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JoshuaZ comments on Irrationalism on Campus? - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: HalMorris 20 November 2014 07:17PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 November 2014 02:11:41AM -2 points [-]

The objection is the phrasing of social justice as a " framework of looking at the world as a fight against omnipresent oppression, mostly by white men of everyone else." I'm in agreement that to a large extent that isn't an inaccurate descriptor for much of passes for SJ. The mind-killing problem is to use that as the definition.

Comment author: Lumifer 22 November 2014 02:47:03AM 3 points [-]

The mind-killing problem is to use that as the definition.

It's not a definition, it's an explanation in the context of someone asking "What does SJ mean?"