{"id":592,"date":"2020-06-30T17:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/?p=592"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:57:16","slug":"illiberal-democratic-zeal-runs-rampant-among-the-new-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenblath.ca\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/illiberal-democratic-zeal-runs-rampant-among-the-new-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Illiberal Democratic Zeal Runs Rampant Among the “New Left”"},"content":{"rendered":"
We live in a dangerous time my friends.\u00a0 In my opinion it is blatantly obvious that intolerance and illiberality are derailing the positive influence the peace movements of the 60’s and hero’s like Martin Luther King\u00a0had on our culture and leading us down a road of a new type of\u00a0 “Far Left Fascism” at the hands of the righteous naive.<\/div>\n
Feminism is no longer about giving women equal political and legal rights\u2014it\u2019s about confronting the male power structure and the \u201crape\u201d culture.<\/div>\n
Fighting racism is no longer about ensuring that African-Americans and minorities are treated equally before the law\u2014it\u2019s about eradicating \u201csystemic\u201d racism and promoting affirmative action.<\/div>\n
Environmentalism is no longer about conserving natural resources\u2014it\u2019s about \u201csaving\u201d the planet from overpopulation and climate change.<\/div>\n
With such utopian causes, it seems perfectly acceptable to \u201cbreak a few eggs\u201d to make a new liberal omelette.<\/div>\n
The traditional notions of tolerance, dissent and virtue have morphed into completely different\u00a0ideals that exemplify a type of oppression not unlike those we have fought so hard to eradicate over centuries.<\/div>\n
In other words, intolerance is now seen as a good thing\u2014if it serves the purpose of a certain definition of social liberation.<\/div>\n
Rather than an expression of individual conscience, dissent is now seen as a weapon to overthrow the old order. The end justifies the means. It is perfectly justifiable, according to the “New Left”, to shut out the views of the ruling class, defined now along race, gender, and sexual orientation lines, and throw out the constitution in the desire\u00a0for immediate change.<\/div>\n
Virtue has historically been understood as a positive habit that forms one\u2019s personal character. One acquires virtue by repeatedly choosing to treat others well and act in accord with objective standards of morality, even when it is difficult. The “New Left” understands\u00a0virtue very differently. The \u201cself\u201d is not something that has to be restrained; it is unique and has to be expressed openly, even loudly, to be fulfilled. \u00a0Individual freedom is to be experienced through the liberation of one\u2019s group (i.e., one\u2019s gender, race, or sexual identity). Traditional morality\u2014particularly sexual morality has become\u00a0a force of repression just as capitalism had been in the days of the Old Left. Virtue has been politicized and defined ideologically; it is no longer\u00a0seen as a measure of personal responsibility or as a right of individual conscience but as a measure of the collective good the government is supposed to guarantee.<\/div>\n
I am just writing this as a cautionary argument that we must not fall into traps the righteous that shout and rage and take offence and directly seek to over shadow the core beliefs that we have held sacrosanct for centuries like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.<\/div>\n
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