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In reply to the discussion: University of Nebraska Lincoln introduces new 'non-negotiable respect' policy [View all]NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)I hate to break it to you, but the social justice crowd doesn't define the entirety of liberalism or the left, just the ones who took Marxist class conflict theory and adopted it to racial and gender identity conflict. Liberalism and Marxism are inherently incompatible with each other; the former understands that better ideas win when presented in open debate and seeks to guarantee equality of opportunity so that people can succeed or fail based on their individual merit, while the latter believes the answer to differing opinions is to eradicate them by judging those who hold them to be immoral or flawed and purging them from public life and enforcing a system of equality of outcome.
The two cannot exist together, because while the former tolerates the existence of the latter, the latter is out to destroy the former. Which is why I'm a liberal, and not a Marxist.