She writes: "once we treat issues like religious freedom and the desirability of racial equality as matters for debate rather than as first principles, we are lost." Mill argues soundly (OL 2) that when first principles are not debated, their justifications and meaning are lost.
A fascinating work of self-deception. The author realizes MSM can't give air-time to any of the intellectual movements that fed into Trump's electoral upset, without blowing open the Overton window. Which she refuses to do, for #reasons.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/opinion/affirmative-action-diversity.html …
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yes, the Progressives are trying hard to stop the Overton Window from widening. Going after Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. EU is even trying to make them do censoring-by-proxy. Germany is leading the charge. Thread:https://twitter.com/aClassicLiberal/status/975055657010331648?s=19 …
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I suspect it’s because for Goldberg, the only legitimate conservative is a Reagan Democrat or some form of right-leaning moderate. I can’t help but believe it’s because a large swath of conservatives reject the premise underlying Leftist identity politics.
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And that's the problem, because the intellectual streams that sparked the electoral upset either reject the whole identity politics/systemic oppression/intersectionality theory, or they embrace identity politics equally for all groups. Neither are acceptable to MSM.
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Also (weirdly) she doesn't ever clearly say that Williamson has been a vociferous opponent of Trumpism, both b/4 and since the 2016 election. I suspect that that had something to do with
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