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How reactionary individualism keeps liberals from understanding systematic oppression

How reactionary individualism keeps liberals from understanding systematic oppression

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Carl Beijer
Mar 24, 2018
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Yesterday I posted a brief take on how left criticism gets co-opted by systematic features of our discourse towards liberal outcomes. And immediately, critics tried to reframe this systematic critique as the work of individuals. One reader – a Jordan Peterson fan – wrote:

These leftists you speak of aren’t leftists. They’re IDPol liberals & it isn’t medi…

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