There’s a moment that keeps replaying in my mind, one that crystallizes everything wrong with how some progressives have started to operate, how they’ve convinced themselves that the rules don’t apply to them as long as their targets are sufficiently deserving. It happened recently with Secular Talk, when Kyle Kulinski posted a video covering AlexContinue reading “When Progressives Profit From the Language of Oppression: Why We Can’t Accept Harm Just Because It Comes From Our “Side””
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Everyone’s Caught in the Same Web: Why We Must See Humanity Beyond Class, Roles, and Beliefs
In a world so deeply divided by politics, economics, and ideology, it has become almost reflexive for people to sort each other into neat categories: the rich versus the poor, the oppressors versus the oppressed, the left versus the right. We speak in binaries and slogans, in sweeping generalizations that strip away nuance and complexity.Continue reading “Everyone’s Caught in the Same Web: Why We Must See Humanity Beyond Class, Roles, and Beliefs”