Here are two related articles — both dealing with aspects of the fringe left — posted the same day at The Federalist:
The Left Needs To Call Off Its Radical Fringe Bent On Destroying Christians
All the symptoms suggest the sexual revolution is now in a terminal late-stage progressivism that makes entertaining dissent impossible.
By Andrew WalkerEthicist David Gushee’s evolve-or-else warning to religious conservatives about their inevitable clash of orthodoxies with progressives is a sober reminder of the question over what variety of liberalism they will face in the days ahead.
Will a reflexively intolerant progressivism prevail, or is it possible that goodwill, liberal pluralism can frame what happens in American public life as homosexuality and transgenderism become mainstreamed? Like The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher, who has been an online hero documenting the pace of cultural change around American sexual mores, I am pessimistic at the prospect that liberal pluralism will win the day.
That’s not because I think such a pluralism is philosophically impossible or compromise undesirable, but because the intellectual center of progressivism now favors targeting, harassing, and marginalizing dissent about human sexuality. There are few signs that the Left’s aggression toward dissenters will evolve into an atmosphere of mutual respect. On the contrary, all the symptoms suggest the sexual revolution is now in a terminal late-stage progressivism that makes entertaining dissent impossible.
Read more: The Federalist
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Liberals Shout Down The Opposition Because Otherwise They’ll Lose
The only way to keep bad ideas dominant is to prevent people from introducing any alternatives.
By Amy OttoWhether it’s Amy Schumer denying that there can be any legitimate opposition to her candidate or Nicolas Kristof “discovering” that left-wing academics agitate to exclude opposing voices, a dramatic shift has occurred. Left-leaning thinkers heavily rely on a creating public perception monopolies to preserve their dominance.
Just look at Kristof’s recent pieces. An initial one suggested it was bad to exclude conservative thought from academia. Another soon followed, covering the reaction to his first: “It’s rare for a column to inspire widespread agreement, but that one led to a consensus: Almost every liberal agreed that I was dead wrong.”
Read more: The Federalist
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