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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Who are these Chomskyists in government? They’d be the counterpoint to the Deep State crowd for sure - but I don’t know of any.
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The radical dogma that has been entrenched in universities 30 years has wedged its way into mainstream culture as its adherents graduate and go into influential fields such as teaching, entertainment, and journalism.
There was no broad public debate on whether the principle of equality of opportunity was sufficient to foster a just society, or whether it needed to abandoned and replaced with equality of outcome. No debate on whether treating people as individuals following universal principles is the best way to foster a liberal society, or whether our political identity is our group identity, and society is an unrelenting struggle between those identities.
People have been emerging from universities for decades now hewing to a kind of passionate orthodoxy on those issues. They are now deeply entrenched in influential fields in education and culture, and treat any challenge to that orthodoxy as immoral. Among the progressive left today, this stuff isn't up for debate. If you try to debate this dogma, treat it like any other scientific or political assertion, it's evidence that you're a misogynist and racist. They've become what Jonathan Haidt calls sacred values. Cultural Marxism really is a new religion, and should be recognized by moderates as such and challenged when it threatens liberal values. Just as moderate conservatives need to recognize the inflexibility of religious conservatives, and call them out when their dogma is a threat to tolerant, secular society.