true believers in the moral ideology they serve And they do great work! Bonafide progress for humanity
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Also goes without saying that every religious tradition eventually attracts faith grifters, who are not sincere and may not even be believers. These are opportunists who exploit undercritical belief in a (moral) ideology for their own selfish purposes.
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SJ is not immune from grifters: Since SJ is focused on identifying and purging sin from the world that it is straightforward for any Social Justice faith grifter to accuse her (or his) accusers of being intentional or unwitting agents of oppression
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The purpose of saying SJ is like a religion is not to denigrate it (or celebrate it) it’s to put it in context — "We should have serious concerns and discomfort about institutionalizing its beliefs in any space that isn’t wholly devoted to them."
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Secularism: 1/ general reticence toward institutionalizing the ideology of any moral tribe in any public space. 2/ protecting moral ideology and recognizing it as a matter of private conscience (i.e tolerance for all!)
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“Public institutions like public universities, being public, should be hesitant to implement SJ initiatives. Private institutions, like corporations & private universities, can make their own choices on the matter & accept the benefits & consequences of openly aligning w/ SJ."
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Interested in hearing counter-arguments to this thread (bad faith tweets will be blocked) I don't agree w/ a few claims here, but the concept of secularism is worth pondering IMO Q: Secularism itself, however, seems to be "Christianity w/o Christ", so where does that leave us?
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