It’s never enough just to emancipate the identity group!
This is an excellent book by James Burnham (steer clear of the book by Jonah Goldberg with same title - its worthless!)
It’s never enough just to emancipate the identity group!
The problem with modern liberalism is that there is tension with individual freedoms and egalitarian social justice on the other. Basically between individual freedoms and regimentation.
Part of this is liberating people from stigma. From pronouns and gender-bending and the like. However that is not enough. It is not enough for you to be able to use these pronouns, there also has to be a regimentation of society to affirm your new individuality as a trans person or whatever. So what that means is “hate speech laws”.
Rules and regulations with regard to diversity equity and inclusion. This is the tension and paradox of modern liberalism - every time we emancipate an oppressed group there is also a whole new regime that is created to enforce the liberation of that group on the rest of us.
In this conflict between individualism and regimentation (regulation of society for things like “hate speech laws, etc.) regimentation will always win out. The “enforcement” will take over and dominate the society. It is the “force” that will defeat the underlying liberalism.
So we liberate, then we enforce across the entire society the distorted minority view and then punish those who cannot hold that view because it is counter to the truth that they know in their hearts and minds as they have Biblical-centered discernment and a world view.