The degradation of liberal philosophy sprouts like an eruption from a mountain; with volcanic ash spreading into the minds of sanctimonious, sycophantic, wannabe hippies. Such degradation is not arising from the opposing right, but from regressives who, in all facets of contradiction, describe themselves as progressive and liberal. I have criticised the regressive, SJW left a few times already, and so have other influential speakers and writers, but I can never have less to say.
What we are witnessing in the 21st century is a liberal crisis. It is a civil war within the left of political philosophy; a fight between true liberals who comprehend the official values of liberalism versus the hypocritical, unsophisticated and ingenuous self-indulgence of the regressive left. They feel so inclined to uphold the title of liberal, but display contradiction in their approaches to social justice by attempting to silence those who differ in thoughts on social issues.
I first noticed the divide as I upheld my obligation to criticise religion. I thought the majority of freethinkers, atheists, humanists, liberals, or whomever, would support open criticism of antique doctrines but I was truly mistaken. It was worse having to allow the regressives –those that say “I am an atheist but…” – propose that I, or ‘you atheists’ should not hurt feelings and offend deeply held beliefs. Please note, these regressives – a term that was not yet popularised when I first supported this “new atheist” movement – did not even understand the rudiments of religion. They’d cry bold allegations such as “Islam has nothing to do with terrorism” shortly after religiously-motivated terror attacks. These illiberal liberals would then run and duck whenever invited on a discussion of religion or an elaboration of their claims. I knew, at the time when I began my pursuit for writing, that I did not ally with religion-defenders (my term for them at the time), whom have now formed part of the regressive left.
It somewhat seems our millennial generation attend further and higher education, becoming indebted with drastic tuition fees, to then leave university still very stupid; as a minimum, stupid on the matter of political and social history. Why are they closing their minds on campus? They run to a safe space and demand their views not be criticised at discussions, protests and events, but are happy to indulge their collective narcissism. Safe spaces are to segregate. Promoting multiculturalism and diversity – a component of regressive social justice warrior annoyance – and then hiding to a safe space and demanding trigger warnings is hypocrisy and pro-segregation. When they hear the word ‘diversity’, they immediately think of minority race, religion and class but subsequently disregard the importance of diverse ideas. If these leftists want to decrease discrimination, then what’s with the constant favouritism of a race or religion? University and college campuses entail a stream of self-righteous leftists, or generation snowflake, as they are sometimes cleverly labelled. The bandwagon of social justice is a wagon they love to hop onto to gain fame and likability among the popular opinion or among their circle of friends. Should one be trustworthy of the words that exit a regressives mouth? Are they just joining the fight to feel good about themselves; so they can then say “I have fought for something”? The student left adore terminology consisting of what evolved into cliché buzzwords. Bigotry, fascist, xenophobic, Islamophobic are words that show up in the social justice sphere. On one occasion, I have even encountered the ludicrous term ‘religious-phobic’, which is likely an SJW response to ‘annoying’ and ‘loud’ atheists. The regressive left adore these listed terms as a result of an insignificant vocabulary, due to their uninformed and low intellectual capacity. Within this liberal crisis, generation snowflake – consisting of young easily-offended millenials (I am trying my best not to overly criticise my generation) – tend to include themselves in social activism when it is convenient to them. They don’t have a legitimate framework of their advocacies, apart from benefitting their own reputation and a desire to feel good about themselves. You can almost hear the hypocritical leftists say “let’s take a break from killing zombies on the PlayStation and vaguely involve ourselves in political protest.” It makes any true liberal ask this question: do they really care? Additionally, when it relates to science, it seems like the social justice warriors don’t care. Political correctness and the avoidance of hurt feelings are more important than the revolutions of science which can be so vital for the future of our ape sub-species. As I have aforementioned, enlightenment thinkers fought hard for our liberal principles which are now taken for granted, just as much as age-old scientists fought extremely hard for the importance of scientific discovery. Currently, the modern left would rather embrace anti-intellectualism and anti-science, as it might ‘offend’ the religious. Particularly discussing the matters of the origins of life, the big bang and evolutionary fact, this insolence is foreseen. Assuming the teaching of creationism to be taught alongside science is ludicrous, and is only expected of conservative Christians, not liberals. However, social justice warriors tend to consciously disguise themselves as liberals since they think that term is relative to their authoritarian and relapsing babble. The liberal crisis forces one to inquire if the left are unknowingly disassembling from the true liberal domain whilst accusing the true liberals of neoconservativism or a form or right-wing allegiance – something of sheer nonsense! Or is this what we expect of the far-left all along? The left have divided with a degree of tension and civil war. Do the regressive left deserve to be labelled liberals as they most commonly are? They feel obliged to stroll around wearing the label of liberty since they seem to only desire liberty for their own measures – a lack of fairness, instead authoritarian partisanship. True liberals are combatting social justice warriors more so than liberals are combatting conservatives. Right-wingers are giggling and dominating the votes as a result of social justice warriors attacking liberal free speech; they are dancing whilst the left are consumed by the popular fashion of social justice and collective narcissism; they embrace a desire to take away freedoms and to replace them with partiality. Do you call that justice? Do you call that fair? References
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