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(''Sociology'') A catch-all phrase designed to pin down an intellectual movement which, above all other priorities, as a horror of being ''pinned down'', since what can be pinned down can be analysed, exposed and — well — ''criticised''. [[Critical theory]], in this context, is allegedly “third-wave” [[post-modernism]]: (originally race, law or gender but now has forked into whatever happens to be the ''cause célébre'' du jour); social justice theory; [[woke]]ness; general [[snowflake]]ry. | (''Sociology'') A catch-all phrase designed to pin down an intellectual movement which, above all other priorities, as a horror of being ''pinned down'', since what can be pinned down can be analysed, exposed and — well — ''criticised''. [[Critical theory]], in this context, is allegedly “third-wave” [[post-modernism]]: (originally race, law or gender but now has forked into whatever happens to be the ''cause célébre'' du jour); social justice theory; [[woke]]ness; general [[snowflake]]ry. | ||
To be clear: the [[JC]] lines up with the [[libtard]]s here: the optimal society is a pluralistic, tolerant one, maximally permissive of the non-aggressive interests of those at the margins and | To be clear: the [[JC]] lines up with the [[libtard]]s here: the optimal society is a pluralistic, tolerant one, maximally permissive of the non-aggressive interests of those who are vulnerable and at the margins, which vigorously defends those interests and, all other things being equal, prefers them when they conflict with those of the majority. | ||
But this isn’t to say there aren’t thoroughly unscrupulous people doing thoroughly unscrupulous things in the name of social justice. | But this isn’t to say there aren’t thoroughly unscrupulous people doing thoroughly unscrupulous things in the name of social justice. | ||