Half-baked and a half-century late

The binary thinking of social justice warriors on colonialism

     The ideas of social justice warriors with respect to race are a half-century late and half-baked.  Why do I say this?  Because, in the period 1966 to 1972, the black power movement and the student anti-war movement had exposed and delegitimated the false pretentions to democracy of the U.S. government and American public discourse by naming colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism as forces shaping the nation and the world.  And when they did so, they did not exhibit the superficiality of the later social justice warriors.  They did not call for the discrediting and erasing of individual figures who played pivotal roles in the historic unfolding of these dynamics.  Nor did they call for the cancelation of individuals for speaking in a form that violated a new totalitarian linguistic orthodoxy.  Rather, they envisioned a political, economic, and cultural transformation and post-imperialist restructuring, creating a new world order of “peace and love.”  To this end, they propos…