“A consistent supporter of polylogism would have to maintain that ideas are correct because their author is a member of the right class, nation, or race. But consistency is not one of their virtues. Thus the Marxians are prepared to assign the epithet ‘proletarian thinker’ to everybody whose doctrines they approve. All the others they disparage either as foes of their class or as social traitors.”27 Current social justice warriors engage in similar ideological thinking. “I disagree with you” is thus replaced with disparaging labels: climate change denier, white nationalist, New Atheist, white
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