Pay attention to the shifts in language. Notice that civil rights is now being called DEI and framed as racist against white people. The women’s rights movement is boiled down to feminism and framed as oppressive to men. They have started calling freedom of religion “religious liberty” so that they can act like Christian nationalism is somehow a victim. Social welfare programs are being called “entitlements”. A fetus is being called “an unborn child”. Undocumented immigrants, non-citizens,...

I see so many statements floating around on the internet framed as reasonable moderation. Calls to stay away from extremism. They sound measured. Mature. Balanced. Especially to people who don’t actually have to live with the consequences of oppressive systems. But they’re almost always reductive. They treat loaded topics as if they aren’t rooted in loaded realities. They act like talking about sexism, homophobia, and racism is the problem… instead of the fact that hatred is still ALLOWED to...

On the surface, it might seem like the political left is more internally conflicted than the right. But that’s because the left has moral lines the right doesn’t. The left makes space for a wider range of cultural and philosophical diversity. More kinds of people. More identities. More lived experiences. Which means it encompasses a broader spectrum of ideology. Diversity creates complexity. More perspectives require more ethical consideration. Social cohesion in a pluralistic society...