By: Jeffrey B. Stamm 04/28/2021 - Source: The Intellectual Conservative
The great leveling force that the Left has relentlessly employed to transform every aspect of our culture in order to achieve “equity” has long relied upon a war against “intolerance” as their principal weapon. More recently, however, our social justice warriors—along with their oh-so enlightened and compassionate allies in Big Media, Big Tech, and Big Business have determined that a tolerant society is, well, just no longer enough.
Given the stubbornness of inequalities across social, racial, gender and economic groups, the Left has ratcheted up both their tactics and their tone against traditional America. Many have argued that the war they now wage is against our conventional meritocracy, even against merit itself. It is, however, more basic—and threatening—than that.
It’s a war against standards.
Standards in what constitutes the truth. Standards in acceptable levels of discourse. Standards in the meaning of citizenship. Most of all, it is a war against any standard of acceptable individual behavior.
To put it another way, we have been so bludgeoned with the obligation
of endless tolerance and unquestioned compassion that we must no longer
demand personal responsibility of our fellow citizens. To require some
semblance of self-control of our neighbors today is to invite a torrent
of ferocious public attacks and bullying from our sanctimonious betters...........To Read More....
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