social justice
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social justice is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 10, 2021 and March 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “We tend to conflate feminism and anti-racism under the general heading of “social justice""; “it had been felled by social justice, which was a sort of Liberal Ideology 2.0”; ""In the same way, social justice was able to easily fight off wave after wave of MRAs and redpillers and alt-righters"". It most often appears alongside “How do you do, fellow kids?”, NotAllMen, TheResistance.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 10, 2021
- Last seen: March 16, 2022
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
We tend to conflate feminism and anti-racism under the general heading of "social justice", but this blinds us to important details. From about 2011 to 2014, the Internet was obsessed with gender, with race on the back burner. 2014 to 2016 was a sort of transition period, and after that the Internet became obsessed with race, with gender almost forgotten.
Its death did not mark the triumph of its arch-enemy, religion. People were just as atheist as before, maybe more so. They just all suddenly agreed it was stupid to talk about it and anybody who did was a fedora-wearing euphoric loser. I argued that it had been felled by social justice, which was a sort of Liberal Ideology 2.0, filling the same social role New Atheism, only better. Most atheists jumped ship to join the winning team - "this atheism blog is now a feminism blog" was kind of the unofficial slogan of the 2015 blogosphere - and thus was the empire forged.
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Most of the participants were geeks. This was before social justice went mainstream, and almost by definition people who are really into non-mainstream things are geeks. Social media hadn't really come into its own yet, so a lot of the discussion happened on blogs, which were mostly read by geeks. And a lot of feminists got their start in the New Atheist movement - so, definitely geeks.
Helping the poor becomes economic justice. If they’re minorities, then it’s racial justice, itself a subspecies of social justice. Saving the environment becomes environmental justice, except when it’s about climate change in which case it’s climate justice. Caring about young people is actually about fighting for intergenerational justice. The very laws of space and time are subject to spatial justice and temporal justice.