I asked American progressivism “American “progressivism”, you couldn’t possibly out-do your myopia from 2016, could you?”<\/p>\n
And American progressivism \u2013 in this case Vox.com<\/em> – said “hold my kombuchba<\/a>“:\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n The idea that identity politics is at odds with liberalism has become conventional wisdom in parts of the American\u00a0<\/span>political<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>intellectual<\/a>elite<\/a><\/strong>. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has\u00a0<\/span>condemned contemporary identity politics<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>as \u201can enemy of reason and Enlightenment values.\u201d New York Times columnist Bari Weiss\u00a0<\/span>argues that<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>the \u201ccorrupt identity politics of the left\u201d amounts to a dangerously intolerant worldview. And\u00a0<\/span>New York magazine\u2019s Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>claims the \u201cwoke left\u201d seems \u201cnot to genuinely believe in liberalism, liberal democracy, or persuasion.\u201d This line of thinking is\u00a0<\/span><\/a>practically the founding credo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>of the school of internet thought known as the\u00a0<\/span>Intellectual Dark Web<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It is also deeply, profoundly wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n If you are deeply, profoundly progressive, anyway.\ufffc . “Liberalism” and “progressivism” intersect only occasionally, if by “liberalism” you mean any of the traits that’ve made Western Civilization free, inclusive and prosperous in a way that is utterly anomalous through human history, which “progressives” most certainly do not.\u00a0<\/p>\n What these critics lambaste as an attack on liberalism is actually its best form: the logical extension of liberalism\u2019s core commitment to social equality and democracy, adapted to address modern sources of inequality. A liberalism that rejects identity politics is a liberalism for the powerful, one that relegates the interests of marginalized groups to second-class status.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I asked American progressivism “American “progressivism”, you couldn’t possibly out-do your myopia from 2016, could you?” And American progressivism \u2013 in this case Vox.com – said “hold my kombuchba“:\ufffc\ufffc The idea that identity politics is at odds with liberalism has become conventional wisdom in parts of the American\u00a0political\u00a0and\u00a0intellectualelite. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has\u00a0condemned contemporary identity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-first","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73353,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73351\/revisions\/73353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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