
Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison
Very Bad Wizards
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The Discourse of Rights Is Less Useful in Securing Progressive Social Change
The use of rights discourse stunts human imagination and mystifies people about how law really works. The fourth is at least as prevailing in American law, the discourse of rights reflects and produces a kind of isolated individualism that hinders social solidarity and genuine human connection. He's saying that it has substituted out like in this general focus on the rights by what he he says the progressive left is hyper focused on have led people to ignore problems they otherwise might not have ignored.
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