The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

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When stupidity seems so common, sometimes it seems we are all held hostage to the lowest common denominator, who is gullible and uncurious enough to believe that what the label says is actually true! ad infinitum) the meaning and utility of language and thereby any possibility of sensible dialogue is perverted. Doyle goes on to observe how much has been achieved by the “liberal humanist approach” to make racism, sexism and homophobia unacceptable and to instal legal protection against discrimination; something which in no way denies the many outstanding issues to be resolved; but they will not be resolved by the methods of the social justice warriors.

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Its disciples even have their own language, rituals and a determination to root out sinners through what has become known as ‘cancel culture’. It is now standard practice among police officers in the United Kingdom to prioritise ‘lived experience’ over other evidential thresholds.That's not because there is no cohesion to the lineage of this ideology from postmodernism, it's just he didn't explain it well. Arguing against affectations like pronouns makes you sound reactionary, even though there's nothing progressive about violating grammar. If that isn’t bad enough, he reckons we need more “civil discussion” and to “find a way to learn again how to talk to each other ”. One cannot argue”, Doyle says, “with someone who believes that argument itself is an oppressive denial of his or her truth”.

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Shermer and Doyle discuss: terminology of: PC, identity politics, woken, social justice, antifa, BLM, TERF, intersectionality • Critical Social Justice as a witch craze • Satanic Panic (1980s) • Recovered Memory Movement (1990s) • How widespread is the problem: minor skirmishes on social media or mainstream? That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others’ eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. To souls numbed by ideology”, he says, Raphael’s Tranfiguration is little more than pigments on wood daubed by a powerful white man in the interests of other powerful white men”. Those whose political awakening — and/or employment — hinges on resistance to long-defeated bigotries cannot acknowledge how successful that resistance has been in changing society. I also held strongly to the belief that I may disagree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it and have always been very anti-censorship.

Since “the NHS accommodates patients by gender identity, not biological sex ”, Annex B requires that “if a female patient complains that there is a man on her ward, she is to be told that this is not true; there are no men present ”. His book is an essential guide for anyone looking to understand why the culture war has grown so hot. In February 2020, I was invited on to the BBC’s The Big Questions to debate the topic: ‘Is wokeness the new religion? In this lucid, important book, the satirist and commentator Andrew Doyle zeroes in on the religiosity of these movements . The new puritans have “eschewed the traditional socialist goals of redressing economic inequality and redistributing wealth and replaced them with an obsessive focus on race, gender and sexuality ”.