The modern right loves to quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a “real” activist, while deriding Black Lives Matter. They claim to support social justice in the abstract but hate “social justice warriors.” They’re all for freedom and equality, they say, but sneer at the mechanisms that might actually help get us there—affirmative action, deplatforming Nazis, reparations, voting rights for felons, prison abolition, respectful adjustments to language—as bleeding-heart pandering to the dreaded “political correctness.”
