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Social justice isn't about justice but about control

I wrote in a previous blog post how the modern regressive leftist social justice ideology is a supremacist movement that seeks to control every aspect of society and exert power over people and their behavior. If you start observing everything that they do, say and demand, the vast majority of it as about controlling people.

Here are some examples of this:

Quite many years ago somebody somewhere (I actually have no idea who or where) in the social justice circles came up with the idea that clapping can be "triggering" (zero evidence given, but obviously that doesn't matter), and instead social justice warriors should do finger snapping instead. As if that were somehow better. That's why you see them so often acting like morons doing that. From the outside it looks (and certainly is) completely ridiculous and retarded, but from the inside it makes sense: It's behavior control. People are being reprimanded for normal traditional behavior, and forced into a different behavior. Everybody must conform to this rule, or be reprimanded, insulted and shunned. (This is very similar to behavior control that many things that extremist religious cults do.)

Year after year social justice warriors have demanded society to not only respect, but also use their invented pronouns. At some places they have succeeded so far in this that it's even put into law. It's most certainly prevalent in many universities as an internal rule. Again, this has nothing to do with respect, and everything to do with control. It's compelled speech. People are forced to speak in certain ways, they are forced to conform, lest they be punished.

Likewise shunning "cultural appropriation" has absolutely nothing to do with respect (after all, social justice warriors never ask people of that culture in question whether this bothers them or not), and everything to do with control. It gives justification for black people to harass and bully white people for having dreadlocks or cornrows. It grants keyboard warriors the power to modify the behavior of people and even institutions and corporations, and have them issue groveling apologies. It gives them power to make other people, and institutions, to conform and obey.

And, of course, rather obviously, shutting down people's right to free speech has everything to do with control and power. Supporting and protecting people's rights to free speech does not give them power. Limiting people's free speech does, especially when this is done using violence and intimidation.

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