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James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism

Decoding the Gurus

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The Social Justice Movement Is a 'Red Guard'

James Wolraich says he feels like robin d'Angelo said more contentious stuff than is quoted in the book. He thinks social justice evokes archetypal enemies of the pre-society and compares this current social justice movement with historically previous opponents of liberalism. Wolraich: The ideal of individual autonomy that underlies liberal humanism was viewed as a mechanism for keeping them marginalized in their place by obscuring larger structural systems of inequality.

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