I think it's important to also throw in the ideas of moral purity, moral pollution and moral contagion.
The Social Justice project is founded on a newfangled and sharp-edged Puritanical morality with a Platonic Victim at the center of our moral universe—with of course the members of a "marginalized group" spotless and centered, their allies in the next circle, and then the wicked and the damned thrust into the outer darkness.
If you can only claim ally status you are too far from the safe center and dangerously close to the circle of the damned, one wrong word or phrase, one wrong photo (what if someone snaps you in the same frame with a famous apostate!?), then you may be banished from your chosen community for carrying an unsafe viral load of "Hate".
(And I know Climate/Covid aren't exactly at the heart of Social Justice, but they have still somehow been incorporated into the belief system and work as another way to sort society into Good/Evil etc.)
I think it's important to also throw in the ideas of moral purity, moral pollution and moral contagion.
The Social Justice project is founded on a newfangled and sharp-edged Puritanical morality with a Platonic Victim at the center of our moral universe—with of course the members of a "marginalized group" spotless and centered, their allies in the next circle, and then the wicked and the damned thrust into the outer darkness.
If you can only claim ally status you are too far from the safe center and dangerously close to the circle of the damned, one wrong word or phrase, one wrong photo (what if someone snaps you in the same frame with a famous apostate!?), then you may be banished from your chosen community for carrying an unsafe viral load of "Hate".
(And I know Climate/Covid aren't exactly at the heart of Social Justice, but they have still somehow been incorporated into the belief system and work as another way to sort society into Good/Evil etc.)
Always so clear and relentless.
That 5th paragraph delivered it for me.