I would like to know how many posters agree with the various ideas I discussed in my post, even if you don’t think the way I described them is exactly (or even at all) correct. And if you do think I got them wrong, how does your understanding differ from mine? That’s the discussion I was hoping to have by posting in IMHO.
Here’s a summary for convenience:
- That social justice is about achieving equality for (racial, sexual etc) minorities and women.
- Privilege in the form of ‘white privilege’, ‘male privilege’ etc.
- Systemic racism explains differences between groups.
- Equity replacing equality as the goal
- Members of the privileged group should defer to the opinion of members of disadvantaged group on the relevant issue (eg men should defer to the opinion of women on sexism).
- ‘Punching up’ is good or at least acceptable, ‘punching down’ is not.
- Support for deplatforming, firing etc people for speech that is harmful to minorities.
- Changing the language we use to avoid harming minorities.