Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice

The version of millennial social justice advocacy that I have spoken about — one that uses Identity Politics to balkanize groups of people, engenders hatred between groups, willingly lies to push agendas, manipulates language to provide immunity from criticism, and that publicly shames anyone who remotely speaks some sort of dissent from the overarching narrative of the orthodoxy — is not admirable. It is deplorable. It appeals to the basest of human instincts: fear and hatred. It is not an enlightened or educated position to take. History will not look kindly on this Orwellian, authoritarian pervision of social justice that has taken social media and millennials by storm over the past few years.

via Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice — Medium.

There’s a lot of teddy-throwing and worse going on in various parts of the blogosphere. I thought that this article made a lot of good points.