{"id":3626,"date":"2019-12-30T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2019-12-30T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:40:09","slug":"social-justice-warriors-seek-the-total-ruin-of-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3626","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Warriors Seek the Total Ruin of Dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Social Justice Warriors Seek the Total Ruin of\nDissidents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussing writer&nbsp; <strong>Douglas\nMurray&#8217;s<\/strong> new book the <strong>Madness of\nCrowds: Gender, Race and Identity<\/strong>, <strong>Barbara\nKay <\/strong>(<strong>National Post,<\/strong>\nNovember 20, 2019) writes: \u201cThe interpretation of the world through the lens of\n\u2018social justice,\u2019 \u2018identity group politics\u2019 and \u2018intersectionalism\u2019 is probably\nthe most audacious and comprehensive effort since the <strong>Cold War<\/strong> at creating a new ideology.\u201d Christianity has been\nspurned, but the religious impulse is inherent and abhors a vacuum. The\n&#8216;religion&#8217; of social justice, Murray observes, poured itself into the handy\ncampus vessel of <strong>Marxism<\/strong> with remarkable\nspeed. &nbsp;One of the hallmarks of <strong>Marxism<\/strong> \u2013 not a bug, but a feature \u2013 is\nits ruthlessness. I was particularly struck by Murray\u2019s quite poignant\nchapter, \u201cOn Forgiveness.\u201d Normal religions offer redemption to sinners. But\nthere is no forgiveness or statute of limitations for thought crimes in the\nreligion of social justice. A mural of <strong>Rudyard\nKipling\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cIf\u201d \u2013 voted Britain\u2019s favourite poem \u2013 was painted over at the <strong>University of Manchester<\/strong> in retroactive\npunishment for Kipling\u2019s now politically incorrect views on empire. The past,\nMurray says, is \u201chostage \u2014 like everything else \u2014 to any archeologist with a\nvendetta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new religion\ngives permission to those of &#8216;oppressed&#8217; status \u2014 women, people of colour,\nindigenous peoples, <strong>LGBTQ<\/strong> \u2014 to hate\ntheir oppressors: heterosexual white men, racists, transphobics. (Gay himself,\nMurray refuses to play the <strong>LGBTQ<\/strong>\ncard as the sole, or even most important marker of his humanity.) For many\nunlucky people, a silly joke tweeted, an incorrect opinion on <strong>Facebook<\/strong> or an inadvertently touched\nknee can be the kiss of death to career and reputation. Murray provides plenty\nof examples of good people cut down without mercy \u2014 indeed with unseemly relish\n\u2014 by relentlessly vigilant activists. <strong>Toby\nYoung<\/strong>, for example, once divided his time between journalism and the <strong>New Schools Network<\/strong>, where he worked to\nhelp disadvantaged children get a better education. Long story short, a few\nnaughty references to &#8216;boobs&#8217; on Twitter, excavated by the usual suspects, lost\nhim a government appointment and all his writing gigs in a fusillade of\nopprobrium.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Justice Warriors Seek the Total Ruin of Dissidents Discussing writer&nbsp; Douglas Murray&#8217;s new book the Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Barbara Kay (National Post, November 20, 2019) writes: \u201cThe interpretation of the world through the lens of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2076,2072,2073,2075,2077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3627,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}