By undermining the logic of anti-racism in order to scapegoat Muslims and Islam the philosophical defence that protects us from antisemitism too has been damaged. If we can victimise Muslims because of their racial and religious backgrounds, it stands to reason that it may also be open season on Jews or anyone else.
Dealing with Post-Truth Politics
Truth – or what we have come to call the truth – is the narrative. Yet the term “post-truth” itself confuses these categories and in so doing misdirects our attention back to the less important facts, and facts have always been unimportant to politics.
Thinking a Just Society
A truly just society is a society in which the social and the procedural are reunited in common purpose, where the law serves the demands of social justice. Justice in this sense is where people, both as individuals and as communities, take priority over claims to wealth, property, and power.
Madness and the Outrageous
Morality in our culture is dead. It has been suffocated out of existence as a malady of the mind, a weakness of the intellect, a modern madness; because we have been trained to self-censor and conform to the demands of a herd that has become accustomed to comfort.
YouTube is Wonderful on Black Friday
However cringe-worthy all of this is, at some point we have to make our peace with it. Black Friday and the whole stinking mess that is Christmas is, after all, the logical end of a uniquely modern way of thinking.
The Rigging of the System
This is the primordial power that has always functioned, and that has simply accommodated itself to different illusions of power.
Scotland Has to Reject the Binary Choice
Returning to the cause of this disease is akin to hoping Benson & Hedges can cure cancer. Such a route would be circular and stupid; bringing us right back to where we find ourselves now.
“REPEAL” was spray-painted on my wall. Must I Obey?
When we discuss abortion, we cannot enter the debate refusing to acknowledge that the intervention will and does result in the ending of a human life – that of the child in utero. Here some clarification on language is necessary.
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