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297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Culture War Isn't About Language, Right?

The culture war is about language. It's also why the movement has been so successful because it uses progressive sounding terminology. Most people think, yeah, I mean, I'm on board with social justice, who wouldn't be? And it's that strategy of using kind of Trojan horse strategy where you you smuggle through regressive ideas, using progressive language. That's exactly what's happening here. We are dealing with an illiberal regressive movement. They call themselves progressives, but they're the opposite. You know, as I say in the book, they have mistaken progress for change. They're changing things, but not making things better. They're making things worse. The damage that

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