If You're Bound to Be Bad, Why Bother Being Good?
If You’re Bound to Be Bad, Why Bother Being Good?
Section titled “If You’re Bound to Be Bad, Why Bother Being Good?”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Freddie deBoer
- Full Title: If You’re Bound to Be Bad, Why Bother Being Good?
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/if-youre-bound-to-be-bad-why-bother
Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- The social justice attitude is designed to assign people a spot in a moral aristocracy, and you were born ineligible to be one of the elect. It’s no wonder why contemporary social justice politics have achieved literally no structural change even while enjoying total dominance in our ideas industry. What’s the basic theory of change? I’ve called this tendency political Calvinism in the past - the way that totalizing identity critiques render individual choices and morality irrelevant.